ukrainians is opportunistic, unselfish. ukrainians are needed today only as cannon fodder in the proxy will with russia until the last ukrainian, a tense exchange at the un security council. as the russian ambassador says, that while western powers claim to be peacekeepers, they are really feeling the conflict with fresh supplies of weapons. with broadcasting from our studios in moscow, this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to help you with no moscow called on q to order its troops inside mar. you polls as i'm stall, steel plant to release any civilians who may be there and to surrender. moscow suspects that ukrainian nationalists forces inside the factory could be using civilians as human shields. to prevent russian troops from advancing after no one passed through a humanitarian corridor, specifically set up on tuesday to evacuate the facility. another limited see fire is to take place on wednesday afternoon, but other se, fruits within the vicinity have been used. we heard from some of the people who have managed to flee from nearby areas missing it. but like i said, we were living in the basement for 2 months. we are very happy to see you guys. stay alive with everything was bombed and burned down. we lived in a basement, no water, no food. we just grabbed what we could did in the jewish cool deal on your to would you like of a pregnant girl was killed. she left 2 kids and this girl was wounded. we've been treating her since the 7th of april, and i think she never moved like this before doing it. and now you are evacuating right here that i my sister and 3 nephews. ah, earlier on tuesday, russian led forces inside mario boat launched a new assault against neo nazi as of troops. most of the remaining ukrainian forces in marble are trying to hold their ground inside the vast territory of the as of stalls feel factory. their exact number is unknown, but they are reportedly in short supply of ammunition and food. russia says the safe evacuation route from the area for ukrainian troops to surrender, have so far gone unused russian lead forces say they have been making very cautious move towards the enemy position with as if still has a high density of buildings. so the distance at which we are fighting is 100 to 200 meters. we are moving slowly but confidently. all units have identified the enemy firing points and directed a strike. there. you can see the explosion right here. are t correspondent, broadcast jeff was near the front line at the as of stall factory, the last stronghold of ukrainian nationalists and mario pl. here on the periphery of the as of steel and nod works industrial compound. as you can hear, battle rages small arms, mostly as well as ahmed personnel, carriers, but few residential neighborhoods of all that stands between total encirclement ukrainian nationalists inside the other industrial compound. as you can hear, the fussing is still ferocious. but from what we understand nationalism, ukrainian troops are running as of foods, out of work as well as morale is said to be very low there because obviously they're running short and supplies, but also because they invariably a understand many of them. but this is the, in that the commanders in those and t f t up which is ordering them not to surrender, that they're throwing their lots away. nevertheless, there are a cool radical fanatics among the nationalists in the algo steel compound. and they flip the, any sort of surrender, any sorts of negotiation. they want to keep fighting, as they hope until a diplomatic clap solution is reached by which they will be given a car door. as of mary, you had, did the ukraine, proper territories controlled by the caribbean military, even though that is at this point, incredibly unlikely. russian military expert and retired colonel victor barnett's says, as off uses the same human shield tactics invariable as terrorists do in syria. i mean for those they continue fighting because they are ordered not to lead through the humanitarian corridors. this one group of people. the 2nd one is fighting due to their nationalist sentiment and their unwillingness to surrender and recognize their defeat. some are not leaving because they're under a threat of being executed. as people who simply show a desire to get out of there are being shot. the militants are using human shields as a principal strategy. hiding behind the elderly, pregnant women, even children. there were a number of cases when parents grabbed their children and tried to escape through the corridors. the children were shot on their backs. there was a forensic medical examination proving that children were shut on the back and not have been talking about adults. this is a principal strategy of militants as well as terrorists, terrorists and syria have done the very same thing, lou of. while the situation in mario pl remains tense, the un security council held a meeting on tuesday to discuss the conflict in ukraine. russia's ambassador to the, when commented on how he sees the west approaching the situation. the west concern for ukraine and ukrainians is opportunistic unselfishly. ukrainians needed today only as cannon fodder in a proxy war with russia until the last ukrainian. at the same time, the west does not forget about its own benefit. so weapons manufacturers in western countries that joyfully rubbing their hands, counting their own profits from the increase in defense orders 15 member body that lead the united nations convened a meeting, the topic of which was refugee created by the conflict in ukraine. now, the united states and allies unloaded a lot of allegations and accusations against russia, but there, dimitri pollyanna, he took to the floor and defended russia and called out and bought a lot of the accusations that were being made. now, he went on to say that russia has actually taken in refugees starting since 2014. when the united states and allies toppled the grinding government and total $2500000.00 people have fled to the russian federation as a result of us actions in ukraine. he went on to talk about political repression and ukraine and our attempts to portray ukraine as being some kind of democracy. being threatened is just simply not accurate. you know, political opposition forces are being rounded up and repressed and have been repressed. and for the past 8 years, they've been waging a war against their own population in the