ah, ah ah, russian troops with a wagner group leading the assault have taken over a key village north of ukrainian. how are you? almost further and circling the city, china has called on the west to stop abusing unilateral sanctions and do their share in the escalating the you praying prices saying dialogue and negotiation are the only viable solution to the complex and then exclusive interview to going under ground renown investigative journalist seymour hersh, breaks down the u. s. sabotage of the north stream pipeline, which he recently exposed in a bombshell report that's been denied by washington. that's the rationale for the mission to make sure that in europe and more senior keeps on funneling supporting

nato and keeps on falling arms into, into what is clearly a proxy war against russia. with good morning for martine, are national studios in moscow, and welcome to the hour's top stories worldwide. i'm fear ella is about. we start with news just in from don bass front lines. russian troops with the wagner group leading the assault have taken control of the village of better folk got north of the ukrainian house, city of art, feel most the development further deteriorates the situation for ukrainian forces inside the city as it makes re supply more difficult. this comes as the ukrainian president set on friday. the situation in the east for the ukrainian army is very difficult. ah, china has called on the world to prevent the ukrainian conflict from escalating,

asking world leaders to resume a peace dialogue after its foreign ministry publishes a 12 point piece plan as a solution to the ukranian conflict. the proposal condemns the unilateral sanctions at the west puts on other countries china poses feel actual sanctions, unauthorized by the un security council. relevant contrition, stop abusing unilateral sanctions and long arm years diction against all countries . so as to do their share in the escalate in the ukraine crisis and cray conditions for developing countries to grow their economists and better de life's of their people. a china believe that any kind of the unilateral sanctions that is unauthorized by the un security council, which should be opposed. and also in a statement it says that the unit, actual sanctions and maximum pressure cannot solve the issue. and that can only

create new problems. so how china handle the current issue is not posing sanctions and not providing weapons, but a calling for a political resolution with a statement has a several layers of logic. if you see the flow of the logic, it's quite agree clear. on the 1st front, it calls for all countries to respect the sovereignty of all the nations and abandoning the cold war mentality. and the 2nd layer is about the crisis itself. it calls for seating hostilities, resuming peace talks, resolving the humanitarian crisis, and protecting civilians and prisoners. and also it focused on the opposed a fact brought by the crisis, including keeping the nuclear power plant save, reducing strategic risk, facilitating grain exports, and stopping unilateral sanctions keeping industrial supply chain stable and also promoting post conflict reconstruction. so it's a layer of promotion of, you know,

based on the basic, based on the grounds of talks meant also different layers of idea. given the current to situation, china has been always, are calling for peace. and china has been always saying that it wants to play a constructive oh, in this regard, including it's me mentioning that the dialogue and negotiation are the only visible solution to the ukraine crisis. and the international community should stay committed to promoting talks for peace. so not only the 2 sides, but also the entire international community should support the peaceful resolution or political resolution of the current situation. the chinese foreign ministries, the chinese ministry of foreign affairs says that nato is a remnant of the cold war. and that the block is escalating, the conflict in ukraine that jesus christ will come here shows that

internal guy fully hold walter. he will need to have the division and come from patient, no doctor, although the cold war has concluded over 3 decades, yet 0 sum game and code one mortality deal exists, block confrontation, it will need to be conflict on the walls, nato, you as a crowd out of the cold war denotes her, what hope and total weight, the end of the court. all that's 8 has expanded weight and as collated to the situation, it has become a major faked factor in wrongfully was also just like beijing calls for a peaceful conflict resolution. the indian representative at the you and general assembly has also advocated russia and ukraine come to the negotiating table on terms that will be acceptable for both sides. to d, as the general assembly mox, a, you the ukranian conflict, it is important that we ask ourselves a few pertinent questions. all we any venue or a possible solution,

