i miss supplies and freedom with a us germany and their allies agreed, and then heavy tanks to ukraine for the 1st time to bolster what they call a upcoming counter offensive against russia. no offensive trip to russia. we are fighting a war against russia. washington in berlin are remarkably out of the sink when explaining what their tags will actually be aiming for, and praying as iraq's currency promised to new load, local rally against the country, central bank accusing it, observing american interest at their expense with our country,

wants to liberate itself and leave like the rest of the world, the step wasn't eligible in order to reduce the price of the u. s. dollar, which had started to affect many social classes in iraq. and happy republic, day to india as the country celebrate the 74th anniversary of the constitution for the grand parade, for russian military cadet to work. simply invited with coming to you why from the russian capital this is r t international. i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories of the our welcome to the program. the u. s. has announced it will hand over $31.00 of its abrams tanks and other armored vehicles to ukraine for an expected counter offense. it, i guess, to russia's forces on the front lines. manassas, that united states will be sending $31.00 abram tanks to ukraine. that's what this

is about. helping ukraine defend and protect ukrainian land. this follows germany is decision to send at least 14 of its main battle things to ukraine. after months of pressure from nato allies and russia has accused berlin of escalating the conflict, instead of seeking peace with his dad just 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, germany has pledged to turn ukrainian cruise to uses tanks. berlin will also issue transfer permit to other countries that want to deliver their german made tanks to key yet. and while nato allies are in unison over their military supplies to ukraine, they're not on the same page about the stated aim. it is not an

offensive threat to russia. there is no offensive threat to russia. and therefore, i've said already in the last days, yes, we have to do more to defend ukraine. yes, we have to do more also on things. 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. many people in the german government are making decisions that favor washington at germany is expense, and fighting, being a part of this proxy war fighting this oxy war for and with the united states is part of that. i think they will continue to search for weapons to send ukraine. it will obviously make no difference. we were told that hi mars in the triple sentence, we're going to make all the difference. and here we are, back to square one,

looking for wonder weapons, defend ukraine, to turn the tide, which we were already told turned already. so they're going to continue to go through this process, apparently oblivious to the fact that these weapons take years for a army to incorporate and use on the battlefield effectively. so, unfortunately, we're going to watch this process continue to play out and watch matters escalate. meanwhile, russia has also warned, against the potential use of depleted uranium shells by western tanks and ukraine. nato, infamously, use such ammunition in previous military conflicts, leading to both civilians and western soldiers being exposed to radiation according to russia's arms control, chief and deanna. moscow will consider the use of such weapons as a dirty nuclear bomb attack. for now, 3 different types of nato main battle tanks are going to be delivered to the cranium army. now washington promised to send $31.00 of its m one abrams tanks.

although the white house, so the delivery will take months, germany is going to send 14 of its modern leopards with several other nato states. also committed to sending their own stock as they have been waiting for a green light from berlin. and finally, the u. k. will also be delivering 14 of its challenger to tanks. now we asked former us marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter if he has army can actually handle such advance weapons. here's what he had to say. those are 3 completely different types of tanks with 3 completely different types of maintenance and logistics and sustainability issues. you know, the challenger and the a leopard used diesel fuel. the m one uses a jet fuel. it's 2 different engines. so, you know, even though the numbers of tanks might look impressive when you add them all up,

the fact is a because of the use the different kinds of change being provided. we're actually making it very difficult for the ukrainians to, to incorporate these tanks and use them on the field of battle. tanks are very maintenance, intensive, francis and the m one abrams tank for every hour of operation. you need at least 3 hours of maintenance support. and that's is piece time operation. now you throw in the complexity of combat and you're probably looking for every hour, you know, 456 hours of maintenance support and that's with a well trained maintenance crew. ukrainians don't have well trained maintenance cruise, a capable of supporting the the m one abrams. and i just think that we're creating a logistical nightmare. was this be frank here? russia has spent decades preparing for the possibility of vo

war between nato and russia. what i mean by that is that russia's developed weapons and tactics that are designed to prevail in combat against the nato. like enemy, we've got you covered with all the details on the ramifications of the western tank deliveries to ukraine on air and on our website. r t dot com, where you can get plenty more opinions and in depth analysis plus live that day. meanwhile, in russia is donna republic, r g, roman coast, her up as, as a small town near the front lines which suffers from constant shelling by cranes military blue with the village of 1st. army of gar has,

