national z m a b, legible on it. when you sit on the ground that by mia a ukrainian politician get caught red handed with a fake news story. she posts an old photo of an irish boy, claiming he's a child victim of the conflict in new cray women. 20000000 children are at risk of hunger, thirst, and deadly infections in africa. that's the latest from unicef. we heard from the regional director. fortunately, i'm going to to 6 a rating c said, making this situation even worse and be maybe need to prepare for the worst case scenario. but the india probes it's pharmaceutical companies, off the gambia claims an indian made cough syrup killed at least 60 children,

which new delhi denies with welcome. this is on the international with the latest. well, news outdated good to have you with us this al. now social media use is have to bunk. he has another fake news story from ukraine post online by a local lawmaker who tried to pass off an old photo of an irish boy as a child victim of the conflict in ukraine. the saddest part there are no children in ukraine any more. only little humans, with very grown up eyes old to even somewhat tired of a life yet. and lived pictured mark 8 years old, just survived a russia artillery attack. readers added context, they thought people might want to know. this image predates the conflict and ukraine, and it p is on a novel published in 2013 the ukrainian m p. that posted this photo on the 1st co

in the 1st place, straight up light about it. i mean, she said that there was an 8 year old boy there that survived some sort of russian artillery attack. when in reality this kid was an irish orphan. this was a picture that was taken from the cover of a book, a 2013 spanish translation of the miss, remembered man. so while you definitely shouldn't a judge, a book by its cover, you most certainly should not take what ukrainian officials are saying at face value about this kind of stuff. the photo is lifted from a 2013 book by christie mckenna, more broadly, it is true that the crimes of nazi regimes bring disaster on their own children. do ukrainian officials and pundents no nails for vass image such as to keep posting such fakes. the tweets glaring and accuracy didn't stop it from getting widespread distribution though i mean, after all, the ukrainian m p that tweeted it has over 330000 followers on twitter and the

u. n's head of global communications even responded to it with a broken heart that despite the fact that her account said that all the information there is verified and based in science, i mean this time it clearly wasn't. so it makes you wonder, just how often were being duped here. well, i don't know. could this not have just been an honest mistake by this particular envy? well, i mean, we have actually been seeing this pretty consistently, children being used in the western media and by ukrainian officials to manipulate people's emotions, to change their opinions on the ukraine conflict through bought through that way. and we actually made earlier this month, a report covering all these stories, just how many of them are either fake or actually the fault of the ukrainian military with

doesn't stop there either. earlier this year we saw another ukrainian m p, or a ukranian official, rather post a picture of a drawing of a girl on twitter who apparently was from ukraine and she had cut her hair to protect herself from being raped by russian troops. so the story goes, except we saw no evidence come with this story, and the drawing was essentially a copy and paste a job from an actual photo of a girl who died an al switzer. now we've seen a lot of these face going around the internet, but just to give you an idea of this year scale of this fake information war, we can look at an australian report that was published about twitter activity towards the earlier days and weeks of russia. a special military operation, it said that over 80 percent of tweets from that time were part of

a covert propaganda operation. and over 90 percent of the accounts that were making these tweets were pro ukrainian. we found that between 60 and 80 percent of tweets using the hash tags we studied, came from bought accounts during the 1st 2 weeks of the war. we found that 90.16 percent of accounts fell into the pro ukraine category, while only 6.8 percent fell into the pro russia category. i think it goes without saying that in our day and age, the information war effort is just as important as that of the conventional war. and no doubt social media platforms play a central role in that one of the major problems is that often these myths are debunked. long after this faith content has already made its way across the internet. the number of children suffering due to an extreme drought across the ethiopian kenya, on somalia has more than doubled in 5 months. that's according to the un children's fund unicef. more than 20000000 children are risk of hunger 1st on deadly

infections in africa. well, collective and accelerated efforts have mitigated some of the worst impact of what had been feared. children in the horn of africa are still facing the most severe drought in more than 2 generations. according to unicef, at least 2000000 children in ethiopia, canyon and somalia will need urgent treatment for acute malnutrition buses. 24000000 people face water shortages, while children across africa face labor exploitation, gender based violence on sexual harassment. liquor vandevere eunice, s deputy regional director for eastern in southern africa say that the situation is deteriorating amid a shortage of funds. we have our colleagues all across the 3 countries, seeing a tremendous deterioration of the situation of the children in these countries that are affected by draft. and unfortunately i'm going to dis 6 field raining

