RT News - March 31 2022 (17:00 MSK)

Vladimir Putin has announced that gas contracts with Russia will end if countries don't comply with new payment terms as Moscow turns to its national currency in gas trade with its partners. Fighting continues in the Donetsk city of Mariupol, as forces work to push the remaining Ukrainian neo-Nazi groups from the city. An Al-Jazeera report appears to accidentally capture Ukrainian soldiers using a civilian ambulance as military transport. A top French bank blocks the accounts of Russian staff of RT France, apparently discriminating on the basis of nationality. That's as Britain bans two companies that own RT and sister news agency Sputnik, as the blanket crackdown on anything Russian escalates to new highs. Russia invites the US Under Secretary of State and the president's son to explain the funding of bioweapons labs in Ukraine. Moscow's representative to the international chemical weapons watchdog says Russia will seek for an international investigation into the matter.