a with a biased and politically motivated verdict against russia that's moscow's reaction to the higgs decision. which bound 3 suspects, including 2 russian guilty in the 2014 accidental downing a flight. and the 17 republicans fledge an audit, a financial assistance sent to ukraine. that's after the party takes control of the house of representatives, saying every cent allocated to kiev will be scrutinized. a former polish mayor calls the missiles crash and the countries is premium provocation to drum up foreign weapons supplies and still maintains it has nothing to do with the incident

in east africa, climate release of migration and displacement. instead, we become a way of like this play the whole country only a mixing 0 point one percent of global admissions. the people pay ahead the price as the car 27th on that wrapped up africa continues to suffer the effects of climate change. weaving many on the continent uncertain of their future with from lost out of the world. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories of the hour. welcome to the program. we begin with the ruling in the case of the mh 17 plane disaster. a dutch court has sentence 3 people to life in prison in absentia for the unintentional downing of the plane, which was shot down over the don bass in 2014. the suspects 2 russians,

and one ukrainian have denied their involvement. a 4th defendant, a russian national has been acquitted. here's how the court described its decision . there's not one of them. you see the defense presented as an argument that the prosecutor's office has a constantly one sided view which has been upheld throughout the entire investigation. useful. the essence of the defense line is that the prosecutor's office has adopted the point of view of the ukrainians. special services from that point is that the prosecutor received many materials from ukraine security services . however, the prosecutor's office has also carried out its own investigation and has confirmed the origin of the materials provided. that was the judge reading some of the reasoning behind the acquittal of the 4th suspect in this trial of russian citizen. and he was acquitted because there wasn't enough evidence to link him to the deployment of the massage, or that he could have done anything to prevent it. when we have the other suspects,

we have 2 russian citizens and one ukrainian and they were convicted of murder and for kaufman aircraft crash. there was sentence in the fancy or life imprisonment and ordered to pay 16000000 euros to the families of the victims. the court found that m a 17, was brought down by a russian made missiles that was fired from a form field, a bit of a mice in eastern ukraine. and that those 3, the russians in one ukrainian were responsible for transporting the message from allegedly, a military base in russia, ukraine, and then back after the tragedy. according to the judge, all intercepted conversations between the suspects are legitimate. however, they cannot prove that this was a coordinated effort that they work this part of a team. and also it's clear who pulled the trigger if you will. they don't know that. and there is no evidence pointed to either one of the 3 men that they have

convicted. the suspects have 2 weeks. the convicted, i should say, now have 2 weeks to file an appeal. we'll see if they do that. but what's interesting is that the said that this is not a case all of an international conflict. we've already seen some experts come out and say that there was surprise that russia's alleged role in this was downplayed, which is of what they saw. they thought that their response from the hague, the verdict would be much harsh, and definitely that did not expect that we would see any russian citizens acquitted . so here we have at least one the attorney, the acquitted, defend net says he wants to know why not all of their racket from the aircraft was analyzed by western investigators. it was not taken into account by the court, but we don't know why. and that's the problem of this summary verdict. so to say, therefore, we have to read the whole verdict in writing, but i'm very anxious to know why our,

our arguments were not followed by the court. and the problem is that didn't on sure, let's say our arguments in our views and please on, on those aspects or rushes weren't ministry, has slammed the dutch courts and judgment calling it a bias and politically motivated ruling against moscow. in passing its judgment, the court preferred to ignore the fact that all the conclusions of the dutch prosecutor's office are based on the testimony of anonymous witnesses, whose identities are classified as well as on information of dubious origin and materials transmitted from the interested party. the s b u, which has been repeatedly convicted of providing false contradictory information. we deeply regret that the district court of the hague has neglected the principles of impartial justice in favor of the current political situation, thereby dealing a serious reputational blow to the entire judicial system of the netherlands. independent dutch journalists, sonya vanden, and believes that the trial was unprecedented in dutch legal history. it was

a show trial because 1st of all, they did not really do a thoroughly investigation in the beginning, and the malays required that was not allowed even to go to the place of the accident later on. they were allowed smith. yeah, it was to be expected that this show a trial it would be like did, and the think it to, unprecedented in just that curious dixon that used to ignore defects and this is what they are doing. the radar evidence was never taking into account. it was never it taken as a piece of evidence also. it just they didn't take into account and it actually wasn't ukrainian defect matters. what was found at the wreckage, where the numbers often ukrainian bark 7379. so actually, you know, it's and ukrainian good fella. so straight away they blamed russia, russia it is,

