an engagement equal to trail when so many find themselves will depart, we choose to look for common ground in ah, one doesn't have to be brilliant to attempt to coo and 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. donald trump's former national security adviser opens up under his box with a stunning could a talk confession. we look at what other places john bolton may be speaking about. also. i'm sure like as president follows to pressure and quit his post outside of the country

declares a state of emergency with the prime minister temporarily taking charge much to the continued anger of protesters in the done yes. republic kindergarten takes a direct hit from ukrainian shelling while another missile strike pills into sib williams there. as joe buys and touches down in israel as part of his 1st presidential visit to the middle east, we looked at her rising tensions with washington made through us founder and with your tuned into the news. our r t. my name's union o'neill. you're welcome to the program. in a bombshell admission, the former national security adviser to donald trump has admitted the u. s. was involved in a number of cruise around the world. john bolton made the confession during an

interview with cnn. one doesn't have to be brilliant to attempt to qu, i disagree with that as somebody who has 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 in 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 kudos talk 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, as 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 st forces. soldiers

were arrested their countries that accused or accused us 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 us because he tried to maintain ins bandwagon. i mean their, their leader was behind his removal be, are weary about being connect free of european affairs, victoria newland, and co operation with the former u. s. which took place the morning after france. poland and germany signed an agreement between the then president and opposition leaders. what ramifications can

john bolton's confession of huff? while 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 are you so mike, what you so my so mike, so our diplomats are line yes. oh so yeah, that is the real world guys. oh, 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. just on this story, political economists, tim anderson, believes the practice of orchestrating cruiser bodies. nothing new to washington has roots going way back to is not simply mechanical things that involve murder, sometimes the murders of many thousands of people and vault. and of course, has a track record of being involved in fabricating evidence for the invasion of iraq in 2003 for involvement in the tim several attempts to the coo and venezuela a few years ago. when he was you and ambassador, he was covering out the crimes of a part or the israel in terms of the expansion of the colonies in the palestinian west bank in the massacre of civilians. it's known that there is a very long history of cruise by us administrations for many years, and it's always

a fear of the us because of its impunity because of its brutality. and now in terms of the so called sanctions countries having 2nd thoughts about simply going along with anything that washington says, that's why we see countries that have been relatively independent of such as india and brazil. now, not wanting to buy into the economic warfare that washington is insisting that everyone does against russia. the chinese foreign minister has accused the us of using se on countries as chess, barnes in its attempts to put pressure on china's policy. as regards the indo pacific region, we should insulate this region from geo political calculations and the trap of the law of the jungle from being used as chess pieces in major power rivalry and from coercion. well, it comes amid rising tensions between beijing and washington in the pacific area, with the u. s. exerting pressure on the 10 c on countries in all american secretary of state, anthony blink. and i think huge rush of creating

a world where big nation can bully small nation, citing the russia ukraine conflict, but many of called the quote type, a critical nature of such a statement coming from a top u. s. official. 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. the former indian foreign secretary can was simple, told r t that a blinking words have raise more than a few eyebrows since the us 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, whether the id or the ban him or cuba or ben is. and of course, in the middle east or libya,

city medical history is such that the should be very careful when they use language. now, if we take the blinking is using this language, i can think of 2 reasons. one is a sense of desperation, that the narrative is not being bought by the rest of the narrative on russia. movie opperation, you gain the rest violated every principle had they have themselves at defining what they did into in tumbling natural governance in defense of both on russia actually conducting actually a proxy war against structure. so for the moment, i think that's a little bit on the back for these policies that are being pursued will not succeed and eventually and eventually they will be pushed back and hopefully multiple world

will arise. what we see, at least for the time being, is that the month people, the idea being on the back foot because of the manner in which to my mind. united states and european union have targeted russia is for a link as president has officially resigned. no doubt does not seem to have halted the moslem rest in the country. earlier, protesters angered on worsening economic and social conditions breached the prime minister's office. he was appointed as i think president on tuesday, but people are demanding that he stand on as well. oh, police use water county on cure deals against the protesters, but were unable to stop them taking over a raw meal with from a single office. at least 30 people were injured and cautious. local journalists

