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road. then also i'm to see this big game like close to the road and then even the day and i didn't even know to see the ocean, i thought is a big it took a long time for me to actually make my familiar understand about this. what i'm gonna do today, they still don't understand what i'm doing, that they only thing they ask, are you ending something? are you working? is that what you say? yeah. so to put it wet, don't could it's what it's worth. so if we say it's what they accept it, say it's what the owners on your neck saying you could wish you gonna die out there . so these were desk cables like this issue work. i'm working. yeah, this is my work. many thanks for joining us. they are naughty and to national as always you can find a list latest updates on our website r t dot com will be back in 30 minutes. ah,

look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, accept where such order to conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. and the point obviously is to great trust, rather than fear i would like to take on various job with artificial intelligence, real summoning with a robot must protect its own existence with what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation,

let it be in arms. race is on often very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk the me. hello, i'm manila chan. you are tuned into modus operandi the show that explores the methods and patterns of foreign policy all around the world and the history that reverberates in our lives today. in this episode, we'll explore forgotten, humanitarian crises, still being suffered today. as the western world turns its eyes to ukraine, 1st, the world food program has called this the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. after nearly half a 1000000 people had been killed and some 16000000 others teetering on famine.

yemen is in the spotlight today as a fragile fees fire draws to a close that after the botched withdrawl and 20 year presence that many describe as an occupation by the why the taliban is back in power in afghanistan. millions of civilians have plunged into extreme poverty, and the new leaders cannot access the fund tied up by the byte in administration to purchase basic food supplies for the population. we'll discuss it. all right. let's get into the ammo. ah, it's been an onslaught since 2015 yemen who's the rebels backed by iran fighting it's behemoth neighbors. saudi arabia, along with our coalition partners in the united arab emirates, yemen is the arab world poorest nation, even prior to the war. meanwhile,

saudi arabia and the u. a e r the wealthiest. so even without any further details, it's fairly easy to guess who is inflicting the most damage. quote, we have returned to pre civilization. there is no clean water to drink every day, children, and surely people line up with posit tankers donated by some doer of good women and children, fight over scraps from rubbish, piles, families, sleep outside people are relocated to miserable camps on the outskirts of cities and left there, abandoned, by the world. forgotten those words from bushrod. i'll mockery a yeah. many journalist. now this carnage, this travesty all made possible by the pentagon. after massive u. s. department of defense contracts to both the saudis and the moratti's. for america's part. it supplies the kingdom with about 80 percent of its arms,

ranging from air power in the way of fighter jets, to the more common tactical arms like shells and bullets. saudi arabia is america's number one, military arms customer, or as the u. s. calls it f m. s foreign military sales customer in just 2022 alone. the u. s. d o. d approved and secured a 3000000000 dollar sale of patriot missiles to saudi arabia and about 2300000000 for a bad missile defense system for the u, a. e. now over the years and through multiple presidents, the deals made between the us and the saudis account for many, many billions of dollars every year. joining me to discuss the humanitarian crisis caused by nearly a decade of us bombs is doctor i showed you mon, she's the president and founder of the yemen relief and reconstruction foundation

are known as y r r f. i shot thank you for being with us today. yemen has plunged into a full fledged humanitarian crisis. food shortages, cholera outbreaks, some 23000000 people in dire need. half of those are children. you that has characterized it as a health scape. can you explain for us if this is an accurate depiction and why? and so chicky preeminent naming people, this actually is and it's been working don't realize members of mine, every single member was 21 to visit him quite often and they moved the football and they're still doing that. or you have families. it's really how the exec child's best thing was dying with a sense of their arms and dying. the good and this is the main main house. it was

remind me who i said this is not due to lack of causes. so it would break your heart is the fact that people are doing those. so i think it's important for the thought, recognise when we 23000000 people think of the suffering, the dying child. think the self bring up. this was the parents who are seeing their children going through this community at large. we're separating and shifting for almost 8 years now and ever been washing and not been. and i remember the 1st i'm an hour sue director when she and and that was 17. and he said he, he hunger in yemen and i've never seen what else. and he actually called if

it's something that the bible, the rest. yeah. and she said that's 20 percent. sure this is some and and yet there was not heard is message or the mini mester, there's the warning this happening. and so yes, this is, this is deal. and you know, every day i get to choose from problems to my what's up as just show me how they are suffering. and i've had to tell people don't say this was i can i am puckered from a point of privilege as you know, when i see there's pictures that shoot as follow is the question many times when i did talk about them in michigan, i was try and this is not professional professional, we have to,

