what we're facing, which is fascist, ah. with a at least 30 people are reportedly killed and over 700 wounded in clashes in bagdad following the retirement from politics of the leading shia cleric who opposes us influencing iraq. more than 1200 ukrainian trooper killed in a box defensive ordered by president lensky in the country south. according to russia, i see you and say 6000000 afghans on the verge of famine, as washington refuses to release more than 3000000000 dollars about gun guns frozen with

a very welcome business. international with the latest world news that date it's good to have the when i was thought where the rock, where at least 30 people have reportedly been killed and over 700 wounded in clashes between protest does and or forty's, and the green zone of baghdad. the protest, this storm, the government offices on monday and supportive leading opposition, shia cleric mac tada asada were now his final retirement from politics limited power. struggle in the country. early on tuesday, the cleric edge to supported to leave the street within an hour. melissa protest are starting to disperse shortly on the local jenise moves the new bill with the latest front desk after a mass of the flesh which lawsuit for 16 hours. not good. now, with

a countless, after the speech of looked off, saw the withdrawal, the processors from the green zone stopping the fire. this place for us and witness heavy flashes heavy fire lots. now the security forces cleaning the, i'm for doing all the t was backed up all the flight the security forces working on opening the streets to reduce the traffic, jump on the back, the people to bring life back. as before, this spite of the conflict politician conflict between the leadership book that our father and the cord initial frame or the unless began as follow and storms. the republican palace k meetings, place for a rocky heads of state and 4 in thickness. harry's units on the regular rocky army has been deployed across bond ground with the state supported using live pool. it's

on pick up to get the crown the latest on rest response. when solder knows he's quitting political life and closing his offices, he thought he has been unable to form a government despite having one of the largest number of the federal laws. taber saw the support of being processing and supporting his call for a new national was taught al solder is the founder of the sandra to movement, walk leading. is she a political group? it became a symbol of resistance to the us led invasion in 2003 and helpful militia to fight american troops during that capacious upper rock. it also wanted by the u. s. government over, he's a lead role in the killing of a washington sheer rival in 2003 in the wake of the american invasion and occupation of his country, mac todd outside, went on to record with some dumbing criticism of washington. bush reportedly said that his picture will be hung in every iraqi house. no, no, my dear,

your picture is now under iraqi. the popularity the united states is diminishing day by day if not every 2nd. we reject the presence of the american army, or even the awnings by the us forces we reject them. we view this as an active occupation. what is a good discuss? the ongoing events were joined now live by. sarah found this as long as the co director of the international action center many thanks for joining us on the program. really appreciate your time. now. 100 said to the streets, often called outside to announce his resignation, is a very passionate and very loyal supporters. obviously, why do you think he has so much influence and support from the iraqi people? well, china, i'll sana, has always focused on the real problem facing iraq, which is c u. s. occupation the u. s. a war on iraq, the u. s. imposed constitution in iraq, which every ministry,

every line item in the budget controlled by a different political party, a different force. it was set up to keep the iraqi people divided dysfunctional and unable to form a cohesive government. so this has been a long struggle to get the us out. it's hundreds of thousands of troops that were there in occupation from troops. the contractors, mercenaries, every form possible and still today in iraq and still today consciously being horse of vision. they really have, they grow the secular constitution and previously existed in iraq and set up the structure intended to keep people completely divided and fighting among themselves is called dividing rule. it's away, us strive, energy functions and countries around the world. it's the plans that they have from

russia to china or the french, and pose in lebanon, or something, syria and again, and again, it's how to keep people local people at each other's throats, fighting each other over the crumbs. and at the same time, not able to function, and this is what is continuing like in a law today. what kind of government not just twos elected, but is there a government? and that is a government of unity of reconciliation. i'll saw that, you know, he's longer stood against the us presence in iraq. do you think this view is said by many people in iraq? well, he had the overwhelming majority of the votes in the last iraqi election. and yet, given the set up, the structure of the constitution was unable to form

a government, even though he had the highest number of votes. so it certainly shared widely in iraq and understanding of the problem imposed on them. and also, and understanding that the different militias which now the claim this group or that is ronnie and we should just remember that it was the us who assassinated the iranian general. so the money when he came on a piece mission reconciliation with all of the iraqi forces and he was assassinated and 7 iraqi ministers along with him. so that's another example where it is us created division fascination, the structure of 40 to keep the right people divided the cleric he called were sold for an independent to walk. to what extent did the us

