a job with what i deal with them with ukrainian troops have resumed artillery, shelling of the city of dusk and destroyed a nearby gallop pipeline. meanwhile, and archie cru observes a russian training camp for local don about force is our top, the skills of modern warfare. also ahead, we have a longstanding relationship with the soviet union and i was, i was over here with a broadway trip. we will buy whatever we are in years. well, minister tells our to see that his country will continue to buy russian fuel as much as it wants. that is by demand from western countries to cut off imports from

marsha with the death row from devastating earthquakes and turkey and syria surpassing 7000 people. with many victims believe to still be trapped among the rubble of co ops buildings. russian emergency workers have been providing if this is a search and rescue efforts with coming to you live from the russian capital versus r t international. i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories of the hour. welcome to the program. we began with the conflict and don bass. ukrainian forces have reported thing, resumed the artillery shelling of civilian areas and the regional capital city. i've done it. the sounds of explosions have been reported in the city center. the details are

currently being clarified, reports say nearby natural gas pipeline was hit, causing a massive blaze to erupt. least 6 civilians are said to have been wounded by ukrainian showing throughout the dawn in school public over the past 24 hours. meanwhile, archie visited a russian military training camp and on the republic. local forces there have been learning how to fit effectively, defend their homeland through modern warfare. ortiz, roman coast, wrote reports, thousands of soldiers have already graduated from this trading center. not only operators offer ha, pearl vehicles, but sir gun operators as well are from here. they move different ports of the front to both the here in done escrow public and elegance republic as well. and in other areas to ah,

with that a short normal idea video for that system delivery. but this was an, our guys want to go to the front line. they want to fight. they are risking their lives. of course, i can't see into any one soul, but what i can see is that our guys are determined to fulfill their combat missions . the sensor also include sir, 1st aid training and extreme situations for the military personnel. for all the forces offer russia right now, they're going to show us one of the elements that is very useful on the battlefield . in other brimming edge improves even if there is no need to use improvised means . we live in the modern world. we have affordable, effective, and statistically proven tools. improvised means like bandages,

from tampons and rubber bands are ineffective. sports trading sensor was born right here in the next people's republic due to the need for high tech warfare. initially it was a school for drone operators, lotion center you any modern would require a lot of attention to a man drone systems. and that's definitely not all. we are constantly exchanging information with people on the front lines, people who are using the drones. so giving us feedback right now. it's a much bigger sensor had colors tactical medicine. it covers machine gun operators as well. to date. it has taught soldiers from a different divisions from different platoons over the next people's republic, army and legacy people's republic armies, as well. and just to say it's one of the most important schools here are among

cosser of r t, the next people's republic. in 10 fighting is underway in the outskirts of the city of art here. mosque also known as bach lute, as archie in archie cru, managed to capture this footage from a drone there. the strategically important city in the donna's republic has been a fierce battle ground for both sides. over the recent months, russian troops have been advancing in ukrainian held areas. they're cutting off supply routes for kids forces fighters of the russian private military company. the wagner group are at the forefront of the operation. we heard from some of those that with them is it? we've just captured some nazis and mobilized ukrainian guys. the latter are just 18 and 19 years old and they're in shock. they don't want to fight. so the mercenaries put them out in front and run away themselves by using with onions to come georgian, italian, american mercenary, diesel. they usually don't get involved in combat very much. they try to retreat

because they are paid more alive than dead. under slum new, flawless fellows. there are fewer and few ukrainian fighters left. so with facing mo, foreign is on the front line, but soon they will end and it will be even easier. the main thing is to move forward without stopping. our spirit is strong and there's only one path forward home we soon in years, oil minister has affirmed in an interview with archie that his country will continue to by russian oil supplies. despite the western sanctions against moscow. he emphasized that india is a sovereign state that makes decisions based on its own needs, not on external pressure. let me be very clear. i've heard these words, but i said he was, i've never felt any pleasure. as the minister, as the representative of a sovereign country will buy from wherever we buy, people said, don't buy, don't buy. but just tell me india in order to buy from russia. and let's say india

was to buy only from the previous countries where the price go up and go down. so i think it stands to reason, we have a long standing relationship with the soviet union as well. so with the union, with that i should progress or we will by the way, but whatever we have to, as far as russia nation variations concerned, we ended 31st march 2022 with 0.2 percent import of growth from russia. today to shies, i got december because i showed a lot of flat in between, it began then we're going to look at country which has to meet the consumption demands of a large population will always source from wherever they can get listing and the right price delivery and so on the policy also in the midst of all the, it's a, it's a fiercely independent and dictated by a national interest. in the 1st policy, the interview took place during india's energy week forum with top russian industry,