acceptable to both sites. can any process that does not involve either of the 2 sides? if a lead to a credible and meaningful solution has the u. n. system and particularly its principal organ, the un security council based on a 1945 vote construct not been rendered ineffective. we always called for dialogue and diplomacy as the only viable we ups. while we take note of the stated objectives of today's resolution, given its inherent limitations in reaching our desired goal of securing lasting peace, we are constrained to epstein. thank that comes as the un general assembly passed, a western drafted resolution calling on russia to withdraw its forces. $141.00 countries voted in favor of the motion after 2 days of debates and new york not 7 nations including russia,

bella roost and syria rejected the document while an additional $32.00 un members abstained among them. china, india, in iran, the hungarian foreign minister has also stood up against western arm supplies that have led to an escalation in the conflict in ukraine. it became already pretty obvious that neither delivery of weapons, nor sanctions, those measures do not save life. to the contrary, they contribute to the prolongation and the risk of escalation of this war, and they bring more suffering. and we do not want this regional war to become a global them. meanwhile, president landscape, backed by western leaders, has stated he is opposed to holding discussions with russia's leader kev says it won't make any deals with moscow preferring a military option. instead, our cheese marina posts or ever has the details in this, in a court,

the steed or message divorce, where one side refuses to speak to the other to reach any sort of settlement that this score would likely grow and dry gone at cost to both parties. involved and this, this parallel were seen on an international scale in ukraine. right now our best negotiators and diplomats are soldiers. negotiations with moscow are currently impossible. we will not participate in any talks. if russia goes for willful war crimes, even in this than what is the point of talking to a country that voluntarily worsens its negotiating position, the only desire is to destroy the racist monstrosity with a terrorist country. negotiations only through the sites of the defense forces. we latoya, we are ready for a dialogue with russia, but with a different russian precedent, or she in this position has been officially signed into law. it seems the ukrainian government is not only not interested in peace. it's actually made peace illegal.

while all along russia has been making clear, it's ready to returns its hawks. it was russia on the eve of the ukrainian crisis, which consistently proposed to the west to sign agreements on mutual security guarantees. all of them were arrogantly rejected. we have repeatedly said that the president does not refuse to negotiate by those who do refused should understand that the longer takes the more difficult it is to find a solution. or unlike ukraine, russia has never refused dialogue and the such for diplomatic waste to resolve the conflict. this is a constant position. at the same time, a western mainstream. media and politicians have largely ignored. ross's calls for peace pretending they're not happening. this dan certainly fits the narrative of russia as the uncompromising aggressor, but at what expense to later will continue to stand read ukraine for as long as it takes that so long. we're going to be with you, mr. president,

for his lauren to will lose over. i mean, obviously ukraine can count on italy because as we've shown from the beginning, even across government, we have been there and we will be there. she said it even if both sides could somehow route for the all like the minsk agreements supposed to end the war in the don boss. it would still be meaningless because we now know the intent to do so was never truly there. to 2014 minsk agreement was an attempt to give you crane time. you can use this time to become stronger as you can see today. the ukraine of 20142015 is not the ukraine of to day. since 2014 ukraine has strengthened its military posture. it is now better trained and equipped, and it is the merit of the minsk agreements that have given the ukrainian army this opportunity. i needed the minsk agreements to gain at least 4 and a half years to build the ukrainian forces to build the ukrainian economy,

to train ukrainian forces alongside nato, to create the best armed forces in eastern europe, according to nato standards. so while the global, it leads talk of negotiations and peace or clain to these apparently have to happen without russia's voice, been heard, or even represented at the negotiations. sounds more like a kangaroo court than a real dispute resolution letter is zalinski is dependent on the west for political, economic and military survival on the willing to see how western interference in ukraine has led key of down the rocky road to war with moscow over the last decade, but it's too late to change direction as washington, once every one playing by its own rules. when it comes to our, the way we're approaching the relationship with with china, we're not seeking to contain china. we're not seeking to whole china back. we are seeking resolutely, so to uphold the rules based international order and in, in a, in

