it lacks intellectual and moral honesty. we must address why this conflict started in the 1st place. a a. it is breaking news that our live on our team international. 17 people including 4 children and the country in carrier ministry leadership being killed in a helicopter craft that came down the are a kindergarten. just north of d, f. you going to so use with you is now completely following the american dictate. europe has lost its independence to serve american interests in the geopolitical containment of russia in china that russia is foreign minister says to you is essentially a vassal of the us and is conducting a proxy war against russia. in ukraine. iraqi prime minister backs

u. s. troops deployed in the country despite locals, calling for the withdrawal of those who as many of set up destroyed that home life . how to do it the international coalition has been useless. on the contrary, it bombed the iraqi popular mobilization and the security forces. it is completely unnecessary as well turns and finds itself increasingly conflicted. we are here to set the record straight. welcome to your new so naughty international and straight to ukraine. we go where 17 people, including 4 children and the country interior ministry leadership. they've all been killed and a helicopter crash. the came down near a kindergarten in a suburb of key f. let's learn more right now across live to a correspondent, sophia nunez. now joining us here on the often and program sophia, can you bring us up to speed? what do we, what do we know now? yes, a french maid helicopter carrying sinew ukrainian officials crashed on wednesday

morning in a cave suburb. the state emergency service said that the helicopter struck a kindergarten, causing a massive fire and a fortune story. residential building was also damaged. at this moment. 17 people, including all 4 children, have been confirmed that this according to the hat of ukraine's national police. 22 people were wounded, including including 10 children, were wounded in and now been treated in a hospital among the dead. r ukraine's interior minister, his 1st deputy, and the secretary of state. the crash occurred at 8 20 in the morning. the time went barons typically a drop of their keys said the kindergarten. one witness of the scene described at the helicopter, caught fire and was spinning in a circle before plunging to the ground. ukrainian authority said that in equipment malfunction, violation of a safety procedure or sabotage, would have caused the accident. that the helicopter in question is a french made super pull my airbus with a troubled history in 2016 after

a series of crashes. a major problem in the, in his design was identified forcing at least 3 european countries, germany, britain, and norway. to ground there super pull my helicopters, ukrainian official said that the accident investigation will take about 6 weeks. all right, i'll t correspondence. sophia news. thank you. rogers for minister says the e u has completely lost his independence to washington and the u. s. lead military alliance. nato made those comments during his annual news conference coming up the made events of the previous year. you want to say use a rumor to see 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. shuttling 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, ours, galeb, rob mentioned that nato has been fighting a russia through ukraine, 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. english, that's for the u. s. has now ship to coalition, including virtually all european countries about natal member states and e, 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, sir gil,

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 don't comply, but also with rushes. i lies another so called undesirable nations, trying to force them to follow suit and do the same thing. follow washington's rhetoric. there was an interesting question at some point when the journalist asked, 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 it, it self has done now resents as trust with the quickness of the mortgagee. there is an opinion among europeans that russia did not show its best side by deciding to take military action while the rest of the impetuous countries that have bombed health of the planet, or violate an international law in the same way in order to cease territory scheme we are victims of disposing greece. we have a threat from turkey. how would you argue with this position?

cuz the 1st that is russia has not shown its best qualities. an interesting formulation. about $300.00 times after the end of the cold war, the united states invaded some one else's territory. my at 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 spring board for an attack on russia. and secondly, the humiliation of russians and the crew to tar in 2014, when the west sided with the anti russian regime without an attempt to dial back the bombing of la ganske in odessa no one investigated, there were no tribunals that minsk agreements was just to give you cream more time

and weapons were the only ones who saw the implementation of the minsk agreements. all the others were cheater. so he said that basically of all the rear zalinski was ever interested in any peace negotiations. and even if he was, he wouldn't be allowed to do so because he is controlled by the wes, this is something that sir gala rob said that basically i get the key of resume right now is doing everything that is being sold to them a by a washington and not there were never interested in any peace negotiations. and even if zalinski did, consider it for even just a little bit, the west side that down straight away and after march there were no discussions about any peace negotiations whatsoever. and again, we've seen that as if this was being 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 of cubes regime, that's what they've been showing this motor go to 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 its negotiations with a greater initial ask you asked about the outward negotiations between russia in the west will be prepared for any serious proposals. will be prepared to respond to them and we see no serious proposals as of now, but we will be prepared to review them for you the other. the other interesting point was that just regular ross about western globalization as collapsing and washington is trying to retain that top spot by 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 some of the main points that we saw from the conference. you were there among many, many journalists from all around the world. what was it just ukraine,

but what are some other topics that level of touch down on as well? no, it was not just the crane. we also heard about the standoff between as that of john and our emilia. there were questions about japan, but we could see that there was a particular focus more on asia. and that's a natural because as we'll see in russia has been shifting more towards the east, 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 an hi and i, and the ross's relationship with china took the sure news. this little news public initially did is a road are relations with china, are going to the best times in history. the leaders of our country say the same thing with china, characterizes relations like this. the alliance is not an alliance, but in some ways even stronger. our relations are respectful that based on a balance of interests,

