to modern day ukraine and poland views this tragedy of the past. and why does the memory of belinda us doing divide people with one doesn't have to be brilliant to attempt to crew. i disagree with that as somebody who has helped plan coo data, not here, but other places. it takes a lot of work. after donald trump's former national security adviser opens upon door is blocked by his studying kuda to confession we take a closer look at what other places he may be speaking about. also ahead ah, with sure lanka declare is a state of emergency as the president flees the country with the prime minister temporarily taking charge much to the continued anger of protesters

also. and they've done yet. script public a kindergarten takes a direct hit from ukrainian shelling a separate attack seems to sit with joe biden, touches down in israel as part of his 1st presidential visit to the middle east. we look at her rising tensions with washington may throw a sponge in the works with live for moscow. this is our team. my name's unit o'neill, and 30 minutes of news and views start in a ballroom shell admission, the former national security adviser to donald trump has admitted the u. s. was involved in a number of coups around the world. john bolton made the confession during the interview with sienna. one doesn't have to be brilliant to attempt to qu,

i disagree with that as somebody who is health plan, coo data, not here, but you know, other places. it takes a lot of work. a big surprise that john bolton, a former national security adviser, would actually call a spade a spade when it comes to washington's decades long tendency of over throwing governments around the world that it doesn't like. but to introduce this idea that the u. s. orchestrates, coo day toss on in other countries on a mainstream media outlet like cnn. i mean, that could really, like you said, open pandora's box in terms of how people view the legitimacy of washington's foreign policy decisions. we've already seen bolton's comments, draw quite a bit of criticism from the u. s. is european allies on twitter already, and i mean, do you remember was one guy doe, america's yes man, who basically tried to overthrow the venezuelan government several years ago. i mean, he's definitely going to look a lot less like a freedom fighter now and a lot more like a foreign agent to your average american and bolton,

even called vin, as well as government and a legally elected government. i wrote about venezuela in the book and it turned out not to be successful, not that we had all that much to do with it, but i saw what it took for an opposition to try and overturn and illegally elected president and they failed. we have to understand that bolton's admission of failure in venezuela, his admission that washington organizes coup d'etat around the world. i mean, this all actually flies in the face of what former secretary of state mike pompei o said back in 2019. as the venezuelan government was an a life and death struggle over the country, sovereignty on peo said that the u. s. did not get directly involved in this at all . now, it looks pretty undeniable that the u. s. was actually quite involved in guido's movement of the same movement that ended with an attempt by armed men to take over the government in which a number of people were killed and even to 2 american former forces. soldiers were arrested. their countries not accused or accused the u. s. of meddling. their

claims must be seen in a holding you like now. surely, that's true. i mean, these are not new claims that the u. s. has been involved in this or that uprising around the world. i mean, we saw mass protests in hong kong in the same year that they were actually taking place in venezuela and back then beijing said that the u. s. was stoking the flames of those protests there. and bolton statements just lend more legitimacy to that claim. just this year, the former prime minister of pakistan, m, ron con, he said he was ousted from power amid a constitutional crisis. and he says that the u. s. was behind his removal because he tried to maintain a non aligned foreign policy. so with all this political chaos around the world, but why in and one way or another connected to the u. s. government? it's really, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that a lot of african countries in asian countries are weary about being connected with the united states, especially when the united states is trying to get them on the anti russian

sanctions bandwagon. i mean, they're, they're leader, see what happens when american influences tolerated and countries and then the authorities there make one wrong move that washington doesn't like that. my don uprising of 2014 in ukraine will not know about considered a crew by the west as well. well, that's possibly the case. i mean back when it took place back in 2014, many people saw it as a crew data back then as well. i mean, it's no secret that the former under secretary of european affairs victoria newland and cooperation with the former us ambassador to ukraine at the time in 2014. they did all they could to guide the ukrainians, ukrainian opposition movement, where they wanted it to go. and this is one only one of the reasons why russia's foreign minister at the time called my don and outright coup d'etat, elizabeth elizabeth, some pretty little of them concluded we call it a true day tongue, which took place the morning after france. poland and germany signed an agreement between the then isn't in opposition leaders. what ramifications can john bolton's

