ah ah, pregnant women and newborns come under attack and done yet, local authorities accuse ukrainian forces of conducting devastating artillery strikes on this city, including the bombardment of the maternity hospital. we hear from people half the medical facility. we heard the commotion and ran into the basement, the walls, the windows were shaking. we ran to the basement and spend the night there. women were giving birth right in the basement. we're relying here on the floor, all of us back with all to coming up in the news update. the head of may so suggest ukraine may help to consider saving territory to reach

a peace deal with russia. there's a potential risk of the conflict further escalated and we won't succumb to any pressure. so say india is commerce minister in response to the w t o 's policy on restricting subsidies agriculture, which new delhi phase is crucial for maintaining its food security. on the national with menopause 7 in the russian capital this evening. i'm you know, neil, thanks for choosing r t for your news updates. today. the worst shelling since the conflict began. that is how local officials have described a series of intense attacks. believe to have been conducted by ukrainian forces on the city of the next. several civilians are reported to be dead in just 2 hours on monday, around $300.00 rockets, rain down on the city, striking civilian areas including a market place on

a maternity hospital part of which caught fire. we got some immediate reaction from locals. yes, you are pretty soon. i was sitting in an armchair. my husband was in the bathroom walking. we had a blast and windows shattered. i looked around and there was blood everywhere. i jumped out into the corridor to see what happened to him, but he was okay. thank god sit, sheila said, what will you, what, what are you hit by the sharks? and as i wished, lou dunham, yes, yes. shots from windows and even from door panels, hit me. the doctors kept me over and removed all the glass from my arms and legs. another guy was taken to hospital, he was hit in the vain by shot. lose my, my friend nice to and i with the very 1st her and into the basement. down there was an explosion. i cried a lot. i'm just curious as to what i owe to magically went down to the basement with my child. we still here, we even go further inside endeavor. he fell on us right here. i've come to my apartment, but it's completely destroyed. was mentioned on monday shells had

a maternity hospital in dunn yeske. the u. n. has slammed the attack as a violation of international law. women and labor and other patients were forced to evacuate to the basement where medical stuff continued to help them as part of the building caught fire. there was no military presence in the medical facility and take a look at this. this image has been circulating on social media and shows a baby in the intensive care unit next to a window broken from a blast wave during the attack. the child was born prematurely and couldn't be disconnected from the ventilator. so it was impossible to bring the new born into the basement medical personnel remained with the baby, who has survived on our t. crew made their way to the hospital to hear 1st on what occurred dangers could any monsoon. there were sol, babies in the intensive care unit, one of whom, in the rather serious condition, was placed on the ventilator. the rest also needed oxygen supply,

so it was impossible to move them into the basement. so the doctor's followed the scheme we had developed over the past 8 years and stayed near by in moments of danger, ready to cover the babies with our own bodies if needed. i'm on the roof of the maternity hospital that was shelled by the ukrainian military. one of the rockets landed right here making a huge hole in this roof. now this top floor is completely destroyed. there were dozens of women here in this maternity hospital when the shelling began. this delivery room in particular, one woman was here and ready to give her birth. and when the art jewelry struck, all the windows were immediately blown out. katy vertical dressed. there we were standing in a hallway waiting for a blood pressure to be measured. we heard the commotion and ran into the basement with the super on it started in the morning and lasted until around noon. and then

in the evening, stronger shelling began the walls. the windows were shaking. we ran to the basement and spend the night there. women were giving birth right in the basement. some were undergoing surgery. of course, it was scary for the like, it was they were undergoing a sicilian section in the basement. there was no other option for them. when you moved this were relying here on the floor and all of us pregnant were crying had a nervous breakdown of his other grandma, the mothers who were expected to give her birth hands or regular conditions have been forced to flee into the basement from the hercules fright they continued for more than 2 hours, and fortunately, no one was killed or injured or gotcha. had your, i'm sure the location went calmly because this has learned how to behave in such a situation. so they managed to cope is always finance. what i want to say is that this is the place where children, when you lives, have born does then and mother doesn't get thus to has sounds to send them to war.

