i think that you put a headline stories this our ukraine fire is that human rights commissioner in part for spreading unverified information about alleged russian war drugs or statements had been widely picked up by western media. a coming up in the u. s. pledge is to send advanced long range rocket systems to ukraine, but promise is from kia that it won't use them to fire at russia, despite washington admitted, it doesn't know where all it is. weapons with china clubs, the u. s. for it's both deep rooted in gemini mindset america, once again to christ, beijing's growing influence and with

across the globe around the clock. this is our team from the team and myself, you know, nail hello and welcome to the news. our ukraine has fired its human rights commissioner, in part for spreading on verified information by the atrocity she allege were committed by russian troops in the country. her removal comes after her claims were widely covered by western media or senior correspondent, murat garcia, picks up the story for us day. a nice week saw then months after month the world over was barraged with stories horrific stories of rape and unspeakable acts committed, allegedly by russian forces in ukraine and such acts of violence, raping children little girls, 11 years old,

repeatedly in front of their mother's or repeat bathing their mothers and friends the children with each day more and more credible reports of re killing st torture are merging. if you soon soon you, hundreds of cases of rape have been recorded, including under age girls, very young children and even a baby. it's just scary to talk about it, but it's true, it happened. women and girls right now are facing the worst kind of fear and violence. and we know already i'm from the analyses that have been done. they've been the victims of not just murder and rape. like kidnapping. many of these stories grew to be unbelievable. and that's not a figure of speech. people including ukrainian officials and the government stopped taking them seriously. they became an embarrassment. so ludicrous was some of the oh go. the woman behind these stories demila denise of a, who was ironically,

ukraine's human rights commissioner was fired a year before her term was officially up the unclear focus of the ombudsman media work on the numerous details of sexual crimes committed in an unnatural way and rape of children in the occupied territories that could not be confirmed by evidence, only harmed ukraine. her stories became so ridiculous that even members of the ukrainian media, which, which itself is in war propaganda mode intervened $89.00 journalists together with $51.00 lawyers of human rights activists. and others penned an open letter cooling on her to dial it down. that the graphic stories published by ha about months old douglas being raped with a variety of objects to roil up the people that this was a productive or, you know, decent sexual crimes during the war or a tragedy of families. a difficult and traumatic topic. not

a topic for publications. in the spirit of the scandalous chronicle. we are forced to trust the official information that comes from officials, a state of martial law a priori. we do not have the opportunity to verify it from other sources. in this way, we are spreading messages from the commissioner for human rights, in fact, taking them on faith as centrally. they asked that the stick to things that actually happened. all of these stories can be tracked back to denita the and that seem most specifically the social media posts made by them. and that's where all the trailed stop, almost all of her raped claims. se ukrainian journalists are without evidence or witnesses, despite her own less than honest approach. denise who has been a vocal proponent for an international criminal tribunal to apparently bring russian troops to justice for things that she had lie. the bath,

i think we should look at yugoslavia and rolanda. these are the examples that we all know about. there is the un international court of justice and the international criminal court. we need to push for the creation of a special tribunal. naturally, the niece of a has been blind to verify reports and footage of ukrainian troops murdering, torturing and mutilating russian prisoners of war, and even ukrainian civilians deemed to be pro russia and o get the human rights apparently. but these telling isn't it when you own politicians who are bent themselves on making the rush and see was terrible as possible that they fly for being simply to outrageous or conservative talk radio host, steve gill, believes media outlets in the west are slowly beginning to question more the narrative coming from give you know, the allegations that this lady was putting out there were horrific was even more horrific as if they were just outright buys and intended to create

a propaganda scheme that would drive people up and, and create an anti russia mentality. around the world again, based on lies, there are plenty of reasons to question the invasion to question what ukrainians have done in the war as well. but there's been so much propaganda that you know, getting the truth out has been almost impossible. but i do think you're starting to see some recalculation in the u. s. media, at least among some to, to be a bit more skeptical of the stories and the propaganda that's been pushed out. and again, this is, in this case just been repeated without any verification or any basis of truth. we saw that with the suppose it ukrainian soldiers who had had marked a russian warship and they were supposed to all wiped out, turned out not to be true. you saw with the ghost pilot ukrainian fighter pilot that had shot down what a dozen russian fighter jets turned out not to be true. and yet the u. s. media and other world meet you just repeated those things ad nauseum. hopefully we're

