crazy plantation let it be an arms race is an offense, very dramatic development, only personally and getting to disease. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult. time. time to sit down and talk for pregnant women and newborns come under attack in done yet. local authorities accused ukrainian forces of conducting devastated artillery strikes on the city, including the bombardment of a maternity hospital to hear from people of 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 to right in the basement. we're relying here on the floor. all of us back. the head of nato was suggest key as may have to consider seating territory

to reach a peace deal with russia. but there's a potential risk of the conflict further escalating. mm. ukraine confronted cold reality as it knocks on the used door to turn the block. but some european countries oppose giving fast truck status to the membership applicant with broadcasting for moscow. this is our t. my name's unit lila. 30 minutes of news and views start not the worst shelling since the conflict began. that's how local officials hop described a series of intense attacks believe to have been conducted by ukrainian forces on the city of been yet. several civilians are reported to have been killed in just 2 hours on monday, around $300.00 rockets, rain done on the city, striking civilian areas including a market place and the maternity hospital parts of which caught fire. we got some

immediate reaction from locals. yesenia my husband was in the bathroom walking. we had a blast and window shattered. i looked around and there was blood everywhere. i jumped out into the car door to see what happened to him, but he was okay. thank god, said sheila, so what would you, what, what are you hit by the shark? cuz i wish to the doctors captain yoga and removed all the glass from my arms and legs. another guy was taken to hospital. he was head in the vein by shod. oh 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 how to magically went down to the basement with my child. we still here, we even go further inside and deborah, he fell on us right here. i've come to my apartment, but it's completely distension. on monday shells hit a maternity hospital and done yet. the un has slum the attack as a violation of international law. women in labor and other patients were forced to evacuate to the basement,

were medical staff continued to help them out. so as part of the building caught fire, there was no military presence at all in the medical facility. and this image circulating on social media shows a baby in an 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 an rti crew, made their way to the hospital to hear firsthand what occurred there. again, yes. could any montana, there were some 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 sold 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 am on the roof of the

missouri into hospital that was shelled by the ukrainian military. one of the rockets landed right here, making a huge hole in this prove. now this top floor is completely destroyed. there were dozens of women here in this matter into hospital when the shelling began. this delivery room in particular, one woman was here and ready to give her birth. and then when artillery struck, all the windows were immediately blown out, credit vertical grace fell. we were standing in a hallway waiting for a blood pressure to be measured. we heard the commotion and ran into the basement with us with her 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 what they were undergoing

a sicilian section in the basement. there was no other option for them, but when you moved it 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. her regular conditions have been forced to flee into the basement from the hercules cried that continued for more than 2 hours. and fortunately, no one was killed or injured or required sharply had your. i'm sure the location when's calmly because the has learned how to behave in such a situation. so they managed to cope as always can as what i want to say is that this is the place where children, when you lives. a born in mother doesn't give birth to has sounds to send them to war. all the cruelty that you 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 and a 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 here as well. so it's very painful to see what happened here vis building what will now be forced to close to be closed until further notice, and they will evacuate adult continued serving a women given birth at a different location because it's just simply too dangerous here will moscow. slum the western media st. silence on the instant, accusing it of suspiciously, ignoring ukrainian, a tax in the region. meanwhile, a german t v. new show has even heard a report that it was the russian military that attacked. and yet a long time, strong whole of pro russian forces it broadcast images from a devastated market in the city where a local authority, se ukrainian shelling killed several people to your listening to my

friend is marked in their aust luca innocence, that don't net. i mentions on by them or session angles get to to me, it has a felony storms. i'm getting the most even bushes stabilization i me is to come in it soon in math gloss the okay, initial president 1st clear to that invest. yeah, we discuss the situation, the ramifications with george, the liason, an american investigative journalist working in don bus. everything every sacked about this situation is obvious. all the evidence is very obvious. when shelves 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. the missile attacks the attacks i'm out

