ah ah, a confrontation in the self proclaimed republic of kosovo is normally avoided the authorities in pristina. postpone a controversial plan to bond and free to anyone with serbian documents. the 1st grain shipment has left the creamy in port of odessa. it is expected to reach us and vote by tuesday as part of a deal between moscow also from the graveyard. i munition quite a bit of this conflict. ukrainian nationalists and troops have led to fear russia. itinerary

r t reports from the front line in the ukraine conflict. sales artillery fire day and night by both sides with ukrainian authoriz reportedly hitting residential areas. the iraqi police and military are on high alert. while protesters occupy the parliament building for a 3rd in a row, angry and had a coalition currently trying to form the next government with broadcasting from moscow. this is our team. my name's you know, neil, 30 minutes of news and views and start what was threatening to become a confrontation in the north of the self proclaimed republic of kosovo. has been afforded following the decision by christina to postpone a controversial decision. bolling and treat to any one with serbian documents. not a you turn comes after a day of turmoil on sunday,

which saw her raid sirens sounding in sir populated areas. i'm reported gunshots with several people taken to hospital. let's take a look at the situation and how it looked on the ground. 2 c oh i oh i well, what is occurring in the contested region began after plans where a 90 to bon serbian caught registrations from august 1st to make at serbs entering the region require permits. all such plans have not been postponed until september while the last sizable spot between sir b on cost. okay. nearly a year ago when the self proclaimed republic again moved to

a ban. cars with serbian license plates and deployed forces on its northern border would serve be a back then. both sides managed to settled the dispute, not constable, unilaterally declared its independence in 2008. but many countries, including russia, china, spain, and serbia don't recognize it. the spanish prime minister recently added that the self proclaimed declaration of cost of independence represents a violation of international law. will r t journalist, the alina melinta, which is in belgrade, she sees serbs of already lost a lot in conflicts with cost, and the threat of a new $1.00 must be prevented by the international community. there is a very interesting thing happening right now because the, the decision has been made after the advice of american ambassador, it's a month that has been given by this delay or postponing the new measures is actually something that will give them time to negotiate in brussels. they have

already been invited by european union officials to do that because your people do not have the right that they need to have. there is a strong will from washington, you know, to for newsroom on for new war in balcony. and i think he, in this moment, he really needs to keep people calm. but since you already lost a lot in that region to the president said yesterday that he need to remind again, all international community and all the countries that are supporting and that are recognized cost wise, independent state to think about international law. again, over time, the tangle of cost of in serbian relations has become increasingly complicated in drawing ever more parties into play with the brick on. here's our t contributor rachel marston. why is it that wherever and whenever american officials, papa drama and chaos tends to follow whether it's ukraine, taiwan,

or now, what was once known as yugoslavia that is before the us dragged its nieto allies into a mission to break up the federal republic in the late nineties, officially, u. s. president bill clinton cited humanitarianism at the time and the need to protect ethnic albanian muslims of the serbian province of kosovo as a reason for carving it out and using it as a launching pad for nato led attacks on serbia. but the real reason had everything to do with the desire to isolate what it considered to be a major russian ally in europe, serbia that is in the wake of the cold war. so the west is exploited, kosovo in the past, against its geopolitical competitor, just like it's doing in taiwan against china, or by supporting the neo nazi as all fighters in ukraine against russia. by backing this syrian rebels in an attempt to overthrow president bashar al assad of syria, my back in the movie id in, in afghanistan against the soviets during the cold war,

or the congress against the sandinista, as in nicaragua. and while the list just goes on and on. so it's not just a big coincidence that u. s. secretary of state anthony blinking showed up in kosovo just as the latest round of trouble popped off this week. and that the president of kosovo was talking well about russia. as you know mister secretary put in, we'll continue to try to destabilize europe also through the western wilkins. we will continue to need the steadfast support of the united states, as well as our european allies, to make sure that the plans of fresh as well as its proxy in the region are stopped . we'll look forward alongside the prime minister to discuss the reforms, especially on full of flock that we are addressing in our country. and i want to thank you for that support as well as for every step of the way that we have made. and at the same time, with the support that we are receiving from the united states in the area of defense. the now is that kosovo is refusing to recognize serbian documents and license plates. but why would it suddenly do that? why now?

