a with premium news outlet is caught red handed, trying to pass all photos of children sheltering from a shelling, attractive done yet 3 years ago as a supposed current story and how to cope with washington's blessing. poland is apparently plotting to take over western ukraine under the pretext of protecting it from russia. that's according to information obtained by russia's foreign intelligence service. and as more torn afghanistan struggles to cope with a profound humanitarian crisis, you are an expert call on the u. s. to unfreeze afghan government assets so that they can be used to help people in desperate need that as poverty stricken afghans say that the u. s. is responsible for much of the countries. the current hardship

is horrible. you have bread one day and the other day you don't. this is all because of the americans were wandering around, were broken up like that. if you guys had witnessed all these recent events, how the americans made our lives miserable. and today we're paying the price of their bad policies and plans with products in live direct smart studios in moscow. this is aren't international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now, the capital city of dun, yes. and other parts of the republic have been shared by ukrainian forces, according to local authorities, there with at least 5 people reported dead and a bit of warning. you may find the following images disturbing. the dynamic health ministry has said that 42 civilians were wounded in the attacks on the republics capital and the nearby city of mikey africa. now it's already say for people were

killed instantly, and one person died on the way to the hospital. at least 6 missiles are reported to have landed in the cities. at least 10 people are said to have been wounded in air strikes reported by a forty's in the ukrainian capital. here was quick to blame the russian military thing. it conducted 5 airstrikes in the area. moscow has yet to come in and elsewhere in the done yet republic. civilian life has been gradually returning to the city of mario pl. following weeks of intense battles, kills president soleski has told the un that ukraine would be ready for immediate negotiations to evacuate remaining forces from the as of stall steel factory. the last pocket of resistance in mario and the kremlin spokesmen dmitri pest golf has said that ukrainian troops can leave the facility only if they surrender free year old photos of children sheltering from rocket fire in don. yet, sc are the latest fakes to be utilized by ukraine media in the countries current

war with russia. now the images appeared in a major media telegram news channel. this week. of the images were initially taken by a ukranian correspondence and on yes, back in 2018. the incidence is one of many in which ukrainian news channels have used the old images to portray what they claim are atrocities being carried out by russia. the channel claims that the terrified children were photographed hiding in a basement from russian showing in the country's 2nd largest city. 100 of now the post got more than $46000.00 views. we heard from independent journalist and the author, thomas roper, who says it's not the 1st time the ukrainian media has been spreading fixed content . we have seen several examples where they showed like, like videos from cameras of bombing, a city with rockets. and then it seemed that this, i'm not actual videos from,

from kia, but for example, or b as from da. next, we have lisa in march, we had the explosion of touch, got rocket right into net center was killing more than 20 people and the pictures. but then for example, me tell you newspapers used as a proof for russia bumping key. if this is a pity, but it's normal, they are doing this regularly and nearly every day. i think there are all red lines cross because we see so many really open fakes, which are quite easy to prove. and this is what i'm doing. and on my, on my blog and with german media every day and when you get a minute on, on some kind. busy fake, maybe they stop talking about this one, but they think about another one. so they never corrected it. it would be ok, you know, everybody makes mistakes. they could sell course. sorry. we took the wrong picture and they explain it, but they don't do it that take the wrong pictures. people prove that they are wrong and then they just go on as if nothing happens. so it's an inflammation of war. and

i think the red lines all crossed. reportedly, poland, and the u. s. 2 of the most vocal opponents of russia's offensive in ukraine have been discussing a polish annexation of what warsaw claims to be its historical possession territories. it used to control in what's now western ukraine. this is according to information obtained by russia's foreign intelligence service. earlier my colleagues done quarter and new care and discuss the issue according to information received by russia's foreign intelligence service. washington and warsaw are working on plans to establish tight polish, military and political control over so called historical positions in ukraine. according to this report from russian intelligence, the stage, one of this plan would involve deploying polish peacekeepers to western ukraine under the pretext of defending the country from russian aggression. that's despite the fact that this area would be the least likely to see any sort of confrontations

