ah ah, with care right now we cross to florida, we are putting the live. i'd want him here. he has just finished talking with the national security council. let's listen to move into a bridge to do so. those are a good idea forensic assessments roof and or the investigator. it sort of speak to the fact that it was a terrorist attack garage belsky, aimed to destroying name critical piece of civilian infrastructure. russia are going to expand. it is also evident that the terrorist attack was more than an

organized bilingual, ukrainian who security services the t a regime has long would be resorted to garrison methods normally such as fascination, resume of activities, journalists, scientists, both in ukraine and in russia. done birth, a bully with it also includes the carriers use shelling the cities of the don van lieutenant is mean you do over 8 years. is it still data or? and also nuclear terrorism such as the artillery strikes against these upper of your nuclear power plant. did you receive up there with less when you called? moreover, 3 terrorist attacks have been made against the caps, case worker work less than a producer in nuclear power plant on the current power plant. they have disrupted level d. thank you. power supply line dealing it with sure bull, great jammed of luck. the latest terrorist attack disrupted 3 of such wine, sla,

cedar. yours was lucidly and un no serious consequences. house official euros, thanks to the mitigation, are fed up with a lot, a number of other attempt subject of looking at carrying out similar attacks against him for political the letters, the power generation and or gas transport facilities have been carried out. doesn't including human bluetooth. you put an explosion on the shooter and attempted explosion on the let me dorm jammed turkish pipeline. lead usual and ye, if this has been corroborated by that was useless. but it's the we to that i see you that was glad that data obtained from little the people who had been arrested. miss myrtle know that the unspoken of his damper, her dish, if but land we are aiming and to him them. i clarify the situation with regard and you to let pipelines on the ocean floor of the baltic stream. flaming windows was a beneficiaries to build these attacks near. that'll be the key of regime has placed

itself alongside a do with international terrorist organizations. the most notorious one supposed to be in the middle, the and then you wasn't was, it is impossible to leave these crimes without a response. you know this morning and then you on the name of the minister defend the 1st month and according to be true, the plan was over. well, by the strikes using a high precision weapons where you and the from land see and would you pair up with the areas were made against objects in the, in the crane territory. but we will make them will start to be a serious growth. so the way to provide an adequate response, you can, you can measure it with the level of threats crating for the russian federation. nobody should have any doubts as to that. now will the minister defense please report ok. we're just listening to

a lot of putting their speak at really to the public. he was the meeting there, all of the national security council laying. i really the attacks which have come from kiev forces against parts of don boss and other regions, including of course, on saturday the kirk bridge being attacked 3 people dying and saying, as a reaction to the extent it would occur. possibly that is why we are seeing the events today in your crane. let's go through then. what has been happening today in kiev and other cities across the country? dozens of missiles have hit critical infrastructure all across the country. that's according to presidents lobby mirrors, lensky, the capital key, was at the forefront of the attack.

well, this is some of the latest footage we have received. as of right now, the extent of the damage is unclear, but as you can see, several at via kills other areas as well. essentially destroyed an adviser to president zalinski reports that the strikes were close to the presidential office and ukraine security services building in the capitol caves metro. it's been stopped with stations turned into temporary shelters. according to the moore's office, at local officials, by the way, say 8 people in care of our dead dozens more wounded. that is the latest figures we have to bring, you will not on social media, locals have been sharing footage of the strikes. they witness including this ah,

now in this, but as you can see, the aftermath of a must have miss all attack on cubes. infrastructure fires, significant destruction caused by the strike. sirens indeed, could be heard across the city with at casualties visible and firefighters trying to contain numerous blazes caused by the bluff reports also coming in that a thermal power station key it has been hit with large plumes of smoke billowing out of the facility. also in the major western city of evolve near the polish border, there's reports of a strike on a power station there, 2, local media, se the city no longer has electricity or hot water. at following the attack. the eastern city of dynette pro put profs coming under fire as well. let's look at that . a number of other major ukrainian cities including the western cities of odessa and

