[000:00:00;00] a i'm being told that every day, more and more such trophy weapons fall in the hands of the russian troops. one of our correspondents on the ground in ukraine get along with some of these western weapons which pouring into the country despite us lead cold with fighting intensifies for the key ukrainian city of mario paul left. the russian military presence on with his drive to clear out nationalists port is who using civilian building a portion that gets broke. he had gone on the conflict terminated by a russian power left and active it who knows what people in don't boss have really

been through marianna now home of us told us she's paid a heavy price for her position on the conflict just to just to be honest with you, i've been receiving threads for 8 years, so i'm not bothered anymore, because after my 1st visit to don bass, i was immediately put on a list of terrorist and ukraine with western politicians and the media continue to criticize russia, where it's operation and ukraine we look at how they covered the us, led invasion of iraq all to different ah a warm welcome you're watching aussie international. it's good to have you company this hour. well 1st, let's wrap up the latest from the conflicts over ukraine. canada says it will use private sector resources to provide more weaponry to key if that's a mid discussion of further

e. u. sanctions on russian gas may also be as president task hold on guerria to continue transiting russian gas to its country and hungary, foreign minister, se budapest will veto e u sanctions on russian gas imports. while the e u has approved a new strategic compost security doctrine, which it says will strengthen the block security amid the war in ukraine or canada is now also in the news over sending weapons to ukraine has foreign ministers in the country as bringing in the private sector to help send more alms to kias the canadian diplomat speech as a recent conference was interrupted by a political activist and writer who accused melanie julie of provoking a global conflicts. and if he was a war toner made from a 3rd world war 3 shame on you. while nato countries have refused to enforce the no fly zone in ukraine,

the us lead block is stepping up. its arm shipments to key is fueling the fire, the fighting in ukraine, despite openly calling for peace that some of the imported weapons have not been seized and examined by the russian military with white house officials. continuing to defend that policy of escalation, the united states delivered $650000000.00 in military equipment to ukraine. it is more than we've ever provided to ukraine in the past. it is a significant amount of assistance that we had expedited delivery on and we will continue to do exactly that. and we're not doing this along, or ours and partners have stepped up to revise significant shipments of security assistance and will continue to help facilitate these deliveries as well. russian armor versus american missiles, ukraine, once a country. now the world's largest test site, where the u. s. and allies are duking it out with russia, who's weapons are more lethal. it's to weapons buffet for the ukranian military

from small arms to advanced anti tank and anti aircraft. missiles, american go seem eager to make keeps every request come true. western made weapons are in such abundance. the ukrainian forces have no 2nd thoughts leaving them behind on the retreat. like a trail of breadcrumbs pollen hair, you have the infamous american made javelin an anti tank single use miss i'll here it's will. little brother, lea, german made panza faust, the same panza vows just there a better, a more modern version of the same unit of the same missile used by the nazi germany against soviet troops. back during the 2nd world war, arguably these well complex as these missiles, they caused the most problems for the russian army. but i'm being told that every day, more and more of such trophy weapons fall in the hands of the russian troops. the

factory packaging even contains this panza, faust, anti tanks, weapons, passport, and that's when the unpleasant truth about its foreign origin comes out. apparently, this particular p g was decommissioned by germany all the way back in 2013. now americans stinger missiles are a common threat for rushes. helicopter pilots will help willow as we flew over enemy territory in a call. 52 helicopter the enemy fired from the ground. the aircraft was hit when stinger missiles are detected. the aircrafts on board defense system in gauges in fires decoy flares. it's a reliable technique and let you get out of the situation. in fact, some pundits are concerned of a looming security catastrophe. potentially caused by such a flood of indiscriminate weapons in ukraine. you have all the markings of what the cia did in afghanistan,