eastern region than don boss. he called out the u. s. military industrial complex. he talked about how a lot of the military hardware united states is given to ukraine, doesn't even work. some of these vehicles that have not been function. and they've just kind of been jumping them on ukraine and how the claims that it cares about who branyon lived. but at the same time, i seems to be trying to prolong the conflict then throw the ukrainian lives away. i have or you heard russia, you based on that he argued that calls for these fire coming from united states and their allies seem insincere. and there's a legit concern is simply an opportunity to let the extremist, not the forces regroup, and continue their efforts not just against russia, but against ukrainian civilians. now, later after we heard from the countries making up un security council, we did hear the ukrainian representative get up. and he made a lot of accusations against russia. one being that russia is not allowing civilians to leave a factory and basically is enabling and causing civilians to be killed. this is what the granting representative said when addressing the security council. the situation in mario remains the most critical. thousands of civilians are still in the city congress of them, including children, have taken shelter in the old style plant. they need immediate safety occupation, and the russian forces are well aware of these. instead, the russians deny all requests from the ukrainian side world leaders and the u. s. u n. high officials for iraq creation car doors for civilians. major poly and sky representing the russian federation spoke and explained very clearly that the presence of these civilians in the factory was hidden. despite repeated requests on the part of russia to make sure that no civilians were in harm's way. and now russia has been calling on kiev to influence the fighting forces there and allow the civilians to leave the factory. so essentially, ukrainians are being used as human. she'll by, you know, by these extremist anti russian forces that have been armed and trained by the states and ukraine. 8 now it's also important to note that at the security council meeting, shina took to the floor and talked about the dangers facing the local economy and how the targeting and manipulation of currency as a result of us sanctions is having a very long term and serious effect not just in russia, but in other places. now the world economy is being badly affected by these moved by the united states, that the escalation of the conflict. so i was quite a meeting at the un security council, a lot of allegations against russia. russia didn't have an opportunity as a permanent member of the un security council, a body that was formed among the countries that defeated fascism in the 2nd world war. they had an opportunity to give their side of the story and they presented facts that are being ignored in western media and ignored in the tirade of western leaders. so i was quite a meeting obscurity counsel, not a lot of unity among the countries. they're clearly some very different understand and other dance on the ground in ukraine as a lot of people are becoming refugees. and a lot of people are clearly suffering italian. american journalist who has been covering the conflict from inside ukraine and has pointedly criticized the ukrainian government and is armed forces has gone missing in the city of hanukkah. no fellow reporters fear for his life, saying that gonzalo lira has been out of contact since last friday. extremely troubling that gonzalo lira a us citizen in ukraine has disappeared from social media. he was scheduled to interview me last friday about the lensky s. b u kidnapping. and assassinating dissidence, and now i fear he has become its latest victim. if gonzalo lira has indeed been disappeared by ukraine's s b u, he joins a long list of dissidence. leftist human rights activists and local officials kidnapped tortured and even assassinated by zelinski dest squads, and with key as open support. meanwhile, one of ukraine's nationalist leaders has posted a series of tweets on his private account, mockingly claiming the journalist might have been abducted and killed by quote, some guy with the call sign, a 2 a and other posts. he shows a photo of neo nazi fighters again hinting they might be the ones behind the reporters disappearance and even applauding the prospects of the journalists being dead. but the radical ukrainian commander has not provided any evidence. so the information cannot be immediately verified. gonzalo lira is 54 years old and has been living in ukraine for the past few years. he was in queue when the conflict ruptured in february and then traveled to the 2nd largest city hark of to cover the fighting there. at the end of march, he treated what he called the truth about zalinski regime. adding he felt that he might disappear as did other critics of t, of some of whom were later found dead. here is one of gonzalo, the latest interviews before he went missing. in a very real service, the armed forces were makes up, but they also integrated these near not the hyper nationalist elements, not just him to the armed forces by the way, also into the government itself. and these new and not see extreme nationalist, extreme grain enact elements, or poison the well, the ukrainian state. you can probably anti russian. she'll a foreign ministry, have confirmed to r t that they have been informed about the loss of contact with the journalist and are now in touch with the relevant entities to get an update on his status and location. we have also requested comment from the usa department as gonzalo, the holds dual citizenship so far. the u. s. has provided no response, but we will keep you posted javier crusoe primly, a journalist, and a former european parliament member, says washington silence is because the west is deliberately ignoring some matters in ukraine if they would reflect poorly on kids leadership one, i know i'm also not our family that we don't see any reaction from either washington or the major west or media because that would mean they accept they're dealing with a regime that is train every way to restrict the right to free access to information, even resorting to lengthy prison sentences and abductions, thus, in view of a number of the crimes that we are witnessing. we can say this regime was inspired by new nazi