ah, a with is breaking news at this hour from ukraine. we understand 18 people, including the country's interior minister and his college deputy. they've all been killed in a helicopter crash in a suburb here. also on the program here on our t, which leaks releases diplomatic cables that claim western politicians knew they were crossing a red line with russia when they pushed for nato expansion to a new crime. you will still use those to you is now completely following the american dictate. europe has lost its independence to serve american interests in the geopolitical containment of russia and china,

that russia is foreign minister says that you is essentially a vassal of america, and is conducting a proxy war against russia in ukraine. an ordinary iraqis opposed the continued foreign military presence in that country. despite the prime minister, calling for us troops to remain on security concern with the international coalition has been useless. on the contrary, it bombed the rocky popular mobilization and the security forces. it is completely unnecessary with a lot of big developments and your global use outlook right now. so it's great to have your company here. we're naughty international. it is breaking you. it's coming to us out of ukraine, where 18 people, including the countries interior minister and his 1st deputy have been killed in a helicopter crash in a suburb of key f. as we understand, the aircraft struck a kinda guy causing a huge fire. you can see the pictures for yourself,

but the incident occurred about 25 kilometers north east of the national capital authority say an equipment malfunction or a violation of safety procedures, or even sabotage could be behind the cause. and we will get you more updates as they come available to us right now. here in asi, international fact, let's go ahead and learn more at this moment, of course, live to ortiz, sophia nunez, who's joining us here on this program. sophia, good afternoon to you. you heard me talking about the story with this tragic helicopter coming down, just north of kia. you have any updates. what would we know so far? yes. and french made helicopter crashed on wednesday morning in a cave suburb. this state of emergency service said that the helicopter plunged into the kindergarten, causing a major fire and a 14 story residential building was also damaged. at this moment, 18 people have been confirmed dad, including 3 children. 9 of them were killed on board and 9 on the ground that's according to the head of ukraine's national police. 22 people,

including including 10 children, were wounded and now being treated in a hospital. the crash occurred at 8 20 in the morning of the time when parents drop off the children at the kindergarten. one witness of the scene describe it that the helicopter caught fire and was spinning in the circle before plunging to the ground . ukrainian authorities said that an equipment malfunction, a violation of safety procedure or sabotage could have caused the incident. and them that the investigation will take about 6 weeks. the helicopter in question is a french made air super pull my air bus with a troubled history in 2016 after a series of crashes. a major, a problem in is designed, was identified, causing 3 at least 3 european countries. britain, germany and norway to ground. there super pull my air buses. all right, i'll see correspondence, sophia nuno said with an update on this tragic story after just about 25 kilometers

north of here. thank you. while the a russian president vladimir putin has laid flowers at a memorial to world war 2 soldiers who fought to defend leningrad and what is now the modern city of some petersburg, more than half a 1000000 people starved to death during the nazi seizure bassetti. and among the deceased was putin's older brother, victoria. speaking of today's realities, prudence had russia, has no choice but to defend it's people. sure system, we deal ensuring everything we are currently doing, including the special military operation, is an attempt to end this war and protect our people who live in dog bass. these are our historical territories. meanwhile, wikileaks has published scores of new diplomatic cables purporting to show western politicians knew exactly what could happen if they continue to push for nato

enlargement to ukraine. in fact, many of them so that as a red line and relations with russia and even predicted what that of a future military conflict, let's break it down. his artes steve sweeney. we are not a threat to russia. security. many western politicians have repeatedly said some even believe it, i guess, but not moscow. perhaps because it has flashbacks from 30 years ago, when it received an ironclad assurance from the u. s. that nato would not expand eastwood not wanting to take said. but look at the map. since the promise was may 14 new countries have joined the military alliance. more countries are on the waiting list, closer and closer to russia's borders. on thanks to the wiki league's cables, we now know those fall back as 2005. they knew the ukraine's membership was a red line for russia, and it could even trigger a wall gordo montagnier warned that the question of ukrainian accession to nato