arming and training the militia dean with billions of dollars against russia. you have the same markings with what the see i did with timber sycamore and syria, which is much the same arming and training. these extremist factions in order to serve as proxy forces to take out an opposing state. though the real question as is whether russia will be able to move fast enough to cut off the supply lines. well, as the us increase its weapons supplies to ukraine, some politicians in washington say the white house is using keith to wait a proxy war against russia, telecom open house. the story, it appears that us officials have been mulling over the idea of setting up a proxy war with russia in ukraine since 2014. and now with joe biden, one year in the office, it looks like the plan is being put into action. and so there are a number of things that we would expect to have seen that we just haven't seen in the russians really have happened as present or not from problem. so many other

assumptions have not, not proven to be true as a, as a entered the fight. it looks like the plan moves ahead with $13000000000.00 being sent to ukraine along with a new cache of weapons. the idea for a proxy war having been in the works for a long time, is now confirmed by a former us secretary of defense. we are engaged in a conflict. here is a proxy war with russia whether we say so or not, that effectively is what's going on. and the way you get leverage is by frankly going in and killing russians. congressman adam shift has further expounded upon the idea most critically, the military aid that we provide ukraine helps to protect and advance american national security interests in the region and beyond. america has an abiding interest in stemming russian expansionism and resisting any nation's efforts to remake the map of europe by dint of military force,

even as we have tens of thousands of troops station there. moreover, as one witness put it during our impeachment inquiry, the united states age ukraine, and her people so that we can fight russia over there. and we don't have to fight russia here. there's nothing particularly new about the idea of getting russia bogged down in a long term proxy conflict in a country along its borders. that concept goes back to late cold war geo political strategist, big new bridge in ski. it's the major cities say carcass se kia were to resist and street fighting became a necessity. it would be prolonged and costly. and the fact of the matter is, and this is where the timing of this whole crisis is important. russia is not yet ready to undertake that kind of an effort. rodzinski also made some interesting predictions about ukraine. he said they will never join nato. but at the same time, there should be clarity that ukraine will not be

a member of nato. i think that is important for a variety of political reasons fridge and he also bragged about what he called the afghan wrath. setting up a situation where the soviet union felt obligated to intervene in afghanistan and then bogging them down with a long term war. he bragged about getting the soviet union a, quote, vietnam, to weaken the country. so apparently us leaders claim to care about ukrainians while they're setting the country up for a long term war ale mopping artsy. new york investigates have reported alex rubinstein. say the west is using the conflict to chip away it rushes, economic and military power the united states and, and in europe, far as making statements, the effect of this being kind of a long war. oh, and the goal of that is, is an afghan style operation. where they use this proxy conflict to chip away at russian morale, the russian economy, the russian military,

et cetera. they're kind of dangling the nato membership in front of zalinski. and at the same time, just using him as a pond to, to increase hostilities of russia. the one thing that does distinguish this, and i think that this is an effect of their just being so much a animosity in the west against russia. they're doing this all out in the open with operations. i phone enough canister. the see i head it for years. the same thing with timber site, the more in syria here, it's being done the open because they can i and that's, that's really the scary part about it is because it shows that the, the great power competition is an accepted doctrine for the west. i mean, while fighting over the key ukrainian port city of mario paul has intensified this exclusive drone fatigue shows the aftermath of fighting between russian and ukrainian forces, which include nationalists battalions. a local journalist affiliated with r t say these 29 story buildings has been cleared up, nationalists fighters,

but they continue to fire from another building, which is not being targeted by russia. yes, the fighting is ongoing with residents who haven't escaped 5, a few minutes. harry and car doors hiding in the basement. our affiliated reporter has the latest on ukraine's tactics. what's the bazillion, you know, the least with the next militia unit by entered one of the 9 story buildings. this is the apartments of a local resident as of militant hitting, the advancing forces from this balcony. and therefore whether the next militia fight is like it or not, how to destroy the homes of civilians. thus the humanitarian situation is deteriorating due to the actions of as of military. meanwhile, in care of their cities, man has declared occur. few to keep civilians off the streets during potential night time attacks. us off to at least 8 people were reportedly killed viewing a bombing of a non functional shopping center in the city. nearby buildings were also heavily damaged rushes,