executives and attendance signaling. a boost in energy ties between those countries, companies from about 50 nations and more than 30 senior government officials from around the world have been taking part in the event in the backdrop western states have been bracing themselves for a new price cap on russian oil. the indian fuel minister also underline the importance of investing and more environmentally friendly renewable resources. we have opened up an international bio dues alliance or signature of the united states, brazilian india, or liddy. then i'm sure other countries will join because you don't even if you out a major producer off hydrocarbon, you still would have an interest in biofuels. you could do it both simultaneously in a conglomerate, gunmetal, india. the 3rd largest consumer of oil is expected to use. it's g 20 presidency is

a platform to set up international biofuel alliances in you'll see it's proposed biofuel lines. could draw interests from countries such as russia, brazil, amongst others in this way, could be a new road ahead in the, in no g sector. as the oil diplomacy in oil or doe in the world is fast changing courtesy, western sanctions against russia. and that price gap that has imposed on russian crewed by the g 7, something that are abundantly clear or the loses are and who the beneficiaries off . right now, we're still balance to surplus because china has still yet to fully rebound. are we going to run out of spare production capacity potentially by 2024? you start to have a serious problem. and also, let's look at a big new point here. if a russian petroleum product is processed in a 3rd country that it's no longer considered old russian origin, and the russian price gap then does not apply. now in this entire process,

the biggest gain as a country is such as india and china. if a russian petroleum product is processed by being blended in a 3rd country, other than russia with a product from another 3rd country origin, resulting in a different product than the russian petroleum product will no longer be considered of russia origin in the price cap will no longer apply, no, as you and the west keeps a straight face. as time passes, it's becoming more and more clear as these sanctions really are a big question mark and that the gillman market may actually not be able to so live without russian oil. a minor earthquake has hit israel in recent hours with residents reporting tremors and several cities across the country that comes amid aftershocks from a devastating series of earthquakes that ripped through turkey and syria and recent days, claiming more than 7000 lives. one of those earthquakes was recorded on a magnitude of 7.8, the region strongest and almost

a century. and the most affected areas, inter kia and syria, many people still remain trapped under the rubble of collapse and buildings. survivors are being pulled from the degrees even after more than 36 hours from the initial earthquake. voices can be heard coming from beneath the degrees. as the desperate search for survivors continues. tortilla and still in ruins. more than 5000 buildings in the country have collapsed. as the search for survivors continues . russian emergency champs have been working on the ground and the disaster selves . russia and cruise are reported down, rescued, more than 40 people. so far. we heard from a local reporter with the details. colonel motors, mac is the, the nuclear, one of the areas most affected by the color. mon marashi earthquake is the city of kazi, on tip. there are ongoing search and rescue operations and collapse. buildings are being dismantled, so we are now standing outside a former apartment complex. this was a 5 story building. so as you can see,

there was a rescue operation underway to find people who may be still trapped under the rubble. as i mentioned earlier, the se in city of gaussian temp is one of the most affected cities. 581 buildings were destroyed here, 481 people died, and another 3750 were injured. at least 10 turkish provinces were impacted and tremors could be felt hundreds of kilometers away. among the countries mostly affected, neighboring syria, already crippled by years of war, suffered mass devastation when seismic shock spread into northern parts of the country. so let's take a closer look at the deadly aftermath. so far more than 7000 deaths have been confirmed inter kia with over 38000 people injured. syrian authorities have reported more than 1000 killed and 2000 injured russian emergency workers have been helping rescue people in the syrian city of

a labo. one of the areas most effective rushes defense ministry says that they have managed to save more than 40 people from under the rubble of collapse. buildings among those rescued was a man who spent several days without water and food as he was trapped in mid heavy degrees. meanwhile, western sanctions, particularly from the u. s, have been blocking vital aid from getting into syria after the disaster. r. t correspondence of law and chronic as the details. but may be search and rescue operations in syria are ongoing, the rebel is being cleared and victims bodies are being extracted. these operations are being conducted in let back your job lay aleppo and it live. there is no final number of victims yet as the information is being a faded from time to time, it is known that the total number killed in the earthquake in all regions of syria has surpassed a 1000 people. the number of ensured, of course,

is much higher here in la takia, all government services responsible for eliminating the earthquakes aftermath. our working day and night. the rescue teams are made up of various forces, the military police security services, the health ministry, and local governments. they are making every possible effort within their cap. however, as the mission head of the international red cross in syria, no to that a press conference due to the western sanctions, syria does not have enough resources to overcome this catastrophe and needs support equipment ambulances and much more to overcome this humanitarian catastrophe rescue teams and groups from allied countries and arab nations have begun to arrive in syria to assist in dealing with this humanitarian catastrophe. rescue teams from russia, iraq and all urea have already arrived in syria,

as well as plays with the humanitarian aid at rescue team has already been formed in lebanon, which will go to syria to provide assistance. in addition, many countries have already declared their readiness to provide assistance and support to syria to go further in depth on this last cross live now to dr. 11th coolant and the meredith professor of earth sciences i turkey soccer, i university dr. who and it's great to have you on the program today. now there have been at least 2 major earthquakes impacting turkey and neighboring theory and recent days, as well as numerous aftershocks. how much longer is this activity expected to go on? as we know from major case, once major, okay, well then after shops will continue for months if not several years.