we are dance. i can, i can if people i know if the plan me was that i'm that my we might lose my neighbor. right? diseases in my report, they the largest on in history. and we are again, 21st century, which should not i guess the area is february, the 25th. which would you have women? thank you. so if you look at all months we've seen about women has as last about us progress in the health and, and that's again, not acceptable. i did an analysis that i published as,

as seen on the, there was, and 2016 was on one year after the war and we had ship in years back. and we're now 30 years backwards. and again, this is not happening. and this is preventable. alarm from soon as they are getting things like malaria is now back in boston, one on women was almost no, we're not married men and women. and now we are the so everything that we actually had worked on for many, many years to you know, saying when and, and bring the house shops this last. and now the last last

one of the role of the united states. how has the u. s. foreign policy helped or harmed yemen? yeah, unfortunately the current policy has quite a bit. every life that we use to them was supported by the west weather where, you know, certainly pipe is showing on the south side and a quarter of the arm should sell us to the 25 percent goes to target. so that gives you much control. and how much dependence the salaries are in terms of arms on stephan. it's all been years. donald's weapons decided to yes. and again here i'll give it very small sample. they're

just big bomb human. they there's high, smooth changing. almost every, every i'm the science. if the government decides to not sell the tires for the deaths, this idea of course as was doing madame killing, showed the big bon longo. they've been targets out for the bombing. they continued to change them in the pilots. and even though they've bigger, as i've said, multiple items that they started, we had bomb civilians and they kept trying to train them for 7 years. so they said it was after 7 was obtaining i don't think it's worth it just back to wherever this is purposeful. even m. s. s, i suppose multiple times was august when this are the coordinates of the

both the largest color center and the south. but bill on, on the date that they were inaugurated was an opening that it was bought. so the u . s. is supporting them from a to see this war would not have started or teaching today without a rush report. so the, your as the neutral and there are lots of legal experts to say about how they were as if and they, so, and, and, and the world kind. mitchell by this. and the way, you know, including harvard law report, they came out to 2020. anyway, they said they, they asked us to ship and their work comes from outside of civilian donations to organizations like yours. have you seen much in the way of aid coming from other

nations around the world? and if so, who or what countries have come to humans aid like a change. i can't seem to have one or the or she's also wanted to women. but again, if i think of all the money they need from selling arms to very pounds where they provide the same thing, whether we're talking about france or the will continue to say, you know, they think jim and, but they also are the 2nd largest provider on shark again, they can to get the digital dollars the biggest in and it's telling what shock japan has falls like of the century as well. but again, a nation of coaching and not will we be

able themselves. we cannot triple them cannot. i say when, when, when age you with whatever we have and we will always our mercy when we decide to donate and when you decide last samples and i was the for the, for loose they got, i think the question in terms of their nation. so they can do human caring and what i don't want to i want to be able to support themselves, and they are very, very, are very hardworking. and they tend to do that just with the blocking and let them such a really sad, bad being one, she's going the way sion hostage to their generosity

when they want to move and walk them. how can people learn more about your organization and help the people of yemen? what's human foundation about or? and i want to say here, we are, piss me. all one is, here are the nation. and they were us and women, i just didn't analysis are the best solution from defending 97 percent of the funds buying the glasses on the percent goes through operational. so i don't think any organization in the m r anywhere else can see that where the majority of the funds are $0.98. go to doctor i showed you mon, of the yemen relief at reconstruction foundation. thank you. and when we return, we'll rewind the clock back 20 years to revisit afghanistan,

a country that suffered a direct war, waged by the united states known as the forever war. don't go anywhere. the ammo will be right back. i ah ah, is your media a reflection of reality? ah, in a world transformed what will make you feel safe? isolation for community. are you going the right way? where are you being led somewhere? direct. what is true? wharf is great. in the world corrupted,

you need to descend a join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. in 1898. the island pledge a retail became a u. s. colony, but still retain its own cultural identity. we can speak in favor of independence. we be thrown into prison today, close to half its population with the residence of puerto rico. have new representation in congress and con, vote and u. s. presidential elections like okay, you wanna make you american citizens, which you didn't ask for, even if we were office citizenship with the head and we would prefer our wrong, we want to get a who's in his twenties. he chose to fight for his homelands independence. we felt that we could generate more of a spirit of resistance, rather than hope, submissive, accept or reality that we felt was like,

shockingly unfair. my sorry, that i decided to fight for my country. no one could have done things differently. yes, absolutely. do i now think that violence is not the means to achieve anything? absolutely. the me. it's done the graveyard of empires. afghanistan, the geographical center, that is the middle east. this landlocked central asian, rugged country has fought off invaders of all sorts through the millennia. now, in the modern 20th century, it staved off the formidable soviet army from 1979 and watched the last of the soviets withdrawn. 1989 a nearly decade, long conflict that contributed to the collapse of the ussr. the taliban seized power after this withdraw. then roughly a decade later,