there is no need to look for information about the west attempts to bring discord into our relations or they don't consider us an immediate threat. china is considered a long term challenge blue. 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. 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 was the gist of the 3 hour press conference with sir gala, 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 are get along now that we're seeing certain nations becoming stronger and going up on that ladder to become

a super cowers in the world, not just the united states. so we have russia now trying to 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. plenty of story still to come here on our tea, including wiki leaks as released diplomatic cables that claim western politicians knew they were crossing a red line with russia when they pushed for nato expansion in ukraine. we'll cover that story just in a few minutes here. what's for now? iraq's prime minister has up hell, but continued presence of foreign troops in his country, particularly from america, despite concerns among civilians. in an interview published on sunday mohammed al sudan, he said there are no plans to resume foreign combat operations in iraq. but he knows that external support is crucial for defeating various extremist groups. statements contradict to the sentiments of ordinary iraqis,

so we hit the streets of baghdad. we spoke to the locals, many of whom were adamantly, against the continued military presence of foreign powers. in that country. a lot i and a number of other than others is us. 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 job meanwhile, the iraqi government supposedly should act. however, these countries and the external interference have hampered its capability to address the issue at j and out of the door the international coalition has been useless. on the contrary, it bombed the rocky popular mobilization and the security forces. it is completely unnecessary. there is no need for their presence. and we, as iraqis do not support this matter beckett couldn't. i'm, in my opinion, the neighboring countries have been involved in the continuation of ices because

the neighboring countries seek to keep a rock vulnerable. moreover, it is in their interest for a rock to remain weak, so they help ices even if they disagree with it, ideologically. these countries have no interest to keep a rock strong. daniel put out a pro. well, you remember the story of the u. s. invaded iraq in 2003 to destroy weapons of mass destruction. that, of course, were never found that the biden administration concluded the official combat mission and 2021, but left 2000 troops. there. the u. s. initially withdrew as soldiers in 2010 and then re deployed them in 2014, to fight di asher. now, the iraqi prime minister said that routing out the insurgent group, diane would require more time and much more foreign military aid. but back in 2020 that he was present at the time. donald trump, he proudly announce at dias was completely defeated under his leadership. a defeated 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 all gone soon? because he was, oh, we were talking just a bit earlier with around journalists, martin jay, he says that the us presence in iraq is not always not have a security or sure it's i think they're already high tension. you know, and it's very difficult to, to look at one reaction or the other. what's very, very important, i think, is not to repeat the history of 2011, quickly making arrest issues and to pull american troops out. and create a vacuum which is unfilled by isis, or whatever you want to call sunni, western western iraqi terror cells, which became isis and i sell eventually. and the last thing that the prime minister

will want to do is to be the one who's responsible for that. but he's playing a balancing act, you know, on the other side of the coin, he's got a sheer groups in the parliament who want very much him to push the americans out. so they can take more control, they believe. but it's also a double game for them because you know what's not reported. i think it's quite important. notice is that often cheerful. 2 analysts often see american troops in iraq of sit in ducks that's quite very vulnerable to attacks from insurgent groups supported by around inside iraq or even those outside. so it's not a very clear cut argument, whether it's a safe bet the american stay in iraq, or if they leave, then they create further chaos in the region. i think there are, there are scenarios both ways on that one, not as easy as it looks,

an extremist group linked to our kinder attack to military base and the east african nation of somalia. official say at least 7 soldiers were killed, including the base commander. now the facility is located around 60 kilometers north of the capital market, diesel nation national forces at a loss control of it. they managed to retake it just a few months ago. and the latest attack by the outs, shabani group appears to be an effort to seize at once again. officials said the insurgents bombed the entrance and then opened fire. well, i'll show bob how certainly risen the power in the past decade and a half or so. poverty food insecurity in decades of violent on rest of unable to groups of fillets ranks, especially in the hardest hit areas. somebody is precedent is even our civilians for help in routing out the extremists, montana. i'm calling to you the people of the issue, the rainy gay time on st. you. they are and you how is this your neighbors?

so flush them out, but you as president joe biden last year, signed an order to deploy hundreds of american soldiers to somalia to combat insurgents. he did that through a bushier 911 legislative act without any approval from congress. the intervention was warmly met by somali as leader who was previously voted out of power on corruption claims, but somehow managed to return to office just last may well. we heard from a kenyan security expert in the form of special forces officer who served in somalia. he says at the end of the day, it's hardships in the country that have given way to the rise of extreme shop bob. and if you look at produce a malia, we've been level low, been the ability to somalia governmental the so monday mondays, monday it's up to go through for the longest. you'd expect some quite celtic management phase of the people and government to government and government that i had to really enjoy. and so really points on monday. how about them in boxes, by lots of challenges. i mean, if you look at the code dynamics seems that we've been governed,

it will spaces that are allowable, but like 4 different functions to come up on them as a militia kind of space. and when you ruffling with that kind of chaotic situation, then you do because even governance, so that's one of the fact that the keels rains then you know, you don't sample anything. so they propose to everything. and those provide very good breeding grounds. the russian president vladimir putin has laid flowers at memorial to world war to song, which was you for to defend leningrad and what is now the modern city of st. petersburg. more than 600000 people starved to death during the nazi siege of that city. and among the deceased putin's older brother, victor, speaking of today's reality is put in said that russia has no choice but to defend

its people. sure, just when we deal in fuel, everything we are currently doing, including the special military operation, is an attempt to end this war and protect our people who live in don bath. these are our historical territories. while a wikileaks has published scores of new diplomatic cables purporting to show western politicians in you exactly what could happen if they continue to push for nato enlargement to ukraine. many of them saw that as a red line of relations with russia and even predicted what a military conflict in the future. let's break it down. his correspondence, steve swing. 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 was seen an iron clad assurance from the u. s. that nature would not expand eastward. not one inch steak said, but look at the map. since the promise was made,

