[000:00:00;00] ah ah, breaking news, this our officials in done yet accused. he evolved targeting at the acer in the city, while local to commemorate slain female militia commander, leaving at least 5 people dead on 6 in the separate attack on the hotel assistant to come on working for r. t was left with concussion, washington morgan's china, and not to escalate the situation in taiwan into a crisis after you asked how i speaker nancy pelosi visit to be out in the territory. outside of beijing begins large scale military exercises and holds trade

with tied pe. found in an exclusive interview with r t former austrian foreign minister car in can i so sharon, she was forced to flee europe after facing death threats over her ties with rush hour force 5 very of a have to put them rush. i have to take the sent from president, put then you have to request that you and i had contact with president fulton. i said, i'm not going to do all that with just after 3 pm here in moscow this thursday, august, the 4th, my name is unit only on this is the news our on our we begin with breaking news from the done yet people's republic, where officials say 5 people have been killed and at least 6 injured in ukrainian

shelling of the done yes. capital. including the service for a slain female military commander. a warning you may find the following image is disturbing. according to local official, some 10 project dials hit, the city center damaging several buildings including the dunbar, politics. hello. that's where a journalist, a number of them were based on assistant to an rti camera man. he was injured during the shelling. others believed to have suffered concussion. the strikes happened before a commemoration service for the slain commander had begun. enough theatre with all those present, evacuated to shelters. canadian journalist even barclay, who normally escape being hit at by the shelling, spoke to the program earlier. the 1st blast occurred around 10 20 am in a series of blast within

a few minutes when things calm down internally started going outside to document the damage. there was unfortunately one dead woman just outside the hotel. i was actually in the hotel when it started. i was working and when after the 1st 3 very strong explosions, i went to the hotel lobby. and at the time that the assistant to the camera man was injured, that was the 5th blast, a very powerful blast right next to the hotel. i had just stepped back from the, from the lobby, so thankfully, i'm sorry that he was injured, but yeah, that's, that's where i was at the time. and about an hour prior, i had been working in the room that took the most damage because the hotel is journalist, go to it because at the central location and that has powerful why fi and those are tools that we need. so i'm pretty sure that you knows that this is a hotel that journalists to stay and i don't think that this is accidental. it's now calm. but people are, of course, on edge knowing that 50 percent is struck the center already

a few times. that could happen at any moment. eva bartlett's so now, just hours after those strikes, locals remain panic stricken. some of him lost loved ones in the attack, and understandably, were unable to hold back their emotions. sonya, i have no documents to prove. we are relatives, but this is my granddaughter and here lives my wife. the projectile flew here. boom . the shell struck the theatre in the don bass palace was 2 civilians, and one member of the military were killed. the blast tor, the civilians, apart and char just flew past me. i feel incredible emotion. i hope no one ever experiences anything like that. you have to publish that. i came out from a shop after the blast, which forced every one to hide in a basement. we have no idea what's next, whether there will be further attacks. yeah, just harling testimony, isn't it? our tease from one culture he's in and yet sc of well, he has been for some time and has more now and what else was hit in today's attack

. once again, multiple districts have been shelled in the city of the nest including the very center of the city, of course. so don bass palace hotel where many journalist, including foreigners, are staying and as well as a drama theater, which is located just about a 100 meters away from where we are. now, this is not the 1st time that said the nest has been shell. this has been happening over the last 8 years. continuously of course shelling had intensified over the last few months since the start of a special military operation. now local officials believed that the the reason for 2 days shelling was at the funeral. all for colonel, all got euro, who was killed on her return from a mission in girl of god. of course, she's been given the honor of the hero of the nest people's republic, as well as an honor of the hero of russia,

which was assigned by president vladimir putin and local officials. believe that this is exactly why ukraine decided to show the center of the city to disrupt her funeral. let's take a listen. look at it. we should probably have expected that this would happen, that such a service would not have been allowed to take place so easily. i think the ukrainians targeted the theater. how ukrainian officials have issued their own statement saying that they are not to blame for the deaths of civilians in the center of don't ask and that the army is not to blame for the shelling of the center of the city. as in that they never, ever target civilians or civilian infrastructure. however, the reality on the ground is very different. we've been working here for the last 8 years and hundreds, literally hundreds of people have been killed in the last 2 or 4 months alone as a result of ukrainian artillery shilling. and there are plenty of fun. there's

