and we need to make rules for the rest because without us there will be k r y a we will take serious step to provide an adequate responsible, can measure it with the levels of threats to the russian federation. no one should have any doubts about that. a lot of my personal compares ukraine's actions, primarily in crimea and other older regions through terrorism against russia. he won't, they will evoke a response as a remarks. calm as russia conducted an enormous missile strike operation on ukrainian targets, including the military command center and various energy facilities. both of us out here on our tea, minns reports that both the president of ella roasted and russia have agreed to deploy a joint regional, military contingent,

free by mike will give you more details on this and also explain that at the possible ramifications of the me with a couple of an old corners of the globe and giving you both sides of today's headlines. welcome to your new sausage, but continue without breaking news cover a chair on our t. it's good to have your company. vladimir putin has vowed a serious and reciprocal response to any threats made to russia. he made the remarks during a meeting of the national security council commenting on the latest round of missile strikes against ukraine. soon gilded on this morning, upon the initiative of the defense ministry strikes using high precision weapons from land at sea and air carriers. and that were made against objects in ukrainian territory was those we will take serious steps to provide an adequate response for measure it with the levels of threats to the russian federation. yeah, no one should have any doubts about that. so i was with

a bit earlier in the day russia launched dozens of missiles targeting critical infrastructure across ukraine. the defense ministry and moscow says, all designated targets were hit. as i show you a bit of footage of some of these strikes the critical energy and communications infrastructure was struck in at least 15 cities. ukrainian officials report that 5 regions are currently without power. and president zalinski also confirm that crucial energy systems have been targeted. well, a thermal power station in kia was also being hit. you can see the smoke right there above the facilitate one zelinski advisor reported that miss alt hit close to the presidential office on ukraine security services headquarters. of course, both of those naturally in the capital authorities say 10 people have been killed and dozens more wounded and the locals have been sharing photo john reactions to the missiles strike. play witnesses,

the yes, put a chair over there where the cities, thermal power plot has been badly damaged in a rocket drive are now to the west for the western ukrainian city of layoff, where this footage shows a smoke caused by a missile attack that the city has been left without power, as we understand and water supplies. but following all these development, so since the very early morning hours of correspondence is eager, donal fee remains in, don bassi will give us now break it down. some of the major developments of all of these missiles strike, so cross ukraine today. basically at least 5 ukrainian regions, whole regions have been completely cut off from the energy great hand. i mean, this is just the tip of the iceberg. there are energy shortages pretty much all

across ukraine. now also, water shortages have been reported in many regional centers and smaller towns and villages. and again, the locals and the citizens of ukraine have been officially urged by the authorities to judge their phones in advance to get their power banks ready and to get wound clothes. because again, the situation is very serious. it's still under assessment. but it, oh yeah, i can already say quite definitively that while the damage has been quite extensive, now it will take more than that, or that more than what russia has done to completely take out ukraine's energy systems. and again, other facilities can be repaired. but again, russia can deal more damage with more strikes and does so the situation is very serious for the ukrainians and the well, they are panicking. it's safe to say in care of, we've seen massive cues, a people lining up to gas stations, trying to get as much petrol as they can. people have been sweeping goods of the

shows in the supermarkets made a canned foods and water because, well again this, there are shortages of running water in the taps. this was something that the ukrainians had hoped to see in russia's crimea after they attacked her after a successful attack on the crimean bridge. that didn't happen there. and now that russia retaliating while they're panicking, and that's despite reports that foreign inger intelligence, mainly the british intelligence, had apparently, reportedly warned the key of authorities of a missile strike being prepared in moscow. but well, even if they were indeed av well, if they were, if they indeed knew about the strike, i mean the authorities, they did nothing to alert the population about it. they woke up to air raid sirens, and many were just out and about doing their to stave going about their daily routine. i should say. so are the ra civilian casualties, of course. and there are people wounded,