of the hospital, mario full. i show you know, why would russia in mucho, why would russia give humanitarian eat packages? and then you deal with people they get to life just doesn't work that way. it's not to, we military's work of fi thing has been raging in the heavily embattled on key city of several do net skin, the loo, ganske republic pro russian forces say the last bridge that connected the knob and circle ukrainian army. there has been destroyed and dropping those troops. ukrainian authorities accused russia destroying the bridge on preventing civilians from fleeing the conflict zone. kia has also call for the evacuation of the civilians in question planning to move them across the river and to ukrainian health territory. russia, however, believes it's a covert plan to extract the soldiers unsafe the evacuation route should head in

the opposite direction. the against, for a public official say there are up to $2500.00 ukrainian military personnel currently trumped in several of whom. up to a quarter are foreign mercenaries, rushes defense ministry, also claims extremist. ukrainian. nationalists being killing fellow soldiers to stop them from surrendering possible delivery on a very distant. there's been a rising number of cases in recent weeks where ukrainian nationalists forces have shot fellow ukrainian service men in the back. that's up to more than 30 ukranian troops decided to surrender as russian forces prepared for an offensive near the settlement of knowing the heil of car in the damascus public. the surrendering degree and service men were carrying white flags and making their way towards russian positions where the crenan nationalists forces open, fired them in the back. given 32 of them. for wealthy done yet, city of several vignettes gradually coming under russian control after weeks of heavy fighting. the new york times,

se ukrainian forces have purposely drawn russian trips into urban street fighting despite the risk of increased civilian and military casualties. the daily state ukraine cut much russian long range artillery, and may have better chances with small arms at closer proximity. before the russian invasion, the ukraine in the military had studied approaches to fighting an enemy with superior on the vehicle and artillery capabilities, including by drawing lessons from urban combat in cities, such as aleppo and the syrian war. he crane put these tactics to use in of, and combat in area code where you crane and fight is faced. much larger russian forces were able to engage the enemy troops for week. well look, i mean in theory, if you prepared a city for a, an extensive defense to give you an example, had had the ukranian state in the as of stall plant under ground and prepared to fences and russia, made the decision to instead of surrounding them in waiting them out to go in

underground with infantry and root them out. it could have led to high casualties on the part of russia if, if the ukrainians believe that the, you know that, that was their goal and severed and asked to begin to reinforce degree bunkers, interlocking defences. in theory, you, you could trap russia by, you know, having them send in forces and had them get the russians brown down that, but not the ukrainian. but that's not the case. what we have right now is ukraine in a, in a, in a, in a freefall, a collapse, desperately throwing in whatever troops they can't hold the line while they try and prepare defences behind the river, and due to, to hold off the russian. so what's going on certain ask is an act of a new extemporaneous desperation. it's not part of any, you know, well thought out strategy drawn from some detailed academic study of urban warfare

in syria ukrainian calls for increased western military assistance are now appearing to be met with more caution in the west. the head of nato has even said ukraine may have to start thinking about whether to trade territory for a peace deal. un stilton burg also insisted that the military alliance will stay out of the conflict to avoid a potential escalation is, is forceful. that's all to question the way. the question is, what price i willing to pay for piece, how much territory, how much in depends on much 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, heavier weapons in ukraine, but escalation beyond 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 whose 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 lisa's 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. well, appears to me that at some point along the line, there's going to have to be a 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 keith victorious issue. you

know, the sustain and corner the support of the international community. learning facilitated by the united states as it is a significant reason why ukraine isn't really this for on that, see that 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 its negotiation with russia, it can decide on the nature of its relations. it must come freely and in not enter the back barrow of the gun. loosely that was wishful thinking. front lines have turned into a brutal need. grandeur 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 ukraine keep this up? and it is always when war starts. it is of course on both sides.