defense ministry explained that it targeted shopping center because it was being used as a heavy weapons base by the ukrainian military. moscow released this drone footage of the slide showing ukrainian armed vehicles parking at the more and even opening fire from the location where the defense ministry said it would not target civilian infrastructure without justifiable reason. ukraine's military forces have previously been accused of using civilian buildings as bases sun verified photo taken by a residence of key, as is believed to show the ukrainian military equipment located near that mall. the picture was previously posted on line days before rush and forces bowman shop the shopping center, but was later than the case by the author, lazuli, diesel. i posted a video on tick tock showing the movement of ukrainian military vehicles while they were in the vicinity of the retro vall, shopping center. there were 2 self propelled howitzers across sir william mills. he

f maritally clenched co has commented on the recent strike on the shopping center, also claiming that schools and kindergartens were damaged in the attack. for those you, what the for the enemy continues to attack the capital. the shopping center burned down and 6 residential buildings were damaged as a result of the shelling. 3 of them had been rendered uninhabitable. 8 people were killed. the premises of 2 schools and 2 kindergartens were also damaged. and recently an a b. c journalist has reported on a ukrainian school that he called quote, a massive military warehouse, confirming moscow's accusations. the key of is using civilian infrastructure for military needs. as the conflict and ukraine continues to unfold is become somewhat of a trend for celebrities to weigh in on the situation. one of them is hollywood star and former california governor arnold schwarzenegger, who recorded a special video for russians that some noted a slight bias. i'm sending this message to various different channels to reach my

dea russian france. brain is a country with a jewish president, a jewish president at my bath, whose father's, 3 brothers were all murdered by the nazis messy ukraine, did not stop this war. neither did nationalists or nazis, those in power in the kremlin, started this war. one of the russians who don't agree with arnold from as they cheers, power lifting. well champion marianna. now home of a, i like the famous actor, marianna, has actually been to don't boss in east in ukraine, more than 20 times advice, and has seen the struggle of people there in the past 8 years. she's also well known as an activist who's helped local children back in 2015. she met with arnold to personally hand him letters from kids in don't bass. but as marina told us, it appears the american star didn't even read those cries for help. with who we are, the more yes, the one for several brazilian who i think if he had even paid attention to the

letters or read them, there would have been some other reaction when he recorded his video or maybe he would have taken some action before that but i can't blame him because i'm sure that he had hers to the policy of his state as a us citizen. you need to share kind of an image that you aspire to be like i do. and things to this image. i also to you great successes and support and social activities, but of course, as a person or not really disappointed me. to be honest with you, i've been receiving threats for 8 years, some not bothered anymore, because after my 1st visit to don bass, i was immediately put on a list of terrorists and ukraine. i was labeled a government piece keeper and immediately started to receive threats from key of from soldiers, even him from ordinary people. i had to change my phone number several times. constantly had my online accounts hacked. this of course is very unpleasant, but i'm already used to it, which i have all of our de la and prizes and trophies visa's an opportunity to become the best in my sports some time ago. understand that all these phrases are

cool, but not as cool as being human who can really make a difference. fathers, to be honest, many people nowadays do not understand the difference between truth and life. but i hope that soon because there's so many elevations about fake news, people will begin to understand what is really happening in the world and where there is nothing but lies and nonsense store for the source. and they got a coach for an end to the special operation in ukraine and heavily criticizes the russian government for it has taken a different stance to some of the actions of his own country during the 2003 us invasion of iraq. not only did he support the invasion, but also traveled to iraq personally twice to boost the morale of american trips. they'll never get this because there's no one that i know. it doesn't sound good. sounds good question. why am i doing that in the grow? or some, i've pointed to the hypocrisy of shorts and they got a closing his eyes to the actions of his adopted country in the us. as we marked the 19th, none of us re,