nobody it did this attack did catch people of god, now for and now foreign powers are also reacting to the well to this missile strike of an unprecedented scale are the e. u is urgently pulling out. it's a diplomatic missions in the u. s. has urged all of its citizens to leave ukraine as quickly as possible. so to japan, we're expecting more reaction, as well as people are in the, in the united states wake up. and as you're, as the business day starts in europe, now interestingly enough, russia used at least 5 types, may be more of munitions for this strike, including a russia's cal, russia, excuse me. we're including russia's caliber miss aisles. and this is interesting because we're an individual who's full in the are to the, to the charms of ukraine's propaganda. that would be a surprise for them because since march ukrainian propagandists have been proposing

that well, russia has run out almost run out of these caliber missiles. now today's strike proves them wrong. again, we're about to see as to what happens next. if this is a major shift in russia's of foreign policy in russia as well, just approach to waging war on ukraine or if this is just indeed just retaliation because ukraine has significantly stepped up a tax on russia civilian infrastructure in the past weeks. they've been shelling rushes, bought the towns and cities and smaller villages, challenges people's homes, whose houses are they even shelled a monastery. but the crowning jeweler of all this, so to speak, was an attack on crimea. as bridget, it is more for rush for the russian government. it is more than just and for structural object, it is a symbol, a symbol that crimea is russia, is that it is part of russia. it is tethered connected to the mainland, and that russia is not going anywhere. so when ukraine,

according to the words of the russian president vladimir putin chose to attack the crimean bridge, well, it wasn't received well here in russia. he and the don bass among the population, so it is widely seen that today's strike is indeed retaliation. and basically moscow vladimir putin and the defense ministry showing that the one ukraine and a few crane crosses more red lines. the reaction will be maybe even disproportionate but adequate. we heard earlier from the former new zealand deputy foreign minister mister mac robson told my colleague, unit r neal that the crimean bridge attack was just one of the reasons why russia had no choice but to broaden it's military response. russia has had to widen. it's response a that's understandable. the bombing of the old of the attack on the, on the crime in bridges. but one aspect the build up and the constant flow of

arms and weapon training and intelligence by the united states and its allies to consciously try and widen the wool. i can see myself look rushes at the no choice. so it's not just the bridge. it's the whole escalation, but spin, fostered by the united states and nato. i am reading that ukraine's presence lensky has issued a and national address, telling everyone to quote, take cover, but no military response has yet been announced. do you think, mr. anson, that is ukraine waiting for the attacks to end or for perhaps a policy decision by western allies, or is it coming up with a plan? how do you foresee the reaction here is the latter. are in the key of government is not a said independent government. the president landscape has shown that he's a pop up. i mean, he tries to pull the strings himself about he's

a small that she's being directed from western governments. this escalates, it can no longer be a war for by the ukrainian forces that you've been using as kevin father in this conflict, quite deliberately, quite cynically. you've got to be faced with looking at putting your own troops in there, escalating your own forces. if that is the policy that particularly london and washington follow, and i believe that also the other allies in the later camp will be very nervous at this escalation, which could of course, spill over into their own territories. well, meantime, russian president vladimir putin has a quite who ukraine to that of a terrorist organization. he made those comments during the meeting of the russian national security council. let's get more details here with our correspondent marina cause. the main just of what he said today was that it was only a matter of time before russia responded this morning. we saw this massive wave of

air strikes on different ukrainian cities. but he really emphasized and summed up in fact, the terrorist nature of those in charge of ukraine now, so that people understand the reason behind what we saw happen in ukraine. if it isn't, was it? the key of regime has long resorted to terrorist methods, such as the assassination of actor, these journalists and scientists, both in the rain and russia. you will notice also include on the terrorist showing of dawn bad cities and also nuclear terrorism, showing those that plan of what it was media who benefits from these attack. the kev regime has place itself among the most a torrijos, international terrorist organizations. you know, this of course, comes just hours after russia chief investigator informed vladimir putin, that ukrainian special services were behind the terrorist attack on the bridge premier. and also it was facilitated by not only of russian citizens,

