common ground with one doesn't have to be brilliant to attempt to coo. 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 a lot of other places. john bolton may be speaking about. also, i for like as president ball is to pressure on 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 yet republic kindergarten takes a direct hit from you printing and shelling while another missile strike kills and 2 civilians there. mm hm. and as joe by the touches done in israel as part of his 1st presidential visit to the middle east, we looked at her rising tensions with washington may 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 coups 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's help planned kuta 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 what one, guy doe, america's yes, man, who basically tried to overthrow the venezuelan government several years ago. i mean, he's definitely gonna 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 illegally 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, as a life and death struggle over the country, sovereignty pompeo 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. so 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 leaders see what happens when american influence is tolerated, and countries, and then the authorities there make one wrong move that washington doesn't like than my done. uprising of 2014 in ukraine will not, not be 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, the 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, little mozilla. elizabeth's little of them go to what 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? not 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 utilize you. so mike, what you so my so mike, so our diplomats are line yes. so yes, that is 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 economist, tim anderson, believes the practice of orchestrating cues, or boat is nothing new to washington and has roots going way back to so not simply mechanical things. i involve murder symptoms, the motives of many thousands of people. and bolton, of course, has a track record of being involved in fabricating evidence for the invasion of iraq in 2003 full involvement in the attempt. several attempts at a coup in venezuela a few years ago. and when he was hugh and ambassador, he was covering out the crimes of apartheid israel in terms of the expansion of the colonies in the palestinian west bank in the massacre of civilians. it's none. that is a very long history of cruise by us administrations,

for many years. it's always a fear of the us because of its impunity because of its brutality. and. and now in terms of the cycle sanctions, countries are having 2nd thoughts about simply going along with anything that washington says. that's why we see countries that have been relatively independent of this, such as india and brazil. now, not wanting to buy into the economic warfare that washington's insisting that every one does against russia. the chinese foreign minister has accused the u. s. of using l. c on countries as chests, bolton's in its attempts to put pressure on 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 in major power rivalry and from coercion. well, it comes amid rising tensions between beijing and washington in the indo pacific area, with the u. s. exerting press on the 10 asi on countries. meanwhile,

american secretary of state anthony blinking isaac hughes, rochelle, dripping a world where big nations can bully small nations, citing the russia ukraine conflict, but many of called oddly, quote, hypocritical 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. for a former indian foreign secretary can. busy with sybil told r t that blinking words have raised more than a few eyebrows since the u. s. 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 ben israel.

and of course, in the middle east where they are libya. so america is such that they should be very careful when they use such language. now if we take the blink and using this language, i can think of 2 reasons. one is a sense of desperation that be and that it is not being bought by the rest of the narrative on russia. movie operation, you gain the rest and violated every principle. they have themselves and defining what they're getting to in tumbling demetria, governance in the sense 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 are being on the back foot because of the manner in which to my mind. united states and european union have targeted russia, sri lanka, 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 coming in until it goes against the protesters, but we're unable to stop them taking over iran meal with from

a single office. at least 30 people were injured in clashes, a local journalist center this report. the goal that i hope or doesn't do that very much in force behind me, the president says secretariat now there has been an official confirmation, but the president has left the country and he's currently in more of these things because she lanka will need a new government with the president most likely resigning 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 would have to negotiate with the i am in the international and wanted to the fun to get a good be now to package then sheet uncle will also need a finance manager. now important to underline, feel that much of the focus also will be on the new government and how they tackle

the seeds head of the massive challenges that lead this particular government out. the new government will also inhibit massive humanitarian and no, i know what challenges a state of emergency to president both of my own roger buckshot in the country. now the administration is doing everything it can. the sponsor called several g r. gas shells have been used on the protest, still remain adamant they want the prime minister as well as the president, all 3 lank off to resign right now until the meal i, i. 0 my in columbia, it while the island nation's parliament speaker has no confirm the president filter by roger pac. so who's fled to the mall?

deese has officially resigned while acting president with room a single 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 i said, leaders, abandon resident, we can take this i'm here in front of the president's housing, columbus through lanka. as you can see behind me tense and thousands of people are still eagerly awaiting to walk into the presidential palace and to see what is the inside. and what sort of a bill. and that was captured by the a british does on the 9th of july. and this particular human lane is currently managed by the members of the organizations that carry down the huge mass really the produce that was unveiled on the 9th of july. but still we see the presence of the security personnel as well providing the necessary security. and this was the official residents of the president bought our bit, our de boxer 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 the protest. the organizers have refused to take part in the particular meeting, saying that they will have their own action plan for the future road map yet in sri lanka. so this is michelle ross reported to you in front of the presidential palace in colombo sher lanka. yeah, he backdrop to the chaotic scenes being shoreline, cuz major economic crisis, most of the country's external debt is owed to western countries for the past half a century, the sir national monitoring fund has given the nation 16 loans, which are like a going through a host of what's called economic stabilization programs with the i m f. this by huge repayment issues out the 2018 world i can nor forum sure like as prime

minister express hope that his country would become wealthy within a decade. it's no secret that asia, 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 has a 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 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 opposed 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 claim they 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 in 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 sure 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 brutal of the on the people and all for what . if our leaders, we're aiming for russia and he really could use of shooting lessons, you think that they put down a shovel and stopped digging themselves into a hole, maybe just long enough to come to their senses. first to try and the 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 cold 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, than they probably wouldn't have started freaking out over the plan nord 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'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 hand to 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 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 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 is 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 the leadership there is voicing concern about their own anti russian policy, 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 on just something else