with russian forces. warsaw as actual objective would apparently be to capture strategic facilities from ukraine's national guard. and then to create a pro poland counterbalance to the countries. nationalist forces with the help of ukrainian elites that are friendly to poland. it's also said that warsaw would believe that this would lead to ukraine splitting apart, which would give these polish peacekeepers the opportunity to take advantage of the situation. well, apparently warsaw is looking to get its hands on these territorial claims in ukraine that it made all the way back in world war one. the question here then is why in the world would poland, all of the sudden decide to rehash these territorial claims that were made around a century ago? well, russia says that it's because polish colonial app aspirations have resurfaced in the country and we have what we've also heard that washington is actually working with poland to rally western countries that are in favor of this idea. but so far, there haven't been any takers that it may appear to inspect of how russia would

respond to any foreign interference in the conflict to these new revelations point to a further escalation. d, thank putin made actually a lot of very important points with regard to the conflict and ukraine. and one of the most significant ones was no doubt his promise to the west. that if western countries interfere in russia's affairs, there will be a lightening response to that is nikoto was limited if someone from outside decides to interfere in the ongoing operation and will post strategic threats unacceptable . russia, they should know that our response, it'll follow at a lightening speed. we have all the tools which no one else can now boast off. i'd like to stress that all the tasks of our military operation in don't boss and ukraine will be successfully tackled for sure. our soldiers have managed to avert a real danger looming over russia. now with that statement in mind, poland is also planning military exercises to take place at the beginning of may at the same time war source telling and citizens not to take pictures or videos of any troop movements. so it is definitely quite a coincidence that these military exercises are going to be taking place shortly

after we got this information from russian intelligence and put in statements about basically staying out of rushes affairs, political science and history. lecturer john laughlin says a potential polish incursion into western ukraine could lead to a break up of the embattled country. these territories, particularly evolving rovner and volume were taken from poland off to the 2nd world war. so it's not a secret for anyone that poland would in an ideal world like to have them back. poland is not the only country that last territory to ukraine after the 2nd world war, hungary also lost territory around the town of who's got old and die. and frankly, so did romania, so this move, if it happened, would quite possibly trigger a chain reaction with various countries claiming pulse of ukraine. and if that happened, yes, the country would then stay, factors cease to exist. but as i say,

it would cut a lot of the legitimacy, the poland, and the other nato states claim for themselves if they were to move in this way. while washington says it is running out of funds to supply new weaponry to key. if joe biden has suggested legalizing the confiscation and sale of russian property in the us to finance the war effort in ukraine, that will enhance our underlying efforts to accommodate the russian oligarchy. and make sure we take their take their, their, it'll be gotten gauge. we're gonna accommodate them. we're going to caesar yards, luxury homes and other it will be gotten gauged of prudence cryptography. yeah. cryptography, the club, the guys who are the club, ta christian, but these are bad guys, is now calling on congress to approve $33000000000.00 and funding for ukraine,

about $20000000000.00 of that would go directly as military assistance. and during this speech that he gave, he referred to this as a small price to pay. and he also says that this is a way for the american people to do their part with us involvement and a conflict that they never voted for it to begin with. but at the same time, biden is also calling for russian individuals to do their part apparently has the white house now called on congress to give them new sweeping powers to not only seize assets from russian individuals, but also to them. so those assets saying that they will give the proceeds to ukraine as a new form of assistance. now, when it comes to the terms of exactly what they're asking for, everything right now is incredibly broad. they use terms like money laundering and corrupt dealings to say what new assets that they would see. but at the same time, they leave a lot of room for decisions on their end as to how they would move forward. now we

don't know exactly how congress will approach this, but at the same time, this does come as there are a number of countries that in the past have been very reliant on heavy, heavy aid from the united states, such as a country like afghanistan, they received billions of dollars in us aid for years only to be cut off last year after their us supported government fall apart. and the of van came sweeping back to power. and the u. s. came in and froze $7000000000.00 worth of assets creating a huge humanitarian crisis in their country. so there is a lot at stake here. as the u. s. shows that they are more than willing to move forward with tens of billions of dollars in aid. as long as they agree with the government that's empower and is biting, refers to that a small price to pay. here. we heard from radio host and john elliot, who says that the u. s. move to sees russians. assets is actually an indirect attempt to punish moscow by any means. the united states government is going to the

