ah, ah ah, serbia builds up artillery and troops on its border with kosovo and puts at the army on high alert in response to christina the legit attacks on ethnically verb area. the white house pressured quitters to present accurate information on cobra. my team that didn't fit with the government's guidance. according to the latest twitter files revelations moran accuses london of quote, totally destructive role in an anti government riots. that's after the rest of 7 rule, you pay iranian citizen, suspected of leading the unrest. ah,

hello, and good morning for martine are national studios in moscow from wherever you're catching us. welcome to the hour's top stories from around the world. i'm fear, elizabeth, serbia has put its army and police forces at the highest level of combat readiness and is building up its artillery units in response to the growing number of cosen soldiers at the border. in accordance with orders from the president of serbia and the commander in chief of the serbian army, i have ordered the full combat readiness of all units of serbia's ministry of interior to gender, arm, and special anti terrorist units, and police brigades. they all have to immediately make themselves available to the army commander and take up positions in operational plans. let's have some background to the story that decision came after the latest reported coast of an attack on ethnic sir, territories pristine as special forces,

allegedly tried to dismantle serbian barricades in the region, but apparently flag following warning shots fired by local serbs coast about media blame served for starting the standoff, saying they had fired on pristina and even nato troops that had been deployed to the area. one resident told us that coastal has caught off electricity for locals after the incident. super well, the shots were fired 1st for my bull. deal was an outbreak of fight and i was year and i fail and it was my finger broke. it shows we have fired here from all sides. then of the electricity. now we don't have power to speaking with you or the sooner it is. this attitude that prompted the local serbian majority to block the roads to proceed with trucks. they also recently protested the arrest of a prominent serbian former police officer, accused of attacking a close of and security patrol. barricades have been in place for 18 days with

protesters demanding the release of a former officer, the withdrawal of kosovo police from the north of the province and justice for serbs in the region. the you has condemned the attack on coast of police forces with 5 western countries. having reportedly sent an ultimatum to belgrade pushing local serbs to remove barricades in the north of kosovo. but the former u. s. top envoy for the serbian conflicts, as it's christina, which is to blame for the escalation. the latest violence in kosovo is unacceptable . albin, curtsey continues his unilateral actions in the north in violation of international agreements. state secretary blinkin must demand curtis release the serbian prisoners and refrain from arresting peaceful protesters and stop sending special forces to the north while at the same time demanding the barricades to be removed. the serbian president has said he's doing everything possible to maintain peace.

also criticizing his kosovo counterpart for not being open to hearing belgrade concerns. professor at the institute of european studies in belgrade, step on gadget, says coast, those actions are a clear provocation. this is one of the provocations i guess. so done again by the cost of all being authorities. so what they are doing is they're constantly provoking the serbs and for some reason they want to escalate. i don't know why, because this is not in the interest of neither these serve, nor the albanian local population. so there obviously must be an agenda behind this . it all started with serves withdrawing from the console here in trim institutions, which happened was followed by the albanians, the authorities not fulfilling the brussels agreement for almost 10 years. they have signed it and ratified it twice in their parliament. but they don't want to

establish the so called community of serbian municipalities. so the serbs out of protests, left institutions. and then the remaining majorities, diffusions started to arrest serbian policemen who were in their system because unfortunately what we call an international community, which i think is a rather racist term. because it always only applies to their political west. so because they treat serbia and serves as enemies and have been treating us like that for the last 30 years. because in every single conflict on the policy was love space and they were against the serbs. the main, a mistake maybe by the serbian government is to, out of good will let the negotiations process go down from the level of the united nations to level of the european union, which was constantly behaving as

a side in the conflict and not as a unbiased you know, by standard that is trying to mediate between the sides therapy a has a right, according to the un resolution, 12442 a, bring in some soldiers and policemen. so this is an obligation by nato to provide this for the 1st time in the last 23 years that serbia has officially fully off for that, i must say in 2003 prime minister was orange, was talking about that, but he was murdered. that's another, a very interesting issue. however, this is the 1st time the serbia has officially off or that and k 4 is thinking about the issue. so they did not give a straight answer about that because they can't reject it. but they don't want the serbian forces protecting the local serbs the u. s. government pressured twitter to sensor or label certain tweets as misleading