. to note on this story related to germany is planning to create public heating spaces. many germans have ridicule the initiative sitting. it would be better if the government helped them directly with energy cost. i'm a hollow scene element, all smells. the mob like 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, while you're just showing off, i'm, the authorities are pretending to care about people who can't pay for hamilton. is a damn dad. he itself is not bad. the poor and homeless lead them. it wouldn't be better politicians, the so called social democrats, pass to log and energy prices should be subsidized by 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, i didn't get off to the most flawless of starts. i will watch more return to the hollow ground abroad. sherman,

the sham to honor 6000000 jewish lives were stolen to 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 were laws less cross to tel aviv now, and ortiz, policy, or polar, what's expected on this term. how is the u. s. present being received? not too welcoming, particularly not on the palestinian st. there. for example, they'll have been banners and plaque cards 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 of is in line with a recent report that was published by

a christian palestinian organization that found that these radio governments actions are in line with apostate and other hot potatoes. here is the recent killing by any rainy soldier. of an al jazeera journalist, sharyn abu, actually, the american government said to quote, it was unintentional, and in turn has been accused by palestinians of white washing the crimes of these weighty government. her family is also demanding on says so that will be part of the focus, although we have heard from these weighty side from the 10 pres, waited 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 jo 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 iranian president mall. if the goal of the u. s. officials trip to the region is to consolidate the security of israel and normalized 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 towards some kind of middle east and nato. this has not gone down well here, particularly with many people pointing fingers as how the common tomato has contributed to the conflict in ukraine. so anger and frustration on the palestinian street, we are facing ourselves for demonstrations. they are in the coming days, and i would say here in telephone where i am. although these way the officials are saying all the right things. and there are speech lined with american in his way, the flags talking his way these days, almost a kind of like last to meet amongst people here. no one really believes that this

visit by joe biden, the 1st that he's making as president of the united states, is going to yield anything taken us through the us r t correspondent policy or thankfully and as jo biden's in israel aiming to drum up middle eastern support, according to a new poll, the president's ratings at home among his own party members appear to have reached a new low. yeah, the pool conducted by been your times on c and a college shows that close to 2 thirds all vol democratic voters don't want biden's their candidate in the next presidential election within a key demographic voters age under 3094 percent, said they want someone else on the 2024 ticket on 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, 93 percent rate of the poor are only for it comes as biden's ratings. true laughs

at a round table discussion on cnn. yes. yeah. he slept his grandchildren but other than that, like who, i mean 94 percent. don't want him or damn it again, 90. damn a percent. damn, a crass under the age of 30. okay, let's move now to the latest on the conflict and don't boss the city of got a lot of care in the done yet. script public has been shelled 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. official 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, se heavily populated areas they've once again been shelled. as you can see here, one rocket hit the roof of an apartment building. they local hospitals sustained

damage to with reports that 3 people were injured. their officials claim ukraine is using natal weapons to target civilian areas in the region and in the neighboring lu, ganske republic, the city of las a chance guessing while a semblance of normality following the withdrawal of ukrainian forces. units of the republics military are clearing rebel from the streets as rebuilding work begins. here's what locals have to say about the arrival of russian lead troops and what they previously had to injure the la annually. sure they were shooting even back in 2014, the ukrainian soldiers told as to when we leave, 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 or last how our mid week news rhonda is looking for now from the art teacher

national team on myself unit only good bye and hope to catch you again soon. ah. the u. s. foreign policy head, joseph burrell, lament the west has failed to win the battle of narratives when it comes to your great, well, that's not the only battle of narratives. the west is losing. the entire neal liberal project is being called into question. it's legitimacy. quickly he wrote ah, during the 2nd world war in nazi occupied, poland, virginia was a farming region. today. it's part of ukraine. between 19431945 members of the ukrainian insurgent army led by step on bendara. nasa could thousands of poles in valeria, in a diabolical ethnic cleansing process. the mergers were particularly horrific and

brutal villages were burned and property looted. of aline, a massacre is without doubt, one of the bloodiest episodes in polish ukrainian history. why are ukrainian politicians still reluctant to talk about these events? how to modern day ukraine and poland view this tragedy of the past? and why does the memory of belinda still divide people? oh ukraine. a big and rich country that's always been hand in hand with russia until recently. 2014, a qu defines ukraine and leads to fratricidal war and on bus.