allies off the russia, russia. but those alaska government is being highly motivated and they do to gain a lesson from his story. i want to ask you about another comment of yours and this elijah resurrection of russian. zara expansion. isn't your suggestion? i'm quoting you here. eastern europe and all the countries will undoubtedly still depression much more from now on. what exactly do you have in mind? from my point of perspective, if the security concern of russia is over, ukraine is opening away to the invasion of ukraine. and if the invasion becomes successful, then why there won't be any security threats from the bulk of countries to the russia they balkan countries in order to pull the countries with. you mentioned, they are part of me though they are officially part of me. do you think russia, i mean, i think one of the distinctions in no. a military analyst and all the other kinds of analysts is that really to people tend to take into account, you know, the capacities of various actors to go outside and o

he's empowered the militarist, empower the russia. haters, russia, peter b r. u. glad that the the ethnic cleansing of the don bass has come to an end. i hope that they've settle the dye. so i hope id there. so we started out of the program with context and there was a predicate and let's not forget that context and predicate as all the time we have about to thank my guests in new york, bethesda, and here in moscow. and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r t c. you next time. remember crosstalk rules ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah, ah, a ah a i was just all as you read it in. yeah, i think i'm going to with the world is with you, i guess with you i'm with full credit. it's going to be out of wood, from beach to still be patient about in the board with with a, with ah damn, african retention your what you going on the ground, the team. and i will be back soon with a brand new look, despite nature nation and you censorship. but until then, we'll be showing some of your favorite shows of the season so far coming up with his show as birth, johnson threatens the bloo

russia's war against ukraine has taken far longer than russia anticipated. due in large part to the heroic effort of the ukrainian people. and the support we have provided. that delay means russia's military will need to stop and resupply and rebuild. to stop that from happening, we are continuing efforts to use sanctions and controls to deny russia the input it needs, targeting key sectors like aerospace and electronics and others related to the defense sector. as we continue to work with the coalition to address russia's threats, now is the time to cement our cooperation and reinvigorate the international cooperation on which the 20th century economy was built. if this conflict has taught us anything, the dividends of our shared economic system come not only in the form of prosperity, but the ability to defend our most sacred principles. let me thank you for having me and i look forward to taking your questions. >> thank you very much. thank you very much, mr. deputy secretary. i appreciate your concision and i'm sure your colleagues appreciate it as well.

allies off to russia, russia. but the zaleski government is being highly motivated and they do to gain a lesson from his story. i want to ask you about another comment of yours and these elijah resurrection of russian. zara expansion. isn't your suggestion? i'm quoting you here. eastern europe and the baltic countries will undoubtedly still depression much more from now on. what exactly do you have in mind? from my point of perspective, if the security concern of russia is over ukraine is opening away to the invasion of ukraine. and if the invasion become successful, then why that won't be any security threats from the bulk of countries to the russia, the welcome country or the baltic countries with you mentioned, they are part of me though they're officially part of me. do you think russia, i mean, i think and the distinctions in. a you know, military analyst and all the other kinds of analysts is that really to people tend to take into account, you know, the capacities of various actors to go out setting up the

since russia's invasion in february. johnson pledged a new package of financial and military aid after meeting with president below the merits. lensky and keith, he also said the west was planning on intensifying it's sanctions against russia and the coming weeks. johnson said his visit was meant as a gesture of support for ukraine, against what he calls russia's barbaric campaign. want to begin loading me by saluting once again the bravery of the people of ukraine in the following, the uphold aggression that we have seen in the last few weeks. the world has found new heroes. and those heroes are the people of ukraine. get more on this visit. other developments with nick connelly who's there for us in keith nick boris johnson. we just heard it. he's hailing the bravery of the ukrainian people during his visit. is there more to this kind of symbolism? well definitely this visit was all about the optics about making that difficult journey to keep by train from poland getting here. and yet this was a visit that was like all

russia. secondly, i think the biggest competitor is china but here seeing russia as much more of a peer power. so there are these conflicting perceptions. and that is one of the one of the goals of the book and how i started this project is is thinking about well is russia strong or weak? and how would we know? and here we are in 2021 30 years after the collapse of the soviet union having this conversation. and as i as i will explain as the talk goes on it's a bit surprising to even be having this conversation giving this starting given the starting point of where russia was in in 1991. so is russia a global power now? and most people would probably say no. i'm going to try and convince you. otherwise by by relying on some of the data of where russia is around the world. just a quick. review of russia's disruptions internationally really beginning since 2014 and the seizure of crimea from ukraine in this low boil war that continues on ukraine's border. it is the policy of the united states no

