ah, to join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. ah, ah, i think intensifies for the k ukrainian city of mario paul as the russian military precedent with its drive to clear out. nationalists forces who are using civilian buildings for cover. i'm being told that every day move such trophy weapons, full in behalf of the russian troops of all correspondents. and you can get hands on with the western weapons which are pouring into the country to wage what's been called a proxy war against russia. despite us lead called the peep with western politicians and the media continue to criticize russia over its operation and ukraine. we look at how they covered the us invasion of iraq o 2 differently. ah

one welcome you watching r t internationally. it's good to have you accompanied this hour. i was bottles, it continue for you. you have control of ukraine's key port, city of mario po. we've received some exclusive pictures of the combat zone. this join footage shows the aftermath of fighting between russian and ukrainian forces, which include nationalist battalions, andrea fil a toll of a local journalist down string to for r t say these 9 story buildings have been cleared nationalist finances, but they continue to fire from another building which has not yet been targeted by russian forces and at the college local residents who haven't managed to escape by humanitarian corridors. still hiding in safe mint. his positive andrew fellow told report from the embattled city. what's the resilient level of the lease?

with the, the next meliss units by entered one of the 9 story buildings. this is the apartments of a local resident as of militant hit, the advancing forces from this balcony. and therefore, whether the next militia fight is like it or not, they how to destroy the homes of civilians. thus the humanitarian situation is deteriorating due to the actions of as of militant or let's wrap up more of the latest from the conflicts of ukraine. canada says it will use private sector resources to provide more weaponry to key of estimate discussion of the sanctions on russian gas. meanwhile, phoebe, as president, has called on bulgaria to continue transiting, rushing gas to his country and hungary for ministers. se budapest will veto e u. sanctions on russian gothic pause, while the you itself has approved a new strategic doctrine, which it says will strengthen the block security amid the war in ukraine. while

nato countries have refused to inform the no fly zone in ukraine, the us lead block is stepping up its arm shipments to key. if washington is reportedly due to send soviet made defense systems in secret to ukraine. fueling the fire, the fighting that despite open the calling for peace, some of the imported weapons have now been seized and examined by the russian military, with white house officials continuing to defend their policy of escalation. the united states delivered $650000000.00 and 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 the 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 and more lethal. it's a weapons buffet for the ukrainian military from small arms to advanced anti tank and anti aircraft missiles. american go seemed 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 well and here you have the infamous american made javelin an anti tank single use miss. i'll here it's will, little brother, the 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 world 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 russia's helicopter pilots will help well, as we flew over enemy territory in a car 50 to helicopter, the enemy fired from the ground. the aircraft was hit when stinger missiles are detected. the aircrafts on board defense system engages and 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 c 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 and go in and kill russians. thus the blunt recommendation from leon panetta, who is us defense, secretary of the saw the disastrous destruction of libya and 2011 pernesa who as c, i a chief defended officials who committed torture. also admitted that the us is waging a proxy war against moscow. in ukraine, 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. and connect as controversial statement comes to the day off the president, find an approved an additional military aid package for ukraine, totaling $1000000000.00. also kind of more pen gives more examples of us politicians who don't hesitate to open the mention of proxy war against russia. 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. and the russians really have happened as present on some problem. so many other assumptions have not, not proven to be true as a,

as they enter this 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. congressman adam shift has further expounded upon the idea most critically. the military aid that we provide ukraine helps to protect in 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 stationed 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 skiing. if the major cities say carpet, se kia were to resist and street fighting became a necessity, it would be prolonged and costly. and the fact of the matter as, and this is where the timing of this whole crisis is important. russia has not yet ready to undertake that kind of an effort. rodzinski also made some interesting predictions about ukraine. you said they will never join nato. regency also bragged about what he called the afghan trap. 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 giving 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. caleb martin,

r t new york. canada is now taking center stage in western f is to send more weapons to ukraine. canada as foreign affairs minister, save her country as bringing in the private sector to help on kiev forces. the canadian diplomat speech of recent conference was interrupted by a political activist and writer who accused melody jolly of provoking global conflicts. and the war need from world war 3, change an investigative reporter, alex trubinstein, say the west is using the conflict to chip away it rushes, economic and military power. the united states and, and in europe are, are making statements to the effect of this being kind of a long war. 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, this is an effect of their just being so much are animosity in the west against russia. they're doing this all out in the open with operations cyclone enough canister. and the see i head it for years. the same thing with timber psycho more in syria here. it's being done in the open because they can i and that's, that's really the scary part about it is because it shows that the great power competition is accepted doctrine for the west. o morning. here the cities there has declared a curfew to keep civilians off the streets during potential nighttime attacks. as off to at least 8 people were reportedly killed during a bombing of a non functional shopping center in the city near by. buildings were also heavily damaged. rushes defense ministry explained that it targeted shopping center because