a very aggressive a feeling, but to see if that time we have no more than a 100 days in this war. and the feeling in the western societies said that it should come to a cease fire and that they want to stop. this is more interesting and so that is why i see that nato secretary general makes a statement. and i think it is spect also by, by some politicians in the west. i think he is not acting on himself here. so it looks like he is spreading award, which is agreed among the essays, easy, important, western leaders. ok. another story to bring you today. the european commission remains undecided about whether to grant membership candidate status to ukraine. disquiet about giving precedence to key. it has been growing lighter in georgia and moldova, in particular,

who have been on the waitlist for years. there's also hesitancy, and some of the 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 joining under the right conditions, both for the you and for ukraine. you have some pretty basic requirements for ship being a free market economy stable democracy and insurance. in the rural law, you remember states are running around making international appeals for weapons ation to fight a hot conflict on her own soils. if they're on calling for a no fly zone over the country that could start world war 3 or full, the neo nazis into their own forces and pretending that, you know, totally normal is really cool. that's a lot of baggage and all of these things ukranian, president blinders. lindsey isn't doing while lobbying for you membership now french president emanuel michael has proposed the sort of consolation prize of

a membership in some kind of a european political community as he's coined it, which he says could include countries like ukraine, that ultimately want to be part of the u. sunday. now that's kind of like telling kids a christmas party that they can come eat with the adults, but then seeing them at acute table off the side, you know, with the paper cups. plastic covering app is with the little cartoons on them and balloons, and everything came on bona. michael's minister of european affairs was being blanche and honest when he said that it could realistically take 15 to 20 years for ukraine to join the year. 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 loss of years. the great risk is to create false expectations that become bitter disappointment, less legal debates, more practical solutions in georgia, in moldova, as you've mentioned, have also been waiting very patiently to be invited into the use club or night club, you know, behind the belt road. and george and 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 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 blunt in their assessment. and those countries leaders have been much more ambivalent 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. ah, us. algeria suspends

a key economic treaty with spain. madrid says russia is responsible, anteaus has b can so back then that algeria was more and more aligned with russia. so this decision to suspend the treaty didn't surprise me in the commode. jerry, a suspended its friendship and cooperation treaty with spain after 2 decades going as far as the bundle. non gas trade with the european country comes in mid escalating tensions between the jury and morocco, over the dispute. a territory of western sahara, spain, bucks for about claim madrid has valid to defend its interest of jury. it is one of spain's main supplies of natural gas. the dependence became more acute, softer algiers shut off pipeline supplies via neighboring morocco, last year, with prices recently skyrocketing and mid the conflict in ukraine. yeah, just to expand on, not the brewing diplomatic rob between the 2 countries escalated after spain made an abrupt you turn and cited with morocco in the long running conflict,

over western so hard, the moves and shock waves throat they, algerian government, stirred up tensions madrid was previously neutral on the dispute, but now supports moroccan sovereignty over the sparsely populated area on africa, north west coast. with joining me now on the program is eunice abu a political sociologist, visiting scholar at the university of new england. main pleasure to welcome you onto the program, eunice, spain, switching from neutrality to support for morocco in the dispute over western sahara has been widely criticized domestically on both sides of the political spectrum. why is that? well, it was expected to be criticized domestically because it was a longstanding spanish foreign policy in towards the conflict since basically 1975. and all of a sudden this certain government decides to switch. i understand that part of his

coalition, which is the left coalition with what they're most mad distance from more than ideological point of view. because the left has always been on the side of self determination on the side of the place or you know, but for the right wing, good criticism. but, but the to pull out of this is also understandable because that's the domestic politics tactics to weaken the government coalition and try to fear more royalist than the king for the next election. so that was expected. so how do you see the ramifications of this? what could be the potential economic cause of spain's you turned on the conflict? cut it significantly affect gal supplies from algeria. i do not think that the j we go that far because roger needs that money needs to sell it gas, especially as this at this point in time because of the, the prices on getting higher and higher with this. and so it's the best time and