is seen hellish. a city or running water in months, there are over a 100 kids at this school. and the principal of the school asked if we could provide them with the diesel generator. we did just that and brought it over here. so now the kids will be able to tailor classes in the comfort luth . mm hm. that's not covered under tonight's up theory gifts. it's scary when shelly starts and the children are at school when it begins getting home from school to home. it's scary in itself. the responsibility is incredible and it is very difficult to bear it. yesterday 3 large explosions thundered the ground shook, and our homes and infrastructure were damaged. the front line is only about said

1011 kilometers away from the village of stumbling that go home. to about 1400 residents now came under full control of the next republic, back in may and according to locals that still live here since then. dozens and dozens of local residents have been killed by ukrainian artillery fire. now they also said has been relatively quiet here from the 1st of january until this day. and other 3 raucous shrikes by ukrainian nationalists destroyed a local social club. ah, with the last time i was here, disturbing of course, was just before christmas i came here as a santa claus to bring presents for children. one of the children did not show up.

as i found out, she didn't show up because her father was killed by a ukrainian artillery strike on that day. this is his house. now, these are just some of the fragments of the shell that i found here. according to his father who had just spoke with the man was 41 years old and he died right in front of his children from the one week of the year of what happened right before my eyes. it's hard to say just impossible. when the sharon began was started running to the basement, he jumped out 1st and i followed him and that's why he took most of the shrapnel. but my legs were hid also. i was discharged from the hospital yesterday, but i didn't get well because there was work to do at home. so the fragment is still sticking out. it's leticia is wonderful too. this is what we should all know yesterday in the ocean you lower on?

yes, i do not know why the heat here. that house will struck recently. everything was destroyed, but there were no residents there. the streets in the village of ceremony enough go look deserted and no wonder it's come under shelling over the last 24 hours or several times local residents are currently hiding in their houses and that we are leaving the village here right now. seen such as this one with burnt equipment are absolutely everywhere, but this took place not now, but back in may, when this finish was liberated by the forces of genetic republic right now, local civilians are constantly coming on zer, shedding. and there is not a single military position inside sold ukraine, military or targeting exclusively civilians from on cos or f r t done escrow public

. meanwhile, several ukrainian cities have reportedly been targeted by airstrikes, authorities in the care. bridget, as well as the cities of nipper petrovic, and odessa. se infrastructure facilities have been hit by missiles. russia has not yet commented on these events, but as previously said, it's military target sites inside ukraine to degrade the country's armed forces over to a rock now, where hundreds have taken industries in baghdad and protests against the devaluation of the nations currency, which has hit locals hard demonstrators, mainly young people gathered near the central bank carrying fox and banners in a bid to pressure the government to act. the iraqi do not as it a new low to the us dollar, losing almost 7 percent of his value since mid november. protesters say life in the country has become a nightmare because of the economic crisis. as they accused the central bank of

serving american interests. oh my god, my cousin, we are here to send a message to this lien in week bank that doesn't protect its national currency about it is subjected to terms and dictations of outside banks and especially american banks in the f. b. i are messages. but if you go with these terms, then what are the poor people supposed to do? is out a do not have alec module, the dollar price is uncertain for various reasons, unknown to us, the people. but what we do know is that the main reason for the dollar increase is the smuggling of the currency outside iraq to certain countries which has impacted our economic situation. i hope all of this stuff was inevitable in order to reduce the price of the us dollar, which had started to affect many social classes in iraq. our country wants to liberate itself and leave like the rest of the world. the poor have been affected and the lower classes have reached a situation where they can no longer survive. it's a little bit higher than this one. are he contributed chris? an investigator, why iraq faces such economic turmoil is my being one of the world's top oil

producers. iraq's prime minister has fact the head of the countries 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 are 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, uncle sam has its thing, get in the pi yet again, most of iraq's oil wealth is still helping us dollars. instead of its own suffering currency, it's probably been held inside the countries own central bank, but it a current account in the us say,