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what cannibal russia do about it? or susan duluth, russia is already doing a lot for years during donald trump's presidency. we were calling on the u. s. on russia's presidents to reaffirm once again together the joint statements adopted by president gorbachev and reagan, back in 1987, which said quote, a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. we tried really hard to convince president trump's administration that it was crucial for both our nations on the entire world to hear this message from the u. s. president. again, unfortunately, we couldn't convince our american partners that make and such a statement was a necessity. we may quick progress with present biden's administration. however, in june 2021, the president of the united states and russia made this joint statement in geneva, january 2022 saw yet another initiative of ours on this.

in russia invasion of ukraine. i can, i do not think that they would approve of that. i think that they thought it was a good idea, but now that the saw how russia has fared, they're likely going to draw lessons lessons for their military strategy, but also lessons for their political calculations. and once again became a question here. one, professor, i think we appreciate your insights tonight. thank you. thank you for having the russia's invasion of ukraine has forced europe, especially germany to come to terms with its dependency on russian oil and natural gas and getting off russian energy means that europe has to find new sources. and that is where the united states comes in. the w, washington bureau chief in his poll traveled to the state of north dakota, where she found fossil fuel producer is ready to meet the new demand from europe and cash. and at the same time, ah, it's a race against time. in the midst of a world wide energy crisis, the question is, how the western world can secure its energy supply. f

and what does this give russia? only new losses rushes defense ministry says they have now taken control of the entire southern region of carson. but earlier, ukraine's military said, russia was not able to break through its defense line. meanwhile, fighting in the east and on bass region is ongoing. ukrainian forces say that russia has continued to show villages, like here in alexandria cur. the army was able to evacuate many civilians from the area while it stays behind to fight. un secretary general antonio good terrace and russian president vladimir putin met face to face on tuesday for the 1st time since russia invaded ukraine. the un chief criticized rushes invasion as a violation of its neighbors, territorial integrity, put and told the secretary general that he still had hopes for negotiations with keith. the 2 also discussed proposals for humanitarian assistance and the evacuation of civilians from comfort zones, including the besieged, southeastern city of murray on flu. now, did i view correspond emily sh

although russia may have failed to take kyiv, the battle for the east is one russia cannot be seen to lose. ♪ host: let's bring in our guests. in kyiv we have a member of ukrainian parliament and secretary of the national presidential council. in moscow, a defense and military analyst. in brussels, the director for the center of russia-europe-asia studies. i would like to start with you as the military analyst. what does this new stage in the wart mean? >> the change of emphasis that russia defined in the beginning of this campaign to advance at the same time in a number of different separate directions that did not work out very well. now it russian reserves and forces, which are not adequate for such a job and moving in all directions, will be concentrating in the particular area of the east-south ukraine to achieve apparently victory there. now they began what has been officially announced. host: it was described as a do over, you feel a first time and try as a second time. is that what this is? failure for the initial aims, official recalibration, a new measure of success for wh

haven't they, in russia itself, in other countries? we've seen one after another president putin's political opponents, they've been attacked, murdered, mysteriously, fallen off their balconies or had their clothes smeared with chemical agents. this government has no qualms about killing for purely political reasons, does it? oh, it's hard to say for the police to go kelly. in some cases, of course the opposition door against boot is not welcome in russia. and it's obvious why am understatement, isn't it? it's it's, it's crushed. today our position to put in is smashed, crashed. it's not just to get him or is it a long, long established kremlin tradition and conviction, but ruling by fear and violence is much more effective than trying to be liked that shuttle solution for russia, if it will take you in the taurus period in peril, russia period, it was more of the same method of in political life, especially before the rational lucian you should also understand that the russian culture is totally different than many cases from european