it was being used as a heavy weapons based by the ukrainian military. moscow released this drone footage of the site showing ukrainian armed vehicles parking at the mall, and even opening fire from the location rushes defense ministry said it would not target civilian infrastructure without a justifiable reason. ukraine's military forces have previously been accused of using civilian buildings as spaces is unverified photo taken by a resident of kia is believed to show the ukrainian military equipment located near that mall. the picture was previously posted online days before russian forces bonds, the shopping center that was later deleted by the author, mozilla diesel. i posted a video on tick tock showing the movement of ukrainian military vehicles. they were in the vicinity of the retro val shopping center. there were 2 self propelled howitzers. captain avatar kish co has commented on the recent strike on the

shopping center, also claiming that schools and kindergartens were damaged in the attack. world. roger with 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. recently and a b. c journalist has reported on a ukrainian school that he called quote, a massive military warehouse, confirming moscow's accusations. that key of is using civilian infrastructure for military needs. ah, was become somewhat of a trend for western celebrities to weigh in on ukraine. hollywood star and former california governor arnold schwarzenegger is one of the latest after he recorded a special video on the conflict. but a russian power, lifting world champion who gave him countless letters from don boss, children's suffering under ukraine's bombing for years, says his anti russian claims get it completely wrong. i'm sending this message so

various different channels to which my dear russian friends brain is a country with a jewish present and a jewish president and 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 a kremlin, started this war gal, and the reality is arnold that your terminator not only did not protect, did not help, did not save the children of don bass, but did not even read their letters and did not try to understand the situation or not, sometimes it's very difficult to understand, being thousands and thousands of kilometers away from us. but you still have those letters and photos from 2015, don't you o. m of i who unlike smell, shanika has actually been to the dorm vast more than 20 times. in fact, is also in activists helping local children. then she thinks he did not even read all the letters. she personally handed to him. we are the more yes,

the one for several, but it's only 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 have great successes in sport and social activities, but of course as a person, arnold 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 kia 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. and it's my fortune again anger at the warn ukraine he seems very happy to back invasions by his own adopted country. during the 2003

u. s. invasion of iraq. he even travel back to boost the morale of pentagon troops don't do this year because there's no one there that i go. it goes and sometimes ask themselves in question why mine is pointed to the hypocrisy of swore to nigga closing his eyes to the actions of his adopted country. the us, as we mock the 19th anniversary of washington's invasion of a rock where hundreds of thousands lost their lives ortiz, rachel blevins reports. it has been 19 years since the u. s. in its allies invaded iraq. the anniversary comes at a time when the architects of the iraq war and the politicians who supported the u . s. 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 me 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 hit into a rock widget 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 the bush. administration's 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. know that to the they can execute these

missions and to 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. still the only thing of a shot back and forth between the 2 was a sense of gratitude, apparently. and it seemed to have gone reasonably well. and despite the devastating civilian casualties it caused the term shock and awe became so popular. in the aftermath of the invasion, the trademark application store 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 been 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 weeks, 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. 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 defects. ah ah.

but even though the united nations secretary general declared that the u. s. invasion of iraq was illegal and violated the un charter back in 2004, the architects of iraq who are continue to walk free to this day. and it's not just a rock over the last 20 years. the u, as in his allies have dropped more than 337000 bombs on other countries making for an average of 46 strikes per day. doing the same politicians as supported one war after another, suddenly claim that they can about civilian casualties. all the biggest question becomes why now in washington, rachel, robins artsy with many iraq. he still struggling to pace their lives back together after nearly 2 decades of conflicts. we take a look back at the aftermath of the us led invasion of iraq iraq war 19 years on in 2003,

the u. s. falsely alleged that saddam hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction . thus paving the way for an iraq invasion. starting with the shock and all campaign targeting communication, transportation, food production, water supply, and other aspects of infrastructure to spread the threat and fear of action and achieve a level of shock, comparable to hiroshima and nagasaki bombings, shock and awe caused the death of over $3900.00 iraqi civilians just in one month. the total number of civilian deaths during the invasion is more than $7000.00 mainstream media praised might of us weapons. awestruck a surprise attack the smoke rose above baghdad in plumes of thick black stood carrying with it the ashes of a dying regime. us launches cruise missiles at saddam tanks, rolling desert, as air strikes, hid cities. let's look

a little better with time. the pentagon says a mass of air can i be getting more hours ago? women storing it was the 1st time every single mom and, and marathon is guided by precision technology. over 180000 iraqis became victims of the war that followed. invasion in the u. s. businesses did their as turn on the grief of the rockies, sending trademark applications for the use of shock and archer. in 2003, there was at least 29 of them. among them. 5 applications from fireworks manufacturers. no limits for p r. you know, we discussed the issue with foamy us marine corps intelligence officer, scott whitter. he says the us had a much more heavy handed approach in iraq. there's no doubt there's bach receive.