but also foreign citizens. they know who did it, they know their roots, they took, for example, the truck that exploded that came from bulgaria to georgia, then armenia through russia's north to set the other cross with our region. and basically, vladimir putin said that russia has had an off. and now it will respond to any attack that happens on russian soil. and really, ukraine had a long time coming because we've seen ukraine, the tank, russia in many ways. and vladimir putin actually accused the crates of nuclear terrorism. this is what he focused on. and he brought forth some of the examples, did he did. there have been multiple acts of sabotage on our power plant. have not got up several high voltage power lines have been using the damage was contained as soon as possible. so there was no, he's going to aftermath willow properties. there was also a number of attempt to terrorist attacks committed on electricity and gas transport infrastructure in utah. and so it shouldn't be surprising that ukraine this morning

saw their energy, military and communications facilities targeted and latimer uprooting, said, if you tack rasa, get ready to be attacked back. that was the main message. it was a bit early here in the program a my colleague union, a neil was hearing from the former british diplomat and author william violence and who believes that president putin will continue to stick with russia's military plans and less. kiev agrees to negotiate for peace. however, listen, 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 occur more and more instead of just a one off response in europe you i think it is likely to the main name being to, to stop the attacks on civilians in the dawn bus, 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 they will always be sadly, a small amount of what the americans called 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 plan everything they gave so many warnings have actually for many, many years saying please stop cracking us. please stop the 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 said what its objectives are. and that's what it's trying to do. it's a simpler that i'm afraid, and we will see

a little more of this or unless they sit down and talk when i'll be russian president alexandra lucas. shank are said that his country will 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 kias has been planning to attack bela lucy and territory. it would be crazy from a military perspective for them to open a 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 bela ruth, flemister lucretia and ca, suggested that our troops coming from russia would not be significant. the large but added it would quote, not for your 1000 troops, insisted that it would still be enough the shuttle the threat against his country. and also all the nations secret service to do whatever it takes to prevent a quote, terror attack in belarus. he declared that ukraine would face

a nightmare of consequences, the dead food russian territory. one time the european commission chief ursula van de la and says russians using strength tempered p as a weapon. when commenting on today, strikes russia once again as shown to the world. what it stands for, it is carol and good tell those who are responsible have to be held accountable ukraine, you will not be intimidated and ukrainian know that we will stand by our side that side as long as the reactions as well here on the program as germany announced it'll be providing ukraine with cutting edge and defense systems. of the u. k is foreign minister branded today's missile attacks, unacceptable. while the estonian prime minister, depicted russia as a country, used to deploying terrorist tactics and also pledged once again, full support for ukraine. well, let's take this further now for life to political commentator anthony web jordan,

if they're on the program a very good afternoon to use. so you just have me saying just now the estonian prime minister as a label to russia, a terror state saying that using terrorist tactics. your 1st source. yes. so rory and i to say, i agree the all previous common sites is about the, the saturation are in you crying on, or course it goes back to the destruction of the conflict. there is a special military operation, as opposed to rule out wall. under course of what's been happening is the zalinski government. this has been our sort of getting out of line with their sudden provided keegan preferred. okay. i'm so sorry. i think it's got to the stage now. oh, why? oh, who, you know, they attract the infrastructure of russians sitting in front of

a sudden. obviously they're going to be consequences and you called at the vital mia bridge without a dispensing similar action in return. and it says, i'm st shave, that's a number of western countries are not course in governance about the escalation level. if anything, there are she encouraging the escalation clickable? and i'm a lot scared to happen is one of one of the accommodates has said more are reclining in spain cannon fodder, a moss, a lot of people in some countries in the west and not aware of kids that there is barely no democracy, a tool in the ukraine, they don't allow any opposition groups. they don't allow any different point to view things on the wall and present because so to speak. and it be very

