[000:00:00;00] ah, the breaking news this hour done? yes. got officials accused of targeting the city center while locals commemorative, plain female militia commander, leaving at least 5 dead. 6 wounded on assistant camera mon working for art, see who was staying at a damaged hotel, suffered a concussion in the ad on our program. this our washington warrant china not to escalate the situation in taiwan into

a crisis after us. high speaker at nancy pelosi to visit to the region. aging begins, large scale, military exercises, and pulse trade with type pay. and also in an exclusive interview with arts, the former austrian foreign minister car and can i sell shares? she to flee europe after facing death, friends over her tide with russia. our course 5 various parts of public institutions have to condemn a russia. you have to take distance from president. so then you have to request that you have a context president putting you. i said, i'm not going to do all that. you choose one minute past 2 pm and the resting capital. i'm, you know, leland, this is our t international. we begin with breaking news from the done yes, the people's republic where d,

p. r officials say 5 people have been killed on at least 6 more injured in ukrainian shelling of the done yet comp law, including of a service for a slain female military commander. a warning you may find the following images disturbing the according to official, some 10 projectiles. hit the city center damaging several buildings, including the don bass palace hotel, where journalists were based on assistant to an art camera man was injured during the shelling port to have suffered a concussion. the commemoration at service for the commander failed to begin with all those present evacuated at 2 shelters.

while to get more. all this developing story less speak now to canadian journalist eve bartlett, who has been working the region for some time on witness the shelling. even 1st, lee, how are you? because i believe you are very close to where the shelling hit. ah, yeah, i was actually in the hotel when it started, i was working and when after the 1st 3 very strong explosions, i went to the hotel lobby at the time that the assistant to the camera man was injured. that was the 5th blast, a very powerful blast. right next to the hotel. i had just stepped back from the, from the lobby. so it, thankfully, i'm sorry that he was injured, but yeah, that's, that's where i was at the time. and about an hour prior. i had been working in the room that took the most damage out because this hotel is a journalist, go to it because it's

a central location and it has powerful why fi and those her tools that we need. so i'm pretty sure that ukraine knows that this is a hotel, that journalist i stay in and i don't think that this is accidental. what is the situation like? no, even now it's calm, but about let's see. the 1st blast occurred around 10 20 am in a series of blast within a few minutes i. when things calm down, turn on, i started going outside to document the damage. there was unfortunately one dead woman just outside the hotel. and, and while journalists were outside documenting, maybe it was like almost noon, the shelling resumed. so people went back in the hotel into cover. and that lasted for another 1015 minutes. it's now com, but people over, of course, on edge knowing that ukraine has struck the center already a few times. well, 10 times, as you said,

not could happen at any moment. yet it appears to be miss aloft or miss out. during that time raise your speaking. yeah. but up to 10 and this service for the slain dalton, boss, army colonel. do you know whether civilians off the service does it appear as if it was a location that was directly targeted by key forces? yeah, i haven't had a chance yet to go to that menu, but it's literally just about i'd estimate 50 meters from where the hotel it's and actually after the 1st few strikes, i started filming out of a window and i could see the plan with smoke coming and i thought man that's, that's very close. and then i realized it was probably the funeral. i saw professional car to speed away. so i do believe they were talking the funeral intentionally. this was the slain dpr kernel. people attending the funeral would have been civilians would have been normal. people not, not necessarily military, even if they were military. the fact is, this is a residential civilian area, not

a military target. if i really have to say, i admire how calm and composed you are speaking to us, right though, after not very long ago being in the midst of colleagues perhaps that were in the hotel as well. do you know if you're, if they are safe and people working there is a, is it confusion, or can you communicate quite easily? now it's come at the time that the last 2 are occurring. it was chaotic and confusing. although i have to say people here are quite resilient and they've been dealing with these kind of showings for 8 years. so for them it's nothing new for me also. it isn't anything new. but there are, there definitely was chaos because you don't know how long the last are going to continue. don't know how strong they're going to be, how much more damage if they hit the hotel once they could hit it many times more. so in that sense, there was a lot of confusion, but the hotel stuff i have to say are incredibly courageous. they immediately went

out and started cleaning up the debris. after the calmer to me. unfortunately, i was just looking on telegram channels, trying to update myself because i'm trying to get as much news as i can. what has happened around the city and just about to street from where i'm standing now. there is a it's, i think it's push can boulevard. it's a pedestrian area. and i saw the footage of a man whose wife and grand daughter were torn to pieces by the shelling and he's screaming and devastation and grief. really astonishing developments. aren't they just gruesome? totally, eva, i'm just thinking as well, we've been speaking to other locals in the last number of days, and they say there does feel to be an an op tick in a tax. that is not how it feels to you. you said you've been covering this for quite some time. does it appear to be more concerted, more direct, right? not yeah,