led invasion have an impact on the country's national identity and how do you think this can be overcome? well, it had a huge impact on their country's identity. as i say, it changed everything because when the us occupation came in, everyone needed a new identity card where you had to be identified by religion, nationality language. she has sunni, christian, arab kurdish. it was all there on every single identity card, which many iraqis had not in generations really considered an important part of their identity. suddenly, where you could go where you could live and what, what agency provided funding for you. what party provided funding was all decided by this u. s. created. it's really been an owner, is

a horrible continuation of the occupation. and i, i think that the psalms will continue until the constitution, the whole structure set up by the us world. and all the us we've seen are still keeps 2500 hoops. and the more contract you see i just trainers and all sorts of others in iraq. sarah flanders, k director of the international action center many thanks for your time. really appreciate your insight. thank you. for to ukraine now, 1200 of cares. troops have been killed and have failed offensive in the countries south. according to russia's defense ministry, moscow say the ukrainians also lost $48.00 tanks and almost a 100 other armored vehicles after trying to advance on 3 fronts at once. and being beaten back by the russian military. the bulged offensive is said to have been

ordered by president zalinski and came amid intensified ukrainian shelling of civilian infrastructure and southern regions which are controlled by russia. one of the latest attacks has a key bridge in the kirsten region, this unverified amateur footage appears to show the immediate aftermath of the bombing. the bridge is mainly used by civilians. local authorities of set up an alternative pontoon bridge to help people across. but it's been also been shown by ukraine's army and in the neighboring zap rosier region, local russian, back to authority say ukraine has once again showed the city of america in your, on your screen. now the aftermath of a previous attack, which wounded 9 people on sunday, and other diaries located near zap, rosie a nuclear power plant, which is expected to be visited by a delegation from the international atomic energy agency. later this week. and i thought of the facility was formed multiple times with russia blaming ukraine for attacking the site which could spark

a nuclear disaster. we got reaction from some of the local residents. this is of this is horrifying. i have no words. this is over the top. they're just shelling civilian scope. this is complete lawlessness. it almost looks after the explosions and fires we began to look around the whole. they found these shell fragments, and there is a hole on the 2nd floor where i found even more fragments, which have been sent to law enforcement authorities. and now to dumbass, where russia lead forces are intensifying their offensive to take back major strongholds held by ukraine. ortiz egleston reports from the front lines. ah drone footage is become a fundamental part of the when ukraine. it helps a just artillery fire. it helps confirm hits. it strips the enemy of morale on

the outskirts of the town of solid r. there's no rest for ukrainian and russian. how it says we are basically in the epicenter of an artillery duel between the russians and the ukrainians. in fact, the positions of both sides are so close that we can only hear has the shells it like that the russian side, but we can hear the ukrainians firing them. so essentially we can follow the whole root of any shell coming from the ukranian side from the moment it was fired to the point just like that to the point when it was over our heads and and as it heads somewhere close in the vicinity of the russian artillery positions

. bloody gruesome street fights within the town limits have slowed down russia's advance in solid r to a trickle ground. troops are relying on artillery support to clear the way, but keep troops realised that to while on other parts of the front, russia out shells ukraine, roughly $20.00 to $1.00. here the ratio is way more close. ukrainian shows blow a black smoke at an uncomfortable distance. offices on the ground q our escape, the moment a brief flow comes amid the storm. ah, ah mm, i'm a girl down of reporting from the don bass r t. washington claims is worried about the unfolding european energy crisis is promising to help deal with the threats of potential shortages which have been

prompted by us. lead sanctions. a top white house aide says he's confident that europe's commitment to ukraine will last be affected. despite the use problems on the home front, we're concerned about potential energy shortages in europe as the winter approaches . will be latched up with allies and partners to try to do what we can to alleviate any shortages coming through. what we see from a diplomatic perspective, what we see on the economic front, and frankly, what we see on the security assistance front is an impressive and absolutely unchanged sense of resolve in unity over supporting ukraine. well, i'm afraid it looks like it's now europe's turn to find out that washington's promises aren't worth the paper on which they are written. in a letter that the wall street journal editorial board has described as bullying, u. s. energy secretary jennifer granholm has instructed the nation's top refiners, including exxon shelby p and chevron, to refrain from exporting fuel at a time when america is european allies are in deep need,