after the 911 attacks in new york city, american president george w bush brought another war to afghan. stan, this time, bloodier, more lethal and twice as long, 20 full years spanning for presidents, 20 years of us boots on the ground, an american bombs littering the country. and the premise for the bush war in afghanistan, bush believed the afghans were harboring osama bin lot and the mastermind of the 911 attacks. so this began a new era of warfare which introduced unmanned drones along with hand to hand combat, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of others displaced by america. the longest war. oh, yeah, let's not forget to include that president bush invited his friends from nato to join in on that war. after the u. s. completed its withdrawal in august of 2021. the estimated cost of the war fell around to $2.00 trillion dollars,

making afghans stand the most expensive the longest and ugliest war and modern history. the end result. once again, the taliban returned to power this time even before the last of the u. s. boots the country and now more than one year since the u. s. withdrawal afghanistan is facing a new crisis. a wave of starvation with a government that is not recognized as official by the west. that's asking for help . 23000000 afghans risk the slow, horrible death through starvation. joining us to discuss is dr. wa hobbs, a hair, a native afghan, who served as a senior advisor to the afghan minister of higher education for many years. he's a professor emeritus at lewis and clark college in oregon. dr. what hon. thank you

for joining us, doctor will. how can you please explain for us the situation on the ground in afghanistan now, one year since the u. s. withdrawal? yes. well, i my software, you know, in that case, status october 2019. and of course for the last 2 decades, i had been going back and forth every year. and then the last 7 years, 2013 to 20. 19. i was full time in taking the american in a spam. but right now, you know, every day i talk to people in afghanistan and i read about afghanistan. so the situation is really tragic. it's disaster. it's more than critical, you know, hunger poverty health conditions. and you know, education and employment and lack of cash. all of these have led to

one of the worst situations in history and on the face of the earth. you know, the vast majority of the people are hungry. food insecure, the center has gone on with the united states, engaging in economic sanctions, but also seating in a way or in founding the $9000000000.00 of the afghan to spend money. so the situation is truly disastrous. it's, it's tragic. it's in human. i would say it's almost like a genocide in slow motion. the afghan central bank has around $7000000000.00 us dollars in reserves that are held overseas. why is the u. s. government able to control this money? why can't the afghan government access its own money?

you know, the united states when the usaa withdrew or was defeated or got tired would do about a year ago. and it continued economic warfare on afghanistan. one of the poorest and least developed countries the world to begin with. and you know, after that, like many other countries have a certain amount of for foreign currency reserves here deposited in the list seems to be protected. so i have $9000000000.00 in the federal reserve in new york city. 7000000000 in u. s. and then 3 billions, i believe in germany, switzerland in italy, simply to be kept safe in this 9 billions belong to afghanistan because they end to the afghan people. it did not belong to any government or any individual.

this was just for safe keeping. and this was important because, you know, these 9000000000 dollars there's a question against inflation that providing a stability and, you know, then people were able to do trade and commerce and import things. in short, it was sort of the foundation to backbone of the afghan economic activity. but the united states, a year ago, i decided to sort of empower this money. but in addition to bad, united states also declared the sanctions economic sasha, which is to say there was no money going to anywhere from $2.00 afghanistan. i tried to send small amounts of money to some starving families a year ago, and i was not allowed to send back money. the same was true for c. multinational

agencies, other governments, other and yours. in other words, you're good there and i did see a simply blockaded at economically and we're told now that this is, was the legal, it was a, you know, i guess for any kind of law, i know. and needless to say, it was highly in warren, because what it means is that there's hardly any caching and there's, there's no banking activity. there's no cash coming in to very little cash coming in. you know, the country became de capitalized and no one has any money. and the government has very little money, organizations, agencies, and institutions. and yours, individuals. there's no money or, you know, employers don't have money. workers don't have money, there's no work. there's very little economic activity, so there's, it's almost

a full economic paralysis which is really a worse form of warfare engaged by there. and then i just stays worse than perhaps the military warfare doctor's a hair were ha, thank you so much for being with us today. wars are horrible, the immediate devastation is obvious. but why does it appear that some victims of war are more worthy of help than others? these wars in afghanistan and yemen waged by the west, or at least enabled by it. have also been forgotten by it. that's going to do it for this week's episode of modus operandi the show that digs deep into foreign policy. i'm your host manila. chad. thank you for tuning in. we'll see you again next week to figure out the m. o. ah

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