so russia offers oil in defense to india, and russia offers oil to china. and they have seen john harris again to us since a tree one in 2018 china india has $100000000000.00, a trade between the, between the 2. in fact, india, russia only as a $9000000000.00 trade. so yes, that is a growing closeness and because of the economic sanctions, and this a fight between, let's nato was a russia, then try to build an order to forum via the bricks, in which, as i said, india, russia is already very close in the china, a trying to close or international energy agency members have agreed to release oil from their reserves in an effort to bring down prices. but the measures appear to not have had an immediate impact amid a lack of information about the amount of oil being provided. us presidential barton previously announced an unprecedented use of oil reserves in response to widespread criticism about the skyrocketing prices. ortiz, rachel blevins, explains this is the 3rd time president biden has approved a release from the u. s. strategic reserve. and this time aro

we have been importing from russia and that we intend to continue to import from russia. but as a w me concert that depends on the pricing. and then depends on the what the relations between the company in the to got into every country personally know who they'll read that. especially in the new print. and i'm talking on the european countries. and they have also left more room to deal with the import and import from russia. and question of, you know, importing, trying to be any problem as well. thanks. will be imposed for not following sanctions and that out against a country like india. you've been simply forget it, india is to be a country, really powerful emily. every country has to deal with india based on india thing. and so therefore, we are not very much scared. meanwhile, britton's prime minister discussed the situation in ukraine during tours with the indian counts partner and remotely boys johnson on the line that india's leader had a very strong position on new bushes, auctions and ukraine. that's despite motor himself early stopping short of our criticism of

also at the negotiating table is russia and russia is not interested in making it easier for iranian oil to replace russian oil in the global market. and that's it for me. and the dw business team checks out aligned the w dot com slash business. i'm seeing beardsley. thanks. what is the end of the pandemic in sight? we show what it could look like. the return in the normal and we visit those. we're finding it difficult with successes at noon. you know, we're weekly coping 19, especially over $910.00 special next on t w. we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah, magic corner tread hotspot for food and some great cultural memorials to boot w travel off we go. oh, the corona virus pandemic has made one thing, crystal clear, the health of people, animals and the environment are closely linked. and we need a better understanding of how they can affect each other. because when the planet suffers human beings due to, that's our topic today. we'll also look at the connection between nutrition and covey. 19 infections and show the impact illness can have on our state of.

they believe that russia is bluffing. it doesn't matter what you think of putin or russia or the invasion. one thing that's been very consistent this entire time is that president putin has done what he said he's going to do. this goes back to december when the new documents for a new security architecture, when you're doing cetera, et cetera. he's done what he said he would do. he should be taken seriously. there is a huge danger that a war will erupt because of a misinterpretation or refusal to believe that the russian side is it saying what they believe and what they will do was that the right tone do think his, his rhetoric was a 2 combative i don't know, i can't answer that, i'm not, you know, i'm not in that business, but i can say that if the shoe on the other foot and the chinese were armor, the russians were arming and insurgency in mexico and using their weapons to kill americans in california, texas, the u. s. would take a similar tone, probably even more confrontational tone, but unfortunately, american analys

in this case, russia. in order to preserve human lives , airstrikes and shelling, civilians are dying massively throughout country. actually, no place and at the country can be really safe of objects, including civilian objects, schools, hospitals have been hit in many parts. for instance, having antiaircraft weaponry, it really preserves these people who are hiding in theirasemen a so on. but in a way, the supplies -- we also have to remember that russia also used to be supplied with western weapons from germany, france, and other countries. even now, it is still fueled by the payments for the russiaoil and gas, so it can be centered more around german parts d russian tanks and american munition and arms. but in general, we need to oversee theseilitary resistance tt is needed, that it will go to ukrainians. it is not just used as a pretext of increasing nilla trade show complex and other western countries. -- military-industrial complex and other western countries. it is really up to the people on the gro

