a bite, b, loan. all you simply want a computer through. would you do? ah, washington decides to supply care with 30 want to abrams tanks, especially off the ins and outs, one to 1014 a bit selected tanks to ukraine. everyone is giving been not aligned to do the same . we are fighting a war against russia and not against each other. think germany's foreign minister says the, you said, united is war against russia with moscow labeling berlin decision. fair. yes. escalation on the in iraq. hundreds takes the streets in process following the plummets of the national currency. that's of the country. the oil continues to be traded in dollars spoken criticism. it's benefiting washington. not fact.

ah, very welcome to you. this is dorothy international with the latest world news update is good to have you with our, our top story of washington has announced it will 131 and one abrams tanks and other rama vehicles to ukraine. but i didn't confirms the decision claiming gets not to aim. does a threat to russia? now to that united states should be sent to $31.00. abram trying to claim that's what this is about. helping ukraine defend to protect you. crazy land is not an offensive threat. to russia, there is no offense for fred to russia. this follows germany's approval and 14 of its main battle tanks, ukraine following months of pressure from nato allies. and key of russia has a case berlin of note encouraging

a peaceful solution to the ukraine. conflicts say, excuse me, saying it's instead focused on permanent escalation, but sure with his dams to get a minute. you, once again, we see that germany, like it's closest allies, is not interested in a diplomatic solution to the crane crisis. it is focused on his permanent escalation and unlimited pumping of the key regime with more and more deadly weapons. read lines, arresting of the past. berlin strikes to provide 14 leopard to a fix tanks from their bundles, fear, stocks, as well as training tea crania, and cruise. germany will also issue transfer permits to the allies that want to deliver tanks from the supplies the countries foreign ministers called on e. u. member states to unite in war efforts against russia. and therefore i have sent already in the last days. yes, we have to do more to defend ukraine. yes, we have to do more also on tanks. but the most important in the crucial part is

that we do it together and that we do not do the blame game in europe because we are fighting a war against russia and not against each other. thank you. this is really just all about projecting unity appear. exercise, essentially berlin said that it wouldn't send modern leopard tanks and less washington sent its abrams tanks. apparently it was enough for word to come out of washington on tuesday that the u. s. would do that for germany to probably take a flying leap, sending 14 of its own leopards and allowing other european countries to send theirs as well. so now germany finds itself a leading the way in escalating a military conflict for europe and the west. yeah, that's always turned out super well. so it's hardly surprising that some german politicians are pretty upset about all of this right now. the delivery of li upon battle tanks, which leapt another taboo, potentially takes us closer to world war 3 than towards peace in europe. the

decisions are contained in making germany a war party doesn't have the support of the majority of the population, lip tanks all the prelude to a possible sly towards a catastrophe. so the german public is split on the tag issue and m d r survey found that 94 percent of listeners are against the deliveries. but that was before the broadcast. her said that it wasn't representative. yeah, that would kind of be a bidding convenient. according to an infra tests survey, 54 percent of germans were in favor of sending the tanks and b a r d morning magazine found 46 percent in favor. so roughly split half, 4 and half against sending the tax, but no real sign of any massive public outcry and germany to send these tanks to ukraine. if that people say ever mattered. remember, foreign affairs minister anna lena bear box had not that long ago that she personally would do what it took for ukraine, regardless of what germans thought. so now it's a race to see whose tanks can get blown up. first. it's hard to imagine this

playing out any other way because it's not like there's air superiority to protect them. there have also been issues with german fighting vehicles in the past. it's puma, infantry fighting vehicles, didn't survive or recent military exercise. none as in 0 of these vehicles were operational afterwards. and these left for 2 tanks, the same ones heading to crane or used by turkey against isis in syria and ended up destroyed by things like anti tank missiles. i. e d. 's rockets and mortars. actual pumas in leopard should probably sue for defamation. it sounds like these cat vehicles are more ready for a petting zoo than for battle. and apparently they're all so high maintenance to and it's unclear whether the ukrainians will have the training necessary to maintain and handle these leopards. the whole take issue is mainly a p r exercise that allows nato to project unity just

