ah, ah ah, party thought he say american made drones were used by ukraine to bomb targets inside russia, despite washington claiming it was not, it has not supplied weapons for direct use against the country. an explosion sent buildings on the call on fire and the russian city of thorn yes. leaving one family wounded of the ukrainian forces, a shell residential areas with grants for kids and the latest you sanctioned target . ortiz parent company by freezing, gets european as it in the latest attack on media freedom

with a very warm welcome, you're watching aussie international with the latest world news update update. it's good to happy with. the u. s. reportedly produced on supplying drones that ukraine used to target infrastructure inside russia. that is by washington, claiming such weapons have not been handed over to keith. but our sources beg to differ. it's been determined that the avionics and control stations of the drones were manufactured by american company scepter works, which performed their initial calibration and testing at scottsdale airport. and arizona analysis of the electronic units of intercept drones showed that the ukrainian military also used these you avi's to attack infrastructure facilities in settle stapo, as well as the belgrade curse can varone his regions. our sources say the final drone assembly and test flights were conducted as an f filled in poland,

which was used as the main nato hub for supplying weapons to give you a visa said to have been launched from the ukranian cities of odessa and chris we. rog, early this month, washington denied allegations that u. s. weapons applied to k f as being used to bomb russia. we have not provided ukraine with weapons that is to use inside of russia. we've been very clear that these are defensive. so watch. we are, the president said very clearly, some time ago. we are not enabling ukraine to strike beyond beyond its borders. were tied usaa for lieutenant colonel and whistle blow a current queer task, save the use of american made, joins by ukraine is a new escalation of the western involvement in the conflict. it is concerning and alarming, and it is consistent with some of the other things we've seen leading up to this

point. you know, the intelligence sharing that has been going on us intelligence and that kind of thing. certainly the assistance with the american weapon systems that are being sent to ukraine along with american operators and trainers for that equipment. concerns about special forces being forward being forward located into surrounding countries including poland, but also the elaborate lithuania, latvia, those guys are allies there. so this is just one more step in a very dangerous direction. providers of arms, they're making a lot of money. their stock is growing it's, it's doing well. there are they have guaranteed contracts well into the future in part because of conflicts around the world. and specifically, in due to the kind of money that's been spent on their company's products, going into ukraine and going into this war effort relating to ukraine to them. this

is good business. we have requested a response from the pentagon to the reports for the yet to hear anything back. we'll keep you updated was we were just on bass now. we're at least 10 explosions works that don't. yes, we're public's capital over nice little 40 saying on the grounds, missiles, with fine at a residential area by ukraine's military. one of the buildings that was hit reportedly cool fire windows were blown out, an entire floor was destroyed in another. what is this? a missile fragments also struck a car, wounding a family inside. he's our big language channels heard from some don't. yes, locals about that life in the line of fire, loraine, serious evenness. i'm glad the auction, the ukrainian regime ignores all the rules and targets purely civilian areas. there are no military personnel, they're only local residence, small children leave here. i have no idea what they're doing and when it will end, the silly verbal there was massive shelling. 2 old women got so scared they fainted

. we hope someone will help us. not a day goes by and, and ask without casualties and destruction. and the reason for this is the key of regimes. heavy shelling of residential areas. the shelling only grows more powerful day by day model, ukrainians, shelves on fires and western weapons are raining down on the heads of civilians, residential neighborhoods, places of worship and hospitals have become legitimate targets of the key of regime . oh, the shelling by ukrainian forces of this church and the center of damascus, irrefutable evidence of caves, deliberate and planned crimes. america whose lists of targets is consuming more and more sold at the curb. and meanwhile, president vladimir purse in has visited russia, is command center for the military operation and ukraine, that he heard a report on the progress of the operation. and how'd meetings with commanders. they became acquainted with the work of the joint staff of rushes armed forces.