absolutely. it is an uptick because if you recall, some days ago we had been a far east pedal mines or butterfly mines dropped all over done yes. including central areas including very hard hit western and northern areas. i went with my colleagues roman cost her of, and his crew to document the day after the attacks which occurred around 9 pm on saturday evening. and they had the little pedal mines were literally everywhere. and honestly, even though they're circled, or there's some sort of notice trying to bring people to vision to the fact there's a pedal mind there, they're incredibly hard to spot. their tiny little things are incredibly insidious and not if you stand on one, you're going to have your foot, her leg blown off, and not as of course, the intent ukraine's use of these mines is against. they signed the ottawa convention. they agreed and i think it was either late nineties or early 2000 and so they would destroy their 6000000. as far as i can tell from the research i could find online,

they've only destroyed about 2000000. so they're using prohibited weapons that they claimed they were going to destroy. they're using it on civilian areas, knowing that it's going to target civilians. and that saturday night was not the 1st time grant has been using big pedal or butterfly mines. i cross all adults areas, not just the done yet, can not just go left but also look, ask areas and again, knowing they're going to target and mean and just utterly disfigure civilians will leave it. we are here at archie. we're very glad you are ok. thank you for coming on the program and telling us just what happened not very long ago with their canadian journalists to eva bark that live on our team. while locals, south eva, was describing their in quite really gruesome detail. panic stricken is really the emotion of the day. some of them of lost their love when some of them are looking for loved ones. some of them are trying to get in touch with the hospitals and see

are they there? let's just show you some of those raw emotions. you know, i have no documents to prove. we are relatives, but this is my granddaughter and here lies my wife, the projectile flu here. but the shelf struck, the theatre in the don base palace to civilians, and one member of the military were killed the blast toward the civilians apart and the shar just flew past me. i feel incredible emotion. i hope no one ever experiences anything like that. you're probably should that i came out from a shop after the blast, which forced every one to hide in a basement. we have no idea what's next, whether there will be further attacks. well, to get more and what occurred today in done yet. so let us cross to our correspond remind cos tribe who is just getting microsoft a few moments ago. he may just be able to hear me now. hi there. at remind, can you indeed we were speaking to eve bartlett just a few moments ago,

giving us the details direct testimony really from where she was that hotel that was attacked, but the hotel wasn't the only target today. ah absolutely. well, this is another day, another tragedy for the people of the nest, the people of the done that's republic. unfortunately, we're hearing about a civilian deaths every single day. now, when this particular attack occurred, i was at the front line where the net forces are reportedly moving forward. but just thought about that. once i got network connectivity to back and i was on the way here, i found out that indeed the sensor, the central part of the city of the desk was attack. now, this is not the 1st time the central part of the town is attacked by high caliber

a missiles just since the beginning of the special military operation. we had the ballistic missiles here, we had american made hi am our systems we had grad, raucous, and of course all of those attacks resulted in a civilian deaths damaged to civilian infrastructure. just recently, the service workers here in the nest restored access to water and electricity. and now this again, now this had sack took place as there was a funeral held for the colonel of the nest people's republic army. she was in charge of, of one of our artillery divisions. her name is olga. sure. she's the hero of the nest. people's republican, also a hero of the russian federation. the order was signed by president vladimir putin . and now as of those commemoration events were coming to a close,

the city of dun esque was attack. now, one place is the dung bus palace hotel where we are right now. the reason for our different position at this time is that we can be in front of the hotel like we usually are. we are kind of for hiding in a back door of houses all around me here to make sure and minimize the any a risk to us as we're speaking alive on our team right now. so i'm a local officials are saying that this particular attack on thursday afternoon took place because of the funeral, which was held for all your got shorter. let's take a listen. we should probably have expected that this would happen that such a service would not have been allowed to take place so easily. i think the ukrainians targeted the theater. ah,

so far, so officials are saying that as well now it in terms of what the nest was hit with, we're still waiting for officials that results. but unofficially, a local officials are saying that it was indeed a very high caliber multiple, a rocket launcher, 155 millimeters. in fact, that could be a high mars, it could be something smaller like a harry, a hurricane or grad. now would it find some fragments of the bomb that fell? of course, what took pictures of that was sent it to a specialist and waiting on a confirmation. what kind of weaponry that was, whether it was a nato produce, or whether it was ukrainian or anything else. now ukrainian officials, i have already come out and said,