remained extremely sensitive for moscow. and concluded that if there remained one potential cause for war in europe, it was ukraine in 2008, then u. s embassy to, to russia, and currency i, director william burns, had this to say ukraine, and george is nato aspirations. not only touch iran nerve in russia, they engender serious concerns about the consequences for stability in the region. not only does russia perceive encirclement, but it also fears unpredictable and uncontrolled consequences, which would seriously affect russian security interests. experts tell us that russia is particularly worried that the strong divisions in ukraine over nato membership could lead to a major split involving violence, or at worst civil war. in that eventuality, russia would have to decide whether to intervene a decision. russia does not want to have to face while germany's deputy national security advisor rove mc l said that ukraine's membership of nato had the potential to break up the country. nickel raised 3 specific concerns about ukraine that he

felt made it risky at this stage to offer it the membership action plan, including a deep divide between the eastern and western parts of the country. on this question, chancellor, director for east european and central asian affairs, walter agreed and thought that membership action plan in the issue of nato membership could break up the country if pushed forward too quickly. in other words, it was widely known that the threat posed was so serious that russia would potentially take action to prevent it from happening. the west has turned a blind eye to more than a is of shelling of the people of don boss, buried his head in the sand of the burning to death of more than 100 people in the trade union building in odessa. ignore the, one of the people as expressed in recent referendums. but all the, while they knew that the majority of people in eastern ukraine felt tied to russia . not just that, again, thanks to wiki, biggs, we know that they recognize that russia has to be brought in to any conversation.

on the potentially enlargement of nato, norway's foreign minister store states that russia should not have a veto over nato's decisions and rejects attempts by any country to impose an exclusive right to influence any other country by right of geographic position or political or military power. at the same time, she says that he understands russia's objections to nato enlargement, and that the alliance needs to work to normalize the relationship with russia. to make matters worse, story was the foreign minister in ian stoba mugs, government making the night, her chief claims that the ukraine conflict was unprovoked. sound even more deceitful. at the end that makes the recent admissions by ukrainian and european leaders that the minsk agreements were not ready about peace. it's clear that the conflicts in ukraine is very different from the black and white narrative, portrayed by western leaders and a complying media. the 2014 minsk agreement was an attempt to give the crane time. he cried. yes, this time to become strong as you can see to day. the ukraine of 20142015 is not

the ukraine of today. since 2014, ukraine has strengthened its military posture. it is the merit of the minsk agreements to have given the ukrainian army this opportunity. i needed the minsk agreements to gain at least 4 and a half years to build the ukrainian forces to build the ukrainian economy, to train ukrainian forces alongside nato, to create the best armed forces in eastern europe, according to nato standards. it all gives the impression that piece was never really on the west side, gender. it's all something detailed in a 2019 ran report, which is what we are saying play out him from. so our eyes, all mean ukraine, trade and financial sanctions. and the expansion of the u. s. energy market. so the myth of the unprovoked war, waged by russia doesn't stand up to scrutiny. nato knew exactly the risks of offerings, lensky, the chance to join the 30 member states alliance. because they discussed it. time

and time again over the years rushes a foreign minister says the e u has completely lost his independence to washington and the u. s. lead military alliance. nato oliver over made those comments during his annual news conference or something up the main events of the previous year. have a listen to this. you will show use hulu to the e. you is now completely following the american dictates. europe has lost its independence in a joint declaration explicitly states that europeans are subjugated to nato, essentially continuing an obligation to serve american interests in the geopolitical containment of russia and china. is i time to take this further here on the program crossing live out to autism or in a culture ever who was actually there at via russian foreign minister this afternoon during this alive annual press conference. i know you are standing there, a good a good 3 hours marina. mr. laffer off, went on for 3 hours with all sorts of points. can you, can you run down some of the highlights?

absolutely, he did say that he was not trying to break any records with the length of the press conference, but one of the main points it seems to be that 2022 definitely showed a tendency that has been developing for many years to create a development to bring to the forefront that the west is trying to impose its way of thinking. and it's imperialist views on the rest of the world. for example, as her gay elaborate mentioned that nato has been fighting russia through you crate . and that even an academic study that was published in the west has shown facts and details revealing that and also that would that help all that proxies and it satellites, they've been developing this for years, have a listen to your listeners for the u. s. has now shipped a coalition, including virtually all european countries about natal member states, and you states and others. and now they are waging