and that's it actually. so i think this whole trial is candy shoot. start with old pieces of evidence. they have from both sides. and then you can speak about a real fair trial and this is not, haven't nancy pelosi has announced she will not be running for reelection as a leader of the house. democrats. that's after republicans won the house majority in the mid term elections. and with great confidence in our caucus, i will not seek reelection to democratic leadership in the next congress for made the hours come for a new generation to lead the democratic caucus that i so deeply respect for more on as well as cross live now to r t correspondent, caleb mop and now kayla. but what is the outlook for the new u. s. political landscape given nancy pelosi is recent announcement. well, the democrats have just lost control of the us house of representatives. the house

of representatives is the lower chamber of the u. s congress the legislative body and it was republicans that have re taken control of it in the mid term elections. now nancy pelosi was functioning as the speaker of the house, the leader of the majority party in the house of representatives. she was the 1st female speaker of the house, and she, as announced that not only will she be losing her seat because the democrats will no longer have the majority. but as you just heard, when he will be leaving the leadership of the democratic party in congress, there will be a new, a leader of the democratic party in the house of representatives elect. ringback now what's interesting is, as the republicans are coming in, they are saying while they don't want revenge, this is not about getting revenge. they want some answers and it appear that the republicans that are coming in to take control of the house of representatives are going to get to work, investigating the democratic party and some of its more nefarious activities.

here's what we've heard. our investigation is about joe bud. and we already have evidence that would point that joe biden was involved with hunter biden, only so, so we will the bank records and that's our, that's our focus. we're trying to stay focused on was joe biden directly involved with hunter biden's business deals, and is he compromised? that's our investigation. now viewers will recall that 100 biden's laptop. i was a source of scandal during the 2020 elections, but mainstream media completely blocked it out. and there a sense been revelations about the role of the f. b i and coordinating with facebook and other social media outlets to block out the hunter, binding laptop scandal. but regardless, one issue that has been of interest to republicans is the amount of money the united states has poured into ukraine. that apparently, that will be one of the topics that is up for investigation. this is republican

from congress marjorie taylor green. calling for an audit of every single penny that has been sent to ukraine, including aid money and any other monies that have been given to the ukrainian government to defend their national security, where our, our national security has been ignored. now it's been revealed by russia with as carefully assembled evidence to show that the reality is that many of the weapons intended by the united states, where the ukrainian military have gone directly into the hands of terrorists and criminal organizations. some of them have simply been sold on the black market and other questions are being raised about the money that is poured into ukraine from the united states as well. so it seems that these questions may be taken up by republicans for congressional investigations, as they take control of the house of representatives. there is an interest in

seeing where some of those funds have gone. and if there was indeed foul play by the biden administration, and it's congressional allies when it came to writing these $1000000000.00 and billions of dollars to checks to ukraine. so it'll be interesting to see how the u . s. congress proceeds. and what turns up in any potential investigation with republicans back in control of the house of representatives? archie is caleb martin. thank you for that update. the ukranian presidential advisor is trying to put a positive spin on the incident that saw a missile land in poland, killing 2 people, continuing to defy global opinion by claiming russia not ukraine was responsible and stressing the incident. should encourage nato to be tougher on russia. i think this is a good story within the framework of which we will once again discuss the format of our relations with our partners to avoid any ambiguity. this will allow nato

countries to develop a tougher attitude in terms of protecting that territory. this is not the 1st time when a rocket has flown into the territory of another country. accordingly, the war in ukraine in such a large country of course, will affect the territories of other countries. meanwhile, president zalinski is urging ukrainian specialist to participate in an international probe and what he called quote russian aggression on the polish border doubling down on claims that moscow was responsible for the missile incident . this celeste thomas, i have no doubt about the reports and the commander, the f fulsome commander in chief. so lose me that it was not our missile and not our missile strike. i have no reason not to trust them because i've been through this whole wall with them. i believe this is a russian missile based on our military reports discoverable. well, it's definitely an interesting story because most of key halves biggest supporters . i mean, we're talking about you at the u. s. nato. poland itself are all saying that the

evidence points to ukraine in terms of who owns that rocket that landed on polish territory and killed 2 polish people. and still, latimer zalinski is clinging on to this narrative that russia launched the missile despite the fact that nobody's blaming he have a for being at fault here. the west is still incorrectly claiming that russia it was the initial aggressor in the ukrainian conflict. and so somehow they're still saying it's moscow's fault, but at any rate key of basically stubborn clinging to this rejection of the facts, it's really frustrated. a lot of people in the west, even one diplomat from a nato country, reportedly told the financial times that this is really hurting the west's confidence in the key evergreen. this is getting ridiculous. the ukrainians are destroying our confidence in them. nobody is blaming ukraine and they are openly lying. this is more destructive than the missile. now, one might be able to understand why it wouldn't be easy for key of to back track on

