oh, finance is national z m a shiny york. it's monday by. when you get on with that by mia ah, russian troops game ground that they've done yet. republic as they advanced into the key frontline town of ogle. adar mom so slammed nato's latest weapon provisions to kiev calling western heavy tank delivery. steve craig, a direct involvement in the conflict as iraq currency plummets to new lows. locals rally against the country central bank accusing it of serving american interests at their expense of our country wants to liberate itself. and li, like the rest of the world they stamp, wasn't eligible in order to reduce the price of the solar which had started to affect many social classes, iraq and happy republic. day to india,

as the country celebrates the 70 port anniversary of the constitution with a grand parade where russian military cadets were exclusively invited with good afternoon for moscow to wherever you may be. watching welcome to the hours most, pressing new stories from all around. i'm fear allies about we start with the latest updates on the ukranian conflict. russian troops have cut off the main roadway leading to the key town of ogle, adar southwest of don. yes, city. that's after local authorities said the army has security foot hold paving the way for a bigger offensive and circling ukrainian forces are teeth, romano call center has the details according to our, my sources from the guys are flies, integrals are right, sir. now they've been on the outskirts of the city for the last 2 days. indeed,

they have established a foothold at just outside of the city, which is about to 70 kilometers away from dentist core. i am right now. now, according to officials, russia, the marines of the pacific police are fighting there as well as offices of the former officers of the ministry of the interior of for the next a republic. now once again, according to my source, they're not planning to a storm. the city a street, so they are planning to execute a so called pin sir movements will where they will circle the ukranian army of from both the flanks. according to the russian defense minister, free one of the roads leading to lazar is now under a full control of the russian forces. now, once again, fighting intense fighting is continued over there. and according to officials, russia is using both of artillery and aviation,

as well as ground troops. meanwhile, elsewhere in ukraine and several explosions were heard in the city of i give in odessa and in as up our osha, part controlled by the ukraine at the moment. so former boxer now mayor of fuck he of it's alex, wish god had confirmed that there were indeed explosions in the ukrainian capital. we caught up with a russian tank driver when his crew returned to bass to re arm before heading back into the fray near google a dark. he operator shared his perspective on how the battle is progressing, while also waking in on how much of a fighting chance the new western tank was madana against the russian field anymore . but the coil now the lots of threes with me look was up. we just returned from the combat missions 30 minutes ago. you can call the situation tense. after all, there's an offensive going on. but we're moving forward successfully. i'll be, it's slowly, due to the fact that the military command want to save as many troops as possible. the soldiers are in

a good mood because we're advancing. we're successfully destroying the animators will let us know if we come up against lepers or challengers that were made the same years our tanks. i think we can handle it for one simple reason. a lot depends on the crew. we will be opposed by people who have been trained only now will be unfamiliar with their western tanks. so i think we can handle it as part of new to and the kremlin has condemned the newly announced delivery of german and american tanks to ukraine, calling it direct western involvement in the conflicts. registration statements are constantly being made from european capitals and from washington that the delivery of various weapons systems, including tanks to ukraine in no way means the involvement of these countries were alliances in the fighting that is taking place in ukraine. we strongly disagree with this. moscow perceives this as direct involvement in the conflict. we see that it is expanding mostly musk moscow's reaction comes after the u. s. announced that

we'll hand over 31 of its abrams tanks and other armored vehicles to ukraine for an expected counter offensive against russia's forces on the front lines. germany also made a decision to send at least 14 of its main battle tanks to ukraine after months of pressure from nato allies and care. berlin in washington have both pledge to train ukrainian crews to use their tanks before they can be deployed. but while the 2 nato allies are in unison over their military supplies to camp, they're not on the same page about the stated a 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, and 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 and it will obviously make no difference. we were told that high mars and the triple sentence were going to make all the difference. and here we are back to square one, looking for wonder weapons to send 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 shelves by western tanks, the new crane nato, infamously, unless such, ammunition in some previous military conflicts, leading to both civilians and western soldiers. being exposed to radiation, according to russia's arms control, chief and vienna. moscow will consider the use of such weapons as a dirty nuclear bomb attack. for now, 3 different types of needle main battle tanks are going to be delivered to the ukranian army. washington promised to send 31 of its m. what abraham. although the white house said the delivery will take months, germany is going to send 14 of its most modern leopards with several other nato states, also committed to sending their own stocks as they had been waiting for a green light from berlin. finally, the u. k. will be delivering 14 of its challenge or 2 tanks. we asked former us

marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter if kids army can actually handle such advanced weapons. 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 leopard used diesel fuel. the m one uses a jet fuel. it's 2 different engine too. so, you know, even though the, the numbers of tanks might look impressive when you add them all up fact is a because of the, these, the different kinds of change being provided. we're actually making it very difficult for ukrainians to, to incorporate these tanks and use them on the field of battle. tanks are very maintenance, intensive francis in the, in one abrams tank for every hour of operation. you need at least 3 hours of maintenance support. and that's just 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 b, frankie or 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. you brain on air and on our website at our to dot com, where you can get plenty more opinions and in depth analysis plus live updates. the

u. s. has been training the ukranian military for years, according to former state secretary and cia director mike, palm pale, who says he visited ukraine multiple times during his term as washington spy teeth . the ukrainian defense forces have been trained by the united states for an awfully long time. when i was just the director, i was in southeast your grain on more than one occasion. we were helping them with the special operating forces stuff. my pompeiian says the current successes of ukraine can be attributed to the us and in the 2020 statement to national public radio. so that america doesn't care about ukraine. meanwhile, the former us secretary of state also mentioned that americans don't even know where ukraine is on a map, executive vice president of the racist center. earl rus muse then says washington provoked the russian special military operation as it had been involved in ukrainian affairs for years. the us have been probably the primary gators

and i would say behind provoking this, this special mental very operation that's occurring we were, we're behind the coolant, 2014, most likely we are behind, very suspiciously. you have our hand potentially in the north stream explosion. and we've been in ukraine for quite a while, i would say even before 2014, we've been a new frame the both with modifications to the bio laboratory facility, as well as the arming ukraine and training there for this. and i think the, the areas increase mistakenly in 2014 and beyond. i mean, mr. palm paid, you know, we've been looted to 6 years, but i would say we'd been there longer than that ukrainian opposition leader victor

met. the chuck has spoken to r t in his 1st appearance on international media since he was freed in a prisoner slot tail between moscow and kiev. in september, he shared his take on the future of ukraine and its relations with russia, against the backdrop of western medalie. with ortiz, marina cassava, you can watch the interview in full later on air or on our website at r t dot com. but for now, here's a quick let while the war is being waged in ukraine, that this war is not for you, great mother. but in the interest of the west, the u. s. the u. k. and many other countries which are settling their schools in russia, we starting in stockton, they have made ukraine of the war under zalinski government, a kind of testing ground every night, or a launch pad in their standoff with russia. tedious as up and so have spent all these months putting a team back together. a lot of people came from kia villainy is of many people who are outside ukraine, like in russia, euro, the hollywood, turkey,

them that they are ready to continue to fight and have their say, thank you me see above. i thought that's exactly what i laid out in my article concerning the situation which is unfolded. well, you know, what if i make the case for the voice of another you crying to be heard in russia, ukraine, and the west. and we know for sure there is another ukraine like, but all it's zalinski claim to represent the united nation. but that is a myth invented out of thin air. thank you. this unity has been built on bayonets. i think i thought he represents ukraine, claiming the ukranian people have come together and stand strong in the anti russian narrative. and robert ross, a phobia of the world. this is not true. apart from the anti russian voice a day, there are people in ukraine who are afraid to talk about it publicly, but have never supported the nature and dynamic of the relationship between ukraine or russia that has emerged to day. these people ukrainian sapir just like me. i believe this is a direct violation of the constitution program to deprive me of my ukrainian

citizenship authority. but it's not just my opinion. it is impossible to deprive a citizen of ukraine of his citizenship except in the event of a voluntary request. it contradicts not only the constitution i knew greens, but it also contradicts an international convention which forbids such an act if a person is left cyclists as a result thinker yeah. michigan, also ukraine is signed up to this international convention. this, despite this act, zalinski continues his efforts to crushing his political opponents through political repressions and a legal criminal prosecution is up and yelling. it is a goal that he has set for himself, awesome, and he's pushing towards it on this graph. the same goes for everything to iraq now, where hundreds have taken to the streets of baghdad and protests against the devaluation of the nations currency, which has hate local hard demonstrators. mainly young people gathered near the central bank carrying flags and banners in a bit of pressure the government to act. the iraqi dinar has hit