a few days ago. nato had an image problem with western press report, suggesting a fracture of the alliance over the tank issue, but actual western military experts i've express skepticism over the real value of these tanks on the battlefield. how anyone thinks that 14 challenger tags or 14, the leopard tanks or 14 am, was, will make it a damn difference is beyond my imagination. you have the feeling that in washington we've got to get the most out of our investment in this ukraine proxy war. and you do that by postponing an end to the conflict. you drag it out and drag it out. but that seems to be the strategy or the goal of the current strategy if you want to call it. oh, but guess what tanks getting blown up in that more have to be made. which means that the undisputed winner of this whole tank debate is the military industrial complex. don't take my word for it, just ask ukrainian president climbers,

lensky and ruwan can become a big business by walking with ukraine in all sectors, from weapons and defense, to construction from communication to agriculture, from transfer to i. t from banks to madison. everybody can make money in weapons sector working with you, craig, clearly it looks like the american abrams tanks won't arrive by the spring. that's according to western press report, citing u. s. officials. so the leopards will be 1st up in this circus. and also in the firing line, and every one will be watching to see how they manage with their jumping through the flaming hoops test. maybe the u. s. can even sell europe and replacements for those, particularly if they fail and leave the audience disappointed. for messina, political security analysts, michael believe, say said the western allies announcement to st. tanks is aimed at increasing

psychological pressure rather than changing the situation on the ground. it's mostly psychological. it's. there's clearly a reluctance to, to, to send the tanks from a military standpoint in terms of their capabilities and also their very limit limitation in numbers and come in at this time and what the logistical necessities would require. it couldn't be met in time if you could look at this realistically. so this is been more of a political endeavor by germany and by and by the united states. and i might add that the russians themselves have the t nineties in ukraine and, and the armada says they're called and they're, they're now being fielded in ukraine and they're just as capable as the abrams and in many respects in terms of capability. so but, but as i say,

given the numbers the ukrainians of estimated, they need 300 tanks to try to turn the, the tide in turn on the battlefield. that there's nowhere near that many going to ukraine from either from germany, from the united states, or even from other countries that the germans have allowed to do to send the apart . so hundreds of iraq, he had taken to the streets of baghdad in protest against a devaluation of the nations currency, which has led to a fall in living standards demonstrators. many young people gathered near the central bank carrying slice, and banners and a bit to pressure the government to the local currency. the iraqi dinar has recently hit a new low against us. solar leasing almost 7 percent sufficient valleys in mid november. all to contribute to chris ends examines how the country goes to this

point and the root cause of its financial problem. the prime minister has fact to the head of the country central bank over the total collapse of the national currency, the iraqi dinner. today the central banks governors request for discharge was approved, as was the request for retirement by the president of the trade bank of iraq. despite being one of the wall, it's most oil rich countries. iraq currency continues to plummets. unlike its fellow oil rich nations in the gulf, such as saudi arabia and the united arab emirates, which we enjoying all time highs as they capitalize on rising oil prices. iraq is suffering from unprecedented levels of inflation with the cost of living, becoming unaffordable for most people. but why is this happening? you guessed it's uncle sam has its thing, get in the pi yet again, most of iraq's oil. well, it's still helping us dollars. instead of phone stopping currency, it's probably been held in 5 countries on the central bank, but it

a current account in the usa. this means that the oil revenues that should support iraq sulfur currency, a propping up the u. s. economy. instead, everyone knows how the americans use the currency as a weapon to star people. iraq kids billions of dollars of its assets. offshore with the american fed holding the basketball about money. off the bush and blair illegal invasion of the country. their so called partners continued to rob the bank and get away with it struggling in iraq by literally holding it to ransom. now just imagine the western out quite as russia in china did the same thing, the countries in which they hold significant interest. so is it really any wonder why so many nations are moving away from the so called petro dollar, and seeking to trade in alternative national currencies, or even crypto times running out franco sam and his rules based order. and it's no longer a question of if but when the clock strikes midnight. ah, i shall talk diplomat, sir. gala ross has praised moscow's growing relations on the african continent.