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 keeps billions of dollars of its assets. offshore would be american sped, holding the basketball combat money off the bush and blair illegal invasion of the country. their so called partners continue to rob the bank and get away with it, strangling in iraq by literally holding it to ransom. now, just imagine the western out quite if russia and china did the same thing, the country in which they hold significant interest because 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 quit, so times running out frankel, sam and his rules based order. and it's no longer a question of if. but when the clock strikes midnight, the western rivalry with china has reached new levels of, of 30 v as a washington base consultancy firm is calling on people in the u. k. to be wary of

spies right in their kitchens. and the form of chinese made refrigerators, archie contributor rachel marson, explains, do you ever worry that your refrigerator could be watching while you stand there in front of it in your boxes chucking milk straight out of the carton? midnight. new fear unlocked, while a new report warned the household items could not only be spying on you, but basically fronting for the chinese government. the reports author is calling for the british government to act on his claims. the chinese made internet of things, appliances, and even components of cars, can collect and transmit data through the cellular 5, g network. 2 chinese companies which could then be ordered to pass it to the chinese government. we are not yet awake to the strength. china has spotted an opportunity to dominate this market, and if it does so, it can harvest an awful lot of data as well as making foreign countries dependent.

it's time to wake up, free and open countries should band chinese manufactured internet of things, modules from their supply chains as soon as possible. now the story has been splash sensationally all across the british media, citing a washington base consultancy firm called buddha, that published the report. but the media is also failing to ask any real questions about what that company actually is. it presents itself as a global strategic advisory firm with deep dna and global security technology and intelligence issues. yeah, those genetics run deep, all right, straight to the pentagon and intelligence community, the author charles partin, is described as having spent 22 years of his 37 year british diplomatic career working in or on china. now the biography of one of judas founders matt divorced, explains that he began his career hacking into systems for the u. s. department of defense and intelligence community, the other founder of judah, bob worley,

his 1st career was as a naval intelligence officer. and he also worked as a chief technology officer for the defense and tell is agency the da, according to his bio on the nato linked atlantic council website. and here are some of us clients, as you can see, nothing here but little mom and pop shops, probably just turn their computers off and then back on again and still can get connected to the internet. gall flustered, so they need to reach out to outta for a little tech support roemer, all the panic over chinese may components in 5 g networks with former us president donald trump's administration pressuring then prime minister of britain, boris johnson, to ban chinese telecom. while away from britain's 5 g network, trump, himself reportedly even went totally, not in a phone call on the matter to johnson, that's according to what the western press. but back in 2015 things were

a lot different. johnson's predecessor then prime minister david cameron, had called china the quote, best partner in the west having secured 40000000000 pounds worth of chinese investment deals for the u. k. now it was in july of 2020. the johnson threw it in to reverse, did a complete $180.00 degree. you'd turn cave to us pression about while away from the 5 g network and got a little pat on the head from washington for its obedience. but did the u. k get ain't treats for being a good boy. according to former business and industry minister, one who served in cameron's government, it was a net loss. if britain had kept with 5 g, we would now be at the forefront of countries using the most advanced technologies . and we're not the u. k. government's decision to ban while way. 5 g equipment and services had nothing to do with national security. the americans told us we should do it or you will sort of

a strain that fear campaign worked once. so could the same strategy work again? in any case while you cases, citizens are giving their air conditioning the side i and wondering if it's tattle tailing on them until a country on the other side of the planet. while the probably not thinking too much about the u. s. defense contractors, right in their own backyard, that also happened to make connected items used in the internet of things. and now to india, which is celebrating its annual republic day, a grand parade has been held in the capital of new delhi marcia's president, has also sent his congratulations as he highlighted the importance of national friendship with india. how do i use in ocoee politely, we highly value the privileged strategic partnership between our states? i am sure our joint efforts will ensure the further development of mutually beneficial bilateral corporation in all areas. this certainly meets the fundamental interests of the friendly peoples of russia and india. more than

a 1000000000 people are celebrating the festive event at the parade and the capital enjoys troops tanks. another hardware were rolled out on display thousands of soldiers march through the streets of new delhi showing off the country's military might guess from different nations also took part in the event, including a russian cadet corps. we asked the cadets for their take on how importantly such cooperation is for relations with india, mock learning, international communicating and learning, the history of which other contributes better understanding charter and, and nowadays that isa significant for international it's relationships are. so in this way, this is a really good that so we could, these, we have decent fraternity to get closer as from you address our, we have a lot of opportunities to find out, you know, we just about our armies about armis,