constitution and fries assets of a foreign government, but it cannot turn around and use those assets that are seized to distribute to i mean out a 3rd party. so i would think this would need an act of congress, or we need an act official act from you'd be applied to administration and signing a consent decree to do that. i'm not sure. oligarchy. perform any other service other than i can be. i think it's a pretty picture to see. so you are, i don't know that the oligarchy have any type of influence over the russian. you know what, terry? over the russian government over the russian and challenges. i think it is the intention of the united states in the countries in the west to comment russia. regrettably, when you punish a nation for the activities of a government, it trickles down to effect the russian citizens and little effect them as far as cost to the increase in it will be some suffering to people at large. and that's

very unfortunate. while us president joe biden says, russia's assets should be seized to fund the war effort in ukraine. un human rights experts have called on the u. s. to end it's freeze of afghanistan's of foreign assets. so they could be used to help that war torn country cope with its profound humanitarian crisis. while gender base violence has been a long standing and severe threat to women and girls, has been exacerbated by the measures imposed by the us together with the drought and widening gender base discrimination adopted by the de facto authorities. the by an administration has frozen nearly $9500000000.00 in assets belonging to the afghan central bank after the taliban take over. following the hasty u. s. military withdrawal last year in february biden issued, in order to use part of the funds for purposes within the u. s. instead of tackling the humanitarian crisis in afghanistan and seizing the central banks, funds has left the afghan economy,

chittering on the verge of collapse. the united nations has warned that afghanistan could reach a near universal, harvard, a rate of 97 percent within months. half of afghans are already on the brink of starvation, with more than 4000000 having been internally displaced. they got a lot of error currently, too many economic problems. my monthly salary is only 5500 afghani, but sometimes it is not enough even for my medicine. i don't know how to feed my kids how to pay rent somewhere along each day is horrible. you have bread one day and the other day, you don't. this is all because the americans were wandering around, were broken. my hand is not working. i pray for the strength of the taliban government to handle this misfortune caused by the americans and to serve the afghans. could i come in that i had 7 children? my husband, his jobless, no work, no life. so i do laundry in a neighbor's house to support my family and find a morsel of food for my children. aha,

if you guys have witnessed all these recent events, how the americans made our lives miserable. and today we are paying the price of their bad policies. and plans law doesn't. i am an 8th grade students. while i started school, i'm also going around everywhere to find a work, but there is no work. in this age, we should be all in the school study, but due to of a poverty, we can't continue our studies. so we are all in the streets to find something to do for work on a political party in the netherlands has raised questions about how ukraine's president zalinski acquired his estimated 850000000 dollar fortune. zalinski owns a fortune. various estimates put it at around $850000000.00. he didn't get most of this until after he took office, is president. so where does that money come from? and more importantly, where is it going? a few weeks ago, zalinski addressed the dutch parliament at through a video link,

calling for the netherlands to stop buying russian fuel and to provide more weapons to ukraine. but the forum for democracy party has said that it was on democratic to allow a foreign leader to make such demands in the dutch legislature. they have warned, against sanctifying zalinski and immediately taking his side of the conflict. we heard from the british professor richard warner, who says that if zalinski considers himself a european politician, he should follow european procedures including transparent, financial reporting, president all the country, a fairly sizeable countries, a 1000000 population. they need to disclose the interest, and it is legitimate. it is perfectly legitimate to all about the, the finance in the background. also, many people are quite curious. how is it possible for, for some people to mass only got level of wealth when

the financial korea doesn't really seem to give many opportunities. this is required nowadays, every ordering person in europe starting, you know, companies and business bank accounts. so because it's quite natural that also the president of a european country, such as ukraine should follow the same procedures at which american procedures he, russian pilots, in prison for more than a decade in the u. s. on a smuggling conviction that moscow adamantly opposed to has returned to his homeland in a prisoner exchange deal. konstantin, the r shanker was swapped for former us marine trevor reed, who had been jailed in russia for striking a police officer. we are shanker, was detained in 2010, and later sentenced to 20 years in prison, convicted of involvement in a librarian, drug smuggling operation. but moscow has said that he was abducted and his arrest