information about cov at 19 that were in fact true, but deemed inconvenient for washington. that's according to the latest batch of leak twitter files revealed by investigative journalist david's way. in my review of internal files, i found countless instances of tweets labeled as misleading or being taken down entirely. sometimes triggering account suspensions simply because they veered from cdc guidance or different from establishment views. it seems that when the biden administration took over a, one of their 1st meeting requests with twitter, executives was on the subject of covert and their focus was in particular, anti vaccines. and one man specifically was alex baron sin. he buried the bronze of their, of their anger. i and, oh, what happened there was that present biden in the summer of 2021. when his comments came out, saying that social media companies are killing people for allowing vaccine misinformation

a few hours after that all of a sudden this man's, it's what our account was suspended. and he was kicked off the platform the following month. now this man didn't just let it go, he suits witter, they eventually settled. but in that, in that legal process, twitter had to release internal communication that i had with the white house. oh, pretty good. they had one really tough question about why annex burns and hasn't been kicked out from the platform. otherwise, her questions were pointed, but fair. unmercifully, we had answers sweaters ahead of the us. public policy held several meetings with the white house and she wrote a sort of summary of those meetings in december 2022 just now. and there is more evidence where we see direct pressure from the white house for its foot or 2 bands . her an account suspend them, take him off the platform and there were even get an angry that sweater wasn't

doing it as fast. and as with many accounts as they wanted, the biden team was not satisfied with we just enforcement approach as they wanted. tweeted to do more and to deploy some civil accounts. because of this dissatisfaction, we were after joined several other calls. they were very angry nature. we then saw doctors band, for example, even people who were citing a publish study that was already out there, but they wanted it gone from twitter. twitter did suppress use many from doctors and scientific experts that conflicted with the official positions of the white house. as a result, legitimate findings and questions that would have expanded, the public debate went missing. we have dr. martin cole drove, and he is an epidemiologist at harvard medical school and the heat sweets, it was his expert opinion on coven, 19 vaccines. but straight away, he was dismissed, he was put

a label that said misleading for violating the company's coven 19 misinformation policy. and that he was supposedly sharing false information, thinking that everyone must be vaccinated is as scientifically flawed as thinking that nobody should carried vaccines are important for older high risk people and their caretakers. those with brian natural infection do not need it, nor children. so even though here we have an expert and he is tweeting about his expert opinion and that opinion, by the way, was shared by many medical professionals around the world. still because they didn't fit the cdc guidelines. they basically had him suspended. and another example, this was a funny one, actually there is a woman, a self proclaimed public health fact checker. and what she did was she replied, it's who it suites using cdc data. so data that the cdc produced itself, she was quoting lat, and she got slapped with the label, misleading,

but that sweets itself that she was replying to, which actually contained the misleading information. and i'll read it the actual tweets that as for replies to cove, it has never been the leading cause of that from disease in children. so that's, that contained misleading information was allowed to stay, but their reply was deemed misleading. the u. k. played a totally distractive role, an anti government riots in her on says the countries foreign ministry commenting on the rest of 7 door, u. k. iranian nationals suspected of involvement in the unrest. the network which named it sounds are gross gathered together. anti revolutionary agents from both inside and outside the country to pursue plots against the islam mac system, especially in the recent unrest. the 7 arrested have been involved in planning, leading and producing content, as well as organizing and fueling the flames of the protests. protests erupted back

in september after the death of a young woman while in police custody. the event spark nationwide on rest, including violent clashes with police. more than $500.00 people died, including at least 60 police officers. the iranian government has designated the unrest as a rebellion, orchestrated by external enemies, including the u. s. the u. k. and israel political analysts side, mustafah pushes. i'm says that foreign forces meddling and iran domestic affairs are nothing new their networks have been operating inside iran for the past 3 years. don bolton, the former national security adviser on the donald trump, appeared on bbc parachia to say that he has seen armed opposition providing go, you know, guns all, all to rioters inside iran, through euros,