steering his latest official visit to angola. he went on to criticise west and financial pressure on developing states and propose the creation of new current season. and the brakes creep on nations and other frameworks is upwards with, with his actions. the west has proved, as it can trample at any moment on all the values and mechanisms of globalization that it itself created and promoted. including the viability of property fair competition, and the presumption of innocence, just as it can betray its allies at any moment. which was proved not so long ago in afghanistan, iraq, and during the so called arab spring, syria self respecting countries are well aware of what is at stake. they see what the owners of the current international monetary and financial system are capable of. and want to create their own mechanisms to ensure sustainable development, which will be protected from outside dictates it is in this direction that initiatives are moving, which were voice recently just the other day on the need to think about creating

a single currency within the brick framework. and the framework of the association of latin american and caribbean states. and this in particular, will certainly be discussed at a brick summit in south africa, the end of august to which a group of african countries have been invited, including as i understand it, the president of angola, russia forming minister said 11 visits to angle that is like that hon, coming of a not friend in this part of africa. russia was one of amazon that's shown get support during the could work period. a doing it see the word after independence for over 3 back at this russia and on god i had the had it he also diplomatic relationship based on a common interest in the military. and the st depicts for and the be like that. i'll trade the country's i now straightening thus ties further. rash as these angola as a strategic partner in the south west and africa. and, and lawless is russia as a partner in each economic integration,

rationale security, and the scientific vectors. late last year, russia assistant angola in the lecturing a communications fatality. and gonna was one of only 19 countries that did not vote for sanction against russia in the united nation. so it's not confidence that russia in angola, both oil producing countries are looking at way to improve blotted out relation and cooperation. like many other african pansies, angola is now also looking is for economic solution to china, russia and india. because after many, dec that as the current the continent ties to worston countries have not healed is sufficiently positive results for the african people. earlier, le bravo visited south africa and east a teeny, where he filled some important deals. we spoke to the african business initiative channel at the val di for him,

who explained why russia is focused on africa and how the consummate will become a key global player. and he has to come to myself, you know, experts, africa relations. i have been also talking a lot about the necessity to be very proactive, you know, develop, notice in russia, africa perspective, because really, it's absolutely true. africa is growing continent, it's a very young continent with that population is going to be doubled by 2030, the population that will be the main working force for the whole world. so you cannot neglect the situation. so you should be either involved in this dynamics or you will be assigned. and i think as far as we see, looking at the all the actions, nobody wants to be a site. everybody wants to be so frustrated player there. mozambie

a has found itself in the middle of a diplomatic spot between china and the us. paging is criticized washington and it's relations with africa. that's off the us treasury secretary accused the country of failing to help somebody a solve that problem. even if the u. s. one day solves its debt problem, it is not qualified to make groundless accusations against all press for other countries out of selfish interests because it cannot at all alleviate us. tremendous responsibility for the reason of the world debt issues or south africa journalist catholic and the so me breaks down the latest diplomatic spot between the u. s. and china. the tensions between washington and beijing is based on the increasing geopolitical tensions between the current nations. i mean, washington is seeing beijing as a country that is making very big inroads within the african continent and is focused on that military power and the economic influence that it has on the

continent. they also worried that the influence that china now has on africa will soon surpassed that of the u. s. i mean the u. s. has gone on to accuse china of making inroads with regards to unfair trade and also taking out the natural resources unfairly on the african continent. but of course, china has come out to say that all the a cooperation as well as the trade agreements between themselves and the african continent have been above board and rather for the benefit of the african people. now we do know that in the last week the us treasury secretary jenna t. ellen has been on the african continent, her state again on saturday in senegal. and this comes weeks after china had already come on to the continent to solidify some of the relations that it has made inroads with the continent of a number of decades. who also know that the russian foreign minister is also on the continent and solidifying. we know that he wasn't swaziland in south africa and now

in angola and as typical of the western jaelyn came out to say that the chinese have contributed towards the debt that has been accumulated. in zambia. we do know that zambia has had very close ties with china with regards to some of the influence and the economic growth in that country. now it's quite typical of the u . s. as we do know that they are trying to weaken the relations that the chinese have with the african continent, but a little too late. since we do know that the americans have spent more time not solidifying they stance in terms of growing africa. but all the in creating war and instability among many african countries, while china was making those inroads in terms of policy making, it has made many investments, most of which has been loans to the zambian nation. however, we've seen 2 upgrades of a ports. we've seen them, we've seen telecommunications roads,