all the cruelty that we have seen over 80 years. mary opened another citizen, humane for the sole reason that the 21st century human life is not valued. this missouri into hospital now lies almost in ruins, very close, very near and dear to my heart. and so my camera man as well. this is where his son was born 4 years ago, and my god daughter was born i here as well. so it's very painful to see what happened here. this building will now be forced to close to be closed until further notice, and they will evacuate a gold continued serving a women given birth at a different location because it's just simply too dangerous here or russia has slum western media is conspicuous silence over ukrainian military attacks on civilian areas, a german t v. news show tag a shell even heard declaim not. it was the russian military which attacked. and yet,

a long time stronghold of pro russian forces at broadcast images from a devastated market in the city where a local authority, se ukrainian shelley killed several people here listening to my front is marked and they're asked ok initially that done. net that i mentioned on by them also sion angle of good to to me it has a felony slogans. i'm getting the my 7th bushel stabilization on me is to come in it soon in my close there. okay. initial president. first 3, it invest or we discussed the situation with george liason on american investigative journalist working in dallas. everything every sacked about this situation is obvious. all the evidence is very obvious. when shells of fire, you can tell the direction that they're fired from. it's not very difficult, it's not rocket science. it's that they don't want to know. as long as they don't know, they can continue to blame russia, which, you know, again, is obscene,

but that's where we are in this time frame. for miss latan, see jacks. i'm out of the hospital, mary. awful. i'm mucho, you know, why would russia in mucho, why would russia give humanitarian aid packages and then you kill the people they get to. life just doesn't work that way. it's not to leave military's work. while fighting has been raging in the heavily embattled n key city of severed on that skin, the loop gowns republic pro russian forces say the last bridge that connect the now in circle ukrainian army there has been destroyed and trumping those trips. ukrainian authorities accused rush of destroying the bridge and preventing civilians from fleeing the conflict soon. okay, was also called for the evacuation of the civilians in question planning to move them across the river into ukrainian hel territory. russia, however, believes it's

a covert plum to extract the soldiers unsafe. the evacuation rich and head in the opposite direction against republic say they're up to 2500 ukranian military. personal country trumped in several nits, all of whom up to a quarter are foreign immersion. russia's defense ministry also claims extremist, ukrainian nationalist, something killing fellow soldiers to stop them from surrendering was little delivery on a very distant. well, there's been a rise in number of cases in recent weeks where ukrainian nationalists forces have shot fellow ukrainian service men in the back. that's after more than 30 ukrainian troops decided to surrender, as russian forces prepared for an offensive near the settlement of knowing the heil of car in and ask republic the surrender in ukraine. his service men were carrying white flags and making their way towards the crane in positions when the grain and nationalists forces open fire them in the back given city 2 of them among the one

you're looking for. well, with the done yet city of several done yet gradually, coming under russian control. after weeks of heavy fighting, the new york time sees ukrainian forces have purposely drawn russian troops into urban street fighting to tribe increased casualties among the russian military, the daily states. ukraine can't much, she create russian at long range artillery and might have better chances with small arms at closer proximity. before the russian invasion, the ukrainian military had studied approaches to fighting an enemy with superior armed vehicle and artillery capabilities, including by drawing lessons from urban combat in cities, such as aleppo and the syrian war ukraine put these tactics to use in urban convert in maryville and where you grin in fight is faced, much larger russian forces were able to engage the enemy troops for weeks. well, joining me now to discuss 30, i'd love to say a scott ritter x u. s. marine corps intelligence officer and

a former un weapons inspector in iraq. hi there scott. the times say's ukrainian forces have been deliberately drawing bottled into the city which cut of course lead to greater civilian casualties. has k of taken that into consideration to think you know, i can't speak for the ukrainian armed forces and what their strategy is. but i will say that, you know, you have to study the sources. the new york times quotes. ready to so called military experts, one is a former ukranian naval officer who works at a think tank based in austria. and the other is an austrian military officer, ostensible expert on russia who worked for the european council foreign relations. and neither one of them have combat experienced. neither one of them, frankly speaking, knows what they're talking about. the cranium military right now and done. yes,