a war by proxy against russia using ukraine as a proxy in order to solve the russian matter. just like hitler wanted to find the solution to a jewish problem, they're doing the same right now. the issue has trigger lever. i've also mentioned that the sanctions that are being used by the wes are aimed at not only weakening russia and trying to get it to play along to what it wants. so russia to do comply, but also with russia's i lies, and others so called undesirable nations, trying to force them to follow suits and do the same thing. follow washington's rhetoric. there was an interesting question at some point, or when the journalists ask, how can russia claim to respect the un charter and international law? when it started this a special military operation? and the journalist asked, how can the russia accused the west of doing something that itself has done now? results is just, we took women, any sort of emergency. there is an appeal among europeans that russia did not show

its best side by deciding to take military action. while the rest of the imperialist countries that have bombed health of the planet, or violate an international law in the same way, in order to seize territories him, we are victims of disposing greece. we have a threat from turkey. how would you argue with this position? cuz those that russia has not shown its best qualities in interesting formulation. about $300.00 times after the end of the cold war, the united states invaded some one else's territory, left their goal in places like central america is the liquidation of threats to the world. and they were offended, for example, by saddam hussein and gadhafi. in yugoslavia, they simply decided to destroy the balkans for the sake of germany. good. but there was no question of any tribunals or a decision to investigate crimes. they said we will put you under sanctions. we defended our security from ukraine after they made a springboard for an attack on russia. and secondly,

the humiliation of russians and the crew to tie in 2014, when the west sided with the anti russian regime without an attempt to dial back the bombing of gods can odessa no one investigated, there were no tribunals. the minsk agreements was just to give you cream more time and weapons were the only ones who sought the implementation of the minsk agreements. all the others were cheaters. this is marina, one of one of the points that article offered off are brought up during this a marathon 3 our annual press conference. what was the idea of peace negotiations? and he actually, he mentioned, this is something the western press. marina has really never talked about the fact that key. evan, moscow are ready to sit down at the negotiating table in as early as march last year, i guess a kind of goes heads and tails of what laptop were saying that the e. u essentially has lost its sovereignty and it's working on the dick kind of america. what, what would you say? what would it allow for? i had to say give us more details about the whole peace negotiations that never

really happened. exactly. he said that basically all of them here. so lensky was never interested in any peace negotiations. and even if he was, he wouldn't be allowed to do so because he is controlled by the west. this is something that sir gala rob said that basically the key of regime right now is doing everything that is being sold to them a by a washington. and not that we're never interested in any peace negotiations. and even if zalinski did, consider it for even just a little bit, the west slammed up down straight away and after march there were no discussions about any peace negotiations whatsoever. and again, we've seen it as if this was been planned for so many years. this is what it had to come down to. so of course, we are not going to see any peace negotiations, at least in the near future. and this is something that the attitude and the actions off keeps machine. that's what they've been showing. to smarter for the

after the spring of last year and throughout the summer in the fall was special representatives were seeing that it was too early to move to negotiations. and that ukraine needs more armaments for it to start it's negotiations with their greater initial ask. you asked about the outward negotiations between russia and the west will be prepared for any serious proposal. so we'll be prepared to rush on to them . and we see no series proposals as of now, but we will be prepared to review them with other bit boucher or she had other interest in point to was that so a circular office about western globalization is collapsing and washington is trying to retain that top spot by a going, as far as a legitimate means to achieve that, any means possible, trying to create a rift between countries to make sure that the majority is stick to it's a rhetoric. so this was a,

some of the main points that we saw from the conference marina, when it, when it comes to the fact that ok, so obviously ukraine was essentially front and center for this. marathon 3 our annual press conference with russia's 4 minutes or so. okay. laughter off, but i also understand you were there among many, many journalists from all around the world. what was it just you crying, or what are some other topics to laugh off? touched down on as well. no, i was not just the crane. we also heard about the stand up between us that of i, john and armenia. there were questions about japan, but we could see that there was a particular focus more on asia and not a natural because as we'll see in russia has been shifting more towards a used, especially after the special military of operations began. and we saw the reaction from the west with the sanctions and tried to restrict russia and to weaken russia . so there was a particular emphasis in particular on a china and russia relationship with china and russia. the should used this little