many of the countries infrastructure has been developed over the years. and ensuring that zambia is not equal communion of its african counterparts with regard to being able to moist, comically active with the kind of infrastructure that has been placed on that on the country. the inroads made by china in the zambian region has really benefits that region in terms of economic growth and can only seem to benefit them even more . while speaking in our to a candidate basset that was bon bonded with a flu of tough questions, ranging from nato's ongoing support of ukraine to israel's policies in palestine and others. mister re, you're lying, you know, it, you're using ukraine as a proxy to we can russia, you don't, you don't care about international law at the united nations, just recently. you voted against multiple resolutions up all the international law upholding palestinian writes. you voted against the resolution condemning neo

naziism. you voted against the resolution supporting the treaty on the partition of nuclear weapons on haiti. mr. ray, you're propping up your propping up an unelected. i'm elected unpopular unconstitutional leader. is that true? that you will find out more or less cross live, to the man behind the questions. canadian journalist and activist eve, anglo many thanks for joining us on the present this evening. so what made you decide to address kind of, did you and envoy with these questions? while gray is a very aggressive war mongering, a politician, he's been very aggressive in pushing b nato proxy war with russia. i of course, consider rushes in nation, illegal and brutal, but i think that the canadian government has contributed significantly to escalating tensions. and in fact, arguably, is at war with russia now. bob ray has put forth all kinds of very high minded

claims about what canada is doing and defending ukrainian democracy, defending ukrainian sovereignty. but if you look at bob res record, he is supporting bombing libya. he supported the war in afghanistan recently at the united nations. he has consistently opposed palestinian right. this became government and barbara himself do not care about international law. they care about advancing the us empire. so myself activists, demetrius garris, and tomorrow, lawrence, we heard about this event happening and we decided that we would give a different perspective from this one sided, moralistic policy and rhetoric that's coming out of bob ray. and quite frankly, i think we successfully put forward a different message from the stand in mind that we hear from mr. mr. ray. and did

you get any response from the voice? of course the audience today respond to the questions you're asking. you know, barbara didn't respond properly to the questions. of course, we didn't expect him to respond and an honest matter even actually denied that he had supported the 2004 us france candidate who against the elected government in haiti, which is he's on the public records as having supported. he had no response to the question around the u. n votes because canada has voted against policy, right to the us against the treaty and prohibition and nuclear weapons. and, and so the, so, you know, mr. ray was not yet came politicians, the king government, they had the media is so goes along so much with canadian foreign policy that to expect them, they don't, they don't expect to be challenged and they don't basically even have to particularly justify what they do. so the audience now, i think is a bit more complicated. they were most people who were there were there because

they probably had to as university students or thought it was a good thing to do is university students. but i'm sure that many people in the audience heard a different perspective, and i think even more importantly, you know, it's circulating on social media. and there's lots of lots of canadians that know the trudeau government governor's lying about foreign policy. so it's, it's important to sort of stoke opposition among them and to have them sort of solidify their opinions in that, in large part was the point of our disruption and then to share it on, on, on social media. so understand that you are a school his from the whole by security. tell us about that. yeah, this is the security of the to morrow was the 1st one. she went up with a sign next to bob grey and the security came in quickly and ne, i actually just sat down for my seats. i was in a couple of seats away from mr. ray, so i didn't even bother to stand up. i just sat down and asked my questions and

security came over right away and i just continued with my statements and eventually enough security came over and i and it was to south. so, you know, mr. bob gray was relatively available to the public on but, but i think that the, the more general problems, not that the, the security was particularly aggressive or that. and bob ray was not, you know, after a public event, it's that everything of these things are scripted. there's no going to be no opportunity for we'll exchange of ideas. but more importantly, we live in a political culture in this country and canada, where the media is just an absolute on the question of ukraine. it's just, it's just unanimous basically way. there's just only one perspective, and that's all the willing to hear and to even ask questions that, that vert, from that perspective is on a line. but more generally on came foreign policy is a really narrow spectrum of debate allowed in the dominant media. so the fast majority of canadians have no idea that canada helped oust identical,