confession of huff? well, it's unlikely that level headed leaders of sovereign nations around the world are ever going to entirely trust american diplomats and american politicians ever again . i mean, in dealing with the united states, it's not going to be clear whether the american politicians are going to be conducting diplomacy with them in good faith. or if they have some sort of alternative agenda, perhaps a coup de top their sleeve. and what's even more shocking is that bolton was not the 1st one to open this can of worms. earlier this year, the former us ambassador to russia, michael mcfall explained how america teased and lied to ukraine about nato membership in 2021. we kept reiterating that ukraine was going to join. we kept saying that over and over to you so much you so much what you so my huh. so mike, so our diplomats are line yes. oh so yes, that is the real world guys. so if it wasn't already glaringly obvious how the u. s

. views its dealings with other people around the world. i mean these recent statements by these top u. s. officials should really be one heck of a wake up call with former c. i a analyst ray mcgovern believes john bolton's admission doesn't change much, but he feels the wish should finally realize it's time to stop imposing its will on others. this should be a shock her to no one. ah, bolton is trying to sell his book. and bolton is a megalomaniac, he's a manish. i think most countries are quite used to knowing about the kinds of things that to that john bolton is crowing about. now. i don't think it will have much of impact abroad, except for people like him on con, in pakistan, who has accused us so the latest cool boy, that military in pakistan, there will be additional evidence that people can site, but it's no question it's, it's no real surprise to people who watch these things closely. there are

a whole historical list of clues succeeded and then brought destruction in misery to the cool country. and the sooner the wish realizes that it cannot dictate what the rest of the world thinks or does. the better for all of us, the chinese foreign minister has accused the u. s. of using l. c on countries us chess poems in its attempts to put pressure on. busy china's policy, as regards the indo pacific region, we should insulate this region from geopolitical calculations and the trap of the law of the jungle from being used as chess pieces and major power rivalry and from coercion. yeah, and it comes amid rising tensions between beijing and washington in the indo pacific, with the u. s. exerting pressure on the 10 us see on countries when all american secretary of state, anthony blink, and i thought chosen to accuse rush of creating a world where big nations can bully small nations fighting the russia ukraine

conflict. but many of called the quote, hypocritical nature of that statement, coming from a top u. s. sufficient if russia is allowed to do what it's doing, that means that we're going to go back to a world in which might makes right in which big nations can bully small nations. that's the opposite of the rules based order. while speaking to r t earlier, a former indian foreign secretary can wall said bob believes that blink ins, words raise more than a few eyebrow since the u. s. a itself has a long record of mistreating, smaller nations. but i'm a bit surprised that he should be saying this. knowing that, that's when the world thinks that the united states had been willing small nations for decades in latin america, where they id or the ban him are cuba or vendors. and of course, in the middle east where they are libya, syria,

medic, i don't see if they should be very careful when they use language. now, if he take the blink and then using this language, i can think of that one is a sense of desperation. that narrative is not being bought by the rest of the narrative on russia. movie opperation, you gain the rest violated every principle they have done. so defining what they did into industrial, into natural governance in the sense of really, both on russia actually conducting actually a proxy war against structure. so for the moment, i think the rest of the world is on the back for these policies that are being pursued will not succeed and eventually, and eventually there will be a push back and hopefully multiple world will arise what we see,

at least for the time being is that the month people, the ideas are being on the back foot because of the manner in which to my mind, united states and european union have targeted russia marsan, rest, ensure like a shows were unable to stop them taking over run the wicker, missing office at least 30 people were injured in the cautious local journalist centers this oh, just see that very much in falls behind me. the president says secretary did. now there's been an official confirmation, but the president has left the country and he's currently in all of these. but think she lanka will need a new government with the president most likely designing today and prime minister and become a cindy. also expected to follow suit. they will need

a replacement. why is that? because somebody will have to negotiate with the i am the international monetary fund to get a good be now to beckett's, then feed uncle will also need a good, a finance minister. now important to underline, feel that much of the focus also will be on the new government and how they tackle the state of massive challenges that to mid this particular government out, the new government will also inhibited massive humanitarian and low. i know challenges a state of emergency after president water by our job shop in the country. now the administration is doing everything it can. the sponsor called several gas shells, have been used on the protest, still remain adamant. they want the prime minister, as well as the president all 3 long golf to resign right now. to the focus