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. on currency i, director william burns, had this to say, ukraine and george's 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 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 bass,

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 easton 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 involvement 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 that 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 on a complying media. the 2014 minsk agreements 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, the piece was never wady on the west side gender. it's all something detailed in

a 2019 ran report, which is what we are saying play out from. so our eyes all me crying 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. nice. who knew exactly the risks of offering zalinski the chance to join the 30 member states alliance? because they discussed it time and time again over the years. 3 people have been killed and 6 others, abducted in a wave of violence conducted by insurgent groups in nigeria. this comes as another incident took place this week, but more than 30 people were abducted from a train station in the southern part of the country. the passengers were attacked while waiting to depart. now is the latest in a series of incidents that are seen railway stations targeted all across the country. now, abductions for ransom conducted by armed in social groups as a pressing su in the country as it heads towards new presidential elections or

concerns. the violence could affect the voting process. we heard from locals who want the government to stand up and take action. so this kind of social continue, i'm scared, is going to affect the movement of people coming to this community of ira with the government. ah, louis with that slides on for a budget. i think with this i need to go make up the to the government. like i said, my thought was dizzy to do they need to know that to forestall for dr. rossi. so this ugly situation. nice. now you can cheat fish goodman used to would have a 6. and what if a needs to do that? it's good. you just need to be, you know, open, allots me show that did you do that? will it christians who have become a specific target in nigeria?

latest attack took place on sunday where a priest was killed and 5 people were kidnapped. now, according to report issued by open doors and international christian human rights organization, nigeria leads in hate crimes that target christians as 20 percent of christians in africa. apparently, faith discrimination is the most extreme as him is said to be the most common cause for persecutions in the country where we can learn more crossing live. now to reverend john joseph high up, the secretary general for the christian association of nigeria in kut doing are joining us alive on our t international. a very well welcome to use our thanks for joining us in the program. you heard the story, reports of killings of christians and priests in nigeria. why? why a christians apparently being targeted. so it is side on the unfortunate that in a country it does have the constitution in the country that has a government and some group of citizens. i've been here if not, can be picked up in the schools and kept up where they wouldn't do nothing and they

do it actually in the own more than just plain, maybe a getting of them and healing some of them. that becomes a good cause. but if nothing is ever wide healing the wife is trying to please look out for that to do. if you have issues with government, what kind of on sunday we like to do of what up with up and calling we had a pretty was keel. he's not the gunshot wound people now, but it was under that and then in thank you have been a state where i was supposed to and so we keep not about 20 of them. i miss enough to know so this much as a bit concerning the crystal community, i worried but citizens generally what it because now given seems not to be secured

at this moment. well, i think you makes it very clear comments that reverend but, but when it comes to christians being persecuted there, i mean they are these political groups, so religious groups in search in groups who's going off of them and, and did you say that some are being held for ransom. yeah. you see those when this may call of political that it would a body do that. we also have a just agenda. the agenda is to create them. i have a christian the agenda who cheers. christensen's. all the community we have to do is call them and put them so that they will not show you in the next coming election. so that, i mean if i associated with it, but been sponsored by what need to know really just extremely good is live and it will be the one that is the government, the government getting up and i'm sorry to jump in, but we have these elections not far off is the government now getting involved to

protect christians, working with the new show it in the body of civil rights time. we would focus, we've been crying. we've been waiting and we'd be like, you know, we were there on projects, but what you have a government is already recovery and no absent because even the government condemns criminality, condemns extremists have government goes up to them and i read them sometimes. do you get to know that many of them we don't see any evidence to show that they will be cute, because even with the attend another to them, we can see them acting on this ploy and get people and not get people. so which one do you want to around keep nothing people every day. so go back up a little been on it since it would be totally different. but we have been doing some stories here and essentially in some parts the hottest hit parts of the continent when it comes to food scarcity. for example. a lot of people don't have been a very power, for example,

the hardest hit areas. some analysts say is where extremists flourish and extremists can thrive. would that sound accurate to you? and would you ever consider appealing to the international community for outside help? but as it blew it was about to go to your mind it? nope, that's enough. i mean, it is, or if you have a situation that you've done no sunday, there's nothing wrong for you to call for support. when african countries you'd be calling us to support your local so call and people to support the want to much oh, i got my money. not a 150 somebody reality that in the past we made a community so, you know, we already have so many people that would have been the way that we will not want it to be that will be will you know that we have this kind of multiply lenders, no food, not going to school everywhere.