a great week i have that ah, fighting intensify for the key ukrainian city of mario paul as the russian military press zone with this drive to clear out. nationalists both it who are using civilian buildings to cover i'm being told that every day move such trophy weapons fall in the hands of the russian troops. one of our correspondents and ukraine gets hands on with these western weapons, which are pouring into the country to wage was being called a proxy boy against russia. despite us. let's call for pete a key cause that oil exporting terminal to europe and the u. s. is damaged and could remain going for some time, leading to fear of further price hikes and supply shortages. plus

as western politicians on the media continue to criticize russia for its operation in ukraine. we look at how they covered the us, led invasion of iraq all to differently. ah, a warm welcome. you're watching aussie international. it's good to have your company this hour. now as battles continue for control of ukraine's key port city of mario paul, we've received some exclusive pictures of the combat zone. this drone footage shows the aftermath of fighting between russian and ukrainian forces, which include nationalist battalions and refill a toll of a local journalist on stringer for r t say these 9 story buildings have been cleared of nationalists fighters, but they continue to us and fire from another building, which is not yet been targeted by russian forces. i'm at the college local read

since you haven't managed to escape via humanitarian car doors are still hiding in the basement. is part of andrew phillip covers reports from the embattled busy book . and you know the lease with the next meliss units by entered one of the 9 story buildings. this is the apartments of a local resident as of militants hit, the advancing forces from this balcony. and therefore, whether the dynette sc militia fighters like it or not, they had to destroy the homes of civilians. thus, the humanitarian situation is deteriorating, due to the actions of, as of military was update you on more of the latest from ukraine now. kind of kind of says it will use private sector resources to provide more weaponry to key of that. some of the discussion of further use sanctions on russian gas. let me also be as president house called on bulgaria to continue transiting russian gas to his country. and hungary is foreign minister say budapest will veto e sanctions on russian gas imports as well. the e itself has approved

a new strategic dog train, which is says, will strengthen the block security and with the war in ukraine. and while nato countries have refused to enforce the no fly zone in ukraine, the us lead block is stepping up its alms shipments to kill washington. as reported the do to send soviet, made at defense systems in secret to ukraine, fueling the fire, the fighting that despite openly 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 the 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 the salon, are ours, and partners have stepped up to revise significant shipments of security systems.

and we'll 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 to weapons buffet for the ukranian military from small arms to advanced anti tank and anti aircraft missiles. american go seem eager to make caves, 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 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 pansy 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, apollo. 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 c i did with temper sycamore and syria, which is much the same arming and training. these extremist factions, in order to service proxy forces to take out an opposing state. the, the real question as is whether russia will be able to move fast enough to cut off the supply lines, go in and kill russians. that's the blunt recommendation from leon panetta, who as u. s. defense secretary, i saw the disastrous destruction of libya in 2011 vanessa who as c, i a chief defended officials who committed torture,

also admitted that the u. s. is waging a proxy war against moscow in ukraine. we are engaged in a conflict here. ah, it's a proxy war with sir russia, whether we say so or not, that effectively is what's going on. and the way you get leverage is quite frankly going in and killing russians while they are panata is controversial statement comes to the day off to president by an approved an additional military aid package for ukraine, totaling one $1000000000.00 parties. caleb, more pin gives more examples of us politicians who don't hesitate to openly mention a proxy will 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 hatch. and that's presented on some problems. 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 you. crane 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 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, the big new brzezinski. if the major cities say cargo se kia, were to resist in 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. brzezinski also made some interesting predictions about ukraine. you said they will never join nato bridge. and he 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 collector is now taking center stage in western f is to send more weapons to ukraine. ton of his foreign affairs minister, a, her country is bringing in the private sector to help kids forces the canadian diplomat speech a recent conference with interrupted by a political activist and writer who accused melanie's only of provoking a global conflicts. and you know, war made a 3rd world war shame on you know, what we spoke with the protagonist of that incident at the isa angler. he said that the west is trying to turn ukraine into enough. dana stuff like plug new why hasn't the canadian government, which provides all kinds of support to the government and key?