there's nothing new hypocrisy is the name of the game when you have, you do political foes of, of this nature will know the united states a to day. trying to paint russia as a nation that violates international law by you know, carrying out an unlawful war of aggression. there's no comparison. now. there was no analogous situation, a rock um that it to what had been transpiring in the dorm bus for 8 years up there the, there's just no comparison between the 2 might 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, and its defense of the russian speaking citizens of don bus were subjected to 8

years of unrelenting violence by the ukrainian government or they had much more justification and going to their defense in the united states had in pursuing a falsified claims of weapons of mass destruction. era herby as president has called on e u. member bulgaria to keep transiting russian gas to serbia. as the european union, most of cutting down is dependence on russian. phil, now the u. member, hungary has threatened to veto sanctions against russian energy imposed as class life law correspondence. all these events he in paris, sophomore, charlotte, get to see you now. a split in the pipeline for the a you then yes, as why bulgaria had this plan and the idea to shift away from russian gas. and unfortunately that me have now hit this pretty significant hurdle it is being described as a potentially historic move the country saying that when it's contract with

russians and gas form expires this year, so feel will be looking elsewhere for its energy needs. however, not so fast as you heard that says neighboring soviet that also gets its gas from the vulcan stream, which is this pipeline that runs through bo guerria and soviet president, alexander, which is said, his country pays for transit fees for that gas through bulgaria. and he wants it to come from russia, bulgaria has announced that it will cease importing russian gas. i'm not sure that this is so easy to execute. we are simply saying that we want russian gas from bulk and stream. you deliver the gas to our gas pipeline for which we pay and what you want to do next is your concern. this is not our problem for us. or to was also told on those plans by the director of a serbian gas company who said that bo guerria as plans are pretty much empty

dreams. now bill gary of the like other countries is i know natural gas applies from other suppliers such as cats, on a big to cease purchases from russia. it's also waiting the completion of another pipeline. this is a pipeline that will link grease and bulgaria, and that will see guess that could be pumped in from azerbaijan. so it's already looking for gas supplies elsewhere. and the pressure on buying russian energy, whether it acts that is really been ramping up since the start of the countries invasion into ukraine. we've heard from some you countries that say they want on all right. ban on trade with russia and also an outright ban when it comes to buying rushing gas and oil. they say by continuing to buy it from russia, they're essentially financing through the back to the war in ukraine. it was a coalition of countries from the baltic nations to poland,

to demanding this. when you ministers, a met on monday, trying to bring countries in line with their views, but they failed. however, islands, foreign minister has been persuaded looking at the extent of the destruction in ukraine right now. it's very hard to make the case that we shouldn't be moving in on the energy sector, particularly oil and cold. but speaking after that meeting, we heard from the use foreign affairs chief, this is joseph brown, who said it just wasn't the day to take such decisions. the kremlin has also warned about what kind of impact such an embargo could have and how much that could hurt europe. and there are suggestions of talent remeasure which could see moscow actually cutting off gas supplies the block. and that we understand would cause massive issues in germany. they talked about a halting of the supply, which would see mass unemployment and also poverty. so some really big issues. however, so far it does seem as if the you doesn't have quite the appetite to make such

a bold move. that could change though, when you, as president joe biden, heads to brussels this week, he wants to push them into a total embargo to follow in the footsteps of the us and essentially ban all russian energy solid. many thanks for the update bass r t that charlotte dimansky them. thank you for joining us. aeronautics international will be back at the top of the hour with the latest in the meantime. you can check on website r t dot com. ah . what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic, development only personally and getting to disease. i don't see how that strategy

will be successful, very critical. i'm time to sit down and talk with me hello, welcome to wealth apart. more than a century ago marked wayne. the remark that god created war so that americans would learn geography. my guess today has supported all recent american lab wars and a times of regime change, but he's absolutely appalled by russia's actions in the ukraine. why is that? to discuss that? i'm now joined by a former us national security advisor and former us ambassador to the united

nations john bolton, ambassador bolton, it's such a rare treat for a russian journalist to speak to you. thank you very much for this occasion. well, thank you for having me. glad to do it. now you have the reputation of being pretty hawkish, thinker, especially when it comes to russia. when you look at the bounce in and around the ukraine, whom do you blame 1st? is it president putin o president biden? well, i think this is unquestionably an active unprovoked aggression by russia, and there's no legitimate explanation for so i think the responsibility does live with president colton and his government, i think unfortunately that the west failed adequately to deter potent from, from launching the invasion and, and that's a great tragedy but, but in this instance it's pretty clear where the.