plenty of proof and expertise on of that as well. now we're wait, finds out what exactly the nest was shelled with. a local officials are saying that reportedly ukraine used high caliber 155 millimeter natal made rockets. and we did find a few of fragments of the shell that landed in the last palace hotel. we've already taken the pictures and footage of that senator specialists, and we will find out exactly what that rocket was. well, human rights lawyer and member of germany's left party, martin told her essays, the shelling of civilian areas is a war crime and goes against international humanitarian law. this is a law crime in civilian areas law. they shouldn't be h and especially if there are like the s or berries, theaters, everything my back is not

a legitimate target in the wall. so we can talk of the clear walk. and i think the ukranian president says you didn't do that strike. that is actually the critic saying so is a bit cynic wall as always true, but there is. ready tall and international, and international humanitarian law. and this is a key abuse of that. now, the global human rights organization, i'm this, the international has said, ukrainian forces have use schools, hospitals, and other civil objects as basis for their troops. let's go through this and board detail. the organization states. the country has been endangering its own civilians by putting not only troops, but also weapons systems in residential areas, branding to move, quote,

a violation of humanitarian law. the secretary general about the international also said that ukraine to the organization has documented war crime violations by key f. once again, former hamburg parliamentarian martin daughter spoke to the program on this. he believes it's a systemic strategy of the ukrainian armed forces to target them. so you look at it from the national military law and abuse against that because it's not allowed in the conflict. i mean, i mean i mean i. ready i believe that he does a solution on dialogue with the solution every was causing weekend spot. this is a strategy of systematic lead damaging the civil population, the general this as well, if we look at it now, what is the national recall?

finally, it's the report of the civilians and the area a long time. yes, soldiers of the ukrainian systematically use to use hospitals use civilian areas to station that troops or even to station some kind of rocket throws and other items. ok, let's move on now to another of our headlines stories. direct words today from the chinese foreign ministry who have called us actions in taiwan. a well planned force . the ministry under the such boat provocations are not accidental and will be met with a response to what he will in the us is acting treacherously on the taiwan issue. blatantly playing with fire and blatantly becoming an enemy of one point. 4000000000 chinese people and they will not come to a good end. well, the chinese army, they are currently involved in large scale,

military exercises striking targets in the eastern taiwan straits in those war games. it comes of the u. s. tries to don't play house speaker nancy pelosi, a recent visit to taiwan, saying there's no reason for busying to overreact. there is no reason for aging to turn this visit, which is consistent with long standing us policy and into some sort of crisis. our case nicky are in being taking a closer look at the consequences of miss ba lucy's visit to time pay. toner is already taking action as it warned it would fall out from pelosi as well when trip has been swift and brutal. quite rightly. people are asking the question, we have seen the chinese authorities take multiple economic actions against individual kinds of these companies. an entire sectors of the economy. here, taiwan has already paid your visit and is likely to continue to do so with the

coming days and weeks. what concrete tangible benefits can be promised high one, offset the cost of your trip. a tricky question. slickly deflected because she knew exactly what she'd done. and americans have made a bit of a habit of doing things like this. throwing others under the bus in service of their own goals. and the consequences over this brief trip are already taking hold global markets. so spooked and the largest military drills around tie one in decades. ah. but it might prove that the economic measures imposed by china will hurt taiwan. the most fading has already banned imports from $35.00 taiwanese exports plus restrictions on some fruit and fish. and we might not sound like a big deal,

the ban on son to which the island was already short of plus if a key component of ty, one's greatest export semiconductors, which have not be mentioned. well, not yet. if aging does decide to go further, people on the streets will be sure to feel it. china is tie, one's largest trading partner after role. so is it any wonder that there were people in taiwan who weren't engaging in the pillow? see, love fest 90 pill. what do you mean below? see what the hell i doing here right now? come all the way here to sport the 2. these people support yourself. you want to support us to fight against the peoples of the race. army americans always ask us to let more to when he's people joined the army. whenever you come to, to winds, or want us to buy more weapons from you and fight against the people's liberation army and urban terrain. it's none of your business. i hate to support taiwan or to provoke a war one. how are you doing here? below see the relationship between the mainland and taiwan is already very tense. you're supporting taiwan, but we don't need your support. you are literally pairing oil on the flames. you