new spooky traditionally to devote our relations with china are going to the best times in history. the leaders of our country say the same thing. china characterizes relations like this. reliance is not an alliance, but in some ways even stronger issues are relations are respectful that based on a balance of interests, there is no need to look for information about the attempts to bring discord into our relations. so they don't consider us an immediate threat. china is considered a long term challenge. below they understand that their forces are running out in opposition to the historical trend of the formulation of the multi polar world. we see that the west is trying to bring the scores between us and they are trying to defeat us in order to then convince russia to become partner of the west that has forgiven sanctions and will not interfere and ideally helped to restrain china. i do not know which of their analysts develop these theories, but they are out of touch with real life that she posed. that was the just

all that the 3 hour press conference with sergei lab, rob basically saying that this is all about the west, swine to retain its dominance in the world wide arena. and those who refuse to play along will be sanctioned. there will try to create a rift between countries that get along now that we see certain nations becoming stronger and going up on that ladder to become a super powers in the world, not just the united states. so we have russia now. china is developing as we know. 1 india, brazil, or the country. so they're trying to create rips between those countries. china and india, for example, just to make sure the don't become a stronger strong enough to take them down. that's interesting. marina took it off, really not, mincing his words at all to day. very, very straight, very strong comments from russia's foreign minister as well. marina culture ever. thank you. well, the world economic form in davos,

switzerland entering. it's 3rd day we're talking about the world's top one percent in that champagne branches. the highlight of the event has been a speech by the chinese vice premier, and he insisted that to promote economic development, global powers have to let go of the cold war mindset dinner. we need to uphold the right principles and maintain the effect of international economic order under the new circumstances, the traditional way of thinking cannot provide the solution. that is why we have to abandon the cold war mentality. try to understand the nature of things from the perspective of material duality, endeavor to build a community with a shared future for mankind, and join hands to respond to global challenges. and while the one percent allured with champagne, wishes and caviar dreams, attendance at the once promo event has certainly dwindled. a south african president scrapped his plan to visit the forum with russian business leaders also

very absent, even long time fixture and business. when george soros, what he's m i a while german chancellor laughed sholtes is expected to be the only g 7 member at the conference and other absent world leaders have said they are tackling more pressing, domestic issues at home. however, those are you leaders who did manage to come a certainly sending some mixed signals that include the e u commission president ursula vandal and who's been urging africa to go green with a little bit of help from the outside. our friends, for example, on the african continent, have resources for renewable energy in abundance. what is missing is the infrastructure. and therefore there we have a common interest so that this infrastructure is being built up, while the faith meant by the e. u is really misleading on many friends. first of all is play lose with the truth,

referring to african countries as friends following rather sketchy pause. but 2nd level, it is also true that the european union has really blocked africa from developing some of his fossil fuel fines on the continent. and the for the system that we most punch through and follow through with regards to only looking at green energy investments. and therefore that's why you find africa still suffering from this energy poverty. you talk about green energy. well, green energy in africa is not as paramount as energy itself over 600000000 people in sub saharan africa continue to live without electricity and that is pivotal to africa, development and if industrialization we can get one without the other. and therefore, energy is of paramount importance on the continent alone, but more and more, we finding african countries compromising their own energy use in order to be able

to get some of the much needed foreign exchange reserves. but this is all kind of a greater story about how the european union and america have consistently blocked the development of african countries. particularly putting sanctions over them that some called an instrument of wall. i mean, you look at the functions that have been levied against the country, like as in boy, even as the country gets to the brain, greeley of these sanctions have not pay that they have not moved and many as saying that they just the way for the americans and europeans to force ordinary bob wins to vote against their own government. the number of african presidents who called for these illegal unit lateral sanctions to be lifted at last the united nations general assembly was of county. and this by the call growing into a chorus,

the europeans and the americans continue to be tone deaf to the calls of not only zimbabwe, but the region and a continent. we want to urge the president of the republic of zambia and his friends, the european americans to talk on behalf of the people and baba, the issue at hand is very serious. we want the sanction stability often bother. we are not happy watching what has been going on and above. now there was only but one that says in zimbabwe has been innovative. introducing a gold coin last year in order to generate some of its own revenue. despite of the sanctions that have been placed on them, by the way, it introduced it in july last year. this coin yesterday, the touching you hi. going as much as $2002.00 on the market, beating the price of gold at some point in the london stock exchange. and despite