starting to see the truth start to eat out of bed and, and perhaps maybe he'll not only the reputations of those countries involved. but also the journalist who've been either duped or been complicit to powerful explosions have rock v. as all the c port city of bertie video emerged on line showing a large column of smoke rising into the sky. local authorities claim the blast where the result of mine clearance works conducted in the area after the ukrainian army retreated. berty ounce case not fully under the control of russian forces. western ukraine. this footage reports the show. a strike on the city of laval ward, according to key of officials, a railway tunnel that runs through the car, pacey and mountains, reportedly used to deliver western weapons and supplies to ukraine. was targeted by russian rockets, local officials, say 5 people where wounded the russian defense ministry. housing you had commented

on the allocation with the flow of western weapons to ukraine, seemingly only gaining pace. germany has become the latest country to promise another bunch of military aid for. however, despite the vows the nation's defense minister has said it doesn't actually have the weapons installed. that is a question that is ultimately directed at industry because we don't have these systems in use here. that is not a question that i can answer for the german ministry of defense on because we don't have the systems in our inventory. it comes after german chancellor left show a pledge to send to ukraine, short range, or to or missile systems known as iris t, which can also be used as a run based or defense unit blended new content. in the coming weeks, we will also deliver more weapons. for example, the government has decided that we will send the iris t system in the most modern system that germany currently possesses. if we are thus

enabling ukraine to protect an entire major city from russian airstrikes merely log . and that is also a decision of this government. it, it really is surprising that he would make that statement without checking with his defense experts. you know, i don't, i don't understand it other than he's responding again to pressure from that he's receiving politically and he wants this to go away. they get pretty serious pressure. i recall over a month ago, the by the enough press conference with the german chancellor and, you know, biden is basically making putting words in to the mouth of the german liter. so i think it's, it's for the americans. it's very important for the u. s. government, it's very important to have germany that the most powerful nation in, in nato to, to be on board. so this is very much a, an illustration of, of germany being, quote unquote, on board with this. well ahead of germany pledge,

washington agreed to send a new 700000000 dollar military aid package to ukraine, including a number of advance rocket launchers that can hit targets up to 300 kilometers away . the pentagon said it has commitments from here that those weapons will be used to strike russia. that's the spot for us. defense secretary, previously admitting they had little information about to arms distribution in ukraine. anything they are doing on the territory of ukraine is defensive. in this context, the, on the formal assurances that they will not use the systems to target russian territory in terms of our ability to track the weapons that are going in. as you know, we don't have any forces on the ground. so that's, that is difficult for us to do. moreover, ukrainian member of parliament admitted on local t v. they can't guarantee russia will be targeted despite the express commitments to washington. we undertake certain obligations,

but no one can guarantee where the rocket will fly there. or the pentagon has approve the supply of long range rocket systems to ukraine on us and mars. but the by the administration has only agreed to sand rockets with a maximum range of 80 kilometer is not. that would still be enough to hit the russian territory. if you can see the map here, there's only 70 kilometers between the training to the heart of rushes belgrade, and city on the border. i will discuss that. it's always a pleasure to welcome onto the program, former pentagon, security analysts, michael maloof. mike, a welcome to you indeed. so we have the white house there are saying it believes that commitments from key about those long range rocket launchers won't be used to strike russia. will the us bear any responsibility if a promise is broken? well, there's all responsibility. this is almost like a, like

a nightmarish return to afghanistan. we would pump in billions of dollars worth of equipment. we wouldn't know where, where it would go. and oftentimes, a wound up in the hands of the taliban in that case. but back to ukraine, there's no assurance and the fact that we don't have boots on the ground, even lens, even greater concerns about how that equipment is going to be used. and it just needs to stop altogether. if we're gonna try to bring some try to bring this a crisis to the sun closure of some kind because the, the longer you keep pumping in arms, the more you feed that system, the more it's going to be used and create even greater conditions for escalation and i think we're seeing that now, and as you just pointed out with that with the rocket system, even though the launchers are launchers and the rocket that they're going to allow