only make things worse. so who did this flying with its 1st, was simply pelosi. he wanted to be pictured a charing tie. pay before he attention. he gets kicked out this november, or was it the war hawks in washington hooping ratcheting got the anti china rhetoric for months now? oh, and of course, the military industrial complex, the very heart of american foreign policy. american officials have been quietly pressing their tie when he's counterparts to buy weapons suitable for a symmetric warfare. a conflict in which is smaller, military uses mobile systems to conduct lethal strikes on a much bigger force. they could say what it has here is a win win. not only does it make money on selling weapons, but it also has a leaf or us weapons at the ready in the region. should it decide it needs them? as we know, tie one would be the 1st to pay the price for the policy, the dc warhawks, people in afghanistan, all starving because the government can't access its own money,

which is frozen by the us. those tens of thousands of venezuelans have paid the ultimate price for the u. s. as punitive sanctions. and then there's the ukranian people who critic say dying needlessly, just in american porn in the u. s. proxy war with russia. but apparently in the long run, it's always a price worth paying. we have heard half a 1000000 children of god. i mean, that's more children than died when we're in here a shame. and you know, if the price worth it, i think this is a very hard choice, but the price we think the price is worth it. so now have tie one and pelosi won't even give it a 2nd thought she got her photo after all. maybe a good idea to add some background here. washington has been supplying the island with arms for years with even talk of a covert nuclear program in taiwan to deter

a potential chinese attack allied to that the u. s. has increased, it's all official military presence on the territory significantly since the turn of the decade that say included sending hundreds of millions of dollars worth of literally to type pay while officially sticking to it's $1.00 china policy. we discussed the controversial us actions with scott ritter, a former un weapons inspector in iraq. there is no doubt that the united states has been disingenuous in the implementation of its stated policy objectives. that had been agreed upon with china regarding non interference in the internal affairs of china. centered around the one china policy, words don't match actions, that's the problem. the united states continues to claim to china that it is supporting a policy of one china. but it's words and in what it's doing are completely

different in china has been calling out the united states for some time. now, warning that statements made by the united states government officials are very dangerous and that the united states needs to carefully reconsider the rhetoric. it doesn't appear that this is a deliberate act by the united states to provoke china. it appears that the binded ministration is in the midst of policy chaos and nancy pelosi has exploited this in a very precipitous manner scarf or at her while after her meeting with a tie when he's president earlier this week and nancy pelosi made some muddled remarks. the u. s. representative cited benjamin franklin, but confused a famous quotes on the unity of liberty and safety. benjamin franklin, the presidency, said, freedom and democracy, freedom and democracy. one thing security here. if we don't have,

we can't have it either. if we don't have both, almost while her trip came with words of hope, freedom, security, and unity. the high speaker was criticized by many for making the contentious stop on the island territory. which really has driven a further, a bigger wage in relations between china and the u. s. r been voted, former vice chair for the libertarian national committee discuss with us the american meddling in asia politics. well right now, the united states hasn't understood that you can have an opinion without committing to an 80 arctic policy. was in my opinion, that taiwan should be a completely free and independent nation. but i'm not willing to commit us soldiers to it. i'm not willing to commit us taxpayers do it. that's just an opinion or get a hold of what i think an ideal world would be like. and nancy pelosi is completely right to express her opinion. the problem is the way that the u. s. government is running right now, a foreign policy is opinions, seeing that they need to turn into military expensive, costly,

military action immediately. and that's where i see the problem. right now the united states is over spending on a lot of just stupid and pointless welfare and military programs. and those are all expensive programs. and in order to fund them there borrowing a lot of money from china. now, if china ever refused all over the debt, the united states would be in a huge situation that have to cut back a lot of these programs. so in order to keep wasting money on the stupid programs, they have to stay on good terms with china. so that's why they're even though 99.999 percent of americans agree that taiwan should be a separate country. the federal government can't really say so publicly because they're financially dependent on china to fund their stupid welfare programs or made western tension surrounding really all things. russia, many people who refuse to cut ties,