mel, neat ski act coming under attack as well. and her alerts was to carry across all of ukraine earlier on monday. and no reports coming in. that alert has been cancelled in most of at the region suggesting that most of the instance occurred in the early hours at this amateur footage. by the way, she was large puffs of smoke holes. maya, i must have miss l attack on laval that's in the west. of ukraine, it's been left without water supplies, and electricity, locals report that error rate warning sirens could be heard across that city. what you 2 our teeth eager shit donna has been filling me in over the last number of hours on what's occurring. maybe some of the background to it as well. eager as i just mentioned, there appears to your air raid sirens. different warnings now stopped in some city suggesting that it has come to some sort of closure. but a lot was happening this monday morning in ukrainian cities,

including key f absolutely union. well, the russian president vladimir putin has finally shed some light as to what's been going on. and where basically this missile attack stems from, according to the russian president occurred. and the decision was made by russia's ministry of decision of defense and of the general staff that a long ranger are ballistics. long range missiles are oh, would strike some critical infrastructure in ukraine. in response to ukraine's repeated attacks on russia's infrastructure on russia's, a civilian towns and border cities. and bought a villages according to vladimir putin such attacks simply could not have been left unanswered. and he did lay out some of the, some or something, some of the, excuse me, some of the attacks that he believes and that the russia is basically pinning the blame on ukraine of food. for example, he's accused, of course,

he talked about how ukraine attacked the crimea bridge. ah, because they believe, according to the intelligence day to that latter potent has. and the russian government has, or you could ukrainian security services were behind it. he also said that ukraine is responsible to 3 attacks on the curse atomic, a power plant. and it was, well, he said that the ukraine attempted to disrupt and to bomb the so called turkish scream. basically, that's a russian gas pipeline going through turkey into europe. now this is a very interesting state made statement by the russian leader. because of course, we will know that russia's news stream one and 2 have been badly damaged and a basically rendered in operational by explosions. and of course, while the investigation into that is still ongoing, the statement of russian president and him pinning the blame for an attempted attack at another russian gas pipeline, the turkish stream. it pains a very,

a pitcher as to who the russian authorities believe is behind the uh, the, the attacks on the node stream project. now also are vladimir putin talked about, well, ukraine's attack on the infrastructure of russia and ukraine, shelling civilian cities and towns of the don bass. and indeed, in the past weeks there has been a significant escalation in ukraine's attacks are on such targets. while the city, the neighboring city of the network is being shelled relentlessly again, there are no military facilities within the city limits of the nets. instead, ukraine targets are well disturb kindergartens. our schools are just apartment buildings and so on. i essentially, for example, the city of the nets is cut off from any centralized water supply has been for months. in fact of, for example, right now,

you can only get running tap water. a once in 3 days of just briefly for a few hours and that applies to the whole city, including the city center, because the ukrainians, they are attacking the local pump station. so there you have it. also in russia, a number of a number of civilian objects have been attacked as well, including a monastery, for example. so well, this is so this is, this is basically what the russian present has been talking about when he said that the ukrainian attacks could not have gone unanswered and indeed this but miss isle . this missile attack on ukraine has been quite unprecedented in scale. for example, people had had to hide and bomb shelters, and the air raid alerts have been going on for a record breaking time. just a few minutes short of 6 hours. now, according to the information that we're getting from the ukranian side, at least 11 or objects of the energy infrastructure have been targeted and damaged

to various extent of well. so right now, the assessing the situation, they are assessing the amount of damage and well, what likely the russian intelligence is doing. so to and well may be preparing yet another list of targets. if ukraine decides to escalate this even further and escalates its attacks on rushes, infrastructural objects and well civilian objects as well. again, the number 11 we're getting is that is from the ukrainian side. so it should be treated as the lowest possible point as to how many targets have been a head by russia's missile attacks. again, dozens of missiles that have been fired towards the ukranian towards the ukrainian facilities today by russia. and so while it was a, again, it was an attack that we haven't seen of such scale since probably the 24th of february when, when russia decided to start the wooded cause