new details have emerged in the case of an explosion at the polish police headquarters in warsaw allegedly caused by a grenade launcher with. there was gifted to the country's police chief by ukraine, according to a polish media. the weapon had been brought into the country by ukrainian officials, by trade without any security checks to people, including the police chief, sustained injuries that during the blast after the sealing of the building was damaged by shrapnel. poland interior ministry says the explosive present was received after a meeting with ukraine's police and emergency services. in warsaw. poland has demanded an explanation from keith, which has yet to comment on the incident. the us tightening the screws on media freedom with the blocks latest package of sanctions, freezing our easy repeating assets in an effort to silence russia. my colleague here really is about discuss the development with ours. he's marina, cause all this is now the nines package of sanctions. and they are supposed to be

hard hitting as the european union has called them. and basically what we're seeing with our seas that there sanction in our she's pan company are not to be novice the in europe. so basically brussels is season funds and massive belongings who are c, as well as some other over panels. and not only that, they also want to make sure that there are no funds or economic resources made available to them whether it's directly or indirectly. and not only affect entities, but also people associated with the company. this is what's interesting. and also another aspect to this is that there are more russian channels being sanctioned as well. some of them have just one news broadcast every day, for example. and what else do we know about this latest round of e u sanctions? well, it's a huge list of not only people being sanctioned, but also different industries. so for example, we have now the latest, the number is up there. 1386 people who are sanctioned in total and

171 organizations and they're really wants to make sure that it, it hits russia where it hurts according to them. so for example, there are really targeting the rosters military industrial complex. they're looking at export restriction when it comes to technologies that contributes rushes, military takes abilities and also its ability to work on certain technologies. they're trying to, we can russia when it comes to its military, there is also and other and the energy sector, for example, no new investments can be made by a foreign companies within roches energy sector. there's also a v, a sion and for example, more banks have been added. and what's interesting, they're cutting rushes access to drones. so not only is the direct exports of drone engines now forbidden to russia to other countries that may circumvent this. and

then for example, through other countries, exports it to ross so, so that's also not allowed. so this is a multifaceted attack on russia. absolutely. and through different industries, but particularly the military and just real complex. this is what they're really focusing on. and they want to make sure that russia is weekends on the battle ground, and some experts have already come out and set it. for example, with the freezing of the assets when it comes to our table. clearly what they've done so far by binding the channel on to, for example, that hasn't worked. we know that there was a pole in germany recently. what people that still want to watch and still find ways to watch it and you and i know that you can watch or is he not just on satellite cd, but you can go online and people have been posting lots of videos. so that's what they're not happy with, and they're trying to make sure that it's sub found by cutting any funds that are made available to r t or any ways in which russia concert convent the sanctions and is remaining up and running that. and also the military aspect is very important,

that's what they're trying to do to weaken it. but also at the same time, this is what we're talking about. the european union has been saying all along that it's all for freedom of speech. well, this doesn't look very much like freedom of speech when you're trying to completely shut down the other angle of the story from if you on the left on see the flowers, johnson said the west is telegraphing its weakness by censoring alternative viewpoints. the you cannot handle the truth, they keep projecting their own weakness their own faults, their own inability to sum, maintain proper armies and field, the ammunition to keep them. supplied. governments that engage in this kind of conduct are reflecting their own weakness their own impotence, because they have their powerless to stop russia from working with other countries like india, like china, like south africa, even brazil, to form an independent group of nations that are not beholden to the west. so i've

got a lot of television. i've done all the major american media, abc, cbs, nbc, all the cable channels, fox news. and i've done the b, b, c, r t is the only news channel we're, i've been asked to come on and you don't interview me in advance to find out if i'm going to say what you want to hear. you let me speak what i think. and i think that is a remarkable tribute to r t. so this is a desperate attempt by the west to try to keep their people blinded in an ignorance . but what's going to happen is reality will intrude. one of these days ukraine will collapse, and russia will have its victory. and at that point, the west europe in particular, is going to have to decide whether they want to continue to freeze in the dark, be without oil and gas. or if they want to become grown ups and start dealing with