for that launchers limited range, depends on where you put it. and if you put it so that it can hit a russian city, then you've got an escalation on your hands and the how to week. how does the us control that? it cannot. and so i think that this is, this is insanity that we're, that we're witnessing here. and it's just got to come to come to a close once. and for all this, once again, points out that the us, that the, by the ministration particularly does not have a policy toward ukraine. what is the end game? we don't have it in game here. do we want to go to war with, with russia? does that what this is that what this is about as it is, we got a proxy war under way now, and we're using ukraine for that purpose. it's, it's, it's, it's a disservice to the people of ukraine to use them for our own political purposes in the yes, which is, which is ultimately

a far greater policy objective of containment, russia or even regime change. and i think that's what the by an administration is, is amy net and they're using ukraine unbelievably. and it's really a shake. the details are lacking clarity as well. michael, some ukrainian shells have said that while key of accepts it's obligations not to strike russia. it can't guarantee just where these new rockets will end up flying. it all sounds a bit contradictory, doesn't it? well yeah, there the ukrainians are right. they can't guarantee. as i said, you can place those systems anywhere closer, closer to the border than 70 miles, and you're gonna, you're going to go into russia just for just one shot is sufficient to escalate. and this is a very dangerous game that we're playing. that us is blaine, and i think is laughable that you have allies being forced to make pledges work on

equipment that they don't even possess a let alone have in their own systems. and, and i think what they're relying on is a back fill by the united states and united states doesn't have it either. we would have to go into a war production mode with our entire industry to meet this obligation. if we were going to be, if, if the decision was made to go on a total war, footy, which is where we're amy, where we're, it, it's, it's becoming that way through just by backing into it. it's not a concerted policy. but before we know it, we're going to be involved in a full, full fledged escalation. and it's got to stop. where, where did what, what is the get? as i asked earlier, what's the end game here? what is u. s. policy? it's the by the ministration is mum on that question. and we do know that in the immediate future, the u. s. is planning to send ukraine arm drones as well, with a pretty long operational range out. thought it begs the question, is there

a limit to what they'll send? apparently not they, they're the only limitation appears to be what they claim to be in the range that they're going to allow. but once again, you've got contiguous border there, you've got to ukraine, but an upright against federation. they can fly along the border and shoot into russia and, and create the conditions for a major, major escalation. and i think that the u. s. has got to be very, very careful on, in terms of this kind of supply and, and, and to once again, wonder what, what are we hoping to achieve by all of this? at some point, you know this, this all boils down to the very beginning, when the u. s. was pressuring the ukraine not to sign up to the men's want to miss to agreements, which prompted this, this escalation, this military operation. and, and if it shows, demo states once again, that the u. s. controls, ukraine's actions. but this, this,

this entity that we've helped create is going to get out of get out of control using us weapon systems and western weapon systems. and it's going to thrust the us into a, an escalation, michael, as always for your time and your thoughts, we do appreciate it. mike maloof, former pentagon security analysts life on r t. thank you. the italian prime minister is say, some major european states are not in favor of ukraine becoming any you member. however, mario draggy also stated, he remained fully supportive of care and believes giving candidacy status to ukraine would be an important symbolic gesture. so stangler green, i support ukraine and becoming a member of the you. i have done so from the start, all of the major european states, except italy are objecting to ukraine becoming a member of the year. we may request a candidate status, but this is not currently expected because of the opposition from some countries