because in a life and death struggle with the russians. i think the tactical disposition reflects you know, the reality that they are fighting for their lives. this is not a well thought out battle, this is not a deliberate trap, is most certainly isn't a fight based upon some sort of academic study of the battle of aleppo or maria pull. there's nothing whatsoever of between what's going on every time. that's kinda those 2 battles and, and to be frank out, the, the russians, you know, this isn't the bellow, stalingrad rushes, not rushing in their troops to, you know, sacrificed their lives in desperate attempt to seize a building. russia is proceeding deliberately, whether it's, you know, in an urban environment, or if it's an open environment in the woods surrounding the city. and they're using their overwhelming a fire superiority to destroy the ukrainian forces in place before moving in and

routing them out with infantry and arbor. whether it's done in a city or it's done in, you know, in a field or the outcomes to say massive ukrainian casual is a minimal russian casualties. you know, the article also say it's got fonts, ukraine tech to the tactic from the syrian civil war. could it be effective or even justifiable? well, look, i mean, in theory, if, if you prepared city for an extensive defense to give you an example, had had the ukranian state in the as a stall plant underground in prepared defences. and russia made the decision to instead of surrounding them and in weighting them out to go in undergrad with infantry and root them out. it could have led to high casualties on the part of russia. if you craniums believe that, you know that, that was their goal and severed a nest to begin to reinforce degree bunkers,

interlocking defences. in theory, you, you could trap russia by having them send enforces and add them the russians brown down not by not the ukrainian. but that's not the case where we have right now as ukraine, in a, in a, in a, in a freefall, a collapse, desperately throwing in whatever troops they can to hold the line while they try and prepare defences. what hind the river to to, to hold off the russian. so what's going on over the next is an act of extemporaneous desperation. it's not part of any, you know, well thought out strategy. ron, from some detailed academic study of urban warfare in syria. appreciate your text golf. thanks for your time today. scott ritter, former us marine corps intelligence officer or her and the lowest now ukrainian calls for increased western military assistance. so that's been going on

for quite some time. but i ramped up this week, but it appears to be met with more caution in the west. the head of nature has even said ukraine may have to start thinking about whether to trade territory for a piece deal. yet story berg also insisted that the military alliance will stay out of the conflict to avoid a potential escalation is, is false false. that's all to question the way. the question is, what price i willing to pay for peace, how much territory? how much in depends on what sovereignty, how much freedom, how much the walker see, are willing to sacrifice for peace. we'll see a kind of vertical escalation, war fight, thing, more suffering, have your weapons in ukraine, but escalation be on ukraine. nato's chief of staff himself has voiced the idea that ukraine may have to give up territory for peace. this is from the guy who is job is literal. russo phobia to deny russia at every turn. it's telling, and it isn't just him, the idea that ukraine isn't going to win militarily,

despite the billions upon billions of dollars and in nato guns and missiles and launches, and rockets and drones heaped upon ukraine. the idea or admission that they aren't going to win this fight is gaining traction with mr. territory. i'm not going to tell them what they should and shouldn't do. will appears to me that at some point along the lines is going to have to be negotiated. settlement, we must not humiliate russia so that the day the fighting stops we can build a way out through diplomatic channels. all of this is in stark contrast to what we heard before from nato leaders. when they thought that the thousands of tons of, of arms that they're pumping into ukraine, would see kia, victorious issue in the sustain and coordinator support of the national community.

learning facilitated by the united states. as it is a significant reason why ukraine is able to stop fresh from taking over the country . as far as our goal is, that putin does not win. our goal is for ukraine to be able to defend itself and to be successful, restore peace in europe. we must continue our support for ukraine. so in a negotiation with russia, it can decide on the nature of its relations. it must come freely and not, and of that barrel of the gun loosely that was wishful thinking. front lines have turned into a brutal lead grinder. ukrainian officials have admitted to losing almost a 1000 troops a day, which includes those killed and wounded, taken out of action, a 1000 a day taken out of the fight. the question is, how long can you crane keep this up and that it's always when war starts. it is of course, on both sides. a very aggressive