all of the international monetary fund, continue to call on them. bob, when local authorities to reduce the use of the gold coin, saying that they mean to use more traditional means of interest bearing instruments . in order to said, monetary policy, an extremist group linked to al qaeda attack, the military base and the east african nation of somalia. official say at least 7 soldiers were killed, including of the facilities commander. now as we understand the base is around 60 calum does not have market issue. the capital. a national forces had lost control of it and managed to retake it just a few months ago. the lady is attacked by the al shabazz group, appear to be an effort to seize at once. again. official said the insurgents bombed the entrance and then opened fire while eligible for certainly was in the power over the past about 10 and a half years. poverty,

food insecurity and well decades of violent unrest of basically enabled the group to fill its ranks, especially in the hardest hit areas. somali as president though was even asked civilians for helping routing out extremists, montana. i'm calling to you the people of the issue, the rainy gay time on here they are and you houses your neighbors. so flush them out of us president joe biden, i should say, last year he signed an order to deploy hundreds of american soldiers to somalia to come back insurgents. so he did that through a bush era, $911.00 legislative act without the approval of congress. the intervention was warmly met by somebody as leader was previously voted out of power and corruption claims, but somehow managed to return to office last may. we did hear from a kenyan security expert and a former special forces officer who served in somalia. he says hardship and that country has given way to the rise of extremists. how shall bond if you look at

produce a malia, we've been level low, been the ability to monday governmental this monday mondays, monday it's up to go through for the longest. you'd expect some quiet, celtic management of the phase of the people and government to government government that i had to really enjoy. so really points on monday. how about inputted by challenges? i mean, if you look at the code dynamic seems that course we've been governed, it will spaces that are allowable, but like 4 different functions will come up on them, says militia kind of space. and when you ruffling with that kind of chaotic situation, then you do because you don't even governance. so that's one of those factors that will kill rains then you know, you don't sample anything. so you exposed to everything and those provide very good breeding grounds. so good to have you with us today for this program to iraq now

where the prime minister has upheld the continued presence of foreign troops in his country, particularly from america, despite concerns among civilians. in an interview published on sunday, mohammed also dani said there are no plans to resume foreign combat operations in iraq. but he noted that external support is crucial for defeating various extremist groups. statements contradicted the sentiments of ordinary iraqis, so we hit the streets of baghdad. we spoke to the local theron, and frankly, they were almost adamant against the continued military presence of foreign powers in that country. a lot of other than that, just as we oppose the military presence of any country, particularly neighboring countries, which has had a negative effect on us, especially after 2003 as we've been attacked by foreign countries, such as iran in the united states of america which affected iraq negatively rather than positively. meanwhile, the iraqi government supposedly should act. however,

these countries and the external interference have hampered its capability to address the issue which i had to do with the international coalition has been useless. on the contrary, a bond, the rocky popular my bill is ation and the security forces. it is completely unnecessary. there is no need for that presence and we have iraqis does not support this matter. beckett, currently, in my opinion, the neighboring countries have been involved in the continuation of vices because the neighboring countries seek to keep iraq vulnerable. moreover, it is in their interest for iraq to remain weak. so they help ices, even if they disagree with an ideologically, these countries have no interest to keep iraq strong. but now of course, it was back in 2003 that the us invaded iran to destroy weapons of mass destruction . that of course, were never there, and if i knew ministration concluded the official combat mission in 2021, but left 2000 troops in the country to serve as advises of the us initially

withdrew a troops in 2010 and redeployed them in 2014 to fight those members of diane, which with the iraqi prime minister said that are rooting out the sodium group. diane would require more time and more foreign military aid. back in 2020 the u. s . president. at the time, donald trump proudly announced diane was completely defeated under his leadership. as you know, with 100 percent of the ice gala 100 percent. when i was in, when i came in, it was a mess. it was all they have it in a certain color, all ice a year later i said, where is it? because you know, we were talking journalist martin j now, according to martin j, he says that the us presence in iraq is not always that of a security assure i think they're already hi.