ideas. any war is dangerous in any work or spawn and knows that. but we cannot allow journalists to be turned into targets, abducted or even killed, where develop society that protects the right to free access to information. where we're seen ukraine is that only journalists who repeat the official lie like a mantra are locked to work. this is not military journalism, but military propaganda. it should be condemned. austria has passed a new law criminalizing the sharing of content from sanctioned media sources, as it's now punishable by a fine of up to 50000 euros. the law does not name specific news outlets, but r t is understood to be one of the band sources. according to the legislation, austrian media cannot show any foreign programs that have fallen under you sanctions. video sharing platforms would also be breaking the law if they provide access to restricted programs, even providing a way to circumvent the sanctions is illegal. the law was imposed after numerous russians state media outlets were banned in the e u. following the start of russia's military offensive in ukraine, r t and the sputnik news agency were among the 1st to be prohibited. as the you alleged moscow was using russian media outlets to shape public opinion about the conflict. former u. s. congressional aid, tara reid says the austrian law is blatantly hypocritical melissa height of hypocrisy, isn't it? when they're talking about freedom of speech and democracy and wanting to spread democracy, but then stifling any kind of conversation or discussion by censoring and by criminalizing speech, western citizens will not appreciate being stifled and not appreciate their information being siphoned into only one western land. and not being allowed to have an international you, i'm particularly in europe where you share continent with russia. and our key is very popular in european channels and it was popular here in the u. s. as well before the censorship, particularly on social media and with the younger generation of american citizens. there's an impatience with being, you know, given one view of a situation rather than actual balance reporting and journalism berlin does not accept any conspiracy theories from kids. that's how former german vice chancellors sigma gabriel has reacted to ukraine's refusal to allow germany's current president frank walters time are to visit the war torn country. a far more dangerous variant of the conspiracy theories is declaimed by the crane and ambassador to germany, andre. mm. and nuke that the current german federal president, frank walter shy meyer, has been creating a spider's web of context with russia for decades. what is true, however, is that then foreign minister, frank walter stein mire together with them, chancellor angle, a miracle, did more than anyone else in europe to support your grain. in an op ed published by dish be go sigma gabriel, just miss kims allegations that stein mar, hadn't. former chancellor merkel had helped moscow build a pro russian lobby and ukraine? he said those claims were untruthful and malicious, and noted the final financial aid that germany has provided to ukraine in recent years. he claimed it is germany's role as a mediator between ukraine and russia. that is now being tainted with these conspiracy theories. we heard from german, joe political analyst rayner ross, f. us who says berlin should not be blamed for trying to maintain good relations with moscow. germany was always standing by the side of your brain. this is what we could see in the past 8 years, but germany was also seeking a stable relationship with russia, against all the pressure of other western partners of germany, who always criticized this partnership. the west seems to stick very, very narrowly to the narrative that ukraine is the country which has every right to act in the way it deans necessary up the moment to defend itself against russia. so criticism against any moves done by the ukrainian government is not really well conceived. at the moment the u. s. has lashed out against china's efforts to provide security for the south pacific nation of the solomon islands. as washington's allies, australia and new zealand considered the region to be firmly within their sphere of influence, we are concerned by the lack of transparency and unspecified nature of this agreement, which follows a pattern of china offering shadowy, vague deals with little regional consultation in fishing resource management development assistance, and now security practices. us delegation plans to raise the issue on an upcoming visit to the solomon islands while discussing the planned reopening of its embassy, their after a 3 decade hadith, chinese security deed deal reportedly allows it to send police and naval forces to the solomon islands to maintain peace there the exact details have yet to be made public. last week, the senior australian official went to the solomon islands to try to dissuade it from signing the pact. as camera is concerned about a rising chinese military presence in the region, china for its part says washington and western powers have been whipping up hysteria. when the show to show what we want to say is that pacific island countries and not anyone's backyard, let alone porn's energy of political confrontation. island countries have actual needs for diversification of foreign cooperation and also have the rights to independently choose their partners deliberately, exaggerates intentions. and provoking the confrontation of camps has no appeal among island countries. the attempt to interfere and obstruct the cooperation of the island. countries with china is also due to fail. there heard from joseph gregory mahoney, a professor of politics and international relations at the east china normal university, and shanghai who says the west wants to create a sense that there is a threat in the region. it's clear that this newly signed a security pack between china and the solvent is red meat for australian politicians with federal elections. now just 2 days away, us wants to support leaders in canberra, who have followed washington against china and recent years. and they want to do this by making a very big splash over what is, in fact, a very small matter in a very large ocean in short, can bear. it would like to imagine this is some kind of emerging close at hand threat like cuba to the united states. despite the solvents being 