so initially the activity will be very enhanced by the time it will diminish. so we would expect many shots with magnitude screeching up to 6 explained by rain. as a matter of fact, right out the major. we had 3 major up shots with magnitude greater than 6. 1 of them being 6 points, taylor and these will continue for months. now with the after shocks that have been recorded so far, what are the biggest concerns right now? i mean, are there any concerns about the possibility of soon on me is happening in the mediterranean sea, similar to what we've seen in the pacific ocean. not right now because these are the case bro falls that are on land. they would

have to send them is if the whole thing or cures we can see. so we don't expect anyone to send them is as of right now. now, so far this has been just a truly devastating mass casualty event. we've seen mass destruction at the same time. any kind of seismic activity is usually carefully registered by scientists. so do you think that anything could have been done to prevent the casualties that we're seeing right now in turkey and syria certain that as long as the defects continue, people should be aware that although they, the damage building was a great danger. so no one else is building

even as we get closer to the building because officer shares may eventually cause collapse of those damage building now and given that we've seen around 5000 buildings collapse in turkey. did that come as a surprise to you and do you think that that speaks to the construction of those buildings or do you think that that speaks more to just how devastating these earthquakes were? first of all, the magnitude is the great plane. several, several put in a the 1st month and niners flavor and other ones matching planes take a lot though, and seismic i was really call it to say no problem as well. it is 5 conditions.

if you build buildings on the ground, so that will amplify shaking and will cause damage. now you mentioned possibly staying away from those very tall buildings. is there any other advice that you would give to people on the ground who are concerned about future aftershocks? what that could mean and how they could be affected those up the shot shouldn't cause any the panic. those are normal expected. as i say, people should read. so as buildings or as a great pain to patients who go in those buildings and nations predicted. although the inspections from alternatives definitely advice to keep in mind as we go along

and continue to cover this very tragic story. dr. 11 grew and, and ameritas professor of our sciences. thank you so much for your time and insight into and ukraine's president zalinski was planning on giving a speech at the popular italian music festival san reno. but a mid rising dissatisfaction over western support for kids war effort, ukrainian leaders address has been cancelled. he is now allowed to just send a text message to be read by a presenter. we heard from margie contributor rachel mars in about why she thinks the festivals organizers backed out of the previous arrangement. so zaleski has been crashing the velvet rope at various other major entertainment events via pre tape speeches. most recently i last weekend grammy awards were here, musicians to speak out in supportive keep because as everyone knows,

hollywood is full of highly informed people, with absolutely no opinions who need to be private, very aggressively to speak their minds. there is talk of the san ramon festival organizers, perhaps letting zalinski speak on the final night saturday night. but they've been faced with some blow back from prominent italian political figures. they are more confused go there, will she really? i love italian songs. zalinski. i don't know how he sings. i have other preferences . if i have time to watch, right? you know, it will be to listen to songs, not to listen to anything else as a private citizen who pays his license fee. however, i would prefer that it didn't go ahead, i feel that on zalinski side, there is a desire for visibility, which disturbs me. there's a conflict. san ramo, does not seem like the right context for me. so last month at the golden globe awards hollywood celebrities listen to zalinski riff on the conflict in between their sips of champagne and muscles of icelandic salmon. they're just so completely

out of touch with the average person that ratings have plummeted. and that's pretty much the same as ratings for the rest of these old establishment award shows. people just aren't tuning any more to listen to a bunch of hollywood left this preach and tell them how to live. so in that context, it's really not the best look for zalinski to constantly be looking the hitches wagon to that. failing out of touch, holly, weird, seen a speaking of weird last year, zalinski spoke at the cannes film festival, here in france, but was denied a spy at last year's oscars host. amy schumer said at the time that quote, i think it's a great opportunity to at least comment on a couple of things. i have some jokes that kind of highlight the sort of current condition. i mean, there are just so many awful things happening that it seems hard to focus on which one. yeah, there's a lot of other misery and war in the world to make jokes of,