but the country face enormous pressure among them. former austrian foreign minister current can i saw, who received death threats before fleeing to lebanon. art talk with her, and her life has changed in recent months. the full entry you can be seen, and later this hour here already, the rationality in dealing with russia has always been around. but ever since february 24th, of course, it gains once more and intensity. and in february, i was quite grateful that i happened to be in france and knelt anymore in austria. and i was forced by various parts of public institutions. you have to condemn russia. you have to take distance from president, put then you have to regret that you ever had context. president putting to said, i'm not going to do all that. yeah, no, i'm not going to condemn i take this stands and it's not my style. i never was in politics. i don't consider myself as a gentleman, politician. i wasn't about running for a party, but i also found out in

a very harsh way that nobody would ever open them out for me. i'm an easy target and i am by myself. if anybody's trying is deciding to cut down all my bank accounts, then i'm lost and nobody would care. people still believe that i am either austria because dow lots of requests. the other day i got a request from a kurdish party. they wanted to ask me to help them with context and also trans on as many people are still under the impression that i'm in austria and others who have followed a little bit to the back who they believe i'm wasting money on my in my villas, in southern france, if you want to confuse the enemy down up many who know or who have realized that i am a lebanon, may also believe that i'm in russia, that i'm cross running the propaganda and this is for you. and that this c, p. c said to, i will call it the europe. i grew up in freedom,

legal predictability, security doesn't exist anymore. and things proceed to way the proceeds now in many european countries, in terms of blackouts here in lebanon. people know how to live with blackouts. i know how to live with 23 hours of electricity, but this is not the case for many used societies. so maybe in the very end, i was even lucky to come to 11 on even so i didn't come out of choice. she asked me what would have to happen that i should go back. i would say a lot of people will have to say, sorry, we apologize for what we said about you for what we did against you. and 1st, i would expect them to apologize and not to make my life impossible. just to let you know that full chat can be watched here, owner in 5 minutes time. another story though,

in the meantime to bring you washington's brand of increasingly real pull sick foreign policy has seemed to us approved new armed seals to saudi arabia to country around as well as criticize the recent constitutional vote and to nicea, while at the same time supplying arms to julius are to kill him up and tells deeper into the approach. washington is always extolling the values of democracy regime change operations are presented as defending freedom and opposing dictatorship. this is caused us officials to call out some of their allies. here's what joe biden said about saudi arabia. we were not going to in fact sell more weapons to them. we were running in fact, to make them pay the price and make, and in fact, the pariah that they are. talk, talk for sure. but that hasn't stopped them from selling huge amounts of weapons to re odd. the proposed sale will improve the kingdom of saudi arabia as capability to meet current and future threats by replenishing it's dwindling. stock of patriot

jim t missiles, the new weapon, the sales to this so called pariah add up to roughly $3000000000.00. the united states has also been critical of tunisia. we strongly support the democratic aspirations of the chinese people and inclusive and transparent reform process is crucial to restore the confidence of the millions of tunisians w h. o. either did not participate in the recent referendum, alar oppose the new constitution. tunisia has experienced an alarming erosion of democratic norms over the past year and reversed many of the 2 nation people's hard one gain since 2011. but again, criticism of tunisia is secondary to a large flow of u. s. arms sales to the government of tenicia from us weapons manufacturers. many of the united states were hoping joe biden could convince saudi arabia to increase the crew production output and drive the price of oil down. now, saudi arabia will be increasing output a little bit,

but not enough to drive down the prices for september. now, while the oil may not be flowing as desired, us made weapons certainly are makes you wonder what the priorities of us officials really are. caleb martin r t new york just alma point retired us are a force lieutenant colonel current could. tusky says u. s. foreign policy is less about promoting democracy and more about exerting global influence on power protection. i think the hypocrisy does lead to a drop in trust, but i don't think there's that much trust there to begin with. i think the saudi government understands exactly what they're dealing with with the united states. i follow the money. i think the defense industry is the biggest export that the united states has even bigger than energy and even bigger than agriculture. and tunisia specifically is an example of

a country that has been extremely useful to the united states, certainly as a recipient of military hardware. america's role in the world to, to control things to interfere with countries that are doing what we tell them to do. this is where fundamental power is exercised politically in this country. and so they're not about democracy. they are about influence armed sales and having allies that will obey. yes, promised a former, a foreign minister of austria. speak to our phoenix, then car in. can i so story? well, it is truly i opening counts, the chub, the latest one list,

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