with the borders and go to san province. there are many please hold saying that they are operating in iran, and it's no strange to see that they used to do that in 2009. they did it in our 5 years ago. they did it also some 3 years ago. meanwhile, a british m p has slammed the rest of you k nationals by iran, as the industrialized taking of hostages and called on british citizens to leave the country immediately. if i was a british for a national in iran, i would absolutely be leaving because there is evidence that they will use them in any game of chess they can, and they will face brutal repression. i would encourage anyone that was western to try and leave iran as safely as they can. political analyst aid, mustafah pushes them again, says turan has every right to take action against threats to its national security . it's quite clear that the u. k. will start pressuring the iran

espionage and of harming who was national security. like in any other country, it's quite a serious charge. they have been arrested as they were operating actually, and organizing riots and not protests, but the writings and they've been leading their riots. ah, british colonialism killed more than 100000000 indians over a 40 year period. that's according to an article summarizing academic studies of the occupation. according to the research, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, british colonial practices were responsible for a death whole exceeding that of both world wars combined, making it one of the largest loss of life events in human history. another study suggests that over the 200 years of british rule, nearly $45.00 trillion dollars of the country's wealth and resources were plundered . experts say that the colonial period had devastating effects on india,

deepening extreme poverty and raising mortality rates. historian and senior fellow at the rue memorial museum and library cut pill kumar, explains how the british colonial rule has influenced india's developments. people we always know that we want to exploit it, but how much was the amount and how much was the movie? this report is a wonderful attempt to expose the religion to india went in the same time. if you go back to the dot, the figures off that right, it should be up the message. and what i call the you know, side you would just be done by the british. i don't think unified bellows or any other country when there's a game to india. india was the leading economy in the the balance all green was it and yes, they will. they were bringing gold and silver, a silver. they're going to buy things in india,

which lead to mark and to reserve in europe. we had a craft industry. we had soft industries, we had a spice, even the things didn't work. you didn't do a commercial growing better country, which was horrible. the 2nd best you got to be in the world. some people said, is that a or can find the dream scheme, development kimball that came in and we country. and he got really showing you what all these developments without colonialism. we went on board, we don't live in order to change. the language is a lot of times they try to make these kind of a, oh, that's how bad has told the washington to mind its own business. that follows comments from the u. s. secretary of state criticizing couple for restricting women's rights in afghanistan. deeply concerned that the taliban has been on women

delivering humanitarian aid and again, a stan will disrupt vital and life saving assistance to millions. women are central to humanitarian operations around the world. this decision could be devastating for the afghan people. we do not allow anyone to talk rubbish or make threats regarding the decisions of our leaders under the title of humanitarian aid. the statement department's remarks come after taliban government orders that all the countries and g o stop employing women for a legit noncompliance with sharia law. the move spark criticism from international groups who accused the bull of neglecting the rights of women in the country. several n g o is reported to have suspended their operations in the country. let's now discuss it with political analysts and research for christopher holly. welcome . thank you for having me. what do you make of the latest between washington and

campbell over taliban treatment of women? i think it's the once again the u. s. is trying to put pressure on the afghan government, which of course is now controlled by the taliban. us, of course, is withholding billions of dollars in aid. and now is of course, having good crocodile tears worrying about the asking women when the african women, african men, african children, the elderly. they all require their money to be returned to the country to provide economic stability. and to provide the resources that they need to survive and to thrive as a nation. while the u. s. is withholding that aid and using it as sort of a cudgel against the taliban and trying to pressure other countries not to do trade and not to give money to the taliban. there now crying about human rights. of course we didn't hear these cries in the 1980s when the u. s. was supporting the