this at this point. because a, when this actually happened just moments after we got wind of this incident, we heard from ukraine's foreign minister, who said that it was a const, a russian conspiracy theory to say that that missile was launched from a ukrainian missile defense system. that it was a ukrainian missile. and then after that zalinski actually called for action to be taken in against russia for all this as if he was ready to bring every one into a potential 3rd world war over all this. and again, those statements were made immediately after we got wind of this incident before the facts were established, but they've been established now and key of still not going back on that. the most shocking of all of these events happened back in march of this year when a, an, an unidentified drone actually flew through the air space of to nato countries, only to crash in the capital of croatia after running out of fuel. it was later determined that this was launched from ukraine and that was definitely confusing

for the croatian president as well because nobody was actually hurt as a result of this. but also nobody noticed that it was flying through that air space . so the croatian president was very confused about that and also mentioned that it was launched from ukraine. let's take listen what he said. how was it possible for an old style aircraft to spend more than one hour in the sky over nato member countries and no one notices it. the situation is that the u. a. v flew from the territory of ukraine and crashed in zagreb when the fuel ran out of it is also the issue of ukrainian under c mines in the black sea because around the same time as this correlation incident, we were getting reports that turkey had begun to find a number of ukrainian under sea mines that had become dislodged and started floating away. you can imagine how dangerous this could possibly be. for all the sea traffic there is in the boss for a straight or the mediterranean sea. this is something that even russia's ministry defense warned about as well because of the, the, the amount of storms that are there. and the fact that storms can dislodge these

underwater mines. so, but what's even more interesting is that the key regime is not facing any consequences for any of this. i mean, it really, it really seems like the west has freighted a monster, basically by the endless flow of weapons and money into ukraine and the state. there just doesn't seem like it wants to follow anyone's rules. political scientists, an international security expert march, the about us says it key as refusal to admit responsibility for the missile incident could backfire on its bush for more western support. and this is incredibly destructive to the care of regimes propaganda because here we see them being directly contradicted and doubling down on the lie in the face of even the u . s. president himself saying otherwise, i think that this is not so much them are trying to break free as reacting

petulantly as a child confused because they have become used to an expectant that whatever absurd lie that they claim blaming russia will be backed up by them. um, as if it's god's honest truth, no matter the situation. but here we see with a, a direct potential ward war 3 sparking event with a missile landing and a nato member that they walked back from that pollen should re think its stance towards in crane after the deadly missile incident. that's according to the former mayor of the polish city of loveland, who adds that the case is a prime location aimed at boosting further military aid to kiev. of course this is a ukrainian rocket. of course, this is a provocation on the part of the ukranian authorities. the rocket could not be fired 100 kilometers in the opposite direction by mistake. the purpose of the

provocation is to accelerate the supply of weapons to ukraine, to intimidate europe with terrible russia. so that civil society demands an increase in assistance the ukraine from the governments of european countries. we have seen a ukrainian regime ad dedicated to the process of trying to drive natal on european countries into this war. and there's, there is a form of not formal, there is a brinkman ship being played on the part of the ukrainian military authorities and its government. but quite frankly is a dangerous situation to how europe, in, it has been clear from salt and. busy position that this is not being treated the way the ukrainian government would like to be treated. but there is also the fee of the elements within natal may wish for best to be treated the exactly the provocation and as a reason for natal involvement. so whether it has been an accidental

sophistic straight that's going off target or are the that may have had the made of liberal, has that it has been by a deliberately in the wrong direction then both to the same thing, you know, ultimately a provocation on the part of ukraine, a u. s. congress woman has lashed out at the country's funding of ukraine after worldwide acknowledgement that it was key as was responsible for the pulling missile incident. we must stop letting zalinski jim on money and weapons from us taxpayers. what he's trying to drug is into world war 3, no more money to ukraine. it's time to end this war and demand peace. meanwhile, and a bid to reassure americans on the threat of a nuclear conflict, the u. s. secretary of homeland security released this statement. while the united states has expressed concern with russian nuclear super rattling,

would you not anticipate that a nuclear detonation in europe would have any direct health consequences on the homeland the u. s. which feels safe being situated so far away has already spent nearly $55000000000.00 on ukraine. and now biden is asking congress for an additional 37000000000 and emergency aid. just for comparison, this is 20 percent larger than the russians entire annual defense budget. so to go further in depth on this, let's bring in karen quite koski. retired us air force. lieutenant colonel. karen is good to see you. now. after the u. s. spent billions of dollars on funding ukraine and the war we're seeing reports of officials calling for a peaceful solution. so why do you think that the u. s. didn't push for a diplomatic resolution from the onset here? well, i think in the united states, defense establishment is making a lot of money,