interesting. if i'm, the ukrainian people were offered to referendum on whether they want to sever piece deal with russia because i think what is, was the large numbers of ukrainian, the su ah, fed, up with this translates and i don't want to have an end to it. and you've also got the situation in. other countries like job hungry is going to have a referendum on ending sanctions against russia. iron g got sweden and finland shoe. i have been interested in joining nature and they both say they're not going to give their countries a referendum, but anthony, like kelly, i'm sorry, i'm so sorry to jump in. but if you're on a roll and i've got some little time i've just got to kinda jump in at where and, and when i can i, you know, you a moment ago you seem to mentioned what ellen musk may have said recently when elan

mosque, the ledger the world's richest man, he proposed a piece idea, a piece plan for ukraine than kim dot com jumped in as well. and i let you know that it does seem to be a rising chorus of voices who are essentially addressing the other side of this story. the ukraine conflict, this is a very, very lopsided story. these days when you were just talking, for example, about, you know, the sabotage of north stream or the crimea coach bridge, or they're also stories. now that of that, apparently a russians claim that ukrainian secret security services have been trying to sabotage one russian nuclear plant 3 times. i mean that the question is, there's no, there's no real conventional war going on. now you've got some of it going on in ukraine, but you've got these clandestine special ops, these bouts of sabotage, anthony. is there a limit to what we're seeing now? well, i think very, very, so let me know sooner. cool. so we've seen some of these sort of times it's going on where unfortunately, the, the, the british government alongside the american government were during these sorts of

things. ands saria, are charms of breaking down the legitimate syrian government, which was an old faith government. and we were having the same sort of touch shade to support what law mold people is saying is douglas festa didn't dress which are represented by the sil unscathed government. and it brought up the problems which is not generally recognized. is that a number of countries for checking the u. k. government are using heavily every in fear. it's possible to ensure that the mainstream media actually gives one side of the picture regarding the crime conflict. so you're out or anything which russia jobs, which is commendable, is never actually even mentioned. i'm the so that's the point of view. it's the one where she's champions irrespective of anything else. an

example of this situation is the, the, the bridge. where are the rusted media down played the casualties, whereas the recent russian strikes, all of them are ukranian citizens. they all night the talk about the civilian casualties and said that she, nothing about the damage to the energy infrastructure, water, electricity, it's separate it, but it's not really surprising to you. i mean anthony mckinley, for example, you know, that the very same news agencies that are saying, all these things about russia, are these negative things about russia? well, these, these belong to the countries, the russia is fighting in ukraine. so, i mean, it's pretty easy to put $2.00 and $2.00 together. it's not surprising the kind of rhetoric or the lopsided view, as you said, that we're getting from what is essentially the western press. the western press in those countries are the ones russia is fighting. they've got their soldiers in ukraine. they've been building up fortified tunnels. now for at least 8 years. what

is next? and he should we await further escalation off the today's strikes. what's your crystal ball telling you today? well i think it has certain countries are going to escrow it as much as i possibly can with our with our are going into the it streams. i bought it very, quite happy for the citizens back. com chase to suffer. i'm. this is the thing which might go against that because when you huge and re price rises, cost of living rises, economies fully are part of some of the strays that narrative is actually going to fold down and people get to say, ah enough is enough. we're not going to tolerate this, just because you're in government won't see how far this proxy war in you, craig, which, which is never been in the interest of the united kingdom. i've never been in the