russia in a respectful way and have proper relationships and public outrage in moldova. also the government ban 6, local russian language tv channels. the move comes in 8 months long demonstrations against the failure of the authority to reign in the countries. economic crisis. officials claimed the tv channels were closed due to the threat of pro russian views being broadcast across small dover. media crackdown has sparked fresh protests as hundreds of people have lost their jobs at the channels. one of the local journalists was even blocks on facebook, off the posting about her frustration that here's how she responded to the tv ban. m u ship, i should have to return. they said, let's say the emergency situations commission has banned the broadcasting of 6 channels in the republic of moldova, b, i considered as to be lawlessness. it's pure dictatorship in our country. and yet, unfortunately, this is happening to day when the republic is fighting for development in democracy . this has all been trampled by our government mobile to florida. whatever's

parliament is also mailing over a bill aimed at breaking free of the countries at soviet era. legacy as no makers one to rename the nation's official language from moldova, and to where manian, pro western politicians have been pushing for the move ever since moldova declared independence from moscow in 1991. this comes from it on going protests against president myers sunday and a government handling of the country's economy. people in the mall, dave and capital of marsh, with their banners, written in russian demonstrators, one to chit chat, the now to stop her backing western sanctions against moscow. which have been ever already led to spiraling inflation and an energy crisis in moldova. another journalist to channel has been banned in the country says the incumbent government has caused to red line g is a good, it brought things lawana in simple words. what happened is we're we're feared the most and helped until the last that it would not happen because there are certain red lines that no one has ever crossed,

no matter what regime is in power in moldova, it seems to me that whether it's ve channel works well, or not, should always be decided by the audience. the fact that these channels had not covered the agenda the way the regime would like to be heard. sorry, by one of our freedom of speech. what about european democratic norms? what about the very pluralism of opinions that they talked about during the election campaign that we all remember how the current leaders recently spoke in russian during their election campaigns. and the fact that they are now in power suggested the russian speaking population of moldova believed them. whatever's ban of the russian tv channels is a cracked out of media freedom, not response from the russian foreign ministry. we can see that these been an unprecedented active political censorship, an outrage against the principle of media pluralism and the gross violation of the right to freedom, access to information, to which the political leadership of the republic regularly declares its commitment in light of the unprecedented consequences. of its implementation for the russian

speaking part of the country's population. we also qualify it as a cynical infringement of the rights of national minorities. would demand international gonzales to give an adequate assessment of what happens and take all appropriate measures to correct decent acceptable situation. another mall dive in, journalists told us about the washing views of being promoted by a few members of them all dive in government times. i western patrons what you normally do. neither would a lot of madeau van's are just satisfied with the position of the thoughtless, many even despised president myers sandra's party. even those who voted for her, we're not really supporting her, but we're only against the former leaders of the country. many now do not consider her illegitimate presidency, but now she and her party have completely reserved power. there is no opposition and will go us. people come out to protest, but the movement is this united which is very convenient for the government is rissa phobia does not exist in our country what everything they say about it is not true. for example,

what the government of my asunder does in relation to the russian speaking population is only her opinion and decision. it does not express the opinion of the entire moldova people. it expresses only the opinion of a handful of bosses who have now seized power in the country, and those who led them to power. i mean 1st and foremost, the u. s. and the european union, and most moldova ones still love russia and hope that the situation will change short. the director of the u. n. as well as health organization has accused eritrea and trips of murdering his uncle, along with more than 50 other civilians in ethiopia as war to antique re province. in october, the director accused the international community failing to pay enough attention to the conflict. stressing that had spawned a health crisis that has now affected some 6000000 people. meanwhile, a u foreign policy chief, he has the barrel, has expressed his frustration with a situation where the one month after a cease fire was announced in the region. then one thing that has kept me very busy,

