contribute to completely the stabilizing the situation on the korean peninsula. this is the last day that countries in that part of the world want to see some more news coming in. now from don boss, where reports are emerging, ukrainian military base has come on the fire. there are some of the latest unconfirmed images we have from the scene, and you can see an enormous blaze. fire fighters are they working to extinguish the flames? explosion in the area was reportedly captured, live by a french tv cru. filming at the time no more updates on that story on the rest of all stories for u r t dot com for the meantime. this is our t international. thank you for joining with

in 1898, the island went to rico, became a u. s. colony, but still retained its own cultural identity. he could speak in favor of independence, re be thrown into prison today, close to half its population, liberty. moreover, residence in puerto rico, have new representation in congress and con, vote and u. s. presidential elections like okay, we're gonna make you american citizens, which you didn't ask for, even if we were offered citizenship with the head, and we would prefer our wrong when one sega is 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 fell 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. with 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 turned 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 seas 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 state 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'd be rebels backed by iran fighting it's behemoth neighbors. saudi arabia,

along with their 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 certainly people line up with pots at 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 m 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 u. s. 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 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, una south has characterized it as a health scape. can you explain for us, if this is an accurate depiction, and why am i taking preeminent naming people? this actually is an accurate description. working don't realize, numbers is this mine. every single member was 21 to visit him quite often. and i moved the call and there's still rooms that are new house. families make really hot as their child best thing dying,

living in front of their arms and dying. and this is a main main. remind me when i say this is not due to natural causes. so a great your heart is the fact that people are doing those. so i think it's important could be brought back at 9. when we 23000000 people think of the child think the self bring up. this is parents who are seeing their children going through this community at large who's suffering and had been shifting for almost 8 years now and ever been washing and not doing so. i remember the 1st time and now a few that after when she and, and that was 17. and he said he,

he hunger in them and i'm never seen what else. and he actually called the if something bad, the bible, the rest. and she said that's when he 1st sanction this is some and, and yet the world not heard his message or the many messages that come out warning this happening. and so yes, this is, this is a deal. and you know, every day i get it chose from problems to my what's up there to show me how things are suffering. and i've had to cancel the phone saying this was i can i and i'm puckered from a point of privilege, as you know, when i see there's pictures of follow passions many times when i did

talk about them in michigan, i will try and move. this is not professional to professional. we have to, we are dance. i can, i can is it people i know if the place me was that i'm that my my, my neighbor right? diseases know? yeah. my recording the largest in history and again, truly quest sanction, which should not give me area is federal still many tips here which would you have when i was just 19 so if you look at all in the think it was, you know, months we've seen about women has as last about us progress in the health and, and that's again not, not acceptable. our,

i did an analysis that i published as, as seen on the husband. and 2016 was on one year after the war and we have ship yes. backwards. and we are now 30 years backwards. and again, this should be happening in bushes preventable alarm from diseases from those things infections. malaria is now back in the 1st one on women was almost diverse. i know when i married, manufactured him, and now we are the so everything that we actually had worked on for many, many words to sing and then 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 human? yeah, unfortunately, the current policy has quite a bit. every life that if i was to bomb them, was supported by the weather where, you know, certainly pipe is showing on the south side and a quarter of the ship to the wrong place. 5 percent goes to start. so that gives you how much control and how much dependence the saudi are in terms of arms on the stepping. it's all been years. donald's weapons this hybrid. yes. and again here i'll give you

a very small sample. they're just big bomb and they, their tires move, changing almost every time with science. if the us government decides to not sell the tires for the deaths, this idea of course, as well as the feelings show that based on bon wanda, as they've been targets out for the bombing, they continue to chain them in the pilot. some of the things they, they do as i've said multiple items that they already had. bombs should winnings, and they kept trying to train them for 7 years. so they should be meals. and after 7 with the training, i didn't seem to bang it back to you, but this is purposeful. even m. s. s,

i suppose multiple times was august. when this are the coordinates of the m as both the largest color center and the south. but bill, on, on the day that they were inaugurating an opening that it was so the us in supporting them from a to see this war would not have started only teaching today without the russia. so the, your as the neutral and there are lots of legal experts who wrote about how they were as is and they so an empty and the world kind of, michel by this. and the way, you know, including harvard law report, they came out to 2020. anyway, they said they asked us to ship and they were,

comes to the right 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 i think i think she's going to have cancer one. she's also wanted to move to women. but again, i think of all the money they need from selling arms to very plans where they provide the same thing, whether we're talking about france or the pensions to say, you know, they're anything together. but they also are the 2nd largest provider of chicago . again, they, they contribute to the, the dollars, the biggest in empress is telling what shadow japan has

a lot of the century as well. but again, a nation of catching them and not will we be able themselves. we cannot triple them. we cannot to say we aid you with whatever we can and will always be our mercy. when we decide to bill nathan, when you find that sample was still for the for loose, they got, i think the question in terms of their nation so they can do, he may carry on what i don't want to find someone who i was able to support themselves and they are very are very hardworking and they tend to do that. just the blocking and less than such. it's really sad that they want to get their own way sion hostage

to their generosity. and when they want to move and want them to, 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. one is your organization. and they were asked and women, i just didn't analysis are the best, the solution from the funding, 97 percent of the funds buying the glasses on the percent goes through operational . so i don't think any organization. i'm anywhere else can say that where the majority of the funds $0.98 goes to dr. i said 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. ah ah, a raw when all 3. just don't know. i mean you world the, if you have to say proud disdain becomes the attitude and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds of horn, we choose to look for common ground.

november 22nd 2020 to outraged orthodox christians confronted ukrainian security service offices looking entrances and exits to keep the oldest monastery. they were looking for, alleged russian spies among the monks. we mean dealer seeming us. it was no violent foam or reason for the brutal crime down one church. his parishioners said, song, a song about russia. ah, it's wrong been reason enough to condemn any orthodox christian attack in prison and even kill them. russia, what are you russia? finance. because when you loud store and you, when you store pro offline, you in your total thought as you use a samuel sample i use from his dog

with 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 afghanistan. 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 in 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's 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 up can 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 afghanistan is 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 enough for 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, lack of cash, all of these to have that to one of the worst situations in history and on the face of the earth. you know, the vast majority of the people who are hungry,

food insecure, the center, has gone on with the united states engaging in economic sanctions, but also stealing in a way or in founding the $9000000000.00 off the canister 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've noticed on 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. this was important because you know these 9000000000 dollars. there's

a question against inflation that provided the stability, you know, then people were able to do trade and commerce and import things. in short did was sort of the foundation, the 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 you. in other words, you're a good there night is simply blockaded at economically and we're told now that

this is, was the legal, it was a, you know, i guess, or 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 cash in afghan as brand is. there's no banking activity. there's no cash coming in to the 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 them. then i just say it's worth and perhaps the

military warfare doctors, the hair will have. 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 and 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 dig deep into foreign policy. i'm your host manila chant. thank you for tuning in. we'll see you again next week to figure out the mo, the in the ah, it's

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means to achieve anything. with your top headlines right now, what are you international? scores of russian soldiers are killed in bond bass in a recent attack by ukrainian forties using american supplied high mileage rockets. the deadline used was confirmed by russia's ministry of defense. this monday. the n 23 militant group may soon leave several key areas of the democratic republic of the congo may be on thursday. it comes after months of violence against the law. there was not given up in our village before but sees the m 23 war started there is become a frequent problem. a women.