you know, do via the american taxpayer in depleting all of our reserves of old weapons, sending them to ukraine. that freeze up production lines for more of what we want. and then of course, justifies demand to the congress that our own budget, our own military budget can be increased. so this is something that i think benefits, it's viewed by american government, people, as you know, it benefits it, benefits america, not in the way that we think of a war, but just in the way we think of a business military business. right. and now of course, you know that the u. s. government, they are focusing on those benefits. however, when it comes to the possible negatives there, i mean, do you think that western support for ukraine in the war has increased the risk of a much bigger global conflict? with russia, especially when we see incidents like the one we saw just this week in poland. well,

the risk is certainly there, but i think the popular opinion in united states and certainly the next house of representatives that would be sworn in in january. many of them do not see the benefit of conducting this proxy war and funding this proxy war in ukraine. so i think the benefit is, is the view is changing just a little bit. i mean, i think you already reported on the concern is a need for an audit of the money that's flown into chakiya. so i think thinks it might be changing a little bit. well, i'm glad you bring that up because you're right. republicans are vowing to audit the funds sent to ukraine. what do you think that they could find during that their investigation and is there a chance it could lead to any meaningful changes or even just more oversight? well, it's definitely going to lead to more oversight because even under the biden administration,

in the democratic congress, they have begrudgingly and late in the game. introduced military oversight with was actual americans on the ground in ukraine, supposedly, accounting for some certain types of weapons systems. this came 6 or 7 months after the stuff had been shipped there. so it's not really a timely audit. i think that will continue. it will grow. but the big thing that will happen, i think is, is less money provided to you. great. so what is that going to mean for what they have left it's, it's going to be a big problem for them because they're so dependent on outside aid to conduct the defense of what's left of, of their country. right. and now when it comes to the recent news from this week, reports are saying that western officials were relieved when it emerged that the missile that landed in poland wasn't actually from russia. so i guess the question becomes, if they don't want to conflict with moscow, then why do they continue to pursue confrontational rhetoric,

especially when it comes to their continued support for ukraine? well, i mean they, i think washington and nato have made it clear that there they are interested in and focused on weakening russia, weakening, weakening, russia politically weakening the country militarily, treating stress on, on the russian federation. that's their objective. and they believe i'm kind of in a gamesmanship way, they believe that they can control all of these factors and they can go up so far and no further. so they think they can do this without nuclear risk, even even though you have president biden talking about armageddon and nuclear weapons and things like that. they don't believe they don't believe that that would be an issue because, you know, if that happened, they wouldn't even, i mean, you know, very destructive the end of the world kind of thing. i mean it's, it's, it would be tough to be an american president of, if there was

a nuclear war raging on the planet. but they don't believe that it's going to come to that. they see this as kind of picking away at a russian military and political and, and even spiritual unity this, this is their goal. and all of these little things, terrorist attacks destructive acts, the, all that money that's flowing into kia. and all of this is aimed at weakening russia and they think they can do it just right. so that there is no there's nothing out of the key out of their control, such as a nuclear war in europe, or a that's certainly a dangerous game to re inflate their roots, hired u. s. air force, lieutenant colonel. karen cowski, thank you. as always for joining us to break down all of the latest. thank you for . while the cop $27.00 summit continues its largest sponsored, coca cola has won the title of worlds biggest plastic polluter for the 5th year in

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world and its cities expanding because of migration and extreme weather events. according to research by the brookings institution, 56 percent of urban residents, that's double the global average level in slum housing in africa. this as more people look to cities for opportunity. but south africa's land and migration issues. some might say, influenced by a hint of colonialism, we are constructively softly pushed away from the city is because a, i guess because of our own social economic background. so that is very disappointing, that there is no transformation in as far as the special colonial. i parted, planning is concerned according to the state of climate in africa report,

the continent is heating up faster than the global average. that means more widespread drought for have those. what has guess at the end extreme weather events . but climate change is also a fragility amplifier and it can easily make a situation worse. if you're looking at, you know, slow set onset climate impacts like a verification or drought that is going to combine with all of those other socio economic factors in the empire. so that's why it's really complicated to say exactly how many people are moving and why. according to the internal displacement monitoring center. 20212.6000000 people. busy were displaced in sub saharan africa due to weather related disaster. and the well bang for the existing could be as much as 85000000 in the same region by the year 2050.