i guess she saying, so why is zalinski the only one allowed to constantly hug the spotlight at these things, but by the way, oscar winner sean penn did give zalinski one of his own academy awards for best actor takes one to know and i guess fifo refused to bow to pressure to let zelinski speak at the world cut football final last december fee for president johnny infant tino said quote, those fans and the billions watching on tv they have their own problems, they just want to watch $90.00 or 120 minutes without having to think about anything but just enjoying a little moment of pleasure. enjoy. and now italian citizens are echoing that sentiment in objecting to zalinski san ramo appearance with the medical godaddy zalinski. i'm totally against the zalinski thing because russia hasn't done anything wrong to me. neither has ukraine is to us war against the rest of the world. because we, who are in favor of peace have to spend a lot of money at the expense of surveillance and honest workers to make war and

destruction in the, at, at adams. so send us little and i've always been against sending weapons because there are always secondary roads to find and follow can. we can invest 500000000 in italy for other things. we have many problems, america and all the other states that send to arms have no problem because they have them, their policy is war mongering and always has been. we have to stay out of it was a gun order, there was a, this is a sitting faint event and it must only be about sitting to politics must not come into it. it looks like italians really. just want to focus on something a little more light hearted and fine just for a few days and made the ongoing inflation and energy costs challenges and the sacrifice that the european union overlords demand of them for ukraine to go further in depth on let's, let's cross live now to go max, hey, a law professor at both university of california in san francisco and the university of turn in italy. professor,

it's great to have you on the program today. now you actually initiated a petition against allowing ukrainian president zalinski to speak at this popular italian music festival. so what were your reasons for that? well, we are really fed up the propaganda. i think that the western block, nathan, the us in particular are feeding us to the media. these then which is badly control . and the time that the, that is done understand that there's the situation and the reality is much different than much more complex. what they are telling us. so you know, to having some, a mom which is perhaps the most important intact ending the event in the, or with some 12000000 people watching it. and most of the people watching remote b like, you know, the, me, the lead, say, people that are not prepared in the wrong, on that kind of are easily captured by propaganda to here as a lansky,

arriving there, depicting himself as an innocent victim of a brutal aggression is something that thoughtful the heart of the people and might have a huge political impact the in can in, in this crazy positioning of italy in the globe. geopolitical arena. you have to understand that italy has a constitution that came out of the war were to when we were liberated by both the american and the ration, but more than the 5000. the soldiers from the soviet union died during the resistance we need. so we have had a very long last strong relationship with the russian people and the sort of sudden change of political attitude due to the fact that the, that is not the southern country anymore is something that is very, very disgusting to guys of people who maintain some critical approach,

so i contacted the some other intellectual, some people to figure some of the cultural and, and political se, natalee. and we just related and not to say, look, the simulation is not the one that we are all of the every single day the or be those started the one year ago. the warning has been a process that has to be understood, at least in the 15 years perspective, at least stop taking into consideration what happened after the fall of the soviet union. this sort of narrative that simplifies, you know, you know, the good against the evil is a narrative that is extremely dangerous. and the constitutional in our constitution, there is read them in article 11 that italy really despises the war. reject the war in the brack. the way, as i mean, to solve the international controversies by taking side in their way that the suicide from economic perspective and is only the interest of the united states. it

is something that goes against our constitutional understanding. and they gave me leave, what most of the people think. so in a few days we got almost a $100000.00 signatures about on our, on our invitation to go to south. and on saturdays, there is going to be a massive demonstration in the plight which is important is that the people are actually coming to emma on their platform. and he's not really just only keep the landscape out of the festival, which was just a trigger. but if the platform will give us some information that these are literally a little bit more information and left for a gap in for him. and if people have stopped questioning why zalinski is just appearing at a word, shows that popular event and being praised there and really the precedent that it sets. now you have made a difference. i mean, despite the petition and the protests, the festival organizers have said that, ok,

they won't have to speak, but they will, in a way, in the sense that they'll still let him read a text message or send a text message rather to read at the event so why, in your opinion, are they doing that? is that some sort of a compromise or what does it speak to? you know, there might be a little bit of both, certainly the popular resist that will trigger or by our invitation to go to south able to show with our bodies the fact that the reason it needs to lead to these agreements with these propaganda. as created some problem to the public television . they are having issues now running to show because we change the nominally we change the government, you know, they have a new government. what the government's doing, the so called western democracies isn't as at least as soon as they arrive in power, they substitute the heads of the public televisions in order to control the media.

and the news, and this is a process that is going on at the radio region right now. so i think that is love you samantha, lies the from both parties. and maybe what happened was that they tried the compromise. they went back to that is good. they said, well, why don't you just send them the bill or something like that? and he's, and he probably backed up a little bit. i don't know, they didn't just didn't find a deal for us. is there a partial victory? i don't believe. however, the fact that the a, you know, an anchor man needs reading his message is so much different than the fact that he's reading it the feel given device to counter that the war on. and you see in italy we have a law and all of $990.00, which is the mental law that governs the military system in our country. that makes it illegal clearly to give arms to a.