a practical way. that means insisting that countries make good on their commitments and play by the rules that we've all agreed to. it seems the collective west has agreed that now is not the time for peace, no matter how loudly they claim to seek it, or how often they gaslight moscow, any conferences talks or votes without russia's voice cannot for peace bubble rather, leave the conflict down the road to nowhere, the un itself is just dead on arrival when it comes to dealing with this. you don't hear anybody vigorously from the un wanting to, let's say, look at the origins of this to consider concerns security concerns that moscow ads and that, and which were raised with washington and the,

and the europeans, and nobody paid any attention to conflict will undoubtedly escalate since mrs. lensky insists upon obtaining more advanced weapons, and to continue the conflict, he wrists really lose in the whole country. the u. s. sabotage of the north stream pipelines was aimed at cutting off europe from affordable rushing gas. that's according to pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour hersh, speaking exclusively to option returns the ongoing underground, where he described the timeline of the planning that went into the attack. starting with the secret negotiations held in washington. the people doing it thought this was in a bad idea. they gave the white house some options to maybe bluff or convince a potent at the cost is going to be very high. and but then when the white house, blue, bye talk publicly about this, within 3 weeks of the briefing information he got. and victoria moved both within

a 3 week period and late january, early february of last year. both said publicly, well, we know we can stop it and let me be, let me, let me. so the news kind of is, if, if a we will stop the north she wanted and the president was asked after he said that by reporters, it's a fame. it's all on tape, it was a on a nightly news report as well. how will you do it? he said, let me tell you, we know how to do it. we can do it language like that. and at that point, the guys in the group were upset because it was supposed to be covert operation. and by the time they finally, they did their job, they made it possible they, they planted the bombs with 8 of the navy divers and. and then it just sat there. the bomb sat there for months was planted in june. but by wish, by so when, when the war look, you look like the ukrainians were doing ok by late september there was certainly evidence of a serious serious issue. there wasn't gonna be

a cakewalk for the ukrainians. i could some people in the press route and their point, the group that made it possible, understood that he did it for political purposes period. it's not going to help to war. and what it does, what he was doing it for was to prevent germany and western europe if case the winter came quickly from opening up the pipeline. the german government had, they had done the sanction. they had stopped the pipeline. but the german government, the right to open up the new one and that was and wanted bye bye. that's the rationale for the mission to make sure that europe and western europe keeps on. funneling supporting nato and keeps on falling arms into into what is clearly a proxy war against russia that's being fought right now. publish on february 8th, the report alleged the pipelines were mind by u. s. navy divers in june. last year, the journalist said washington use nato military drills as cover for the operation was assistance from norway. according to the report,

joe biden made the decision after 9 months of consultations with his security advisors, the claims have been denied by both washington m. b, e. u. with officials dismissing it as speculation and even fiction for more revelations, from the man who previously exposed us war crimes in vietnam and iraq. you could watch the full interview with seymour hersh ongoing underground right here on our tea this saturday. the moscow says ukraine has intensified preparations for invading the neighboring self proclaimed republic of transistor, where russia, peacekeepers have been station since 1992. the russian defense ministry has recorded a significant accumulation of personnel and military equipment of ukrainian units near the border with trans nestor, the deployment of artillery and firing positions, as well as an unprecedented increase in flights of unmanned aircraft,

of the armed forces of ukraine over the territory of the trans, mr. republic. the implementation of a plan's provocation by the ukranian authorities poses a direct threat to the russian peacekeeping force deployed legally interest mister . the defense ministry added that its forces will provide an adequate response if ukraine makes them move on transistor which broke away from my job in 1990. meanwhile, moldova authorities have begun withdrawing from dozens of agreement, signed by the nation and the post soviet commonwealth of independent states, moldova, the prime minister has also called for the removal of russian peacekeepers from the region with moscow. later criticizing those remarks, we have to achieve one fundamental goal, demilitarization. everything else comes after that. it's important to integrate our citizens, they're politically and economically, but demilitarization comes 1st. it depends on many things,