ah, russia without couldn't purchase like this one abandoned russia in berlin, left flood off can meet with people who share his views, but without fear of reprisals with white simply flags. the group wants to distance themselves from the russian government. the one house? yes, that's why i have a new flag here. it's not a russia flag. it's a flag of all the russians who are against this war. is a symbolic break with our home country. yet for the 1st time ever, i don't know what to do. i dedicated 5 years of my life to my city, helping modernize it all that has now been destroyed because it's impossible for a society to develop without democracy in brazil, the options for from the exile in germany, letting me putin's russian opponents are calling for an immediate withdrawal from ukraine, but some have given up any hope of russia moving towards democracy anytime soon, i hear some more stories making headlines around the world. frances presidential race is tightening just a day before the 1st round of voting. also far right challenge. removing the pen, dating on the current leader manual

so russia, office, choir and defense to hear and russia offers oil to china. and they have seen john harris again to us since a tree warning, 2018 china india has $100000000000.00 a trade between the, between the 2. in fact, india, russia only has a $9000000000.00 trade, so yes, there is a growing close in us. and because of the economic sanctions and this a fight between, let's nato was of a russia, then try to build an alternative to forum via the bricks, in which, as i said, india, russia is already very close in the china a trying to close or international energy agency members have agreed to release oil from their reserves and then effort to bring down prices, but the measure appears to not have had an immediate impact amid a lack of information about the amount of oil being provided. us president joe biden previously announced unprecedented use of the oil reserves in response to widespread criticism about skyrocketing prices are more less cost live to archie's, rachel blevins, rachel. we see oil reserves being used on an unprecedented scale in the u. s.

not saying it would mean russia attacked its own positions. the forensic experts cited by the paper say they find tiny metal rows while and death bodies know those pieces are placed in shells and used to hit infantry. both russia and ukraine possess howitzers using such shells. however, the russian defense ministry claims its units are mostly out of service. it's the latest claim in dots butcher incident. i'm warning you may find the following video disturbing, which was under russian control until the 30th of march, when troops with through several days later. grim felicia emerged showing a number of dead bodies lying in the streets, some investigation into their debts as yet to conclude. well ukraine, the wes mentary media were all quick about the blame on russia, with the incident cited in making decisions about sending weapons. the key of moscow, the 9th, the incident as provocation, and said the time was regularly shell by ukraine's forces from a u. s. senior security policy analysts, michael bullis, believes many aspects of the story are

russia, everywhere else in the world. stephen, talking of this balancing act, it is not just about your customer base and consumer backlash but of course also those all—importa nt investors. how difficult is that for companies to balance? interestingly, on the esg front, it was actually activist investors and shareholders who were pushing the esg agenda at the forefront so i think in this instance you have a complete alignment between esg investor interest and where companies believe their customers are in terms of sentiment with regard to russia and absolute disgust at the activities perpetrated by russia against ukraine. but, as you know, there is always that argument that the first duty of a company is to be profitable, to survive and exist. anything that deviates from that and increases costs etc isn't going to help anyone so it is all great, some will say, to have these good intentions but not if those intentions lead you to bankruptcy. sure, and it is important to do the appropriate financial calculations and ther

that subtle good solution for russia, if it will take you in the taurus period in peril, russia, period, it was more of the same method of in political life, especially before the rational revolution. you should also understand that the russian culture is totally different than many cases from european culture. and sometimes there is a feeling that fists is stronger than what you talk almost academically about what's going on. but aren't, aren't you ashamed of personally of what your forces are doing in the ukraine? first of all, you and me, i don't even me and many others. we don't have a real to what is going on. and this will maybe maybe a mistake in our information campaign. because our, from my point of view and i expressed publicly, we need to seriously enlarge the volume of the information of the week of our forces. there are because you can see the natures you can see the devastation. yes . yes. i can see the bodies aren't, aren't you ashamed of that? it's a tragedy. it's a real bad that the what and what has happened. they promised us, with the 50 people skill in one more read

part of the reason why the russia discourse is so debasesive, it's hard to study russia. it's far away and ocake and that gives people lots of room to make all kind claims that are hard to disprove. russia doesn't help this wills in this sense and they often o'hill size the debate -- politicize the debates themself in ways that are not helpful. one question i kept going book, to what evidence could i give somebody that would a fair minded reader consider persuasive? and there's some part of the readership that you never going to persuade so what i try here was really load the diets -- dice and come at the reader with more evidence and at the end people will think what they're going to think. but really interesting points. and then your second point but russian specificity and that rolls into steve's points as well, and this was a real tension in the book, and maybe i go overboard on trying to paint russia too much as a normal autocracy. that was something of a choice in that so much of writing about russia is in the vein that putin is unlike other leaders, that russia is