given the historic level of u. s. refined product exports. i again urge you to focus in the near term on building inventories in the united states, rather than selling down current stocks and further increasing exports. granholm cited quote, historically low inventory levels of gasoline and diesel in parts of the country as the justification for looking out for america's interest. first. the last thing that biden and the democratic party need right now heading into the november mid term elections is a fuel shortage. that risks handing victory to the republicans. brussels was led straight down the garden path by washington and sanctioning its own cheap gas supply from russia. recalled back on june 27th, that the e u and the white house issued a joint statement saying that they were quote, working together to find ways to further reduce rushers, energy derived revenues in the coming months. and that quote, the united states and the european commission have made important strides towards

reducing the european union's dependence on russian fossil fuels by decreasing natural gas demand co operating on energy efficiency technologies and diversifying enter supplies. great. so where's the help from america now? well, the truth is that washington just doesn't currently have the infrastructure to meet europe's massive needs and faces environmental pressure against any such expansion . so the e u, a stuck having to run door to door world wide begging for gas while the u. s. energy secretary tells it's few companies, kids turn off the lights, hide behind the couch and pretend that no one's home, especially if it's that you guy looking for energy. meanwhile, here in france, prime minister, elizabeth bona just told an annual meeting of the country's corporate executives to draw up quote, energy sobriety plans. oh, we're all just so drunk on energy here. we need a sobriety plan. so basically, the french government has now resorted to treating its corporate citizens like

drugs in a pub at last call and threatening to cut them off with rationing. speaking of hubs, there was in the u. k. now risk mass closure over energy costs. by the way, the ceo of multinational shell oil and gas company isn't sounding too optimistic about any of this. it may well be that we have a number of winters where we have to somehow find solutions through efficiency savings through rationing and a very, very quick build out of alternatives that this is going to be some how easy over i think is a fantasy that we should put aside easy to say for a guy making around 6000000 british pounds each year to dictate how the working class ought to live in sacrifice. or for us energy, secretary, gran home or for western establishment deletes who don't struggle to cover basic living costs as they skyrocket. it's a scam, but they don't care because they know they personally will escape the consequences of their own policies. so when the french president announces that his people are

facing the end of abundance, he's not talking about himself. he is not facing the end of abundance. none of them are mac crone, and all of them understand they will always be and always be protected. they know that for certain, washington is looking out for its own interest. first and foremost, an individual member states should consider following hungry example in doing what's best for their own people, you know, hungry with it's new nuclear reactor announcement built with russia and it's new gas deals with russia. they should be looking out for their own people and independently securing their own energy needs before it's too late. next to bring to the latest on afghanistan and the trials and tribulations of its civilians who are still struggling to pay their lives back together. a year after the disastrous u. s. military withdrawal left that country. and countess, ah,

according to a recent poll, 50 percent of americans think the war in afghanistan was a mistake. the u. s. senate has also criticized the buys administration for the hasty withdrawal describing the box pullouts as the legacy of american betrayal. ortiz donald quota, asthma people clinging on to a plane for dear life, only to fall to their deaths, a suicide bombing chaos that was kabul one year ago, as the u. s. withdrew its troops from afghanistan, that was, according to joe biden, a success 20000 people evacuated to safety. that numbers more than double. what most expert solar possible. no nation, no nation has ever done anything like it in all history. the only the united states had the capacity to will believe you to do it and we did it today. if biden's disorderly withdrawal succeeded in doing anything,

it was depriving the u. s. puppet government in couple of any chance to defend itself in the run up to the pull out u. s. air support for the afghan military was cut off. american troops, abandoned bagram air base without even warning the afghan commander there. all the while washington knew the country, security forces would only be ready to act on their own. no sooner than 2030. it's no surprise. the afghan military just cut and ran. special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction found that the single most important factor in the afghan national defense insecurity. fos is collapse in august 2021 was the u. s. decision to withdraw military forces and contractors from afghanistan. these events destroyed foster's morale. in a matter of days, kabul fell to the taliban. once it did, thousands of people were left behind afghan collaborators, even american citizens, to fend for themselves against islamic fundamentalism. the failure of senior biden's administration leadership to plan for this fateful day resulted in