will be with sharma in colombia, was herancha is in the midst of a major economic crisis. most of the countries external debt is owed to western countries. over the past half a century, the international monetary phone has given the nation 16 loans with sure like a going through a host of what's called economic stabilization program with the i m f. unless say mismanagement and deep tax cuts enacted by the last government min repayments of those loans weren't. it's no secret that age as the economic engine of the future. and in our endeavors to make sri lanka, a rich country by 2025, we aim to include asia even more and leverage strategic access to emerging markets ranging from india, pakistan, china, japan, and south korea to association of southeast asian nations. but it's unlikely that

is going to occur by the middle of this decade. independent journalist benjamin norton believes the policies of the international monetary fund benefits foreign corporations, not the people of the country, the u. s. government as complete domination over both the international monetary fund and the world bank. the u. s. government is the only member that has veto power over the decisions of the bodies. and we've seen that throughout the global south in particular the i m f and the world bank have been involved in imposing structural adjustment programs. that force countries to cut social spending, privatize their natural resources, and then sell off their assets to western corporations. usually the i m f demands that a country cut, pensions, reduce the minimum wage, basically implement policies that are bad for the people of the country and are good for the interest of foreign corporations. and it's very likely we don't know, of course, what's happening inside the talks between the sri lankan government and the i m f.

but it's very likely that the i m f was demanding these conditions that were simply unacceptable for any self respecting sovereign government of sri lanka. we look at the history of the i m f. conditionality is that have been imposed on countries like sri lanka. they have been very arduous and they have been very undemocratic demanding that the country violate its own economic sovereignty in the interests of foreign corporation. so if we can learn anything from history, i think we can conclude that it's very likely that the sri lankan government was unwilling to given to these unreasonable demands for the 17th time. ah, the you case ministry of the fence seems to have found itself a new enemy, the b, b. c. it's less dollars out the broadcaster over a new investigation which claims an s a s. death squad. was responsible for scores of extrude judicial killings. enough gallus them. the ministry claims that

documentary puts army lives at risk. the report jumped to in, justified conclusions from allegations that have already been fully investigated. insinuating otherwise is responsible, incorrect, and puts our brave armed forces personnel at risk, both in the field and reputation. only. the documentary investigation contained a number of revelations. individuals who served with the s e. s, said they witness troops, killing all armed people during night rates. the sources also claim based on the operatives planting weapons of the scene to justify the killings. the b, b. c. find evidence showing that the units chiefs knew of the possible murders but failed to investigate further. moreover, a pattern of similar instances was uncovered all with claims that suspects had pulled weapons against troops. but in those cases, scrutinized by the b b. c. no se, ask members where ever find to have been injured. that's cross live now to the

international editor of the morning star newspaper, steve sweeney for his sake. hi there, steve. yeah, a lot of reaction to this documentary is that because it concludes more than 50 on armed off counties were killed or because he s e s. is supposed to be up to the lease of the elite under alleged action seriously dense the reputation. well, i think really it's a mixture of both. i watched the documentary, like many others did last night with horror. but of course for many of us and the revelations won't really covers as much of a surprise because you know what, we heard the actually do judicial executions, the planting of evidence on innocent victims. and then the subsequent cover up by a very talk and was reminiscent of what happened in islands. now we know that the british armed forces run a mock killing, hundreds of innocent civilians in collusion with loyalist paramilitaries. and we know that there's been a long struggle for justice for the people of ballad murphy in west belfast and for

the people of dairy, where bloody the bloody sunday kings took place. now, you know, there is a remarkable similarity between those 2 events. i think it's no surprise really, that the tory government is pushing ahead with the overseas operations bill, which is essentially a killer chart. it gives a launch for british soldiers to kill with impunity. and, you know, this, you know, we've seen it historically the, the establishment closes, runs, and british soldiers are essentially given a license to kill and a license to lie. but this point, something much, much deeper. i think they pointed something very rotten in the british armed forces, an ultimately the pretty state. what we're talking about here is some very serious war crimes that have been covered up by the state. and of course, this has been carried out with impunity. and, you know, the invasion of afghanistan itself was,