such as well the other side of the coin, the ukrainian foreign minister says key of his tired of hearing about alternative scenarios on how it can join the last week presidente lensky even demanded. the dutch prime minister, give a clear answer on whether there's a place for ukraine in the block. the country was told it must go through the established stages. we spoke to an italian independent journalist on the issue, who believes even you can do the c status is out of reach when ukraine. so the got a little kids, she at the moment till everything could be done except a symbolic gesture, was such as simply talking about allowing ukraine to be a candidate for the european union. mccormick also because we know that from an official point of view, it is almost impossible. and so all this talking just creates more provocation. result what drug he says doesn't make any sense. the cdc in italy, we have long known that druggies words are often false. druggie spoke about ukraine's candidacy as

a symbolic gesture. that makes no sense. the west continues to promise you crane things that it will probably never give my brain. in my opinion. i is now a victim of the war in waged by the united states and nato also involving russia. but of course, ukraine is in the middle of all this business. and in my opinion, the european states and the united states of america, misled ukraine, that it can win, or that it can resist. i believe that korean has no chance of winning this wars. key of will simply have to accept moscow's demands english doughty, okay, moving the program on the a british citizen is facing extradition to the u. s. from saudi arabia, after allegedly violating american sanctions on north korea. washington claims he illegally shared knowledge of crypto currency technologies, whip young young during a conference in the country. christopher douglas hems is wanted for

allegedly conspiring to violate the international emergency economic powers act, specifically conspiring to violate united states sanctions on the democratic people's republic of korea. by working with an american citizen, to illegally provide crit to currency and block chain technology services to the democratic people's republic of korea. crypto currency expert christopher m traveled to north korea in 2018 to participate in the conference the following year . a fellow speaker at the event us national virgil griffith was arrested by american or authorities under the same charges. chris no faces at the same issues now because the american was sentenced to over 5 years in prison. christopher himself is in saudi arabia. after being a rest of the border in april of this year. indeed, let's go live to chris and some self to hear his story. thank you for taking the

time to speak to us today. chris, the us i chooses you have breaking its international sanctions. when you spoke at the conference in north korea, what's your main thought? all accusation. yeah. well you know, my main thought in the accusation is that it's groundless to, to give you some color before i travel to north korea. i'm a, i'm a british citizen, i'm not american. i checked all the guidance from my country. i checked the un resolutions on north korea to check that i wouldn't be breaking any law laws or any functions, laws whatsoever. the, the british government, which is where i'm from, have not charged me with anything. they haven't found me guilty of anything. midland, behold, it was actually in february of this year. so i've been here to time now for 4 months. i found myself in this situation. so yeah, tell us about what you know about potential extradition. have you been in contact

with the authorities? what, what are they telling you? yeah, good question. so the, the essential gist of it is i was detained due to a, into poll read. notice that was issued by the united states. saudi arabia does not have an extradition treaty with the united states. however, that doesn't mean that i won't be extradited from here. so the process now is essentially waiting and submitting all defense retrieve, we've done to, to see what the outcome is really to see whether whether the saudi authorities will expedite meal, whether they allow me to, to leave the country. in addition to that, we've challenged the where we are challenging the read notices, we feel that it is totally unfair and obviously totally unjust. when you travel to north korea, were you aware of the possibility that you were in danger of breaking us law? absolutely not. as a, as a british citizen, i had no idea that i would be subject to american law. even though that was

a sanction that virgil griffin was arrested upon and you had some communication with him. right? did you try to find out if you were maybe also liable for arrest, then? not to say. so my relationship with virgil griffin, i thought i'd never met him until that the day that we actually traveled to north korea. so i had absolutely no idea whatsoever by going somewhere with an american, with that for then, you know, may t that you'd be, you'd be guilty for, for committing an offense to me. it's, this is a crazy extra territorial stance. it's being tightened against me here. what's your own government saying what, what's the london view of our tech tradition potential? yeah, good question. so the british embassy here have been so far helpful as much as they can be. just to give you some context that i, when i actually came back from north korea, i engage with british authorities and they found that i was in,