same, which had been that would become the taliban. when you know, decades before, under the socialist government that i've got is that allied with the ussr, women were free and women were, were in education and wearing mini skirts in capital. so i find it to be very hypocritical. and the ones, again, another quiver in the arsenal of us imperialism in the region. while you talked about hypocrisy, that's how a band has made it clear that washington should just stop trying to use the humanitarian pretext to tell couple how to run its own country. is that a justified accusation? i mean, especially as washington isn't alone in condemning this development. the development, of course, is the internal issue for the african people. and of course, many other countries around the world are dealing with the u. s. and the west, you know, looking into their internal affairs and trying to do regime change or to pressure them or to sanction them. ultimately, what we can say is the following,

that the u. s. and it's western allies have withheld billions of dollars in money using humanitarianism, quote, unquote, as a weapon. and we know this has already been a factor for the past decades. you know, this idea of humanitarian intervention is the fact that the west somehow cries about some sort of humanitarian crisis. most of the time, the artificial and then goes in and tries to do resume change or pressure for regime change from outside with sanctions, with covert operations. so i think now the main thing that taliban is saying is this is our money. this is our resources. instead of worrying about our decisions, why don't you really give us the humanitarian aid, which is our money, and that probably will lead to development within the country itself. yeah, and you mentioned the economics of this millions of afghans do live in poverty while the u. s. as you mentioned, still refuses to return the billions of dollars in reserves to put bull washington

claim that it simply doesn't want the money to be used for the taliban own purposes . despite all of the previous history that you just discuss, is this any sort of fair reason? is there any validity to this? well, i think number one, american taxpayers doing their money to be used for, you know, a but trillion dollar military industrial complex. so i think ultimately that the taliban will use the money for the needs of the african people and for its own national security. we know already that taliban has done no attacks against us forces anywhere else. it was only attacking us occupation forces in afghanistan during the 20 year observation of that country. so ultimately, this is not a sound justification for the us to withhold the money when it knows well that the taliban is also fighting against isis. what our son in offline is done and fighting against more radical and extremist elements within the country. so the,

the idea that somehow the u. s. is trying to prevent terrorism. well, the us itself, it's supporting terrorism, not only in syria, and in other places in the wider region, also in ukraine. so this, this argument is very hypocritical, and it shows that, you know, the emperor has no clothes. while the us led the occupation of afghanistan left the country in destruction, abandoning their allies who were quickly defeated by the taliban. what lessons do you think some of washington's other international allies could draw from all of this? i think the lessons that anyone can garner from the u. s. history. post world war 2 is that the u. s. not only is not a trusted ally, but that it will always abandon its friends, especially when the going gets tough. and you can see currently, many of the countries that had made agreement with the u. s. that had tried to align with the u. s. have been sacrificed on the altar of profit of military industrial complex supremacy in the u. s. u. c. now ukrainian, you see libyan,

you see theory and you see iraqis and africans, of course, from the past 2 decades of war. so ultimately, anyone who's anyone around the world knows the u. s. cannot be trusted. the u. s. is not a trustworthy partner. and the u. s will always backstab its allies for its own game. christopher holly, political analyst and researcher, thank you for that. thank you very much. the ukraine wants to hold a p summit up the united nations to put an end to the conflict, but it doesn't anticipate russia taking part that's according to the ukranian foreign minister. and he added that russia must face a war crimes tribunal prior to any direct negotiations. the idea of the peace formula is to fault on the one hand, not to allow russia to manipulate the issue of peace. because they regularly say that they are ready for negotiations,

which is not true because everything they do on the battlefield, cross to the opposite, prove the constable to the contrary. they're not, they're not seeking peace. what seems the idea that western leaders and have in mind is not so much peace talks as it is just kind of a huddle or some kind of local party between themselves. and they don't intend for it to be real t stalks because they say roger shouldn't be invited. the ukrainian foreign minister, as you heard, said, the only way russia would be invited as if it faced some kind of war crimes tribunal. and in addition to that, he said ukraine would be doing everything possible to try and win the war in the year 2023. now ukraine is just secured for itself an additional $1800000000.00 from the united states. as a result of the wind skis recent visit to washington, that aid package also included a patriot missile. once he indicated he hoped that other countries would follow suit and make similar gifts to the government. and here,