very sorry and very frustrated is ethiopia, not enough people talk about it. we don't talk a lot about ethiopia. yes. from time to time when their piece discussions. but what is happening in t grey's, the deadliest war we complain rightly about what is happening in ukraine. but what is happening in ethiopia is really awful. the will stands from a long standing confrontation between the government and the authorities of the autonomous t gray region. it's marked a huge humanitarian crisis, which has left more than 5000000 people facing starvation. even though a ceasefire agreement has been in place since november. if your opinions have criticized a you foreign policy, she appears that burrell accusing him of not doing enough to help and the suffering . what i understood from burrell statements is that they don't want us to stay united by dividing us along ethnic lines, religion and language. so it is because they don't want peace to prevail, that they are going back and finding the conflict so that we go back to war and remain week or so on. but now we have peace in our country,

but they go back and try to bring up old wounds so that we go to war again. they look like they are helping us to reconcile. but then you see them working hard to take us back to ward. my little bit of a, there was no time that the west stopped conspiring against us in old times or to day let alone ethiopia. they don't want to see africa develop to. this is a fact that they could have done a lot in the past to stop the war, but instead they come and start fanning the conflict by exaggerating things. instead, they should work on preventing future conflict. there people know 5th, yoga understood the conflict total, understand the conflict relative yield, posey, to what they open on the way. so now ours her understand or perceive their conflict, integrate when it comes to the nym there, sophie casually tisa. he said in his speech that have from 602800000 people, love been kid to forces different forces. and

d to gay forces are in the process of implementing that throws. it's obvious, that hero gen country. so dale can union would take her seriously grinned and african countries. so we can rule that even aid has significantly decreased and not, not necessarily because of the conflict from europe, but also the attention generally given to the africa the u. s. has withheld hundreds of classified documents on the 1963 assassination of john f. kennedy, while releasing more than 13000 new papers on the infamous case president by then claims that further disclosures are being prevented by national security concerns. i agree that continued postponement of public disclosure of such information is warranted to protect against an identifiable harm to the military, defense intelligence operations,

long foresman or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure. 5 percent of the documents remain redacted with the cia spokesperson saying, all of them will be released after a quote intensive one year review. president kennedy was shot dead while riding in a motorcade through dallas. on november the 22nd 1963. thousands of tv shows, films, books and articles have explored the idea that his death was the result of an elaborate conspiracy. although none have produced conclusive proof fox news host, tucker carlson, says washington's failure to release all the papers after all this time is a red flag. is there a but 9 explanation for that for maintaining this level of secrecy for this many years. not the were aware of, and it is illegal. in 1992 congress passed the president john f kennedy assassination records collection act. that act mandated,

full disclosure of all documents by 201754 years after j. f. k was killed. the last administration promised to comply fully with that law, but under intense pressure from sky director mike pompeo withheld in the end. thousands of pages of ca, documents. today this afternoon, the by the ministration did exactly the same thing. that would be thousands of pages of documents after nearly 60 years after the death of every single person involved. but we still can't see them clearly. so to protect any person, they're all dead is to protect an institution. we us marie lee harvey oswald, was arrested and charged with killing kennedy, but he denied they accusations and was himself assassinated before he could stand trial. well, conspiracy theorists still speculate about who really pulled the trigger. we discussed the latest documents controversy with john kerry r q, who hosts ortiz, the whistleblower sher, 59 years after the event. these documents are redacted in whole,

or in part bill clinton, george w. bush, barack obama, donald trump, and joe biden, have all decided to keep these documents secret. i find it bizarre. nobody cares. after 59 years, nobody cares. there's no danger to the national security. so i think eventually cooler heads are going to prevail. and these documents will be released, and i think that historians will be disappointed because i don't expect them to say anything important. there are conspiracy theories that the american mafia killed kennedy that the soviet leadership killed. kennedy that the cubans killed kennedy. i very slowly come to the conclusion that the c, i probably did have something to do with john kennedy's killing. we know that the cia hated kennedy because he didn't provide air cover during the bay of pigs. if that's the case, just in the interests of transparency and the rule of law,