washington's invasion of iraq were hundreds of thousands lost their lives ortiz, rachel blevins, reports. it has been 19 years since the u. s. in its allies invaded a rock. the anniversary comes at a time when the architects of the iraq war and the politicians who supported the us occupation of the country in the years to follow, are now expressing their concern over the well being of civilians in ukraine. ah, i used to work for intentionally targeting civilians is a war crime. after all the destruction of the past 3 weeks, i find it difficult to conclude that the russians are doing otherwise. ah, but those concerns were nowhere to be found back in 2003 when the bush administration launch. it's quest for weapons of mass destruction. launching of these it into

a rock which it proudly described as shock and awe. shutting the country down would entail both the physical destruction of appropriate infrastructure and the shut down in control of the flow of all vital information and associated commerce so rapidly as to achieve a level of national shock. akin to the effect that dropping nuclear weapons on hiroshima and nagasaki had on the japanese and make no mistake about on the bush administration's, a deadly approach was widely praised by the media at the time. this is fox news and fox news channel, continuing coverage of the campaign, which now has begun to liberate and disarm iraq. and know that they can execute these missions into baghdad. and have everybody come back safe and sound is a testament to, as frankly, the professionalism of these people. and also waiving to the troops as they went by giving them up, the soldiers themselves feeling a certain sense of relief waving back. so the only thing that was shout back and forth between the 2 was a sense of gratitude, apparently,

and it seemed to have gone reasonably well. and if i didn't see any civilian casualties, it caused the term shock and awe became so popular. in the aftermath of the, again, the trademark application stored for everything from energy drinks to video games. but the reality of the iraq war was far, far different than the media coverage. hundreds of civilians were killed and thousands wounded by the us led coalition and incidents involving the still yet to be universally band w. m. d 's. according to iraq, body count which maintains the largest public database on casualties related to the invasion. well, the killing of civilians was rarely shown by the media. it was made public by wiki leaks, which published the raw footage of u. s. apache helicopters, firing indiscriminately on civilians in july, 2007, killing over a dozen people including 2 orders. journalist weekly leaks also released cables revealing the u. s. military terrific treatment of iraqi detainees. along with evidence that they failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse, torture,

rape, and murder, iraqi police and soldiers, a back with me. and for those who did survive, many are still dealing with the consequences of the invasion to this day, which include ongoing health issues, as well as continued reports of children being born with severe birth defect. but even though the united nations secretary general declared that the us invasion of iraq was illegal and violated the un charter back in 2004, the architects of the iraq war continue to walk free to this day. and it's not just

a rock over the last 20 years. the u, as in its allies, have dropped more than 337000. another country meeting for an average of $46.00 strikes per day, doing the same politicians as afforded one or after another, suddenly claim that they hear about civilian casualties. all the biggest question becomes why now in washington, rachel blevins r c. we discussed the issue with former us marine co intelligence officer, scott ritter. he says the u. s. had a much more heavy handed approach in iraq. there's no doubt there's democracy. there's nothing new. hypocrisy is the name of the game. when you have 2 political foes of, of this nature, but know the united states a today trying to paint russia as a nation that violates international law by carrying out an unlawful war of aggression. there's no comparison. now,

there was no analogous situation in iraq and that it to what had been transpiring in the dorm bus for 8 years. they had, there's just no comparison between the 2. my say in the united states, when it went into iraq, intended to commit war crimes. no, i'm just saying that they have much more heavy handed approach, which focused more on the destruction of military objectives and less on reducing the impact of war on civilian populations, rushes more morally grounded in its defense of the russian speaking citizens of dom bus were subjected to 8 years of unrelenting violence by the ukrainian government, they had much more justification in going to their defense in the united states and in pursuing a falsified claims of weapons of mass destruction. era from western news outlets have painted a rather rosy picture of ukraine's war effort and seemed to be happy with will ang,