a feeling but to see if the time we have no more than a 100 days in this war. and the feeling in the western society is said that it should come to a cease fire and that they want to stop. this is more and distilling. and so that is why i see as of nato secretary general make the statement. and i think it respect also by, by some politicians in the west, i think he is not acting on himself here. so it looks like he is spreading your work, which is agreed among the says easy, important. western leaders. the european commission remains undecided about whether to grant membership candidate status to ukraine disquiet about giving precedence to keith has been growing louder in georgia on moldova, in particular, who's been on the waitlist for years. there's also hasn't been seen so many

capitals. honestly starting the membership process takes time. first and foremost, this is a country at war, and the most urgent matter is to stop the war to rebuild ukraine and then consider adjoining, under the right conditions, both for the you and for ukraine. the e. u has a pretty basic requirements for ship like being a free market economy, stable democracy and insurance to the rule of law. you member states are running around making international appeals for weapon as ation to fight a hot conflict on her own soils. there are calling for no fly zone over the country that could start world war 3 or full, the neo nazis into their own forces and pretending that's, you know, totally normal. and julie cool. that's a lot of baggage and all of these things ukrainian president liners lindsey isn't doing. while lobbying for you memberships now french president emanuel michael has proposed a sort of consolation prize of a membership in some kind of european political community. as these coined it,

which he says could include countries like ukraine, that ultimately want to be part of the you some day. now that's kind of like telling kids a christmas party that they can come eat with the adults, but then seeing them in the kitchen table off the side, you know, the paper cups, plastic covering napkins, with a little cartoons on them and blooms and everything came on born, my calls minister of european affairs was being blanche and honest when he said that it could realistically takes 15 to 20 years for ukraine to join the ear. and the 14 prime minister said something pretty similar recently as well. we don't need to open at this moment, a negotiation or procedure there will take a lot of years. the great risk is to create false expectations that become bitter disappointment, less legal debate to be invited into the use club or nightclub, you know, behind a velvet rope. and ga doesn't seem to be too thrilled about all of this recent talk of ukraine cutting in line either. if an open conflict is one of the criteria for

obtaining a status, then we don't want that. we demand a well deserved status. georgia is 10 heads ahead in all directions. it's pretty telling that the most enthusiasm for ukraine joining the year was coming from member states that are new that recipients of you funds like slovakia and poland for instance, the net contributors of you funding. in other words, the taxpayers are paying up front and spending the most on the you. germany, france, italy at the top of that list of countries who are most footing the bill have been much more watch in their assessment. and those countries leaders have been much more i'm been want to as well and the remarks and actions around the conflict recently suggesting perhaps a need to temper or wishful thinking in ideology with the dose of realism. in citing rissa phobia on spreading disinformation the reasons moscow has given for slumping individual sanctions against the range of journalists of british media outlets including the b, b, c. the guardian,

u. k. military commanders on the fence lobbyists have also been put on the russian foreign ministries. blacklist. the british journalist included on the lists are deliberately spreading false in one sided information about russia and events in ukraine in the dawn bass. they have also been involved in inciting, russo phobia within british society. individuals linked to the british military industrial complex have been participating in decision making about arm supplies, to ukraine, that are used by local executioners and nazi groups, to kill civilians and destroy public infrastructure. let's get some further info on this from our teeth donald quarter in moscow. don't indeed take us through what's behind the russian foreign ministries decision while union. a number of big names in the u. k. have found themselves on russia sanctions list. we're talking about the editor and chiefs of the guardian, the b, b. c. daily mail. the times the daily telegraph and the independent. and many of

these outlets. top journalists have found themselves right alongside their editor and chiefs on this list, some of the most popular mainstream, british media outlets. they are also accompanied by a number of officials and business people in britain that have ties to the ministry of defense. they're now all 49 people on this list are now barred from entering the russian federation. because moscow says that they are guilty of carrying out anti russian activities and spreading russo phobic sentiment. but it's also important to keep in mind that this is not actually coming out of the blue. the sanctions have come as a response to western sanctions that were actually 1st lodged against a russian government. officials and media personalities, including ortiz, own editor and chief margarita c. manion, back in february, so we're now that we see russia's response to this. we're going to have to see what the west next move is. don't, thanks very much for taking us through that. our teeth don quarter western pressure