c said making the situation even worse. and we really need to prepare for the worst case scenario. so less rain is, again, less wrote her less livelihoods, and increase the acute malnutrition disease outbreak. and of course, food insecurity across those 3 countries that are really affected severely by the draft. actually, the youngest, really are at risk for severe malnutrition and for us to really help them, there's only one particular intervention that is really required, which is ready to use to republic feeding. and if children are molnar race, the risk is march. how your, if they patch measles, that they would actually a policy ways. so there's not only uni said we have a un family that is looking for money. everybody has their own mandate and they

need to find a funding together in the warren. and it is not an easy environment to raise funds, especially because the funds that we need are constantly increasing and they. * are also increasing not only because of the number of children that are affected, but also because of some of the inflation and the price increase that we see across the world. so we, we also need to deal with those those challenges at the same time. so india now i drug factories across the country on or investigation by the pharmaceuticals regulator and that's also down the a claim. there was a link between children's deaths and the indian made cough syrup new delisa. the medicine was not to blame. ortiz, india correspondence rendered sharma husband. firstly, india is recognized in the world as the farmers see off the wall. and now these

reports, 1st from gambia, and now from his baker, stand ashore, our den, ding, india, the pharmaceutical industry. in fact, let me also point out here that in the last decade or saw other exports as far as pharmaceuticals in india are concerned, they've more than doubled or saw. and essentially what happened in october, the world health organization linked the depth of around $66.00 children with indian made gossips, quote, unquote contaminated indian mean cough syrup, sand. essentially very recently on 13th of december, the drug regulated of india ross to the world health organization. seeing that samples from all of these are, are pharmaceuticals were collected and all of these pharmaceuticals are our samples that were collected. in fact, they were tested in a government lab and all the samples were found safe and also complying with quality specifications. and it essentially said that the world health organization

made a very premature sort of a link between the deaths of children in gambia, a to these costs the ribs that was applied for india. also they said that they were only supplied in west part of africa. having said that, india ease conducting searches, india is conducting inspections. countrywide, across the country, teens have been made by the drug regulator or india and they are inspecting pharmaceuticals, company a both big and small in a sense to assure the world that india a does care about the process is safety and it's not going to compromise on that it was a mistake, those how former german chancellor, anglo merkel described discussions around georgia and ukraine's potential accessions and nato in 2008 mother country was ready for membership of the alliance . she says, the start of possible nato membership for ukraine in georgia,

which was discussed in 2008, in my opinion, was wrong. these 2 countries did not meet the requirements and did not think deeply about what consequences such a decision would have. anglo merkel made the remarks in an interview with an italian daily political magazine. she also discussed the events of 2014 when the dumbass crisis broke out and commented on the misc agreements which came to bring a seat file on the territory. the minsk agreements of 2014 represented an attempt to buy ukraine time. ukraine took advantage of that period to become stronger as we see today. the country of 20142015 is not the country of today. well here is some background that the 1st draft of the mens accords was signed in 2014 and then to bring an end to fighting and don't boss. the agreement was mediated by france and germany under the so called normandy format. but the provisions of the deal were broken, leaving it in tatters,

following further talk the new agreements known as it means to was signed, which lasted until 2022. that's quite life to professor william mullins and now an author and former british diplomat. 20. thanks for joining these other programs like to see you today. now, the former gym and chance langley merck, who said it was a mistake to consider ukraine, and george is accession to nato, back in 2000. and 8 was your take on, not my take on that is that she is proven to be a balancer and also somewhat, somewhat inconsistent. because on the one hand, she opposed ukraine's membership. and i think georgias for example. and then we have coming out which, you know, supporting not the american sanctions when she was against, but supporting the european sanctions more inconsistent. is that the interview she gave quite recently in the psych i think where she actually admitted that the whole purpose of means was simply to give you credit time to the arm itself more and more

and more. so there's a major inconsistency. i also think that in that sense, she almost betrayed polluting with whom she was alleged to have had a proper working relationship. and she may have fooled a trembling to that extent all that we have to remember. but that we get benighted states pressure on her and on germany which included the scandal when they were bugging her. and her official is also very important. mr. member that germany is economically even under the, under a lot of american insurance, especially now that the americans are selling so much l n, g, u c. and making such a huge profit. so basically, she's proven to be, i think, and reliable in terms of trust because of the russia, which is where we are now. which is unfortunate. and several months ago ukraine was