of different countries and of course in india, ah, we have made a lot of friends, we can share our knowledge about our country and the it's nice to make friends and just, i'm so happy to be there course here. i'm really excited about it because ah, for us, i'll be the special guess and is a really good. i am very satisfied as everybody that our candidates have a very good direction. it's very important because you my opinion, you, these age, the tough times started and sir you can prolong for the whole life. and hopefully these visits and they put the spatial of this contingent in the republic day and their new grocery, 75th, some new grocery. oh, for your national credit score is improve more and more our ritual sheep you the

media through sphere. oh, roches top diplomat has praise moscow's growing relations with the african continent. during his labors official visit to angola survey, la rob went on to criticize western financial pressure on developing states. and their hypocritical approach to the continent is up slightly distant because 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, undoing the so called arab spring, syria self respecting countries are when 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. the whole north africa is under going far rating changes in it's regional, your quality talent dynamics, and it's, it's from now security land to skip in the backdrop, shifting international systems and m growth, regional and global affairs. after from the middle, it's our region, gulf, him internal power houses, including the u. s. china, russia, and the possibility that you are currently competing for employers, sov resource and had the money in during, besides all the competition and the very stablish involved than your colonialism in the region. bratia have a big role in protecting the theory theory. i'll integrity of these countries in the hall rather than the with sir. gala rod continues his tour of the continent which began in south africa on monday. moscow and tore up, agreed on join the military drills for next month. he then visited the kingdom of 14, formerly known as was the land,

where the russian foreign minister and his counterpart agreed on visa, free travel for diplomat. afterwards, while ra visited angola, where he prayed, deepening cooperation and growing ties of the country. later on thursday, russia's top diplomat is due to sit down with officials in eritrea. stay with us for the latest on lab. rob's moves and the horn of africa across and south america, the bolivian president has called on neighboring countries to improve their relations with russia and other members of the bricks group. explicitly, mentally, the human weaknesses are, is extremely important for the community of lead in american and caribbean stage to be able to strengthen ties with bricks, nations, with today, very important events are taking place in our country and the whole world. the more we believe that nations should have a broad understanding of what is happening at the moment. there are emerging economies with incredible potential, and there are others in decline, or it is quite obvious that cell i can,

can not be isolated from what is happening. believe it came to these understanding long ago rocha. i think we have contacts. we have always asked for closer relations with briggs countries and yet, and we said that it should be not only believe it, but also old selleck member countries so that we can establish closer relations with bricks. and those relations would be mutually beneficial. namely in developing and improve in people's quality of life. and now over to pakistan, where it is all about court has upheld the arrest of a senior opposition figure who's a close a, a former prime minister, him rand con full odd charger was detained on wednesday, on charges of inciting violence against a constitutional institution. now as fear spread of the possible arrest of con himself supporters rallied outside his residence. here is a local journalist from this scene. denies of love with those linebarger. i'm standing near zum and park the private residence of emerald han. there are

a large number of his supporters behind me last night. there were speculations that the government might arrest the p t. i chairman hon. but early this morning, police arrested former information minister foah chowdhury emo, hahn's nephew's a beer, niecy, and several other party workers. as police raid the p t i workers residence, no one knows how this drama will end. at midnight, emma on han supporters arrived at his residence from all parts of the city. some, even from others, followed chandry spoke to media to a m and was then arrested outside his home. around 6 to 615 in the judicial magistrate refused to remind him to police and ordered officers to produce him before irrelevant court in islamabad. at 1st, there were only rumors of his arrest, but when peachy supporters saw a child re in police custody on tv, they rushed to summon park to protest. these p t i support is warn the authorities that they would not allow the government to arrest him are hon. senior party

leaders are said to have arrived here. and emer hahn is reportedly chairing a high level meeting for consultation. it is believed that they're discussing preventative police measures, a temporary government and the next general elections. prosecutors, i've requested an aide attention from the opposition figure where the hearing scheduled for friday. tawdry has been accused of threatening members of the election commission and their families. he denies any wrong doing as, as the allegations against them are not legally sound. and that's all for now. we share to check out our t v dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see right back here at the top of the hour. ah

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