i would hope that if someone is at the cia and has information that can confirm or refute that theory that they should come out with. it. paging has lashed out at japan, accusing it of hyping up the chinese threats while stressing that claims that china is an unprecedented strategic challenge. are completely groundless to google thought under the japanese side ignores facts deviates from its commitment to china . japan relations and ground leslie described as china when we once again urged the japanese side to adhere to the principle that the 2 countries are cooperative partners and do not pose a threat to each other. i bring up the china threat to find an excuse for its mil to rebuild up is doomed to fail. this allegation comes amid planned military spending spree by tokyo that many c is violating his post world war 2 demilitarization policy. japan has a doctor's a $315000000000.00 military build up. plan bringing is on 4th investment to the 3rd

highest, globally foreign minister fermi. o. casita said the changes were needed due to the destructive activities of its neighbors. as an innovator were a queen, unfortunately, in the vicinity of our country, there are countries carrying out activities such as enhancement of nuclear capabilities. rapid military build up and unilateral attempts to change the status quo by force in the next 5 years. in order to fundamentally reinforce our defense capabilities, we will implemented defense build up program worth about $315000000000.00 in 2027 with reinforced defense capabilities and complimentary initiatives. we will secure a defense budget of 2 percent of g d p. she. according to japan's constitution after world war 2, the country for rather renounced war and the use of offensive weapons. since the end of the occupation of the country in the 1950s, the u. s. has pushed japan to revise this article of their constitution.

encouraging the island to upgrade its military capabilities. however, in a 2014 change of policy, the japanese government allowed them military to fight in support of allies under attack. now, some long vice chairman of the shanghai center for international studies. think tank, say the world should pay close attention to japan as it builds up its military in japan is using what they call a strategic challenge from china to increase its defense budget. and this is something that i think the rest of the world will all have to watch very closely because japan is not supposed to to do that under its constitution. and this is an obvious pushing of the envelope using something that that doesn't really make sense. it's not that china is going to respond. china should not be the only country that i respond to this happening. i think most of

the countries or of the countries in the region in the, in asia a just to have a clear memory of what happened during the 2nd world war and that they should all come up to, to respond to, to this upcoming incident. was always a confined to the latest news updates on our website, r t dot com. thank you for joining us. aaron. i seem to nation today. mm ah .

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development the only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk ah, [000:00:00;00]

with i'm african mackenzie and welcome to going underground in the week of an unprecedented alliance between the communist party of china and the kingdom of saudi arabia and the gulf cooperation council. now, one of the senior us officials urgently met with chinese counterparts this week for so called in depth talks over taiwan after the state visit of chinese president, she didn't ping to saudi arabia's capital. re add this after opec plus including the u. e and the saudi arabians refuse jo biden's requests for moral production to save nature nations from the ukraine proxy war. joining me for today's episode to talk about whether there will be lasting, tragic repercussions for the usa in the new geopolitical landscape. is renowned expert on china's foreign relations professor, one jing, he's the direct of the institute of the us and pacific studies at the shanghai international studies university. and he drives me from berlin, where he is richard one reed zack, a fellow at the robert bush academy. thank you so much, professor for coming on. so it must be important if even

a host of the world cup cats are officials at 2 a tend and leave the world cup. what does it signify because there's been relatively little press attention in nature, nation media, whereas the global south has it is their 3rd headline on all their news bulletins. oh, very significant is the 1st time as far as i can remember that that chinese talk most leaders in the new leaders from rocket countries and you know, symbolic and also has a lot of sauces. in that, it actually shows that both sides, china and the rug countries as a strong common ground interest go in today for which we know there's a lot going on your career and also your competition going up. united states and china cost. there is a create uncertainty about future bar this summer in china,

aerobics countries, all of our consul, 3 significant 2 sites really show really want to join hands and to bring some pop goods to both sides. i think that this was great. of course, the one i bought the jury in johnson. it's a bit actually they're in berlin, but we're not in an echo chamber. i know that professor, but as you know, the think tanks and g o z a are arguably in echo chambers we've had from the atlantic council bill saying that one shouldn't redo much significance in this. and the other saying this is incredibly significant. the national security council spokesperson in washington said john kirby said we are mindful of the influence the china is trying to grow around the world. and of course this in the context of the fact that us agencies have already labeled china the number one enemy of the united