violated international law. earlier my colleague nikki aaron spoke with him and he says that he was tortured in custody. is mentioned several times that you were taught yet in prison. can you elaborate on that? can you tell is exactly what happened. mm hm. i will bore sip of those of i can tell you in detail what happened. i was abducted by the us in liberia insecurity services in may 2010. i was taken to the national security agency headquarters in liberia, where they tortured me for 2 and a half days. it was unbearable physical and fight psychological torture. i didn't even want to live through professionally trained. they knew where to hit and how to hit to avoid killing me. they had my feet broke, my teeth injured, my internal organs broke my legs. it was really brutal. i medical scheduled the american prisons are not criticized on the living conditions or how the prisoners are treated there. the criticism is all gagged. the u. s. government accuses russia

and other countries of breaking human rights and presence. but in fact, we see double standards there. they claim they protect prisoners rights, but what happens in american federal prisons is just awful. i'm not even talking about guantanamo bay or places like that. people are abducted, tortured and unjustly detained. like i was, for example, another russian sentence than america, victor about. i'm really glad that i managed to get out and come back to russia. now i can tell the whole truth about what the american government is doing. russian, another foreign citizens whom i met there, and us prisons. i'm so even though you've been away for from your home, for a very long time, you've only been back in russia a few hours. how do you plan to spend the next few days and weeks? yeah, both sides of a whisper. i want to finally get enough sleep of the way americans transported me to russia was literally crossing all the lines as you can still, i still have marks on my hands in the handkerchiefs. it was usually stressful for me. it was physical torture. i was kept in handcuffs for more than a day. i need some time to recover after all the suffering and damage i went

through because of the american government. much with the australia has condemned russia over its operation in ukraine. but at the same time, its government has failed to meet the compensation deadline for alleged war crimes by its own military personnel in afghanistan, potentially leaving the issue to be sorted out after the current federal election. there at least kill them up and comments the deadline for australia to announce compensation for the victims of its war crimes in afghanistan has passed. the report that called for compensation for the victims took 4 years to compile, where there is credible information that an identified or identifiable afghan national has been unlawfully killed. the inquiry has recommended that australia should now compensate the family of that person without a waiting for establishment of criminal liability. this will be an important step in rehabilitation of trellis international reputation,

and it's simply the right thing to do. the war crimes are very real. 39 afghans had their lives cut short in violation of international law. 25 australians were implicated in the atrocities. and when you look closer, the details get pretty ugly and heart wrenching and incident where members from the special ed services region and were driving along the road. and so to 14 year old boys whom they decided might be tellerman sympathizers, they stopped searched the boys and slid their throes. the rest of the troops then had to clean up the mess, which involved bagging the bodies and throwing them into a nearby river complicity. went up the chain of command. there wasn't just a few bad apples. events were covered up after they took place for what possible reason could compensation for the victims be put off. the issue of compensation is complex and comes with a number of legal, practical, and logistical issues. too much red tape let us sorted out, give us time. well, the report was compiled over the course of 4 years of investigation,

and now the victims deemed to be worthy of compensation are being told to just sit back and wait. but it's a very different picture from the australian government, when it comes to russia's unproven war cries, there is no doubt in my view, that war crimes and atrocities i've been committed in, you'd cry out. bye bye, bye. russia. vladimir putin down must be, he'll do account for those walk and atrocities. yet another moment when those who look more deeply will notice western hypocrisy on all things related to russia. the government gone further to investigate the massive war crime by the state. so the united kingdom is rarely get that record in public to not be here, but they seem to be carrying. it's just trying to walk this thing. knowing that,

you know, that will be an election very soon. sensually shifting responsibility on to the next nato's chief has extended what he calls a warm welcome to finland and sweden with both countries. i'm accession to the u. s . lead military block. now, despite objections from russia, which has warned, against an expansion of the western alliance on its borders, we are in dialogue with them. it's their decision. but if they decide to apply the field on the street, there will be warmly welcomed, unexpected process to go quickly. there is no uncertainty about fin done and sweden strides to choose their own pulse, because this is from a mentally about the right of every nation in europe to decide its own future.