why haven't we been pushing them to incorporate the their obligations under the events, minsk records and, and basically talk about how canada has help precipitate this conflict from its role in, in the my 2014 decision makers in ottawa, washington, i very much knew ukraine as a proxy against russia, they think that the, the things are going well for the russian military, which is probably correct. and they would like to see something equivalent to what happened to know names. and what that would mean effectively is can us and others pumping in endless amounts of weapons. and so the last and premium was willing to was willing to fight and die minister. yesterday i said that we need, we need to have insured and even more weapons in the ukraine. we're going to go find weapons from other other sources. they have completely committed to

just a fueling the conflict. ah, some vital oil transportation equipment at a terminal near the russian black sea port has never ceased, has been heavily damage to the result of a storm in the area. the facility of the key happen rushes, kathy and pipeline, which transports large volumes of oil company in charge of besides, phase repairs could take weeks with oil outputs expected to drop significantly. authority say none of the oil is leaked into the black sea as a result of the incident with the ceo of the pipeline consortium asserting everything is done to exclude such risk losing security. first, we will have to reduce both shipments and reception through the pipeline and the reduction will be quite significant. molten hoss, at least that means we're forced to exclude any risks of oil and turn the sea. so

of course, this equipment will be decommission for preventive repairs. it will take at least 3 weeks to carry out the replacement work of the work is carried out sequentially. normally we have the materials for a past now, but whether it's enough will depend on the volumes that we have to change right now . relations with foreign supply partners, a quite complicated so i think that there will be certain difficulties in the future in supplying the same hoses that we will need to replace them other places approved with as the company. thea just mentioned shipments and receptions through the pipeline have been reduced. we discussed the issue with energy technology expert carol, it rodeo enough. it's a good job. albumin speaking of volumes, taking into account the fact that 60000000 tons of oil were shipped through this pipeline last year. such a breakdown will lead to the fact that the volume of shipments will be reduced from $170000.00 tons of oil per day to approximately $50000.00 tons. there will be a $3.00 to $5.00 fold decrease in the volume of oil shipments by tanker. the

pipeline is part of the largest international oil transformation projects, mainly managed by russia and cans extend. oil is being transported to the company's marine terminal in the west of the city of nevada. see square it's loaded into tank as the shipping to other countries. eager use called the leading analyst at the russian national security fund explained the ramifications of the incidents correct on our local mcglochan, amerihome room t, as excellent as quite a major player on the global markets through the pipeline has a storm has been transporting its main volumes of oil to the west. so it turns out that at least one of the supplies is falling out of the export market for a while. this will be noticeable in some countries which were traditional recipients of all supplies from this terminal, specifically, southern europe, including italy, spain, and southern france. most of the oil went there, and parts of it went to the usa, around 10 to 15 percent. this is also an unpleasant turn of events for the united states,

which is to stop the important russian oil after imposing sanctions. and now need to look for an alternative supplier. while another producer is now interrupting its supplies, as well as the result fuel prices on the u. s. domestic market may rise. there is already a shortage on the global market. and here a fairly large player is reducing supplies. at least from this terminal. this will aggravate the deficits on the market and most likely push the prices of oil up or has 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 off to recorded a special video on the conflict. but it, russian power lifting well champion who gave him countless letters from don bass. children suffering under ukraine's bombing for years said his auntie, rushing claims, get it completely wrong. i am sending this message to various different channels to reach my dear russian friends. brain is a country with a jewish president, a jewish president on may, the earth, whose father's 3 brothers were all murdered by the nazis. missy ukraine did not

