RT News - April 21 2022 (09:00 MSK)

Moscow says Kiev has rejected a safe zone at the besieged steel factory in Mariupol and has refused to release civilians and surrender. That's as fighting for the nationalist stronghold rages on. We report from the battleground. Veteran Italian journalist Angelo d'Orsi stands up against the Western narrative and says the US is to blame for the war in Ukraine. He shares his thoughts with us in a broad interview. China's president slams the West's sanctions policy against Russia, as BRICS countries prepare to introduce their own alternative to the Western-led SWIFT financial system, which has restricted Russian access. "A death sentence": That's how WikiLeaks describes a London court's decision to extradite whistle-blower Julian Assange to the US, where he faces up to 175 years in prison on espionage charges.