of trying to hide evidence of war crimes during their salt on the city. russia denies the claims. russia has confirmed the death of one of the crew members of its flagship missile cruiser, moskva, a week after it sank in the black sea. the mission ministry of defense said nearly 400 crew members were evacuated. kremlin critic suspect a much higher number of dead and missing, saying the ship's crew was about 500 strong. accord in moscow has ordered opposition act. its vladimir carry mussa to remain in pre trial detention is accused of spreading fake news about russia's army after denouncing the war. carol boucher has long been a critic of the kremlin and has survived to poison a titles. human rights groups have called for his release. we said in relations with french president emanuel mac hall, and his far right challenger marine le pen have made their final push for votes before sundays. presidential runoff, pole show the race is much tighter than 5 years ago. when french voters faced the same george. though mac hall is expected to when many people say they're undecided or ambivalent, hi

now as an to russia. and this is a probably the worst case scenario for us because it was such kind of mood of the nation. it would be very hard to achieve the goals which were put in front of this operation. and i see that this kind of goggle psychological tent and you criminal society will have a very long term influence and very long term negative effects for russia. yes, absolutely, absolutely. and not only for roughly the sheep i, because unfortunately a lot of my friends in ukraine are now considered russian, russian citizen as enemies as leaders, et cetera, et cetera. so this is reading a lot of personal contacts, ruining a lot of a lot of historical traditions, historical ties, and to overcome this. current crisis will be a terribly mr. potent has repeatedly complained that the west never listened to russia's what he called legitimate security concerns. but when he did listen and ovi, western leaders trooped off to moscow to talk to him, he simply live direct to their faces and presented them with

hey, if us has a problem with russia. if for you guys to deal with by that, it probably would be actually in this situation. instead, what he's doing now is trying to play both sides with court from middle as you'd like to say, he's saying on one side, look, i'm trying to take in position for europe, the best for europe. that's best for the people of france. and the same time saying, well look, where was the united states, where was nato, when were united way? shouldn't done is adopted the position that he sees himself as representing although he doesn't, and that is the position a former french president shuffled a gun general from world war q, who basically pulled france out of needle command. and the french stayed outside of nieto until nicholas are cozy in rachel, the reason why my crown didn't do it because he has no courage. that's his problem . ok. he can talk all he was, but he didn't have any. great. i'm glad rachel brought this up because i was going to go to this here. let me go to drill on this here. mate, chr

i would say that russia does take the u. n. seriously. as a mediator. the foreign minister, sergei lover of who also met gutierrez yesterday, is known to kind of, quote, whole articles from the un charter to justify russia's actions. um and also gutierrez got a meeting with putin himself even if they were at the long table again, far away from each other. but i think that garage was quite strategic in his meeting. first of all, as they said, he came to moscow, which is important symbolically. this is kind of one of the 1st really high profile diplomatic efforts meetings with, with put in himself. and also he said that the you and understands russia, security concerns that you might remember this all started over the fact that russia was saying, nato is getting too close to our borders. we don't want ukraine to join nato. so in a way that's kind of him taking a symbolic step towards russia's interest. i think it was, it is a major headlines, of course, is russia holding a gas supplies to bulgaria and a poland while continue to supply others. germany, for

having an impact within russia itself. before the war russia was closely connected to the rest of the world, exports accounted for nearly a third of its economy. that's because russia is a major exporter of raw materials, from oil and gas, to weed and sunflower oil. now in russia there is growing economic turbulence. russia's path of economic growth has been bumpy since the fall of the soviet union more than 30 years ago. recent economic dips coincide with the invasion of crimea in 2014 and the coronavirus pandemic. amid widespread sanctions, a recent survey by russia's own a central bank forecasts that the economy will shrink by 8% this year, other estimates put that number as high as 15% to stop that could translate to a major drop in living standards for russia's population. the unemployment rate could nearly double to nearly 7.8% this year, because many companies have policy trading. life is already getting more expensive. at the end of march, the economy ministry said prices were increasing at a yearly rate of almost