they didn't wish to press charges and didn't see me guilty of any crime whatsoever on the british, lower international law washington believes you fell andrea law making it within it's right to have you extra as you've gone through. it's a story of many people, chris that we've been following for many years here on a similar situation. how legitimate you're, you're right in the meal stream of this right in the center of this. how legitimate is such a claim that you may be sent to the u. s. to face charges for something in another country, not your own. that they're saying you're accused of. yeah, i think it's another great question. you know, i think kids, you know, it's completely wrong. you know, if any other country in the world was perform similar acts where they say that you can be convicted for a crime, wasn't committed within the territory of the country and be, and this be the product that i'm being used of. clearly, clearly states that only applies to us citizens. so if i can be extradited for this

crime, i think it's right. there's some very, very warring concerns to, to the international community as to which laws we should was shouldn't, by my view, if, if i am extradited, then we should be teaching american law in every single school in the world. because we were daily, clearly subject to it, but i imagine there are some viewers thinking you went to north korea, the view of the government there was to try and get one over american authorities. he's essentially bypass sanctions against p young young on that you were may be a willing part of that. can you see why people might, might believe that you're, you're, you're a partly to blame for what's happening to you. i find it quite difficult to say, i think we have to take take a look at what was happening when we attended an 8 to 2019. in april 2019. there

was a real date comes going on between north korea on the west. there was even a moment where the president been president trump across the demilitarized zone and was hugging the leader of north korea on the border. so it was a very different context. so i think what we're dealing with now and any of the information that was out there with regard to the north koreans ability in terms of cyber just wasn't, wasn't public knowledge. okay. well, we know that it must be a very tenuous weight for you. they're and something that, at a tough time that last 4 months. indeed, chris, thanks very much for coming in the program and sharing your experience with us. chris m u k said it's an encrypted expert facing extradition, a potential extradition to the united states. thanks a lot. thanks, chris. the china has lashed out. it's asked the us after washington describe asians expanding influence in the pacific region of the threat

. it follows the security part between china, the solomon islands, having recently been agreed upon in the us. new zealand joined statement typing, the relevant issue has altieri motives and creates this information to attack and discredit china. the united states has military bases all over the world, yet it expresses so called concerns about other countries carrying out normal security cooperation. and such behavior is very hypocritical and reflects a deep rooted hedge, a monic mindset. we urge the us to abandon its cold, warm intensity, and ideological bias. stop interfering in china's internal affairs, and stop smearing and discrediting china closet and the u. s. race that concerns us, president biden met new zealand prime minister to discuss, among other things security issues in the pacific 0. the meantime forward a series of engagements last month that the white house held with several indo pacific countries, western on eas, about expanding chinese influence, was made clear in a joint

u. s. new zealand statement. we note with concern the security agreement between the people's republic of china and the solomon islands, the establishment of a persistent military presence in the pacific by a state that does not share our values or security interests would fundamentally alter the strategic balance of the region. in pose national security concerns to both our countries. back in april, china on the solomon islands agreed to a security pack that focuses on boosting the. busy solomon's national security, while giving beijing the option to send forces to the state, to quote, protect the safety of chinese personnel and major projects. that's raise concerns among the u. s. and its allies about the prospect of chinese bases in the region will in a bid to counter chime in the pacific, washington wants to ramp up placement of intermediate range missiles, whoever you report by the global policy foundation, the run corporation claims, most of america's allies, there are not in favor of hosting the weapons,

while japan is apparently the most likely to assist the paper claims. there's only a remote chance of that happening now. some one vice chair of the shanghai sent for rim packing and international studies. thinktank believe chinese interests in the pacific are purely economic it's not so much of a, china's improvement in the pacific region. but more of the us, the united states needs to have an n, m a. and, and this is quite warry, some actually to go to the whole world because china is not in the expansionist country. all china has been doing is to expand the country's economy, economic activities, countries in the region, do not take china as a and b and do not take china as a threat. the u. s. hasn't done anything with these countries. and except talking. so where is china has been looking into the actual needs of these countries in the

pacific and to start establishing a very friendly pulse with them. so i think this is the china threat as being fabricated to serve the needs of the american government. nelson long wrapping us up. but a further dive into any of this. our stories can be funded. our t dot com all was fresh off dates, lively discussions to be fun there to i am back in 30 hope you can catch me then to buy from blue a

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