will action of the advisors of the office on the gradient president, he said that the ukraine are not to blame for this attack. us saying that they only attack a military targets. they only attack a fuel depos and anything else that has to do with the russian or g p r, or lp. our army, however, beat here on the ground for 8 years already. we know from our personal experience that that's not a fact, that's a mostly civilian targets, a civilian areas, a civilian infrastructure, civilian lives are targeted by the ukrainian military r t correspond to remind costa if on the ground in don. yes for earlier that attack or curve. thank you. well, let's say discussed today's developments further with martin doles or martin's a human rights lawyer. he's a former hamburg parliamentarian, the member of germany's left party. hello martin. it does appear that ukraine

chose to strike a farewell ceremony dedicated to a fallen danielle military commander in your opinion. is there any justification for targeting a memorial service like done? no, of course not. this is a war crime in civilian areas war. they shouldn't be here and especially if there are like this or berries, theaters, everything like that is not a legitimate target in the world. so we can talk of the clear walk. and i think the ukranian president says you didn't do that strike. that is actually the critic saying, so is a bit cynic so wall is always cru. ready roots to wall and

international and international humanitarian law. and this is a key of use of that. well, that's the thing is that we heard from our correspondence thing there that the office of the ukrainian president said that this was not their strike, that the only targets and military positions. but is this, could this be stretched out to include that? that that's what maybe the vagueness here is with kiev. this was a memorial service. civilians were there as well, saying good bye to a person they know just on the fact that he ever saying that it wasn't then who are they saying, did it there just to point out to our viewers don't yet because be held by dpr forces for years the population there is very pro russian, the vagueness and in all this is extraordinary. is it not? i think if we look at the general conflict,

we can see clearly that since 2000 hockey ukrainian, me, i did some research and on yes as well. with my assistant and i seen the evidence as well that the trying new process, we're getting civilian areas and imagine that happens all that and especially this of course is the kind of psychological warfare against the population to show you someone who is a you for you can even do a strike like that. i think it's a kind of yeah, really complex, logical walk. and this is to be interesting that something martin, you and i have spoken about on occasion, but it now seems to be coming to a wider audience. i'm this the international has produced the report documenting how the ukrainian militia tree has been using schools and other civilian

infrastructure as bases in the process. it's put civilians at harm's way. that is their statement. and why do you think this is only coming up now on this level? and why do you think the army is, is choosing these locations of positions general this as well, that we look at it now work in the national recall. finally, it's a report of the civilians and the area a long time. yes, soldiers of the ukrainian army systematically use to use hospitals use civilian areas to station their troops or even to station some kind of rocket throws and other items. so this is, let's say, if the strategy, if,

if you look at it from international humanitarian law and then use against that because it's not about in the conflict. i mean, i'm a, i mean i, and i believe that he says the solution on dialogue. the solution every was causing weekend spot. this was a strategy of systematic lead damaging the civil populations. and if we look at it, for example, the assistance of the former a german chancellor given that most of the lot you said is as well, that you the dream strategy of army civilians and of putting arms and troops into being an area is something what you can do, but that is against international german law and it's a strategy of including the civilians, most war. and maybe if you're going to strategy to do that,

to the best stage to get more so the more you can show, like pictures of areas, which i remember, for example, the hospital, my real pool was being recorded by the rational and also go in the united that he set our troops stationed, put into this and also and then some days later it was targeted because then the military, a military, legitimate, military aim for, for attacking. but then it was intimated as something had been, had been killed. but if you look at the averaging. ready says films about this is clearly shows read it only all, all indicates becomes

a clearly shows but old indicates that there have been troops which have been turned into the hospital. so i think it's a strategy in wall, which is illegitimate to cost as much as possible civilian damage and legitimate to put troops and station troops into civilian areas. martin out to thank you for coming on the program such short notice today. just after this news was developing and indeed is still breaking in done yet. 5 people killed as ukrainian forces shell done. yes, left party member, martin dodger and human rights lawyer live from hamburg. as always. thank you all the best to you and to the people. thank you, sir. okay, 2 more world news. this our direct words from the chinese foreign ministry who have called us actions in taiwan. a well planned force, the ministry, and that such,

quote, provocations are not accidental and will be met with a response to why the us has acting treacherously on the taiwan issue. blatantly playing with fire and blatantly becoming an enemy of 14000000000 chinese people. and it will never end well. well, the chinese army has started large scale military exercises striking at targets in the eastern taiwan straits during those war games. and it comes of course of the u. s. essentially tries to dine play house speaker nancy pelosi, a recent visit to taiwan thing. there is no reason for paging to overreact. there is no reason for beijing to turn this visit, which is consistent with long standing u. s. policy and into some sort of crisis. what artes nicky are and has been taking a closer look at the consequences of nancy pelosi visit to ty, pay,