a rush to vacuum nation of hundreds of thousands of americans, 3rd country, nationals, and afghans. it left behind hundreds, possibly thousands of american citizens. tens of thousands of afghan partners and a legacy of american betrayal of allies. this failure of leadership cost u. s. military personal lives and has left tens of thousands behind to an uncertain fight on the taliban control. it wasn't long before outrage ensued across the political spectrum in washington. president barnes was today was hollow, while the american left behind is want to manny the fact to his president biden. the bands and american son of yellowstone living them at the mercy of the taliban. and isis k, the president made the morally indefensible decision to leave americans behind dishonor was the president's choice. may history never forget this cowardice elton . it is clear to me that we could not continue to put american service members in danger for an unreasonable war. i also believe that the vacation process appears to

have been egregiously mishandled. i think it has been an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions. this is going to be a stain on this president in this presidency. i think he is going to have blood on his hands for what they did. 20 years of military occupation over $2.00 trillion taxpayer dollars down the drain. hundreds of thousands of people killed at the end of it all. us back president ashcroft gone? he fled the country and was accused by afghan officials of taking millions of dollars with him. the same man that washington itself described as paranoid and undermining for morale. a year later, the u. s. still refuses to come to terms with its failure from the virginia state senator, which had black as the u. i should never have waited into afghanistan in the 1st place. withdraw was chaotic perhaps a little bit more that it should have been hard to have it all but we would leave. and it was inevitable that the departure would be k arctic from the very beginning

. this was a puppet government collapse was inevitable. and in a sense, the african armies rapid collapse was somewhat of a blessing because it avoided perhaps a year or 2 unnecessary bloodshed. this government has always been a mirror facade. and the instant that we cease to prop it up and collapse, american people had been convinced to invest fabulous sums of money that went into swiss bank accounts or, or arms manufacturers. and for wealthy politicians, the president iraq afghanistan, reportedly fled with $150000000.00. the fact is we never should have been there. we were in, in violent conflict with the culture of, of afghan, a, stan, we were flying the rainbow, sodomy,

flag over the american embassy. and we were just in the terrible conflict with the way that the people live. and during much of the time that we were transitioning to create this afghan army, about a 3rd of all us casualties. people killed in afghanistan were killed by the same troops that were trying to train. so it was just a disaster. the u. s. was grotesquely overstretch there. our problem was that we ever occupied afghanistan, which has always been the graveyard of nations. the un humanitarian chief cause the urgent aid for the people of afghanistan, where 6000000 people are at risk of famine and 900000000 face acute food insecurity . afghanistan is a humanitarian crisis,

but it's not only that. it's an economic crisis. it's a climate crisis. it's a hunger crisis, it's a financial crisis. poverty is deepening, the population is still growing, and the de facto authorities have no budget to invest in their own future. it's clear to us, i'm sure it's clear to all of us that some development support needs to be restarted. but you won't save more than $700000000.00 as needed to help us guns survive the coming winter months. with more than half of the population, requiring humanitarian assistance, more than 3000000 children are acutely malnourished enough gun histone and the you and warns many could die without treatment. for the us rule, don't really thing 3 point. $5000000000.00 in frozen, asked on sunday, anytime soon. the much needed cash is part of a total of $7000000000.00 that has been held in the federal reserve bank since the taliban returns power last year, jamal. what came professor of history and international relations say the us must help us get this done. as they caused the crisis in the 1st place,

the united states has an expedient offer freezing assets, other countries without being responsible, without being liable. god, i don't know why the united nations which act upon the command of the united states doesn't that the united states in the previous under the crisis, the united states, to quote that because they were the cause of the crisis, not only the invasion of the country in 2002, but also before the since the late like in $7980.00 the united states, left us done in this situation in order to serve as boiling water. that's what the southern lives neighboring companies to buy. and i believe that the united states will act sorts of any effort to relieve the country. as always,

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