but at some point it will be done. we have quite tense relations with moldova already. at the same time, the moldova government seems to be making an emphasis on everything. anti russian, falling into anti russian hysteria. such lack of a constructive approach will hardly help moldova itself. and of course, it harms our bilateral relations. the regions population is comprised of ethnic russians, ukrainians, animal, dove ends in almost equal proportions, following a 2 year military conflict between them, aldo, via nationalist government, and local forces in 1992, moscow, aided and brokering a peace, still under the agreement, russian forces remain there to provide security for military objects, some locals, they are shared, their views on the government's actions, me and others were do it. when that should not happen. we live normally here we have a normal army and a normal government. i heard that moldova is demanding the withdrawal of russian troops in demilitarization, in short,

to disarm us and then do whatever they want with us. look at their discovery claim, it's every republic has the right to protect itself. so i think everything should remain as it is. i would not like the russian troops to withdraw because they defend our interests. a civil and i have a negative opinion towards demilitarization because 1st of all, these are troops, they protect us. i would not like it if russian troops left because when they came here order and peace was established. if they leave, it's going to be the opposite. that moldova former president igor doubt, on who's also the main opposition leader in the country, has slammed the current government's policy and has called on the nation to avoid destabilizing the situation in trans. now, this comes as mulder, the faces political turmoil, with thousands of residents, protesting against the government and high energy cost. a political analyst told us that mold of as rhetoric is aimed at pleasing the west and ukraine way. but because

it in issue demilitarization of trends, nestor is on the one hand, the official position of chest now. but on the other hand, such a declaration in such a tense time causes great resonance because the modern government does not always voice such a position. the fact that they return to the term demilitarization, which implies the withdraw of the russian peacekeeping. contingent from trans nestor, is perceived both in moscow and teresa pole as a provocation. this was unexpected and suggest that just now is not afraid to use such a term. and it's dangerous and to lead to consequences. but one way or another, most of the population of moldova is in favor of neutrality and does not support radical solutions. according to the latest polls, i believe that the current government of moldova wants to show loyalty to the west into kiev. as things are going very badly for them in social and economic spheres.

the use the theme of war to show society that they are doing something useful solving some serious problems, but they are creating these problems themselves. that's the way i think the government wants to keep its rating from falling by whipping up fear. nato's weapons stockpiles are drying up and it must start producing a lot more. that's the message from the chief of the u. s. lead military block. as he says, ukraine's massive ammunition requirements have taken at all. this is about us and they do all our some partners also ramping up protected production. because so far we have provided support by digging into our stocks. but the consumption of ammunition in ukraine is much higher than our production. nato allies have already sent around $75000000000.00 in assistance to ukraine, which includes humanitarian, financial, and military support. states have supplied

a wide range of various armaments, including tanks, combat vehicles, air defense systems, artillery roads, and more. this while the ukrainian president is calling for even more to be sent. unfortunately, we're not getting as much as we need. if we got jets and enough heavy armament vehicles, the necessary artillery will be able to fulfill our task skills. hundreds of thank you. are not hundreds of dance. all last can use thousands of wars in discussions about i can i put wars instead of gone that i needed against ration artillery. we have to make time our weapon. we have to accelerate developments. we have to speed up the supplies and launch new, necessary military options for ukraine. you know, we talked to andre thomas house, then german attorney and professor of law in south africa. he says that the ukrainian conflict mainly benefits the weapons industry the night. so

stockpiles are being used not, and there are no you production capacities. it will take at least a year for some old production facilities to be re, soccer. nature equipment also is basically exhausted. some courageous countries like denmark, given away all the artillery pieces of the french seas are make and at night was actually becoming laurie. the arms industry is interested in fueling. it wrenched almost all the big german weapons manufacture has seen it. it's company venue double from 5000000000 euros to of a 10000000000 euros. big orders are coming from organizations for new equipment. all the equipment was sent to the cry now has to be replaced it. so it's a fantastic time for the armament industry.

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