stop this war. neither did nationalists or nazis. those in power in the kremlin, started this war, 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 treat, understand the situation. arnold, 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 know, mother who has been to the dumbass more than 20 times is also an activist helping local children. there. she thinks he did not even read the letter. she personally handed him no, don't worry, just to go had trouble, 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 hurt to the policy of his state as a us citizen. you need to share kind of an image that he 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 or an old really disappointed me. to be honest with you, i've been receiving threats 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 terrorists and ukraine. i was labeled a government piece keeper and immediately started to receive threats from key if 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 despised washin that goes the anger at the war in ukraine. he seems very happy to back invasions by his own adopted country during the 2003 u. s. invasion of iraq even traveled there to boost the morale of troops. don't ever get this year, because there's no one there that i go. that goes and so goes, ask yourselves in question, why am i doing this? is it was them have pointed to the hypocrisy of switching. they go closing his eyes

to the actions of his adopted country, the u. s. at least as we mock the 19th anniversary, a washington's invasion of iraq were hundreds of thousands lost their lives on his way to 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 you 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 and launching of asia 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 they can execute these missions into baghdad and have everybody come back safe and sound is a, is a testament to, as frank or the professionalism of these people. and also waiving to the troops as they went by giving them a thumbs up the. busy soldiers themselves feeling a certain sense of relief waving back. so the only thing that was shot 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 invasion, 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 these still yet to be universally ban w. m. d 's. according to iraq, body count which maintains the largest public database on casualties related to the invasion. while the killing of civilians was rarely shown by the media, it was made public by wiki leeks, which published the raw footage of us apache helicopters, firing indiscriminately on civilians in july, 2007, killing over a dozen people including 2 orders, journalist weeki 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 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

iraq over the last 20 years. the u, as in his allies have dropped more than 337000 bombs and 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 about civilian casualties. all the biggest question becomes why now in washington, rachel robbins archie with a rock he saw struggling to pace that lives back together. often in the 2 decades of us occupation. we look back at one of the most appalling atrocities committed by american forces in the country when it became a global sensation and led to the us soldiers involved being sentenced to prison. a warning you may find the contents of the following video distressing. i just, our american forces are in the early stages of military operations designed to freeze people in the world from great danger.

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we discuss the issue with for me us marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter. he says the us had a much more heavy handed approach in iraq. there's no doubt there's hypocrisy. there's nothing new hypocrisy is the name of the game when you have, you do political foes of, of this nature would 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. there was no analogous situation, a rock um that it do what had been transpiring in the don 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 in 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. so the president has called on ian and the bulgaria to keep transiting russian gas to serbia. if the routine union moser, the cutting down is dependent on ration feel now the e member hungary has section to veto sanctions against russian entity in port charlotte defense. he has no bo gary's head, this plan and the idea to shift away from rushing gas. and unfortunately, that may have now hit this pretty significant hurdle is being described as a potentially historic move the country saying that when it's contract with

russians and gas from expires, this year to feel will be looking elsewhere for its energy needs. however, not so fast as you heard that says neighboring city, and that also gets it gas from the bull can stream, which is this pipeline that runs through bo guerria. and so being presidents, alexandra, 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. so coldwater also called on those plans by the director of a gas company who said that bo guerria as plans are pretty much m t dreams. don't

bill gary though, like other countries is eyeing up natural gas supplies from other suppliers such as casto 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 in with it acts that is really been ramping up since the start of the countries invasion in ukraine. we've heard from some you countries that say they want an all right ban on trade at with russia and also right down 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 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 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 he just wasn't the day to take such decisions. the kremlin has also warned about what kind of impact such an embargo could happen, how much that could hurt europe. and there are suggestions of talent remeasure which could seem moscow actually cutting off gas supplies the block. and that we understand would cause massive issues in germany. they talked about a whole thing of the supply, which would seem us unemployment and also poverty. 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 and bargain to follow in the footsteps of the u. s. and essentially ban all russian energy. thanks for joining us. aeronautics international f. all the latest update, she can check out our website, r t dot com o i

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