use an employment and issues we've all seen what happened the last 2 years with the iraq and popular process. so i don't think she would go that far. of course i tried to balance. it's a policy towards the region, but i think if it came now to choose economically speaking on the agenda is not the main partner economically. it's morocco. the exchange between algeria and spain is roughly around $8000000000.00, while with more awkward states double and it's increasing. so i think in a way this government in spain has made its choice. it does not want to have problems with the julia, but given the circumstances as shifting geo politics they, they chose a different path, shifting geo politics and also trying to stay relevant is that for i think saying it is relevant in the conflict because it has historic ties,

we've got africa and especially with morocco, we're talking about centuries. we're talking also about other enclaves and morocco that are still colonized by spain, which is the n melia and the b. this region is quite complex in this relationship brown with the suddenly training the issue of migration that is a big problem for you from the southern part of its borders. so all this, i think, and to the calculus of this government that trying to shift its position in a conflict that is frankly only lasted too long. it's a frozen conflict. there's no other issues. there's no other solution so far there was deemed credible and possible, but the one that was suggested by the prop and government and, and frankly speaking, i believe that even though spain has chosen the path, i don't think that the, the, the conflict will be resolved anytime soon because still within the city council at the where, what happens with the complicate, evolve jury morocco at all,

over the fate of that disputed region for some time. which country as it stands, do you think, or indeed in the long term comes out on top? well, i don't think that any of these 2 countries would come on top because it has been going on for decades now since the independence and mostly during the cold war with the uh, the logical alignment that angie with the east and camp and morocco, the western camp and no one really managed to be had demonic in the region. so i think it's high time that both countries rethink this policy of competition and they will be stronger together in the larger community called the are a migrant union, that this has a great potential for all of north africa. and i think the book increase need to get closer knots apart and stop this competition. that is not the wind, any good for any countries of the region. a recent report, you know, safe nato countries think that algeria like russia would use its gas supplies as

a means of exerting political pressure. does russia do that? or what algeria, what's your overall view in the? well, you know, politics is politics, will you, it's a balance of power if you have to, to go that far. they probably would, i don't see it happening any time soon as i said earlier, because andre needs to say that sort of sources. it does not have much else to sell, especially at this time. but probably if things get worse in the future, they might, let's so forget also the, it's already lost. his position would, would spain because now the 1st, the exporter and supplier with gas to spain, in the united states of america storage area. so i don't think this might happen any time soon as spanish shared media, such as the alpa newspaper, i've said that one of the options being looked into by the spanish government may be to file an international lawsuit against algeria. do you think such a measure if it goes ahead has a chance of succeeding just finally?

i'm afraid i'm not sure this would be productive action would be counter productive . i'm not sure that the european union would go that far. i think now it's a short for some sort of r t with the country of the union. they will do that. at the end of the day, we'll see how things are going to go forward. but i'm, i do not believe that they would go as far as finding the soup. there will be some sort of agreement that downgrading of relations probably as this already happened. but i don't think it's going to go that far. thanks very much for giving us a sense. i'm indeed a background to the conflict itself. eunice abu you had political sociologist and visiting scholar at the university of new england may thank you ah, inciting rissa phobia and spreading dis information. the reasons moscow has given for slumping individual sanctions against the range of journalists on british media

outlets, including the pbc on the guardian bouquet, military commanders and defense lobbyists have also been put on the russian foreign ministries. blacklist the british journalists included on the lists are deliberately spreading false and one sided information about russia and events and ukraine and the don 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. a number of big names in the u. k. have found themselves on russia's 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 artes, own editor in chief, margarita c manion, back in february. so we're now that we see rushes, a response to this. we're gonna have to see what the west's next move it's will. lots are lot for no, but more programs get there. start in moments here on our team. stay close to see what showing wherever you are today across the good

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you don't need to fear the result of a 100 battles. but if you don't warn you, crane has already led to have a plethora of unforeseen strains on the global economy and analyst form that wars maybe up to come come, we'll do. the protagonist in this drama understand that roles that age and their limits. to discuss that, i'm now joined from beijing by victoria, gal, vice president of the center with china and globalization. it's a gal, it's great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you very much for having me. now in one of your articles prior to the beginning of the russian military operation in ukraine, you're warned that these cry.