escalates. india remains defiant amid the world trade organizations restrictions on subsidized agriculture. we'll go through that means in just a moment. the country's commerce minister season usually won't be pushed to run by external forces or threat order. because the developed countries signed a one sided pact to benefit their own farmers before the world trade organization was formed. what they gave a raw deal to week and developing nations. india has been fighting for the rights of its farmers and agriculture within the w t. o, no one can pressure india. we want to come to any pressure, major picture. let geneva base w t o set restrictions against the exporting states subsidized crop, saying they lead to on for prices on global markets. such subsidies along indian farmers to grow more weeks and rice that lower costs, new delhi asset. it wants to end the w t o policy in order to support its domestic

farmers and protect the countries food security. will. india has seen recent tensions with the western richmond teeming of close relations with moscow. amid the ukraine conflict, it's rejected calls from the u. s. the cut in ports of russian oil instead increasing purchases up heavily discounted prices. india is one of the top consumers of russian energy. well, the u. s. has imposed an embargo on imports of the fuels from russia and had this to say to deli, regarding that stuff in my conversations with them. i've said, look, we don't have secondary sanctions. we can't band your purchases, but as you increase your purchases from russia, don't go too far and don't look like you're taking advantage of the pain that is being felt in european households in, in the united states. well, i spoke to an indian political expert on entrepreneurs who sees the us, how to treat india like an equal partner if it actually wants to improve relations . well, i think one of the reasons why india has been under so much precious because the u

. s. expected at india is an ally of the u. s, which is what got down on the door, the us lines on line on the embark on russian id. but i think for the west to needs to understand 2 things. india and russia size has started. india has a sovereign right to do what is in her self interest. and india has fame and again done when something's justified. for example, with ben israel with iran, it's worked, it's looked at along with the western block. but with russia, india, energy security, betterment in india needs to secure herself before moving on. and you know, if you think increase or buying who continue to buy import oil and gas from the show. so i think that india consumption do increase is much less than all of europe . and this is your 1st needs to reduce the purchases before they can make sure in the, on what you guys doing with regards to russia. the rest has to deal with india. i think, you know, and then the 3rd part so is it has to understand what all constraints or

destruction we support with the rest. but at the same time, we cannot spoil our relationship with just traditional friendship with russia, who's been a friend who's been with us to, to continue. it cannot get out. it's all important jeopardize it's energy security just because you know, the western countries may have a problem with the country. beacon 2 or 3 countries. i mean at some point in gosh, look at in the g security which is paramount. the book again repeat, india has 1400000000 people get energy security is spread among okay, staying in asia to e. c. h and dade where side korean truckers are on a nationwide strike. the action house already caused key industrial sectors. more than $1200000000.00 so far now into it's 70 appears to have no end in sight. the cargo truckers solidarity union is demanding minimum pay guarantees as wages have been threatened by soaring fuel prices. after 4 runs of negotiations,

the suffering government has failed to find a compromise with over 22000 unionized truckers. shipment lines slowed causing financial damage to major companies, including or a producer high on day on steel maker pasco soul has deployed over a 100 military vehicles to ship cargo. exports have already shrunk by 12 percent this month. the inflation is forecast to be the highest index or i just coming up to half past 7 here in moscow this evening. not as how your news rob is shipping on for now. i'll be back in 30 with were on tuesdays. big developments, hope you can join with

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economy of immediately and overtime. there is some other stuff on there, but we have list for social media for them. i've started a little bit. he makes this all the emeralds, remember him very and absorb it. sort of develop it is fixed body. how did sure that 21st century is with the asians age. russia is also an asian country and we need to develop military cooperation. similar to what nature does in europe propose lower temperature through chauffeur to swing by look, or from nowhere or trade was the search for new markets in port substitution. the one sanctions has become part of our data vocabulary, neutralize. if i did with more and more report.