a special military operation. and out basically, only within the 1st couple of weeks, we saw such an escalation after that full months cave and other major regional centers have been ra, basically was back to normal life for them. they was safe there and even a 4 and dip of foreign missions for an diplomatic missions. they just, they resume, they restarted their work there. now, for example, the united states have already released to cool to all its citizens, abandoned, and leave ukraine as quickly as possible. now ukraine's energy jain, the ocr anat ago, has already released a statement. basically they've called on everybody in ukraine to charge their foes to charge their power banks and to well prepare wound clothes because they have said that, oh, power outages all across ukraine are inevitable. now, and while it will take many more miss hours to completely destroy and render an

operational ukraine's energy system, as the damage done today, alone is already quite significant and it will impact the lives of ordinary of ordinary ukrainian citizens. but of course, it will impact the situation on the front too, not immediately, but well within, within some time, some cities stand already completely cut off from the energy grid. for example, the city of revolve in key of ours, sir. certain city districts have been cut off from our, from electricity, great from the water supply and so on. these 2 cities aren't alone high to cover, should dormer, will you name it a desa? pretty much every single major regional center has been battered by russia's missiles strike to day. and so well right now they are assessing the situation. we are of course, closely following it as well because the russian president, as i speak, he is talking to russia security council. you did have

a chance if you tuned in, at the top of the hour, you did have a chance to listen to his opening words. but right now he is discussing the situation with the members of the security council. so we are expecting we are anticipating something to come out of it. and if more statements are made to i will be bringing you all the latest. of course. yeah. much appreciate breaking all that down for us. our teeth eager shit on off when we got reaction from, from a u. s. marine and geopolitical unless brian politic toots face developments, he believes russia had an obligation to retaliate after key of cross moscow's red light. i don't think it comes as a surprise at all. we watch ukraine and carry out the bombing on the caribbean bridge. we have watched ukraine and its sponsors, not only cross rushes red lines, but then on the other side, russia had the obligation to retaliate. if they did not ukraine, it, sponsors would begin to think there are, there was no, nothing,

no consequence. or these continued attack than it, it is civilian if the structure of the argument has been made, that military equipment moves across it. if that is the argument, ukraine wants to make virtually every road and bridge in ukraine is fair game as well. it is a red line. well within russia, a russian bridge. and we have to think about that is, is that really a military target for ukraine or was it there and hitting civilian infrastructure for political purposes? they could not have imagined that it would have stopped with the supply of military equipment sick, right. but surely, they knew it could jeopardize the flow of essential for the civilian population. and people have to remember from 2014 until the special military operation began. ukraine caught all fresh water off who probably to torment the civilian population

. there was no military reason for that. so this is just a continuation of that mind that that policy in kiev and amongst its western sponsor. ok. another aspect to bring you on a busy news, a bell, russian president, alexander lucas shank. list that his country is to deploy a joint group of military forces with russia. these forces have been formed over the past 2 days. the group mainly consists of bella, lucy and soldiers. we were warned that key of has been planning to attack bella, lucy, and territory. it would be crazy from a military perspective for them to open the front against bella. ruth. but that process has already begun, considering that the threat level has comes to that this requires deployment of a joint group of forces of the union state of russia and bella luce. okay, just to expand on that, mister lucas shanker suggested that the grouping would not be significantly large, but did say it would be quote, not