sent us this report. the go, but i hope or doesn't do that very much in force behind me, the president secretary did. now there have been an official confirmation, but the president has left the country and he's currently in more of these. but more things 1st, see lanka will need a new government with the president most likely designing to day and time, and it's done 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 she'd uncle would also need all, who would the finance minister now important to underlying feel that much of the focus also will be on the new government and how they tackle the same set of massive challenges that lead this particular government out. the new government

will also inhibited massive humanitarian and low. i know challenges to add a state of emergency after president water by our job shop 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. much of the focus will be with you i, i am going to show my in columbia while the island nation, parliament speaker has no confirm that president filter by roger pac. so who's fled to them? all div has officially resigned, while acting presidents with grimace anger, as a nice the creation of

a special committee to restore law and order in the country. it includes top leaders from the military and police. a local journalist joined others in the ice that leaders abandon residence. we can take this i'm here in front of the president's housing columbus for a lanka. as you can see behind me tense and thousands of people are still eagerly awaiting to walk into the sir presidential palace and to see what is the inside and what sort of a bill. and that was captured by d as does on the 9th of july. and this particular human lane is currently managed by the members of the organizations that carried out the huge mass rally the protest that was unveiled on the 9th of july, but still received the presence of the security personnel as well providing the necessary security. and this was the official residents of the president bought. i bet our departure, who volved to step down from his position as the president. there was a meeting among the members of the representative bodies that organized the early

on the 9th of july. and the particular party leaders at the apartment complex, which was organized by the speaker so were be protest. the organizers have refused to take part in that particular meeting, saying that david have their own national plan for the future road map yet in sri lanka. so this is bush on mass reported to you in front of the presidential palace in colombo sher lanka. yeah, the backdrop to the chaotic scenes being shoreline because major economic crisis, most of the country's external debt is owed to western countries for the past half a century. the sir national ma latrice and has given the nation 16 loans, which are like going through a host of what's called economic stabilization programs with the i m f. despite huge repayment issues of the 2018 world, i can nor forum sure like as prime minister, expressed hope that his country would become wealthy within

a decade. it's no secret that asia 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. so why is that not top and are not looking like it's going to 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 in 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 to 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 most brutal winter of the past 60 years lance, what the e u. and european people of faced this year, according to romania, as deputy prime minister, he's claimed a 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 be why 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 shortage is cut off all this brutality on the people and all for what?

if our leaders, we're aiming for russia, then he really could use of 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 cool the 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, nor to stream one pipeline maintenance, which is only gonna last a few days. and they knew that if their goal was so calm, 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 are 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 throw 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 for sure if they have a solution for replacing rushing gas there. sure. being discreet about it and they're not communicating it, but so 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 france temperament is sounding the alarm over all of this and how it might turn out. if all society descends into very, very strong conflict and strife because there is no energy, was certainly not going to my call goals. was certainly not going to get where we need to get if the lack of energy leads to strong disruption in all societies. and we need to make sure people are not in the cold in the coming winter, so that you leadership, there is voicing concern about their own anti russian policies, sparking conflict and strife in europe when they were aiming for russia. hey, at this point, maybe they'll even spark a coup against themselves if you citizens get fed up enough on just something else to note on this story related to germany is planning to create public heating

spaces. many germans have at ridicule the initiative, stating it would be better if the government helped them directly with energy cost . i'm a hollow, see, elemental snelson, public heated places are phenomena of the post war period. and we haven't had a war in germany yet. i think the government has the means to help all citizens pay for heating, cos i'm, well, you're just showing off the authorities or pretending to care about people who can't pay for his modem. is it them, daddy itself is not bad. the poor and homeless lead them. it wouldn't be better politicians, the so called social democrats, passed along that energy prices should be subsidized. a tragedy just a tragedy. i wouldn't go there. jo biden's arrived in israel now at the start of a 4 day tour of the middle east. the u. s. president trip however, didn't get off to the most flawless of starts once more return to the hollow ground of your od chevron beacham. to honor 6000000 jewish lives were stolen in the