what motivation could it possibly have? serbia is a thorn in washington. cy, amid the ukraine conflict and steadfastly refuses to succumb to western pressure, to sacrifice its relationships with russia, and to harm its own economy in the name of ukraine. do we want to be part of the west conflict with russia? do we want to forget all these decades in which russia supported us? do we want to forget all these centuries of slavic brotherhood? if you want to stick to territorial integrity and sovereignty as the most important principle of international politics start with serbia? kosovo has long been used as a western pressure valve when it needs to dial up tensions on serbia and indirectly on its ally. moscow. not yet a member of the european union belgrade has instead been moving into closer cooperation with iran, expanding trade ties and refusing to join you sanctions against

a run. it's also discussing military cooperation with russian military allied belarus, and its interior minister just said last week that it won't be nato's foot soldier in the alliance. his conflict with russia. ukraine has also suddenly inserted itself into the tensions in kosovo as though it doesn't have enough to deal with already at home. if serbia invades kosovo, we should defend the kosovars. ukraine is ready to act with our troops on the ground. serbia is trying to start an aggressive war. precisely according to putin's method. as i said, sir b as putin's trojan horse in europe. war anywhere in the world is terrible. the fact that keith doesn't officially recognize kosovo as anything other than a part of serbia doesn't seem to phase this ukrainian official, nor does the fact that some ukrainians actually fought alongside serbs against the nato alliance and its proxies. back in the late nineties. all that seems to matter

right now is the fact that kosovo is willing to sing on. hugh from the western hymn book when it comes to ukraine, allows nato to park its largest base in europe on it so well. so it's hardly a surprise that nato is already talking about jumping in and helping kosovo. they're pretty keen on this. it seems like blinking visit it. no doubt just has a knack for coincidentally, being in the right place at the right time to another of our headlines stories to day. the 1st green shipment by sea agreed as part of a deal between kiev and moscow has left the crimean port of odessa, the 1st such movement in month oh, flying under the fly, gold sierra leone. the cargo ship resolutely is said to deliver

a maze to the port of his dunbar by tuesday. after travelling through a black sea corridor, it will be the 1st shipment, organized as part of a humanitarian operation, led by russian, ukrainian and turkish officials in a joint coordination center. r t. ramin castro can tell us more. now, according to reports, the sierra leone flag, the vessel, is loaded with some 26 to 28000 times of amaze than its destination is a lebanon. now, this ship is the 1st to civilian writer to leave the port of odessa in recent. and once since the special operation by russia began, now this departure follows last month, the deal between russia, ukraine, turkey, and the united nations to lead of food experts leave a from ukraine to the rest of the world. now, it's a hope to that, that this 1st the shipment will pull to start so many more in the future,

which will relieve the global food market where prices have been rapidly rising over the last few months. now ukraine and some of the partners have been a very skeptical about this deal when it was the 1st side and they even started making provisions for alternative routes by trade or by land. however, it looks like after the leaving of this shipment, the deal is working and hopefully very soon, a lot more experts from the port of odessa and from russia will reach the global food market. let's get some updates from the battle ground. now the russian defense ministry claims to us supplied high mars rocket launchers have been destroyed in a strike on a local manufacturing content. hawk of more than 250 nationalists and mercenaries were also said to have been killed in the same attack which reportedly led to

ukrainian trips, flinging the front line well to civilians in done yes, count, been left maimed. now, after walking on bound, anti personnel mines that t f forces had reportedly been dropping on this city that is, according to the cities, moore or a senior corresponded murat, gusty of reports, now from don bus. over the past several weeks, a lull has settled over the don bass, which is relative. ah, off the series of breakthroughs, russian and allied forces are rotating regrouping, and rearming, especially rearming. on the outskirts of the city of solid up, we have stumbled upon this graveyard. a graveyard of empty ammunition crates for russia, multiple rocket launcher systems in

a growth of this conflict. ukrainian nationalists and troops have learned to philip russian itinerary and in these aspects. in this regard, russia has demonstrated total superiority day and night artillery pounds away at ukrainian positions. you can tell where the front lines lay, just by sound alone. that is the sound of a full salvo of grad multiple rocket launcher systems far away as ukrainian positions witcher entirely to close up on that hill over the left are ukrainian forces. rows of generations, you may hear them now. it is not entirely one sided. ukrainian artillery answers

back often blindly through the village of ladyman of car was liberated almost intact after weeks and weeks of endless ukrainian, chilling. it is a battered shell of what it was. ah, the booms and blasts of artillery exchanges are ceaseless. they are drowned out, only by the roar of jets. ah ah! these are suit 25 ground attack air croft. shoot you an abundance of anti air