virtually anything you train is showing them our teeth on court. as the story western propaganda has painted a very pretty picture of the ukrainian war effort, but that's all it is a picture. as for what's really going on, it's hard to tell since dash camps have been banned across the country without any spontaneous shots of what's really going on. many foreign volunteers are getting a hard dose of reality. upon arriving to fight key of war. it's chaotic right now. it's disorganized, and you get yourself in trouble very quickly. if you're not with a sensible, switched on. group of people were pretty upset that were in the middle of a combat zone with small arms fire on the road. bombs being dropped almost every day, and we haven't been given our weapons yet just because of bureaucracy and paperwork . it's a come as no surprise since kia has literally band broadcasting anything other than one state channel on tv. all the while western media are relentlessly glorifying any and all. busy ukrainians, no matter what they're up to in the pro,

crowds of women spent saturday making molotov cocktails, teachers, lawyers, housewives, all crouched on the grass filling bottles. they told me they try not to think about what they're doing. they didn't choose this, but they have to be ready to defend their city. and the facts are in short supply. though propagandists need to make use of myths, most people have already heard of the ghost of kiev who shot down 10 russian jet sore. the valiant ukrainian troops of snake island who fought till the bitter end resisting a russian attack, but it's likely fewer people know that these 2 stories are complete works of fiction. sometimes the media accidentally create fake heroes with no guarantee that viewers will see their retractions. other times legends are intentionally created, especially when keith is trying to scare europeans.

ah, you are good at editing videos in this game. we will wonder what is the truth in your images you transmit? in the end, by dint of playing this game, you risk losing. think about it, i do not support the war, but i say this shows the extent to which the scene and news in ukraine can be falsified in their favor patters worse, they don't have r, t or sport nick to set the record straight any more systematic information manipulation and does information by the kremlin is applied as an operational tool in its assault on ukraine. it is also a significant and direct threat to the unions public order insecurity, fake stories of bravery and sacrifice, censoring alternative viewpoints. just at a glorified hero leader to the mix and you have yourself a classic western propaganda peace. then zalinski dialed into their meeting. com but determined his pale face covered and stubble. he told the leaders of the free world that this might be the last time they would see him alive. the enemy has

marked me as target. number one, my family as target number 2, a russian quote has sentenced opposition. figure like st. vonny to 9 years in a maximum security prison of to finding him guilty of large scale fraud and content, of course, as was live to a correspondent policy. if more details now poorly good to see. now this is a new case against nevada and he, he was already doing time in prison on a previous indictment. could you bring in more details, please? well yes, what we heard today from the moscow court is that he has been found guilty as you quickly say, for another 9 years in prison. as the judge weighed out the charge sheet, she said that he had been found guilty of stealing to the tune of $4700000.00 from his entry corruption foundation. and at the same time, he was found in contempt of court. prosecutors had actually been asking for 13 years, but these non years will now be added to the 2 and a half years out of 3 and

a half years that he's currently serving. and that is for a full case that dates back to 2014 and also for him violating parole with regards to a probation order that ended in december. following that, he only came back to russia in february, and he was immediately detained, and he was flying back from berlin, where he had been in a hospital for several months recovering from a poison attack. he says that the criminal was behind, that the criminal consistently denied that. in fact, navarro me states that all of these charges are trumped, and all of them are politically motivated. when the verdict was, was laid out in court, he seemed almost as if he expected it. he showed little reaction. he seemed i'm phase and he exchanged a few words with his lawyer before being taken away and he did appear quite point. there has been some speculation over as regards his health. now back in january,

russia added him and his associates to the federal registry for extremism and terrorism. they also banned his organization, saying that a convex terrorist activities moscow has found out and has argued that he and his team under the cover of so called liberal values of creating the terms for some kind of stabilization of the social and political situation. here, the real goal underneath that, as you write the constitution to change the constitution. and also to do it for many means one of which is potentially a colored revolution. they've also found him guilty of appealing targeting minors. and at the same time been guided from foreign think tanks. we haven't as of yet had any reaction from his legal team. but we certainly do expect that they will appeal this decision. paula:

many thanks for that update. those are tease policy or that many. thank you for joining us here in our t international. plenty more updates to be found on our website. dotty dot com, but we'll be back in 30 minutes. but more so steven. ah

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