2000 kilometers away and not ideologically hostile to australia. although the solomon's resent australian had too many more than a few or china, what they really want is security support unrelated to either australia or the u. s . and they want to sort of investment in trade, that neither of those countries have provided. consequently, this ex, this pack speaks directly to their security needs and reinforces their economic interest. ah, pakistan's new prime minister who recently replaced the altered iran con, has called for better cooperation with the countries neighbor and long time rival, india. we believe that peaceful and cooperative ties between pakistan and india are imperative for the progress and socio economic uplift of our people. and for the region. this can be best achieved through meaningful engagement and peaceful resolution of all outstanding disputes, including the core issue of geometry in kashmir, the disputed region of kashmir. it has been a key point of contention between india and pakistan for the past 75 years. the countries have fought several large scale conflicts for control of the region, even sparking fears of a nuclear war as both possess atomic weapons. but just last week and he has prime minister congratulated his new in stated pakistani counterpart saying india once peaceful and stable relations. we got insight on the development of relations between new delhi and islam about from former indian and pakistani officials in pakistan. and we need especially when it comes to relations with india, the army plays a substantial role. you know, they've addicted government generally goes by the advice of the military. so that is one continued factor, but yes, you can have prime ministers who choose to who have a different career. but they would have to be careful. and i have known the pleasant prime minister share busha the foot of a long time. he's already able, administrator who was a very good chief minister. he's the brother of mister new, i should eve. and also he has visited india and make to our last prime minister doctor montmorency. so i think that he will try and keep the relationship or no sort of balanced. we're not under moody writing to the new prime minister suggesting about ways to good relationship in the future. but unfortunately, well, the problem stay as they have always been for the last 7 decades between india and pakistan. and at the same time, shabba should. it may not be in part for too long, simply because the fractious political environment in by august is almost pressing and holding for an immediate election right might not be as immediate. it could be a few months down the line. but it seems that that could be perhaps the big name of the starting off yet another a government and yet another had a we can not say that really because meet us, i think be willing to move one on other areas. but we continue to work on gosh, made, and that's the thing that focus on ease. we like to see and, and that problem that does it for me this hour, stay with us throughout the day for more news and commentary. this is our international news. ah ah ha city looking spoke with everything both, both the models you need to do. you both got nelson smith with a with a grain already a lot of them bought a home for them bought a nissan levy. and you that the garage door normally with a personal number you were here with a ah i ah, i'm absent at junior, watching, going underground team and i will be back soon with a brand new look to swipe nato nation in the you, censorship. but until then, we'll be showing some of your favorite shows a for season. so far. i'm african or t as in, you're watching a special edition of going underground 54 years since the tet offensive. a turning point against us was in the vietnam region that killed 6000000 as american forces fought that toward to make the world safer capitalism. in america, the youngest mayor of a major u. s. city was waging his own war against unrestrained corporate power targeting his city of cleveland. his stand against the privatization of the publicly owned mooney light company echoes fights all around the world against neoliberalism. joining me now from cleveland is that mad dennis goosenich, former democratic nominee for the u. s. presidency and author of the division of light and power. dennis, thanks so much for finally being ongoing underground dam. i should just start to by the fact that we're being warned here in london, that vladimir putin might turn the light and power offering that your view, your thoughts on the fact that the nato, a briefing we are on the brink of war in europe and the biden is preparing thousands of troops to fight awards. russia. i can tell you, here from our american shide and talk to you from a neighborhood including ohio and no one around here. it's thinking or talking about war. people are just trying to live their own lives. you get through the pan, derek, of find a way to survive initial economy. and i think that people are pretty typical of most americans. i think our country needs to finally come to a on time with, with russia. resolve the underlying issues are truly related to energy. now what's interesting is that my book arises at a time that there's a context for control of energy market, oil, liquid, natural gas. and any time you have that kind of a struggle, there's always the possibility that people will do whatever they can in order to the dominant. and so we have to be very careful here in the stage about overreaching and we get the world really is seeking for a way to come to pace and saber rattling right now. that's going on. i don't think church or any country. well, particularly those in your and i think the united states, mr. brian, mr. burton need to be in constant contact and lower the temperature right now, because i don't think anybody really wants more. i, i can't imagine that anyone thinks that a, they're anywhere in such a conflict. i mean, there's literally talk of comparison to the cuban missile crisis. well, you know, it has kept in mind that russia troop movements are happening within the russian borders. i think get really needs to be understood and russia just as any sharon nation has the right to defended some borders. i think the hysteria that's being wicked up needs to be discounted mightily. and in light of the fact that there are, are various agendas that are seeking to be advanced in.