defenses on both sides. they fly extremely low meters above the ground, rearing up only to launch their attacks. that done, they deploy fledged and miss direct any heat seeking missiles launched their way. and in the midst of it, all the infantry marches on the squad is moving out to secure newly captured positions. scant kilometers from the city of solider city, that ukrainian troops and nationalists have turned into a fortress where i'd gasdio party from vladimir africa, the nets, people's republic, with global hostility in the world hitting the heights right now. the un is hosting a 10th review conference for nuclear arms nonproliferation states in new york, and us softening tensions on breathing new life into disarmament negotiations. us

secretary of state anthony, blinking usually event islam runs nuclear program. thing to run must follow washington and you plan to restore the 2015 agreement on ahead of the conference, joe biden said he accepts commitments on further mutual. this argument with russia . president putin has also said that nuclear war must be avoided out. all coffee are to kill us up and has more now on the conference. while the nuclear non proliferation treaty review meeting is taking place in manhattan at the un headquarters and in the lead up to it, there was a rather boastful statement from the white house. the white house said the, i'm states is the example the whole world should follow when it comes to these kinds of issues. however, it's important to note the white house is currently talking about hoping about the possibility of restoring the j. c, p o, a nuclear agreement with iran that the united states violated and broke. let's

review. united states is determined to lead by the power of our example through diplomacy and coordination with allies and regional partners. we've developed a proposal to secure a mutual return to full implementation of the joint comprehensive plan of action to ensure that iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon. now it's also important to note that in the last few years, the united states has withdrawn from a number of key nuclear agreements that were established at the end of the cold war . and it's also important to note that the russian leadership has pointed out that the united states has frozen counter terrorism conversations and conversations about fighting terrorism with russia on now. what is being referred to as far fetched pretax corporation between russia and the united states in the field of anti terror is now basically frozen washington, unilaterally and under far fetched pretext,

decided to suspend profile meetings within the high level dialogue under the auspices of the foreign ministries of brushing the united states, which were held in vienna in 2018 to 2019 and were useful for both sides of the united states is seen basically a withdrawal from the nuclear deal with iran. the world is washed as united states withdrew from nuclear treaties. so we shall see how this meeting of the non proliferation treaty and it's review takes place that the un headquarters in manhattan or turning attention to the middle east under rock where thousands of protesters continue to occupy the parliament building in a fit and against attempts to form the countries next government. these are some of the latest pictures from baghdad where raleigh's turned into flushes with security forces. the protesters are mainly the followers of the influential shia cleric, most alford, here they are demanding early elections on the ice thing of his political opponents,

who are currently trying to create a new government elections were held in october. now there was, i'll sit here who got the biggest share of the vote, nearly 10 percent. something of course no very far from a majority. his opponents or an alliance of groups more closely aligned su around a parliament session was expected to form the government after a 10 month power vacuum. but due to the protests, all sessions have been suspended until further notice. are pictures from subway when protest toppled concrete security walls around parliament and stormed insights. since then, the protesters have had sleeping bags smuggled into the building and claimed they won't leave until their demand. our net correspondence for our sister channel, our t r. a big isn't the iraqi company. the rocky forces and the police are

on high alert and i like hated in the so called greens are in baghdad. i government buildings are located. they interact with representatives of l. sada supporters in particular with regard to the safe passage, the parliament buildings behind me, you can see a security checkpoint without the support has gone to get these cars. passing in the direction of the parliament building belong to the sod race. they have the permission to enter, as for others who want to get in, they can only go on foot. this is the gateway to the green side. more more people are heading here. but at the moment, that number is not very large, and perhaps the heat is forcing the solder s and others to arrive a little late me moll inside the parliament building patriotic songs and chance against the united states. a herd which also contained criticism of iran. the demonstrators of making many demands the no longer limited to protesting the nomination of mohammed al, sir dani from the alliance, but also include other demands related to regime change. constitutional changes and electoral procedures as stated by mac, tada, al, sada, well,

as mentioned in october's elections, the most supported come to the got only a 10th of the vote while in several elections prior to about the maximum. sure. never exceeded 25 percent history professor of the lebanese university in beirut. shemelle what came believes the current fragmentation of power as roots going back to the 2003 us led invasion of iraq. this is what the americans prepared for iraq. the invasion of the country to 1000 and to be so that the politics in iraq would be to facilitate the intervention, mainly american intervention whenever they want. and this has been the case since 2000 and then 3. so that's why we don't see any dominant power. we see fragmentation of power among various groups. no one would win him majority or born echo illusion that when the majority and the parliament