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where russia has a naval base to think that the world would benefit from making russia a nuclear power equivalent to the united states. he, pariah, i think, does not really represent our interests in the future. jack must look now. this is some of the latest footage of russian soldiers inside the dunbar. city of mortar, useful clearing, remaining groups of pro, key of military forces and armored personnel. carrier is seen providing cover for russian marines, while a bacteria and casualties from the bottles of the russian army is providing support for it than yet. republic forces while also bringing aid to local civilians, helping them leave the area of the heaviest fighting some western observers to say they're being shown a one sided picture of the conflict by their media at home. i've gone to doug us to find out what's really happening there. spanish, blogger, political, and list reuben, his birts is one of them. he sees western countries supporting key f with weapons could be complicit in what he calls a genocide. as part of my analysis of the situation in international politics, es

i don't think russia cares about victoria, and i don't think russia cure. i don't think they care about buying or anybody. russia is going to do a rush is going to do to resolve its own security problems in their, their, in the ukraine right now. doing just that. and i think ukraine will unfold on a time table. it's dictated by moscow, by brussels, not by washington, dc. not by cnn. well, it's at, that's very interesting because when you are the way i've looked at the coverage of it, i mean, in the way the media leads and political leads. this is their story. it really has its very divorced from the events going on on the ground. and i, i tend to agree with scott. moscow is going to do what it's going to do when it's done. it's saying it's going to say it's done on that point gentlemen, we're going to go to a short break after that short break. we'll continue our discussion on the conflict in ukraine. stay with our team. ah, ah. l look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings,

that nieto cannot just focus on russia. and yeah, absolutely nothing, not only to re orient things in that sense, but also to stop the proxy war, which is essentially what we're seeing right now when you create it, nato versus russia using ukraine as possible. and even then the home was doing a lot of shuttle diplomacy between moscow in the us fire to all this popping off in february. yep. and only really had to do was just say french isn't getting involved in this. we're not sending ukraine. we're not getting involved in this. hey, if you are, has a problem with russia. it's for you guys to do it by being that it probably would be actually in this situation. instead, what he's doing now is trying to play both sides with court from the middle, as you'd like to say he's saying on one side, look, i'm trying to take a position for europe, the best for europe. that's best for the people and friends at the same time saying, well look, where was the united states, where was nato and were united way should have done is adopted the

no knockout blow by russia and no sign that - blow by russia and no sign that ukraine can throw out the invaders. it is a bleak picture. no side can give up to be seen to be defeated and at some point, vladimir putin might lose patience and reach for his nuclear weapons. 0nce ukraine showed its remarkable courage in resisting the russian attack, people in the west, who wanted ukraine to win, found themselves lapping up the bits of news that favoured the ukrainians. the russians have now offered to pull back their forces around kyiv and ternet have, although the ukrainians on their western supporters are sceptical. 0thers either in wartime, the first casualties truth. frank gardner, the bbc�*s security correspondent. there bbc's security correspondent. there is no getting — bbc's security correspondent. there is no getting around _ bbc's security correspondent. there is no getting around it, _ bbc's security correspondent. there is no getting around it, russia - bbc's security correspondent. there is no getting around it, russia is - is no getting around it, russia is losing a very h

he fled, say russia swallows ukraine. it makes it that different russia and this is, this is the russian calculus. it needs to control covertly, overtly ukraine in order to expose and project also european influence. then in the spring of 2021 russian military maneuvers on the border with ukraine breezed concerns. was putin planning in attack or cave in the east of ukraine lies just 40 kilometers from the russian border. people here feared their city would be in the line of fire credentials so that when i heard it yesterday, i felt pretty scared is very near. apparently they've installed missiles that can travel 270 kilometers. and from belgrade to har, keith is what? 45, yes. and if we get hit then that's it. that's the end. so the can, yes, no stress, it's very scary that this could reach us any more that we could be forced to leave . yes. move away and all that. because nobody knows what will happen nak, suspension is rasa. following independence. some ukrainians have leaned towards western europe, others towards russi