which in 2014, at canada. again, a really the proxy worth russia began in early 2015 or canada began operation unifier and training training ukrainian forces that canada has been pushing nato expansion aggressively for 3 decades. despite the promises at the end of the cold war, and canadians also when they hear the claims about defending democracy or western values in ukraine, they, they believe in, in part because they don't know that in haiti today, you know, we're packing a dictatorship that killed many people that's totally opposed that we over to an elected government that were basically terrorizing the population haiti. and so they actually believe the politicians when they make these claims was defending democracy in ukraine, even though while they're clearly crushing democracy in haiti. so the point of these disruptions sort of break up, that political culture was opposing your questions to the end for you mentioned us

imperialism. what kind of response did you get from him on that? if any, and, and how do you feel us imperialism manifests itself in today's global, assess well, he didn't respond, of course, to me saying that he supported the war in afghanistan, and he supported the bombing of libya, which will cut a needle, needle mission. so the idea of natal being defensive alliance is ridiculous but, but, but the reality is is that canadian foreign policy is very closely aligned with u. s. foreign policy and the u. s. empire. and so we have canadian naval vessels patrolling the south china sea right today. you know, in provocative mate moves towards china. we have the came military that with a plan to set up 7 military bases around the world in conjunction with the pentagon, right. they set up 31 in jamaica, one in kuwait, one in germany. and they have plans for a handful more in africa and asia, and that's all being done in alignment with this, you know, the $800.00 plus

u. s. military bases all around the world. so the u. s. empire is, is at the heart of, of so much of canadian foreign policy. and quite frankly, the heart of what bob gray, you know, if bob grey criticizes human rights, usually it's the human rights violations of some country that's in opposition to the u. s. empire. and he's very unlikely to criticize human rights violations taking place in countries that are aligned with the u. s. empire. so. so the u. s. some pirates, you know, a incredibly important and in understanding can inform pulse and u. s. empire is in most militaristic country in the history of humanity. and so i, of course, expressed that opinion to, to mr. mr. langley. many, thanks to speaking to us this evening when he appreciate your thoughts and your time. kate in journalist sounds activated 8 angler. not the central africa, whatever random force the find it

a democratic republic of congo military jazz claiming is violated the countries as space with us as clashes between the congress army and 23 rebels allegedly supported by one resume in the northern part of the d. r. c rank no 13 claim. it was the 3rd time jets when the d. c violated excess space. the playing struck is said to have land. they go add port and we're one the board with its y wing on fire . the congress government house denied the accusations and denounced the incident. is a deliberate act of aggression that amounts to an acts of war can shop can, can shop, save the incident house was provoked to undermine the peace agreement which ended hostilities with the n 23. great wonder, an agreement reached in november and 23 fighters was supposed to withdraw from that position by january 15th. because the president said that commitment hasn't been fulfilled. fresh clashes between congress troops and the rebels are wrapped on tuesday morning. 70 kilometers from ma, with locals,

reported the fleeing the area we had from a d. c. army spokes person in north kiva. democrats goes to the armed forces of the d. r. c. r, a national and professional army. it is proven this by defeating rwandan troops and their allies who have since 5 am been trying to attack our position and cut off the government c. c. road. for some time, the rwandan army and its ours had been blocking the goma red shooter route. and it is an acceptable for us as a national army to let them come and put the peaceful life of our population in danger. indeed, there was unrest as the fighting was taking place. 10 kilometers away from kit shonda and destinations could be heard. this worried the population, but i can reassure you that could shonda and its surroundings are under our control . the fighting is still ongoing. the operation commander is on the ground. it's too early to give any assessment, but we can reassure the population that the area is under the control of the most loyal forces and that the enemy has felt our power. i would bet that the rwandan

army and its m 23 allies have learned a hard lesson today. and you, an agency for palestinian refugees is uphill for $1600000000.00 worth and financial support to provide help for those in need of the funding level crises and rising levels of poverty are among the major problems the agency faces, according to its commission, a general who spoke of the meeting in geneva, the united nations relief and works agency of palestinian refugees provides the aid such as food medicines and social services for palestinian refugees. the bureaus meteor advisor say is unthinkable. the agency may not be able to provide help to the most fun we are talking about, but to be honest with, you know, it's time to review even in celia live on gaza bank on the other bad need of increasing our services our, our.