now let's note that in the past, the turkish leader has facilitated dialogue between ukraine and russia. and the turkish president, erewhon as insisted that it is the way to the united states and the allies that are the instigators of this conflict near you. but unfortunately, the west has only made provocations and failed to make efforts to be a mediator in the ukraine. russia war now leader is in the united states, members of congress, as well as the ukrainian government have recently been making noise about somehow removing russia from the united nations. that there is no basis for which to carry this out. the un charter has no way to remove a permanent member of the security. permanent does mean permanent, but around the world we're hearing opposite calls. india, for example, wanted to expanse and democratize. the united nations give more representation to different countries around the world, not last. member states from latin america,

africa, asia, and the small island developing states should have credible and continuing representation in the security council. decisions about their future can no longer be taken without their participation. equally important is to make working methods and processes of the global institutions, including this council more accountable objective and transparent. now the un secretary general, antonio gutierrez, has said that he's ready to host some kind of piece on him. and he bought that he would only do so if all parties agree to participate. so these are the developments we're seeing aah. koran has criticized kiev after one of president the lens keys, a called for the targeting of iranian weapons. factories over the country is a legit arm supplies to russia. we reject the accusations of the ukrainian leadership. we do not take part in the ukrainian conflict and are ready to help resolve the crisis and establish peace in this country. we consider threatening

rhetoric irresponsible from whichever body it originates. the statement came in response to a ukrainian presidential advisors call for the destruction of iranian drone and missile factories he claims are on, is supplying these weapons to russia, which is using that menu crane. something that both moscow and iran have strongly denied or on top military official has also said that the country is determined to strengthen its thrown industry and cooperate with other nations in manufacturing. u . a. b 's. mazda says he hasn't presented any evidence that russia's military has been using iranian made weapons. koran did admit to supplying a small number of drones to russia. but underline that this was done before the outbreak of the conflict in ukraine. he of, in turn claims to have recovered iranian drones produced in the past few months, while iran has denied these claims. tron based world studies professor full, what is audi says you frames call to destroy iranian factories, is

a threat that violates international law. hello. this is against the un charter. you're not supposed to attack other countries. you're also not supposed to throw it to another country. so threatening iran or any other country is against international law. but you know, after all, we were talking about ukraine that has widely says international law. for many, many years. they have a subject that their own citizens, alicia, speaking citizens. the most severe discrimination were killed their own citizens in the civil war that the government created from 2014 to 2021. and so did she have a government is guilty of a lot of atrocities. and this type of rhetoric is something to be expected from people who people who came, came to power to it with the more pressure they put on the,

on the more pressure that on russia, the closer these continues get together. and they're going to help each other a lot, no matter what some presidential adviser like here is touching a chinese energy technology company is teaming up was as and by way mining firm to invest in the african countries, lithium industry. this comes despite heavy restrictions on raw lithium exports by africa's largest lithium producer, the export of them by when lithium can only take place with the permission of the minister of mines and mining development. lithium mining has become one of the main industries in the country in recent years, as a global demand for the mineral spikes, chinese company, g, c, l. energy technology has announced a recent deal, which will see it in best in the african countries. lithium industry saying that cooperation will enhance its competitiveness at a global level with at least half a 1000000 tons of lithium reserves. zimbabwe is becoming an increasingly attractive

prospect for foreign investors. zimbabwe has the largest lithium reserves in africa and the 5th largest in the world. the metal makes up nearly 60 percent of its exports, and 16 percent of its g. d. p. according to them, by one government, the country loses around $1800000000.00 a year and revenue due to smuggling and unregulated exports. isn't bo an m p explained to r t the reasons behind the government's decision to restrict lithium exports. also saying, global organizations like the world bank are stopping africa from growing to we talking just from one minute. oh, we is africa a talking oh, for a budgetary support from the will to bank, which is not been filled for the construction of inga dim which can produce about $40000.00 megawatts enough to feed the energy sector for the wall of africa. but because.