toner is already taking action as it warned it would fall out from pillow seas. whirlwind trip has been swift and brutal to quite rightly. people are asking the question, we have seen the chinese authorities take multiple economic actions against individual chinese companies, an entire sectors of the economy. here, taiwan has already paid your visit and is likely to continue to do for the coming days and weeks. what concrete tangible benefits can you promise taiwan? offset the cost of your trip. a tricky question. slickly deflected because she knew exactly what she'd done. and americans have made a bit of a habit of doing things like this. throwing others under the bus in service of their own goals. and the consequences over this brief trip are already taking hold global markets all spooked. and the largest military drills around tie one in

decades. ah but it might prove that the economic measures imposed by china will hurt tie one. the most fading has already banned imports from $35.00 taiwanese exports plus restrictions on some fruit and fish. and one might not sound like a big deal. the ban on son to which the island was already short of plus if a key component of ty, one's greatest export semiconductors, which have not be mentioned. well not yet. if beijing does decide to go further, people on the streets will be sure to feel it. china is tie, one's largest trading partner after role. so is it any wonder that there were people in taiwan who weren't engaging in the pillow? see, love fest money on the bill. what do you mean below? see what the hell i doing here right now? come all the way here to sport the 2. these people support yourself. you want to

support us to fight against the peoples of the race. and army americans always ask us to let more to when he's people joined the army. whenever you come to town winds or want us to buy more weapons from you and fight against the people's liberation army and urban terrain, it's none of your business. i hate to support taiwan or to provoke a war one. how are you doing here? below see the relationship between the mainland and taiwan is already very tense. you're supporting to one, but we don't need your support. you are literally pairing oil on the flames. you only make things worse. so who did this flying with its 1st was simply pelosi. he wanted to be pictured a chair in ty pay before he attention. he gets kicked out this november, or was it the war hawks in washington hooping ratcheting up the china rhetoric for months now? oh, and of course, the military industrial complex, the very heart of american foreign policy american officials have been quietly pressing their tie when he's counterparts to buy weapons suitable for a symmetric warfare. a conflict in which is smaller,

military uses mobile systems to conduct lethal strikes on a much bigger force. they could say what it has here is a win win. not only does it make money on selling weapons, but it also has a leaf on us weapons at the ready in the region. should it decide it needs them? as we know, taiwan wouldn't be the 1st to pay the price for the policy. the dc warhawks people in afghanistan are starving because the government can't access its own money, which is frozen by the us. there's tens of thousands of venezuelans who pay the ultimate price for the u. s. as punitive sanctions. and then there's the ukranian people who critic say dying needlessly, just in american poles and the u. s. proxy war with russia. but apparently in the long run, it's always a price worth paying. we have heard that half a 1000000 children died. i mean, that's more children than died when in hiroshima and you know,

if the price worth it, i think this is a very hard choice, but the price we think the price is worth it. so now he has tie one and pelosi won't even give it a 2nd thought she got her photo after all. now, amid western tensions surrounding all things, russia, many people who refuse to cut ties with the country face enormous pressure among them. former austrian foreign minister current can isolate who received death threats before fleeing to lebanon. are ti talked with her and her life has changed in recent months. the full interview can be seen here later on art interest. irrationality in dealing with russia has always been around. but ever since february 24th of course it gains once moral and intensity. in february, i was quite grateful that i happened to be in france and knelt anymore in austria, and i was forced by various parts of public institutions. you have to condemn

russia, you have to take distance from president, put then you have to regret that you ever had context. president put in a said, i'm not going to do all that. yeah, no, i'm not going to condemn i take this stands and it's not my side. i never was in politics. i don't consider myself as a gentleman, politician. i wasn't about running for a party. but i also found out in a very harsh way that nobody would ever open them out for me. i'm an easy target and i am by myself. so if anybody's trying is deciding to cut down all my bank accounts, then i'm lost and nobody would care. people still believe that i am i don't, austria because lots of requests. the other day i got a request from a kurdish party. they wanted to ask me to help them with context and trans on. as little deborah, many people are still under the impression that i'm in austria and others who have

followed a little bit to the backward. they believe i'm wasting money on my, in my villas, in southern france. if you want to confuse the enemy, not many who know or who have realized that i am in lebanon. many also believe that i'm in russia that i'm cross running the propaganda and that's in for matthew and that the c p c center, whatever they call it, the europe. i grew up in freedom, legal predictability, security doesn't exist anymore. and things proceed to way the proceed now in many european countries in terms of blackouts here and let people know how to live with black, i know, ought to live with 23 hours of electricity. but this is not the case for many use societies. so maybe in the very end, i was even lucky to come to 11 on even so i didn't come out of choice. she asked me what would have to happen that i should go back. i would say a lot of people will have to say, sorry,