was bitterly opposed to 20 years of or in this crimes it took place. we saw similar allegations made against australian soldiers. and their commission of inquiry was, was to do with the sheer volume of a yes. the, let me just put you what the u. k. m o. d said they state that the b, b. c has put the lives of soldiers at risk and has cause stooge reputational damage to the u. k. military is other valid point? no, i don't think it is. i think this is very clearly in the public interest, and the british people have a right to know what their armed forces are up to whether is the s a s or old soldiers? now of course, these are the exact kind of war crimes that we can be found at union. a sound was uncovered and is currently sitting in a prison where he's waiting extradition to to the united states. so i don't think

that it places british soldiers, these were desk was a. busy nighttime and executing people. i mean, they were talking about children that were killed as a result of these, you know, these nighttime nighttime operations. but i think it calls into question the whole nature of the, the operations of the british armed forces. this is not an isolated incident by the way, this is not just consigned to what happened in afghanistan. i mentioned what happened in ireland and you know, there's been a 50 year struggle for justice for the families of the victims that were killed by pretty soldier soldiers there. but we've seen this in their operations across the world from malaysia, indonesia, india, and, and when they had the british, the british empire. so, i don't think that this place is the british armed forces, or if we have to have an investigation into what happened. but ultimately it has to be accountability and those are perpetrator. these crimes have to be held

accountable for their actions. and that includes, you know, going to the very, very top of the, the british armed forces and the british state. essentially, this is a state sanction murder. all right, the thoughts of steve sweeney international editor of the morning star news for thank you. ah, the most brittle winter of the past 60 years now is what the e u. european people will face this year, according to romania is deputy prime minister. he's playing the current energy crisis has been brought about by the sanctions imposed on russia. first of all, we, the european union will pay for sanctions against russia. europe, the european union must admit, frankly, that unfortunately we will all pay the price this winter. it is going to be a harsh winter, perhaps the harshest and last $4050.00, or 60 years for the whole of europe. all i can say to that is that these leaders are just about the worst gamblers ever. if they ended up in las vegas, they b, y,

the guys who loses their shirt, ends up crying over the free house drinks at the bar and wondering where it all went wrong. they spent the past several months betting everything on cutting off russian energy revenues. not a day goes by here in europe that we don't hear about this energy crunch, panic, rationing shortages, cut off all this brutality on the people and all for what. if our leaders, we're aiming for russia than he really could use shooting lessons. you think that they put down the shovel and stopped digging themselves into a hole, maybe just long enough to come to their senses. first, they try me, appellate russia, into caving to western demands in ukraine by cutting off russian gas thinking that russian energy revenues would be cut off entirely. forgetting about the rest of the world, because that all didn't work. russia just ended up finding new customers elsewhere . russian oil has been heading, for example to the middle east and coal to china. meanwhile,

it's you citizens who are worried about the future, mainly because it's pretty clear that our leaders have no clue what they're doing. and if they did that, they probably wouldn't have started freaking out over the plan nord stream, one pipeline maintenance, which is only going to last a few days. and they knew that if their goal was so, connie, which was so confidently stated, was to shun russian energy permanently. then why are they in such a panic if russia actually fulfills their stated wish? and while they're firing up coal plants again in europe, out of energy desperation and reclassifying, fossil fuel, gas and radioactive power, as green. oh, sorry, environmentalists. germany has now decided that it can do without rushing, cool, starting august 1st. and it can do without russian oil starting december 31st. you know, i brought my hands at this point. yeah, sure guys, why not just set fire to all of the sales while you're sitting there in the middle

of the ocean struggling, panicking, and just hope that somehow you'll safely end up back ashore if they have a solution for replacing rushing gas. they're shipping discrete about it and they're not communicating it, but um, it looks like now they're gonna, they're making sure they're going to be left without any backup plans all because this seems to be the only leverage they have left against russia. so they're playing that card. they're burning bridge after bridge after bridge with their scorched earth policy with reckless disregard for the price that the average you citizen will have to pay. and european commission, vice president bronze timmerman, is sounding the alarm over all of this and how it might turn out. if our society descends into very, very strong conflict and strife because there is no energy, we're certainly not going to make our goals. we're certainly not going to get where we need to get if the lack of energy leads to strong disruption in our societies. and we need to make sure people are not in the cold in the coming winter. so the

