ah, ah, ah good pregnant women and newborns come under attack in done yet. local authorities accuse ukrainian forces of conducting devastated artillery strikes on the city, including the bombardment of a maternity hospital to hear from people on 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 phone. all of us back. the head of nato was suggest kia 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 only used door to door in the block. but some european countries oppose giving fast trucks status to the membership applicant with broadcasting for moscow. this is our t. my name's unit o'neill in 30 minutes of news and views start non the worst shelling since the conflict began. that's how local officials have described. a series of intense attacks believed to have been conducted by ukrainian forces on the city of vignettes. 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. yes you have could you say oh, i was sitting in an armchair. my husband was in the bathroom walking. we had a blast and the window 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 would you, what, what are you hit by the shark? cause i wish to i'm only up 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 hospital. he was hit in the vein by shot. 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 kid roofers to hire to magically went down to the basement with my child. wish to hear weed and go further inside. and deborah, he fell on us right here. i've come to my apartment, but it's completely destroyed for the one that was mentioned on monday shells had 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 monsoon, 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 roof. now this top floor is completely destroyed. there were dozens of women here in this matter into hospital when the shilling 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 the measured. we heard the commotion and ran into the basement . let us put 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 like it was they were undergoing a sicilian section in the basement. there was no other option for them. when you moved, you were relying here on the floor and all of us pregnant were crying. you had a nervous breakdown of reserve and love the mothers who are expected to give her birth schanzer. regular conditions have been forced to flee into the basement from the hercules, cried the continued for more than 2 hours, and fortunately, no one was killed or injured or gotcha. had your i'm sure the location when's calmly because this staff has learned how to behave in such a situation. so they managed to cope is always kind of what i want to say is that this is the place where children, when you lives a bond is then and mother doesn't give birth to has sounds to send them to war. all the cruelty that we have seen over 8 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, 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 evacuated or continue serving a women given birth at a different location because it's just simply too dangerous here. where moscow slum the western media st. silence on the instant, accusing it of suspiciously, ignoring ukrainian attacks in the region. meanwhile, a german t v. new show has even heard a report that it was the russian military that attacked on yet a long time,

strong hold of pro russian forces at broadcast images from a devastated market in the city where a local authority, se ukrainian shelly killed. several people. t a listening to my friend is marked in the aust luca innocence that don't net dimensions on by them. also sion angle of good to to me it has a felony. swans, i'm getting the most even bushel stabilization on me is to come in it soon in my close there. okay. initial president 1st cleared who but invest yeah, we discuss the situation. the ramifications with george, the liason, an american investigative journalist working in don't pass everything. every fact about this situation is obvious. all the evidence is very obvious. when shells a flyer, 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. missile attach the attacks on, on hospital and mary awful. i'm mucho, you know, why would russia in mucho, why would russia gives you manage very neat 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 or fighting has been raging in the heavily embattled on key city of several don't net skin, the loop ganske republic pro russian forces say the last bridge not connected. the now in 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 into

ukrainian health territory. russia, however, believes it's a covert plan to extract the soldiers on sais. the evacuation route should head in the opposite direction. the ganske republic officials say they're up to $2500.00 ukrainian military personnel currently trumped in several demands 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 rise in 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 ukrainian troops decided to surrender as russian forces prepared for an offensive near the settlement of no. on the heil of car in the damascus public, the surrendering ukrainian service men were care in the white flags and making their way towards russian positions when the queen in national forces open, fire them in the back. gillen city, 2 of them for wealthy done, yet,

city of several vignettes gradually coming under russian control after weeks of heavy fighting. the new york times says ukrainian forces have purposely drawn russian trips into urban street fighting despite the risk of increase civilian and military casualties. the daily state ukraine cut much russian long range artillery and may have better chances with small arms are closer proximity. before the russian invasion, the ukrainian 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 maryville, 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

a 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, to create bunkers, interlocking defences. in theory, you, you could trap russia by, you know, having them send in forces and have them get the russians brown down that, but not the ukrainian. but that's not the case. well, we have right now as 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 to, to, to hold off the russian. so what's going on certain ask as 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, as even said ukraine may have to start thinking about whether to trade territory for a peace steal yen stalls and berg. also insisted that the military alliance will stay out of the complex to avoid a potential escalation is, is false false, thus still to question the way. the question is, what price i willing to pay for peace, how much territory? how much it depends on much sovereignty, how much freedom, how much the walker see, are willing to sacrifice for peace. we all is see a kind of vertical escalation, war fight thing, more suffering, have your 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 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 well appears to me 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, you know, 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. when 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 under the bad barrel of the gun. loosely that was wishful thinking. front lines have turned into a brutal need. grinder, ukrainian officials have admitted to losing almost a 1000 troops a day, which includes those kitchen, a 1000 a day taken out of the fight. the question is,