with phillips, they made the mistake of thanksgiving. russia so heavily. russia is the key pin of all commodities. food resources, oil, gas, precious metals, everything comes from russia if they don't have supply lines. so when they do that, they've made the mayhem in all of the commodity markets, and that's affecting the currency when it comes to the way the rest of the world sees this conflict. i'm not sure what you thought about the western rewards. major nation reports that saudi arabia, the you, a refuse biden's phone call. we know that suddenly a team was sent to venezuela, where one thing tank said, 40000 were killed by us sanctions against the madura government. there the world food program is warning about wheat prices in egypt because we, by just showing the and russia together have the kind of infrastructural clout, to be able to save the world from global famine. caused if you believe moscow by nato expansion, eastwood. and if you believe nato caused by vladimir putin there, i, it is not so straightforward because we have a major problem with food rising, which is not just

we will not fight a war against russia and ukraine, direct confrontation between nato and russia as war war 3, something we must strive to group in terms of the economic sanctions themselves. it will probably have a huge impact on russia in the long term. not right now, it will not cripple the russian military or that the russian war effort. but in the long run it will lead to a geopolitical shift in economic shift in the global economy often of unprecedented scale. but that would probably take years or decades. it would not change if we're not determined to war or the course of the war may lead him store. ah mustang sung st. garza anastasia shall come lepeu to knowledge. no butcher's to store it is thanks to shake. it only wore senior chima stepping, separate the millennial grains for narrow. they're very much whining on yes. now store is up, but small. is it consolidated? i'd say it bite it out of the look or got com one. partial, nashua, nevada. se you long term damage to rushes, economy and international standing may, will benefit the west's interests a week and russian military, le

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china is leaning towards russia that's clear -- russia. that's clear. >> china's state broadcaster says that they are pushing for peace talks between ukraine and russia in its own way. do we know what that means? >> prime minister li did not elaborate. he was talking more in general terms about peace, that china is always looking for it and negotiations, but no concrete proposals. the eu, on the other hand, demanded that china should use its influence on russia, because it has influence on russia, and should adhere to its responsibility as a member of the un security council, so it is actually not clear what china will do in the next days. >> bernd, thank you. the russian public is getting a limited picture of what is happening in ukraine. still, many people know enough to know they want to leave the country, particularly highly skilled workers. in the tech sector alone, it is estimated up to 70,000 specialists have already left russia in search of greener job pastures elsewhere, with more expected to follow. >> it is his neighborhood and

russia does not have -- amy: we have less than a minute. >> russia's does not have lpg. it takes about four years to build a terminal to convert gas into liquid for shipment on oceangoing freighters. that would take a minimum of four years and takes many billion dollars for each terminal. the vine of gas russia is exporting to europe is so massive, it has nowhere else to go. basically, putin is bluffing, ok? i think he is trying to block the threat of an embargo or something like i am proposing , this very simple solution of finding russia 20% of all its natural gas exports to europe in order to fund the reconstruction of ukraine, punish putin, and hopefully bring a quicker end to this war. amy: thank you for your analysis, alfred mccoy, professor of history at the university of wisconsin-madison and most recent book "to govern the globe: world orders and catastrophic change." we will link to your article in tomdispatch "how to end the war in ukraine: a solution beyond sanctions." democracy now! has an immediate opening for a news writer producer. visit democracynow.org/

russia is my country, russia is my home. >> i am worried for you my friend. you will be the source of information for many years. i worry on your behalf. the conversation that i just had with some young people here in lviv, whose parents are either in crimea or russia. they seem either unwilling or unable to get independence or some kind of journalism that is critical of the russian regime. why does the effect of that? when people either won't or cannot get good information. how does this and for russia? >> -- vladimir putin's regime. when he came to power, a dark, ago it was independent television. because that was a source of information for citizens of russia. most of the people get their news from there. literally on the fourth day, on the fourth day after his inauguration as president russia in may of 2000, but you have the security service rear with the private media holding at the time. and then three years of putin's rule. but the middle of 2003, every single independent nation on television that was in russian got shut down or taken over by the state