a solid and troops. he insisted that it would still be enough to tackle the threat against his country, his words. now he's all sorted at the f. s. b in ballard to do anything in order to prevent a terrorist attack in ballard, he declared that ukraine would face a nightmare of consequences if it dared to attack bell or russian territory waive. and while i'm not the other, at big developments of the day, i am always happy to welcome former british diplomats under worth or a professor william mullins and onto the program. you are indeed most welcome, sir. on the launcher point, we just listened to alexander lucas shank. oh bella ruth said it is deploying military forces in a joint contingent with its close ally, russia your view and not what does this mean, particularly for ukraine? perhaps i think it means that hopefully matters are coming to a head to this will lead to some sort of peace negotiations. because,

you know, bellows is, is very, very much with russia, historically actually mystically socially, politically, and also feels under some threat from the western. there i call them cowboys, and therefore it's perfectly logical. vertically now, with moscow means can moscow is absolutely logical. you know, united is better than delighted. and then on these developments professor, we have seen quite a lot of attacks across ukraine, including kia, hit with missile attacks. it's happening just a few days after the crimean bridge bombing was this, the scale of the incidence itself, where they unexpected response by rushing, you refuse? i think they were going to make

a number of points furthered. russians generally are very patient people. they always think before, before they do anything, when they do react, they react with great precision. and if one considers that this all began in a sense would be murder of the daughter of an academic acquaintance of mine, alexander dubin 1st. and then you have the pipelines and then you have the current bridge. it says if they were being provoked and to test the russian resolve, which was a bit naive because now they have reacted definitely not targeting civilians per se to kill them. but they are quite rightly strategically tactical and militarily having to target for decision making centers as many as they can. which along doubting the weekend,

the whole military complex and perhaps will induce the west to stop pouring deadly weapons in to ukraine so that they continue. there so that they can continue to have to call them terrorist act against the russian people. so i think it's perfectly logical that no and don't forget that because we in the say also. busy in love on the wall. well, at least certain that the russians will be continued to target. the structure that they were that is what grade he's been doing to just a little bit of a connection issue at william i. i think you may be able to hear me while i ask the question, i'll try and flash it, i'd so maybe we can work in our connection there for a moment. let's just see, can we stay with professor william melanson because he was raising some very interesting views there, william, can you hear me? ok, now i can gain all gone. yeah,

that's fine. so i was just going to bring up the point a bite. i red line, we heard the russian president at the top of the hour, give some opening remarks ahead of the national security meeting with military chief thing of what happened. he also said that other incidents had occurred against russian people, people of dunbar and other regions. there, and that he's not going to sit on his hands essentially. so is this uptick, something likely no to court more and more instead of just that one off response in europe you. i think it is likely to the main aim being to, to stop the attacks on civilians in the dawn box, which has been going on since 2014 and possibly even earlier. so i think it will, but if it does happen, it will be more planned, not hysterically done with precision aiming only decision making centers where

possible. but one must remember that when one does that there will always be sadly a small amount of what the american school collateral damage. but they're not targeting, trying to kill civilians. they're trying to kill decision making, which makes complete sense. i think they were testing the russians to see if they meant it. well, how naive can you get? the russians, as i say, are not hysterical. they, they plan everything they gain so many warnings have actually for many, many years saying please stop attacking us. please stop me, stop the westgate and the west is not organized. they don't even agree with themselves. they have no specific plan. russia has its plan and it's, it said what these objectives are, and that's what it's trying to do. it's as simple as that. i'm afraid and we will see a little more of this on or unless they sit down and talk, which is also out of bounds. remember, because there's a lot of emotion in this story. and once people sit back like the russians do,

and try to get, get rid of all the emotion and bad leadership and all the rest of it. perhaps there will be some common sense in the end talking of response. you mentioned the west and was there, or perhaps how positive response has been and not been to pump more and more weapons into ukraine. it's ukrainian lives as don benefits, rushing, lives being lost when that escalates. do you foresee more of that? know in, in response to today's events, i would like to see that they get to think twice. now, when they realize that russia can respond and what it is capable of without any nuclear weapons. russia has very, very good weapons to do what it needs to do with it, without using nuclear bombs. so i think they will stop being very careful. let's not forget the people like companies like strong countries like hungry, possibly the most democratic european union in terms of how many votes that lead to