how long can you crane 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 than just killing. and so that is why i see as of nato secretary general make the state. 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 sais. 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 of has been growing lighter in georgia and moldova, in particular, who have been on the waitlist for years. there's also hesitancy and some 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. the you have some pretty basic requirements for every ship, like being a free market economy. stable democracy and insurance in the rural law you member states are running around making international appeals for weapon is ation to fight a hot conflict on her own soils. there are calling for no fly zones over the country that could start world war 3 or full. the neo nazis into their armed forces and pretending that it's, you know, totally normal. and julie cool, that's a lot of baggage and all of these things ukranian, president blinders. lindsey isn't doing well lobbying for you membership. now

french president emmanuel, my clothes as proposed the sort of consolation prize of a membership in some kind of european political community as he's coined it, which he says could include countries like ukraine, that ultimately want to be part of the huge sunday. now that's kind of like telling kids at christmas party that they can come eat with the adults, but then seeing them at a kitty table off the side, you know, with the paper cups, plastic covering napkins, with the little cartoons on them, and balloons and everything came on board them, 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 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 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 georgia 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 recipients of you funds like slovakia and poland, for instance, the net contributors of you funding. in other words, the taxpayers are paying upfront 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. of algeria suspends a key economic treaty with spain. madrid says russia is responsible and does his b k sell back then, that algeria was more and more aligned with russia. so this decision to suspend the treaty didn't surprise me. me in the commercial curious, suspended its friendship and cooperation treaty with spain after 2 decades going as far as the bun. busy or none gas trade with the european country comes amid escalating tensions between the jury and morocco. over the dispute, the territory of western sahara, spain bucks for about slain madrid has voted to defend its interests of urea. is one of spain's main supplies of natural gas dependence became more acute, softer algiers shut off pipeline supplies via near bring morocco last year with prices recently skyrocketing in mid be conflict in ukraine. yeah,

just to expand all, 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's north west coast. with joining me now on the program is eunice abu a political sociologist, visiting scholar at the university of new england. my 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 its coalition, which is the left coalition with what they're most distance from, more than ideological point of view. because it 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 it is also understandable because that's the domestic politics tactics to weaken the government coalition. and try to appear more royalist than the king for the next election. so it was expected. so how do you see the ramifications of this? what could be the potential economic costs of spain's you turned on the conflict? cut it significantly affect our supplies from algeria. i do not think that angie would 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 are getting higher and higher with this energy crisis around the world. so it's the best time for a year. that means money. it's which it has a lot of domestic problems in employment use and employment and issues. we've all seen what happened the last 2 years with the iraq and popular process. so i don't think i would go that far. of course in it's 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, it's 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 of shifting geo politics,

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 to africa and especially with morocco, we're talking about the centuries. we talk also about other enclaves and morocco that us to colonize by spain, which is this is dan melia. and the, the, this region is quite complex. and it's relationship brown with the southern me training issue, migration, that is a big problem for you from the southern part of its folders. so all this, i think, enters the calculus of this government and trying to shift its position in a conflict that is frankly only lasted to longest frozen conflict. there's no other issues. there's no other solution so far that was deemed credible and possible. but the one that was suggested by the government and, and frankly speaking,

i believed that even though spain has chosen that 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 conflict, you've algeria, morocco at all, over the fate of that disputed reach for some time. which country as it started, do you think are 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 other logical alignment angio with the east and camp and morocco de western camp and no one really managed to be his demonic in the region. so i think it's high time that both countries rethink this policy of competition and it will be stronger together in the larger community called the art of migrant union. that this has a great potential for all of north africa. and i think the book confused me 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 it's 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 it's 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 still forget also the it's already lost. this position 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 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 b, b, c. the guardian, u. k. 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 sanctions list. we're talking about the editor and chiefs of the guardian,

the bbc daily mail, the times the daily telegraph and the, and dependent. 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 are 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 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 is. will

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