is russia committing atrocities in ukraine? images of bodies in civilian clothes in future have led to international condemnation. their causeway will crimes investigation against moscow. but can the accusations be proven in court? this is inside story. ah hello and welcome to the program. i'm fully betty bull ukraine's president has said negotiations are the only way to end the conflicts with russia. but after the discovery of bodies in civilian clothes, in the town of butcher near keith, some with their hands bound to their backs. no demis lensky says, talks with moscow will not be easy. he wants friends invited me to put in, tried for war crimes, accusing him of slaughtering civilians. russia has strongly denied the allegations saying ukraine special forces stage, the killings in response. several you nations, including germany and france, are expelling russian. diplomats and the e. u has announced a new round of sanctions against moscow in mankind has this report from boucher i wanting some images may be distressing. ringba

is leveled unprecedented sanctions against russia. and now russia simply wants to be paid in their currency. and so you know, really, why can the complaint about that? i know they are and they're calling a blackmail, but i don't, i don't see it that way. and i think that you, itself is gonna have growing skepticism of how the u. s. has handled all this. you know, i think the e u has been sacrificed for the us is a game plan against russia. and i think the people that you are going to see that as time goes on, they can amik fall out from western sanctions against russia is spreading to more countries and continents. consumers across europe and asia now bearing the brunt of the backlash made soaring food and fuel prices to land because capital was on the heavy security on friday with economists warning that the russia ukraine war has worse and an already 5 situation. hundreds of protest this tried to storm the president's home and at night a violence and anger with the south asian nation suffering a severe shortage of essential sharp pr

welcome to the program. russia state control energy company gas process. it is suspending gas deliveries to both poland and bulgaria. neither of the 2 nations have complied with a demand from the kremlin to start paying for deliveries in roubles. most nations, including germany, has said they will not pay in the russian currency, even though several are heavily reliant on russian gas. european commission president also la fonder lie and tweeted that halting supplies was an attempt at blackmail but germany is also raising to cut its dependence on russian fossil fuels. its economy minister, worn to that berlin must diversify its energy, supply will be left defenceless. does it sooner shouldn't it would be cynical if big and powerful germany thought was, oh well, you can beat up the little guys a little bit. that's a warning for, you know, this is reality. this is the reality where energy is used as a weapon, and we have to make sure we're not defenseless in when energy is used as a weapon. as far from i knew that stood expression, we need to diversify our en

so russia offers and defense to india, and russia offers oil to china. and they have since john, hence against us seems a tree $12018.00 china india has $100000000000.00. a trade between the, between the 2. in fact, india, russia only $9000000000.00 trade. so yes, that is a growing closeness and because of the economic sanctions, and this a fight between, let's nato was a russia, then try to build an order to forum via the bricks, in which, as i said, india, russia is already very close in the china, a trying to closer to chrome and says russia won't immediately cut off. gas applies to the e. u if importers fail. busy to switch to paying and roubles, giving companies until the 2nd half of april or even early may to accept rushes terms. let him put, it has declared that countries imposing sanctions against moscow, including member states, must pay for gas in ports in russia's national currency. top diplomat, sir, lab robin has explained to the reasoning behind that position my for a degree which provided the scheme as far as i could understand acceptable

and although russia may have failed to take, keep the battle for the east is one. russia cannot be seen to loose. i said big al jazeera. ah, my, let's bring in our guest and key of we have helena, your chain co, a member of the ukrainian parliaments, and secretary of the national presidential council. moscow. pavel falcon, how're defense and military analyst for in a via gazette, her an independent newspaper and in brussels, theresa fallon, director of the center for russia, europe, asia studies. thank you very much for joining us here on inside story. i'd like to start with you. our puzzle, falcon, how or if i may as the military analyst? what is this new stage in the war? what does it mean more to change your van for, sir, said so. russia try and in the beginning of this campaign to a kind of advance at the same time on the number of different, separate directions. it didn't work out very well. so now the of russia's reserves and forces which are clearly not adequate for such a job of moving in all directions will be concentrating in of the particular area of the east south ukraine to