interest of western count trees or indeed americans. this is, it's only in the interests of our school vested interest. i'm there, but the problem is getting this message across because the message press across by the control media is the starting out for, for a job with democracy. and people don't actually understand that vert, she know you for each of them democracy in the ukraine, asshole. well, i mean, they asked me, they were talking about freedom and democracy, going back to you a cause of ode libya, iraq, afghanistan. i mean, we could just go on until the cows come home, anthony web, political commentator joining us life ronada international. always love a chance to pick your brain. thank you very much for your time today. thank you. thank you very much. sure. thank you. let me time a ukrainian, a presidential adviser has demanded more weapons from key abs allies in response to today's attacks. the u. s. foreign policy chief has promised more support is 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 ear is on its way. while e u officials are key pledging more weapons and shoot outs of financial aid to ukraine, or the euro's earns. annual inflation rate has hit double digits with food prices rising by a record high of at least 14 percent across the e u. in just the past 30 days, you can imagine the search has been sparking public outrage. the demonstrators have taken to the streets of germany, a fully austria check republic demanding an end to what some of called an assault on their pockets. a thousands of italians branded local energy prices, a joke, and say they'll refuse to pay their bills while in prague, thousands rally against the government handling of the economy. just a day after

a summit of dozens of european leaders was held in that city. and over in vienna, austrian say that politicians should listen to their own people. instead of playing along with lobbyists and the e. u, and native me while in paris, long queues of cars form the petrol stations of your employees of the hotel. and if you company favor to strike over pay what you would have been waiting for a long time for the government to stop acting and to relieve us from these huge cause ranging from power to basic food. and it's not all the basic food these days . but almost everything and the government protects everything is fine. don't buy. yep. okay, why don't we paying? it's because we can't take it anymore to shut about out. there are people who don't have enough money for the home on the fetus, and who have to choose whether to pay the rent to pay the bills of kaiser. the price increases of this last period are intolerable, considering that the extra profits of corporations are getting bigger and bigger anthem he added 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 through the process of insolvency has been prolonged, but this reduction can be maintained forever. and i assume that the middle classes in particular, will fall to their knees. we are affected as we just had our increase if we were paying 96 years a month before. now we pay just under $500.00. so $494.00 per month. so that's 5 times as much in germany, small businesses are being hit hard by inflation and of course, spiking energy prices of 4 of the countries leading economic institutes predict the nation will slide into recession within the next year. meanwhile, the head of india federation of export organization says the new crisis is now impacting trade ties with the south 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. german economist and publisher i got hammer and a trade expert or chief kula from india. they both share their full costs. i think the worse and all the time because the situation will get more and more severe for the people, they have less money, the prices are climbing and the politicians don't do anything against. so in my opinion, this will climb and once they will be that high, critical masses on the street, we're seeing this in germany. when the world fell down that too many people were on the street in france, they were able to, to knock that people down. uncle now, but now the protest is climbing more and more and thus i will think that it will get rid of the politicians who are in there at the minute. all those days are

declining the exports and trade in europe because of the crisis which is going on and the increase of the interest rates. obviously they are trying to control the inflation. but i think the demand is going out. it's really alarming, and i think it's a situation which needs and you know, immediate attention by other people for export does also talk commander of ukraine's armed forces has published a photo of himself dawning. what appears to be a 3rd reich symbol of an audi, a solution that he posted a photo. i should say he posted a photo on twitter with the user's noticing that general was wearing a bracelet with a swastika. now some ukrainians posted another photo with a so called roon in 2nd. the trying to disprove the bracelet contained a nazi symbol and was simply a bad photo. however,

it's not the 1st time the embrace of extremism has caught it. controversy in ukraine, that's show you some more in may this photo with a soldier wearing an emblem of an infamous, not the time division was posted by president zalinski himself. later deleted after a public backlash and follow pitcher was taken last month in the hud, or cough region. here the landscape can be seen guarded by soldiers with the same symbols on their attire. that photo was also later deleted. well, for my u. s. defense unless michael maloof is hugely concerned by the reach and the influence of what our neo nazi groups. this is one of the concerns that a lot of us have and, and obviously it was also a point that president made when he decided to undertake his special military operation to, to rid the country of the, of the nazi once and for all. but for the, the commander in chief ask him in.