leadership there is voicing concern about their own anti rush policies, sparking conflict and strife in europe when they were aiming for russia. hey, at this point, maybe don't even spark a coup against themselves if you citizens get fed up enough. gillis move on to the latest on the conflict and done bus. the city of golf k in the den. yet script public has been shelled by ukrainian forces. according to local authorities, a kindergarten took a direct it. this flooded shows the aftermath of the shelling on the nursery school . officials here on 20 strikes from multiple rocket launchers were fired elsewhere across the city. 2 civilians were killed. busy while a number of residential buildings were parking destroyed on local infrastructure damaged. ringback and also in the city of done yet, the local authorities say heavily populated areas have once again been shelved. as you can see, one rocket at the roof of an apartment building no casualties were reported.

officials claim ukraine is using nature weapons to target civilian areas in the region. and in the neighboring luke dealt republic this city of las, a chance is seeing lowest semblance of normality. following the withdrawal of the ukrainian military units of the republics forces are clearing rebel from the streets of rebuilding work begins. here's what locals had to say about the arrival of russian lead troops on what they previously had to go through through la annually. sure they were shooting even back in 2014, the ukrainian soldiers told us when we leave them, we will destroy everything on our street. we shall, 10 times, all of the rounds came from close by kitty. we are deeply grateful for what you've done for liberating lucy chance. we've been waiting for this for 8 years. ah, do biden's arrived and israel now at the start of a 4 day tour of the middle east,

he's expected to focus on on emerging robe is really military partnership to combat the alleged threat from a rum tyrann though. claims that the trip won't help bring security to israel also ahead of the visit clashes between israeli soldiers and palestinians occurred dozens of protesters through stones and robs some security forces. who in turn are tear gas and arrested several people. but demonstrators also denounced as really settler attacks, which they claim police turn a blind eye to wallace. sleet ticks us through what we can expect from president biden's trip to the region. all these elect left me here in israel, as joe biden touches down for the 1st time as president, and the thousands of police deployed is commonplace, full visiting dignitaries. so what's new on the agenda? tempe? 3 prime minister yet. yep. he says he ran is the main issue under discussion. israel will not stand idly by while iran tries to attack us. we will discuss with

the president and his team, expanding security cooperation against all threats. i can say is he's in favor of a more integrated and stable middle east. also suggested 8 new middle east and nascent given the problems. some excuse the common to me to of steering up in ukraine. little wonder these criticism that this will simply de, stabilize the region further. the injury of foreigners in the region will not create security and stability, but is itself the main cause of tension and regional rift. america raises such issue solely with the aim of sewing iran, a phobia and division among the countries in the region. ango, at brutal killing of al jazeera agenda. serene absolutely hasn't faded, and her family is still seeking justice. they accused biden of white washing these wavy armies, actions, and social pressure is quite high too. when biden enters bethlehem from jerusalem, the 1st thing he sees will be this wall painting. the wall painting as an

expression of our rejection of the american position on the issue of the assassination of ob lockley and a condemnation of the american report. chris is also mounting on his way to human rights in the latest danasia by a palestinian christian organization. israel is accused of meeting the criteria of an apartheid state, just the latest voice to the chorus of international organization denouncing the countries humanitarian track record. it is abundantly clear that israel meets the definition of the crime of apartheid under international law, both through the laws, the state has adopted and its inhumane practices. israel actively works to promote separation and segregation through a biased legal regime that offer specific rights and privileges to one group at the expense of the other to maintain its domination. for an israeli jew, there are no restrictions to move and elected all make his i'm not making things easier. quite the contrary. when they come up with statements like this, if there was a button, i could press that would take all the arabs and put them on

a train to switzerland. may they live amazing lives there? i wish them all the best in the world. i would press that button, the button like that does not exist. apparently, we were destined to exist here on this land in some form. it's still a question with a bite and we'll address these issues at all. and while is all has condemned one ukraine. it did not doing sanctions or weapons delivery, rushed from the waist. they asked israel no bigger fan of israel than glinda gram for stinkers. and apparently israel said no i.