however, some nato members don't quite agree with you on. so suttonberg the president of croatia says the alliance is provoking russia by inviting its european neighbors to join the block. to go a step further and drag finland, which is 50 kilometers from st. petersburg into that, i think is dangerous quackery. however, we cannot say no for us. finland is more important in croatia and the issue of the croatians in bosnia and herzegovina. as far as i'm concerned, let them join nato. let them stab an angry bear in the eye with a pen. the balkan issue mentioned by a crash as president concerns that countries long running political disputes with neighboring bosnia and herzegovina. creation. politicians say that they should be allowed to take high positions in the bosnian government to fight against what they call the discrimination of corporations. their croatia is already a nato member, while bosnia and herzegovina is also reaching for accession to the block senior

r. t writer, serbian american journalist, near bullshit mileage, believes croatia as a nato member may use its rights to leverage its position. in bosnia. the issue in bosnia specifically, is that the cro ads are not getting represented properly in the central government creation. made a big deal out of joining nato some years back. president a lot of it. he's basically trying to say, okay, well, you know, because we're a member and we technically have vito rights. we're going to use that to leverage our political position and get this issue resolved. because we've been trying and the other side in bosnia, the bosnian muslims are basically refusing to negotiate because they feel they have the support of the un, the u. s. sweden and finland neutrality, especially finland after the old war has been a huge asset to both countries. abandoning neutrality after decades of successfully not being involved in, in your european conflicts and in this trans atlantic. falafel is just remarkably

stupid. i, we're going to go back to a story that we had a little bit earlier in the show about president biden and seizing russian assets. he said that they should be, ceased to fund the war effort in ukraine. un human rights experts have called on the us to end. it's freeze of afghanistan's foreign assets as they could be used to help that war torn country cope with its profound ferment tarion crisis. for more on this we can cross live to mohammed down to me, rocky and african activists, writer and politician. thank you for being with us to help kind of sort through this weird issue if you will in terms of it's good on one and not good on the other . so to what extent are the sanctions actually affecting the people of afghanistan right now? yes it is, you know, i told people to george w bush, obama and trump killed the guns by bombing them while by then killing us guns indiscriminately, by depriving him of basic human needs,

which is food and economic sanction her devastating effect on the coming people. and has gone and has been so severe that people are filling the kid, you know, the for other kids to survive. and some people actually, advertising descended kidneys, one of the kidneys. so the rest of the family can survive. and you know, basically what the americans are doing is driven to mentality. the nato got bogged down and basically were defeated, enough gun is done. and in order to get even, they want to use the post world war 2 institutions of economic control mechanisms. and deprived of the basic needs,

now you are experts want the us to unblock the afghans central banks assets so that the african government can better address the countries humanitarian crisis. do you think that the u. s. would be willing to do that and do you think that that would go a long way to actually help the situation on the ground? it was a did definitely had a great deal, a lease with some degree of stability and money to money to market. and the value of gun currency wouldn't be maintained. however, in regards to whether the united states is going to do, the united states has studio, uh, no, behaving like a teeth, you know, whenever they take over other people's money or well and so forth, they keep it until you know, until whatever date excuse is, it satisfied, you know, incidentally, a dime,

a dozen examples where they have done with other countries, you know them bringing the golden and keeping them here in new york or in other places. so the, at the end of the day with the united states, one of the guns to accept and then monitoring stations and i've gone on so they can monitor a visitation in china and middle in there in order to get instability, enough guns, tell them no, you don't we are not interested to create instability in our neighborhood. and besides, you haven't done anything enough going on that we should value your work. you have most of the people you have massacre and you have use illegal weapons in afghanistan. so the idea is this a might is right, as they say, right? mohammed down in the rocky and african activist and writer and politician. thank

you for helping us understand the issue a little bit better. and that does it for me this hour. i'll be back in about 30 minutes with another phone fessler to shoot his r transnationals there with this new when you got the thought, it was no good. i seen those. would you live up houston as a new casa of those or more agreement the easily the in? yeah, i'm or truth of me give you is you give them believe peter, than alberto see.