god. and you know, perhaps with italy slowly west to become even more provided than it already is behind the scenes about re re okay, just another issue there with william mullins is connection. there. it is a pity he was just that talking through some of the western and we actually try and get some, maybe shot with william off camera as well. wouldn't we can get a better connection with him. we were speaking to william mullins in former british diplomats and or her. but for now, let's move on because a ukrainian presidential advisor has been demanding and he bought were just talking about their more weapons from kids, western barkers in response to these attacks. the e used foreign policy chief use a pro, indeed has promised ukraine. more military supports on the way deeply

shocked by ross's attacks on civilians and keith and all the citizen ukraine. such acts have no place in 21st century. i condemned them in the strongest possible terms. we stand with ukraine. additional military support from the e is on its way. and while e u officials k pledging more and more weapons and aid to ukraine, the euro zones annual inflation rate has hit double digits with food prices at rising by a record high of 14 percent across the u. n. just the past month. the search has sparked public i trades. let's look at our demonstrators. flooded the streets of germany, italy, austria, check republic, demanding an end to what some of called an assault on their pockets. thousands of italians have rounded local prices a mockery and say they refuse the hey. some of their bills. well in prague, thousands rallied against the government handling of the economy. the situation just the day after a summit of thousands of european leaders was held in this city in vienna,

austrian say there a politician should listen to their own citizens instead of playing along with lobbyists. in the e, u, a nato yet would have been waiting for a long time for the government to start acting and to relieve us from these huge cos, ranging from power to basic food. and it's not on the basic food these days, but almost everything. and the government pretense, everything is fine. don't buy. yep. okay, why don't we paying? because we can't take it anymore. there are people who don't have enough money for the whole month and who have to choose whether to pay the rent or pay the bills. the price increases of this last period or intolerable considering that the extra profits of corporations are getting bigger and bigger than that. his daughter, shawn, the situation is very clear. now, it is very clear that due to the overall events, the war and the consequences of the actions taken against russia, we will have to deal with considerable restrictions in our industry. i assume that

companies will increasingly go bankrupt. the process of insolvency has been prolonged, but this reduction cannot be maintained forever. and i assume that the middle classes in particular, will fall to their knees. we are affected as we've just had our increase. we were paying 96 years a month before, but now we pay just under $500.00. so $494.00 per month. that's 5 times as much. we're really shocking. views are really the extent of how they are affected, aren't they? in germany, by the way small businesses are being hit hard by inflation and spiking energy prices for the country's leading economic institutions, say the nation will slide into recession within the next year. they had of india, the federation of export organization. so the crisis is not impacting meanwhile, frame ties with the side asian country. there are visible symptoms of recession in the u. energy crisis is looming, their buyers are delaying orders from india. they are concerned but hopeful. well,

let's discuss all of us with indian trade expert, roger of cru more and get his take on what we've just been listening to. you're most welcome. do you agree that a recession is looming in the european union? yes, very good afternoon and thank you for having me on your show us differently than us . it goes that days a decline in exports and trade and europe because of the crisis which is going on and they increase off the interest rates. obviously they are trying to control the inflation, but i think the demand is going bulk. so as far as we're concerned, i was in the race exporters association, india, and we are catering to roughly about 42 percent of the global trade. like about

50000000 tons of races exported all across the globe. and india alone does about 22000000 tons. but we are not very happy with the kind of rich having in europe because of all the decline it has come down to almost 50 percent of what we re issues which miss on little logical or logical to some because they say is huffman. but if you look at the levels which are allowed in us or japan countries, the jones are advance. and you know, if something is not for human consumption, it has to remain the same everywhere. but europe has its own standards and therefore there are some restrictions over there. you know, the export of rice has really gone down during the hot thanks. of course. we could see that you had ordered roughly about $20000000000.00 worth of race to the world, feeding the port of the world and caused.