this leads to say made. which leads to foreign intervention in order to free body is groups. this is what the americans prepared for the country in order to better manipulate this country and mainly against iran. and that just take an agenda containing the region which it on china and russia and plug them from heavy influence in the middle east. the military. oh, okay. 2 story generating quite a lot of interest in the u. k. now, almost a 100 artifacts taken from africa by british colonial forces at the end of the 19th century could be 100 back by the university of oxford. the news comes after nigeria made out official request earlier this year. now those 97 items and all are

religious, the tiny handful of the thousands of artifacts held in museums outside the african content and african officials are seeking the return of many from the miniature to the mc carp. some are concerned that the british government, in particular, has been invasive offering no commitments on restitution. and specifically the british museum, which holds an extensive collection from across africa, but is protected by a law which only allows repatriation under certain circumstances. legit is applying pressure to the government so those laws in particular are amended, but indeed other african countries save out a lot more needs to be done as well. why should we allow those so called museums, which in fact are crime scenes and houses of stolen goods to dictate to us telling us that we have to prove that the items belong to us? as much as we celebrate the return of former connelly's prime minister,

patrice bloomberg tooth from belgium. let's not celebrate too much. let's remind ourselves that the work has just started. earlier i heard the thoughts of other mood garb, the 2nd who had been in the running for next years, nigerian presidential election. he believed the west should pay compensation as well for looting masses of artifacts for century this to me is what it breaks. who actually is just in negative, remind our of the situation that we've found, or say, been africa during the colonial regime. you know, colonialism to some degree is some kind of a crime against humanity. if come to africa, look to just robles of water sources, but also of all identity and these identities where those are the fact that we help please up or was centuries of our existence that argues 20. no, we are looted biking to me in london and build on so many european capitals. so if

i'm going to go to $21.00 jobs totally, it means that you have to pay, you know, for $40.00 charges of your tax. but tell we are, we're expected to celebrate, you know, a return or something that has to be right for me to keep them from was. so this is really not a good thing. just talk, remind are very dr. my dog. he's to be of africa colonizing of something that we mostly checked on was never allowed to ever exist. when you suffer an offer, counselor, it came from africa to asia, 7 tons of radioactive water have leap from a nuclear power plant in japan. the mohammed facility was the 1st reactor to be restarted in the country last year, after the fukushima disaster in 2011. according to a report published by the station operator, the water, it didn't leave the nuclear plants and did not have an impact on the environment. they contaminated water contains traces of,

tried him and other radioactive materials. an investigation has been launched to determine the cause of the incident. the reactor, which is more than 40 years old, was temporarily holsted in october, due to non compliance with anti terror security requirements. and just to show you this as well, a protest held on sunday in fukushima. it came after japan's nuclear, regularly approved plans to release well over a 1000000 tons of wastewater from the city's nuclear power plant into the pacific ocean. the wastewater was used to cool the nuclear reactors after the accident. their site, korea, china, should be of expressed concern about the discharge which protesters fear could have a negative impact on last thing was a local industry, one in particular, fishermen take great care of the ocean, not to mention the fish. so i think it's no surprise that no matter how much the tokyo power electric company dilutes the treated water,

making it below standard and discharging it into the ocean. they cannot say that it is okay to go. we are concerned that farmers and fishermen will be very badly affected because they will be discharging contaminated water into the sea for 40 years. and then with that we have held many demonstrations and rallies. and we believe that the biggest problem here is the state of democracy. i am still very angry at the government's heavy handed approach, which does not reflect or represent the will of the people a lot is are up for this news hour, but don't go too far. has more programs to get going in moment. i'm you know, native from the rti team and myself ah, ah, ah,

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ah, ah, ah. hello and welcome to cross stock. were all things are considered on peter labelle. the one aspect about the ongoing conflict in ukraine that stands out most is media coverage. never in the history of corporate media has coverage been so biased, one sided, it does not stop, they are questioning the standard narrative is akin to treason and subject to censorship and cancellation. ah, to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guess, vladimir goldstein in peppered hill. he is the chair of the department of slavic

studies at brown university and in our school we have one decent. he is a professor at the university of southeastern norway as well as author of the russo phobia propaganda in international politics. originally crossed across the fact that means you can jump any time you want, and i would appreciate it. i would start out with plan here in our slow, you know, one of the things in looking at media coverage. and that's what i do for a living like cover on western media primarily. and you know, when it comes to the conflict in ukraine going on 5 months, you really don't really learn much about the conflict. instead they to, when they're trying to convince you how to feel about the conflict there is lacking that context is lacking. i'm even geographical knowledge is for the scant and, and there's reliance upon vogue magazine, a photo shouts of the ukrainian president and his wife. i mean, in that seat of my stressing how to feel it is easier to get away with outcomes to