given a new candidate member say to is this just the same scenario over again? well, you see people too many people tend to link european union with nato. that isn't towards the case because a long time ago, i mean, a long time ago, i think russia would have liked a good, but independent european union, that means independent of the united states. and now that that is no longer the case and was no longer the case. recently, it is quite obvious that that membership of european union was going to be directly linked to membership of nato. as has happened with nearly all the, all the new members of nato, you see. so i think that's worth considering as well. and the call is also said that the 2040 minutes because we're not really about bringing pace, like you said, but with it gives you credit more time to prepare for war. we are surprised by those comments slightly because on the she had a reasonable relationship with putin and with the kremlin. but i think she must

have been pressurized and quite frankly, economically, but by the united states military industrial complex. it's really quite as simple as that. i mean, step one in the face when you look at the statistics and the figure, there is enormous economic press. one germany as there is now because of the sanctions. whereas germany is in danger of being reduced to the $945.00 more. bill tal plans, which was eventually rejected where germany would it become an agricultural state? i think that like so many retired politicians who have made mistakes. she's trying to sort of look into so gloss over the obvious mistakes she made by coming out to these statements. i mean, henry kissinger did it, for example, that wouldn't compare him to her. he, even he, after the object slaughtering literally hundreds of thousands of people in se,

asia, et cetera, even he comes up not long ago saying that he understood the problem was rushed. for example, this is what a lot of retired statesmen do. winston churchill did it. but by claiming that although he called for united europe, he eventually said he meant it for them and not for us. they want to justify themselves. after they, they retire from political life. this is a phenomenon with a lot of politicians. there are a few exceptions. of course, you know, like edward heath and child a goal, but not many. most of them want to justify the noisy things they've done or say, well maybe i was a bit naughty. i'm sorry. and you know, when they die, they want to breathe easily. i think happens with people near the end of their lives. i'm afraid to be as we know, russia is continuously explained that ukraine failed to abide by the misc agreements and failed to bring peace to dom bus. do you think that the west was

complicit in this given the state been made by merkel now completely complacent. it was the west that ordered me to do it. i remember when, when there was meant to be a peace agreement organized by turkey when bars johnson 70 turns up in, in, in, and says, no, don't you dare. no, no, it is nature by that time it's a, was already, it was already a war. fight. mustn't use war between nato and russia. we ukraine as the instrument and european countries as the instrument by the way of nature, which is essentially american though. one has to be blunt, if we look at the figures, they speak for themselves and you look at the sales, they speak with themselves, the profits of the shareholders in america, the speaker themselves profit, some selling arms and form charging an enormous amount of money for l n g, i'm afraid it's very much of a business. i wouldn't know where the konami it's business and greed and the fact

that nato is now no no longer seem to have any kind of reverse gear. and as it gets worse and worse, and the only thing it's going to break stop, stop the ross, i think ah, france and germany getting up and saying we've had enough lead let's, let's talk now and stop all the fighting and look at the russian concerns which means the, all the russians in, in the grade should remain part of russia and security arrangement, whereby of course, you can never joins nato. it's as simple as that. and i think most common sense people realize that. but you see with the extremists, the neocons and the new order liberals in america and the profits, it's very difficult to do that very difficult. and i think that's why russia may have made a mistake. oddly enough, if i were to strategist straight off the crimea, if the intelligence network had been better,

they would have gone straight in and continue to finish the whole job that in there . but no believe metal, for example. and that was a mistake of those who get medical is also very inconsistent from one other thing. very important. some years ago, she allowed in over 1000000 syrian refugees in germany a few years later and she suddenly stands out. well, actually multiculturalism has failed. there's a major inconsistency. you see that not everybody's perfect. it's just basically the balance of the great presser from america is my view. and that's why i think she managed somehow, we, even the president put in some extent, many lang. sorry, sorry to interrupt many things in talking to us today we're, we're, we're out of time professor william mullins and also on full night british diplomats appreciate your time. thank you. the most welcome god bless marsha is bombing the export of crude oil and petroleum products to any florida's complying with the