genocide and continue which we must through every, every day. continue to bear witness to keep alive the truth and honor of the holocaust har, the holocaust honor those we lost less cross to tell if he yeah. and ortiz policy, or pull a what's expected on this, terry hall is the u. s. president being received not too welcoming, particularly not on the palestinian st. there. for example, there have been banners and plaque odds that have been lined out in the main streets of cities like bethlehem, where the american president will be meeting with the palestinian president in the coming days and the banners. they say mister president, this is a party. it is in line with a recent book pool that was published by

a christian palestinian organization that found that these radio governments actions are in line with a parties. another hot potato here is the recent killing by and his rainy soldier, av, and al jazeera journalists, sharyn abu, actually, the american government said to quote, it was an intentional. and in turn has been accused by palestinians of white washing the crimes of these weighty government. her family is also demanding answers, so that will be part of the focus. although we have heard from these lady side from the 10 queens where the prime minister yet yet appeared that the main issue, at least for the israelis on the agenda, will be the issue of iran. and in this respect, it is widely understood that joe biden's visit to the region from here he will be traveling to saudi arabia is really 1st and foremost of bringing countries together to form some kind of access against he ran. and so this is something that he ran is well aware of, as we heard from the uranium president mall. if the goal of the

u. s. officials trip to the region is to consolidate the security of israel and normalize israel's relations with regional countries. we are declaring vigorously that their actions would not bring security for israel, and by no means are they peace providers for israel. now biting in the past has also said that he is looking toward some kind of middle eastern nato. this has not gone down well here. particularly with many people pointing fingers as how be current nato has contributed to the conflict in ukraine. so anger and frustration on the palestinian st. we are placing solved for demonstrations there in the coming days. and i would say care in tell of where i am. although these radio officials are saying all the right things and they ask the lines with american interest rate, the flags talking to radio, there's almost a kind of lack laska meet amongst people here. no one really believes that the

visit by joe biden, the food that he's making as president of the united states, is going to yield anything. taking us through our t correspondent policy or thankful. and us jo biden's in israel aiming to drum up middle eastern support. according to a new poll, the president ratings us home among his own party members appear to have reached a new low, you know, the pool conducted by being york times. college shows that close to 2 thirds all vol democratic folders. don't one byte knows their candidate and the next presidential election within a key demographics voters, age under 3094 percent, said they want someone else on the 2024 ticket. one more than 3 quarters of all those surveys said that the u. s. is headed in the wrong direction on just one percent rated economic conditions as excellent. well, 903 percent rate is a poorer only for it comes as biden's ratings through laughs that are run table

discussion on cnn. yes. well, his grandchildren, but other than that, who i mean 94 percent don't want him to walk down again, 90 percent democrat under the age of 30. okay. let's move to the latest on the conflict in don't pass the city of got a lot of care in the done yet. republic has been shell by ukrainian forces. according to local authorities, a kindergarten took a direct hit. this footage shows the aftermath of the shelling on the nursery school. officials say around 20 strikes from multiple rocket launchers were fired across the city. 2 civilians were killed while a number of residential buildings were partly destroyed on local infrastructure. also in the city of danielle, it's local authority say, heavily populated areas they've once again been shells. as you can see here, one rocket hit the roof of an apartment building. they local hospital,

sustained damage to with reports that 3 people were injured, their official same ukraine is using nature weapons to target civilian areas in the region and in the neighboring lu, ganske republic. the city of listed chomsky seeing well assemblage solved normality following the withdrawal of ukrainian forces. units of the republics military are hearing rubble from the streets. as rebuilding work begins, here's what the locals have to say about the arrival of russian lead troops and what they previously held to ensure that a learned you make sure they were shooting even back in 2014, the ukrainian soldiers told us when we leave, we will destroy everything our street was shall, 10 times, all of the rounds came from close by. we are deeply grateful for what you've done for liberating lucy chairs. we've been waiting for this for 8 years. wedding to last, how our mid we can use roundup is looking for now from the art international team. myself, the unit only goodbye and hope to catch you again soon. ah

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