plants cap imposed by the west, which moscow has brought the divine lation of international law. we are prohibiting supplies of russian oil and petroleum products to foreign legal entities and individuals provided that the contracts for the supplies directly or indirectly apply a price kept mechanism. early this month, western nations pay $360.00 per barrel price limit on russian oil purchases. the new cap is designed to for the 3rd party buyers, such as india or china to fall in line with the west foreign policy goals. since the announcements of russia responds prices of crude oil and petroleum halfway across the board on western energy markets, energy journalist, they rina's law say that russian oil will continue to be traded internationally due to high demand. china and india were the main target of this base price gap. remember us treasury secretary, ellen travelling in asia trying to convince beijing and your delhi to,

to agree to comply by. and both capitals made it abundantly clear that they will not because they both being for the magic rather than political. and because both countries are huge, oil consumers and equally huge oil importance. they need the oil to survive and for that, for them it's really a question of gaping their economy is going. it's not a question of politics or virtue signaling with regard to a friend conflict. russian oil will be sold internationally as we have seen and continue saying it just won't be traded by western western traders. and it won't be shipped by a western shippers, and insured by western insures ah, to the west bank. now where hundreds of people have been involved in clashes in a city of ramallah as a protest is that i want the idea to release the body of

a palestinian who died in israeli custody. the, the palestine red present society say is at least 11 people have been injured in the unrest which was thought by its wealth refusal to return the body of nasa added to his families. he recently died from cancer behind bonds after spending 20 years in prison for fighting against israeli occupation as a leader of palestinian militant groups protest. this was seen carrying an empty coffin adorned with a palestinian flag before the demonstration turned violent. later on wednesday, denounce russia and co putin say to nasa message from the head of ukraine's national security council to the leaders of the countries orthodox church, which has recently become the target of oppression by the key of government. this is piece of this now society after february 24th requires justice. and if you hide

your affiliation to the moscow patriarch had to connections with people who pray on the territory of russia for russian soldiers to kill us. and how can even look us in the eye? you must 1st look into your cautious. why are we hide and your name? it's unfair people should know where they're going. if you don't have a relationship, then officially deny it. say that put in a satan and the satan is girl. call a spade a spade, and then it will be fair. cranium. politicians should stop dictating when people should celebrate christmas, under which church they should pray. as according to the vice guarantee of the kiev, perchance glover, also known as the monastery of caves. he's also also lensky to stop the crack down on the orthodox church and move a ban on the clergy, access to religious buildings, metropolitan and prevail says the church has nothing to do with collecting. so who is it? but it's a thing they confiscate relics from the faithful of the orthodox church from their

citizens. we don't interfere in politics. we don't interfere in the economy. we only ask that the lord preserves us, our church, the church for us and in our country. may the lord help those people who have nothing in common with the church, not to tell us when to celebrate christmas, or which church to go to court there. that is the early this month president lanky signed a bill banning religious organizations affiliated with moscow which targets the ukranian orthodox church, traditionally linked to russia. some 850 people have been investigated so far. more than 350 buildings searched according to the church, more than 70 restrictions have been issued blocking its activities. at least 17 senior clerics including the head of the key of cat caves. a lover has been sanctioned so far. rates on diocese bounds on clergymen seem to be just the tip of

the iceberg. ukrainian intelligence agents even crushed the funeral of a ukrainian soldier, leaving the mother, devastated, begging them to leave in peace. you know, pursuing a, with the very reverend tonka. we stuff ciocca from the serbian orthodox church phase. it's necessary for ukraine's military dictatorship to break old ties with russia, including spiritual ones. we need to do a safe place to say simply offense. ukraine has become a military proxy of the political rest. now increasingly it's becoming the also a cultural proxy and also a religious proxy. so basically it d are so formed, which was very present in, even in past decades with which unfortunately has

a long tradition at least 30 gaining of ukraine independence in 1990 s. there is a father has become basically no social fabric of ukraine. it's very necessary for the military dictatorship in care to break all that ice with not only russia, but also because it's don history and it's on spirituality which is connected to rush in in each step in each historical moment for them it's, it's a matter of life of life, and that basically to break any, even the possibility of, of having any kind of spiritual relationship to russia. a case of news justina from moscow, where an unannounced meeting has been held between the russian turkish and syrian defense ministers as to mole over the security and refugee crisis in syria. now the

officials discussed joint efforts to combat extremist groups in the country and until on the lines, the need for such talks to be held more often to facilitate stability in the middle east. we'll have more on that in the coming hours. so do stay with the same on aussie international. we're back of the company. ah, ah, ah

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