a new low to the us dollar, losing almost 70 percent of its value since mid november. protestors say a life in the country has become a nightmare because of the economic crisis. as they accused the central bank of serving american interest. a whole bunch of money cuz we're here to send a message to this lien and we'd bank that doesn't protect its national currency. it's 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? so do not have alex in the june. 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 pro as of the s 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 to poor, have been affected, and the lower classes have reached a situation where they can no longer survive. a little bit higher than the archie contributor, cris ems investigates why iraq faces such economic turmoil. despite 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 guess it's uncle sam has its thing, get in the pie yet again, most of iraq's oil. well, it's still helping us dollars. instead of its own stopping currency, it's probably been held inside the country's own 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 keeps 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 continue to rob the bank and get away with it, strangling iraq by literally holding it to ransom. now just imagine the western out quite as russia and china did the same thing, the country in which they hold significant interests. so was 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 franco sam and his rules based order. and it's no longer

a question of if, but when the clock strikes midnight and out to india, which is celebrating its annual republic day, a grand parade has been held in the capital of new delhi. russia president has also sent his congratulations as the high right at the importance of national friendship with india pied. anyways, in ocoee flight, 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 in the capital indian shock of may. tanks and other hardware will rolled out on just a leg. thousands of soldiers marched through the streets of new delhi, showing off the country's military might or by gats from different nations. also

took part in the event. john, including a russian, had that core. we asked the cadets were there take on how important such cooperation is for relations with india, mock m a j. international communicating and learning the history of which other contributes better understanding charter and and nowadays isa significant for international relationships are. so in this way, this is a really good that her, we could these, we have this opportunity to get closer if from your threats are we have a lot of opportunities to find out, you know, 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 it's nice to make friends and just i am so happy to be there course here. i really i'm excited about it because

ah, for us, i'll be the special guests. ah, is sir really good? i am very satisfied as everybody that our candidates have a very good direction. it's very important because in my opinion, you these h, they're tough to has started and sir, you can prolong for the whole life. and hopefully these visits and they put dissipation of this contingent in the republic day and stayed in it. oh, sorry, 75th anniversary. oh, for your national credit score is improved. more and more our ritual sheep. you've made it through sphere. ah, canada's ambassador to the u. n. was hack old during a conference in ottawa as the official was bombarded with a slew of tough questions, he couldn't answer. raging from nato's proxy war in ukraine to voting against a resolution to condemn neo naziism. here is how the incident unfolded from the

perspective of the protagonist canadian journalist, an activist events angler. mr. re, you're lying. you know, it, you're using ukraine is 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, upholding international law, upholding palestinian rights. 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 and on the left, did i'm elected. unpopular unconstitutional leader. is that true? that you barbara didn't respond properly to the questions? of course we didn't expect him to respond and an honest marriage between government and barbara himself do not care about international law. they care about advancing the u. s. empire, everything and these things are scripted. it isn't going to be no opportunity for

a real exchange of ideas. there is relatively open speech in canada. what we have is quite a, quite an impressive propaganda system where you have very open speech rules. you know, there's politicians are relatively accessible at the, you know, for public forums. but the dominant means of communication allow for very narrow spectrum of debate. so i have published in books on canadian foreign policy from a critical perspective. the dominant media, this country absolutely refuses to ever basically i've been on of course, but basically ever hear my perspective on canadian foreign policy. and i'm just, that's just one example of how the critical perspectives are just excluded from mass communications. a know to nato campaign conference has been

called off after london venue host. conway hall was pressured into canceling the booking, that's the spite. the iconic calls official stands of openness and inclusivity. the venue claims to have been a hub for free speech and independent thought was supporting even radicals and suffragettes. the hall says it celebrates the benefit of many viewpoints and has now been panned for scrapping the anti nato conference. as critics say, the venue has the come to an anti democratic cancel culture. no to the nato is an international movement calling for an end to the arms race activists also want the west to stop. its confrontations with moscow, which have been marked by nato's maneuvers at russia's western borders and increased military presence in neighboring states. the anti war group had been scheduled to gather at conway hall on wednesday until the venue suddenly stated could not host them despite previously pledging to do so. the reasons for the move

were communicated via private e mail, but excluded from the venues official statement. conway hol can no longer host your event as were now unable to ensure the safety of our building and our staff on and off line as well. the only detractors were actively seeking to conduct our funders, partners, and hires. and as a charity, we can not jeopardize those income streams which are vital to our survival. we appreciate that this will be disappointing to you and we had hoped even conway whole history of hosting similar events that we would be able to go ahead with this booking. we have reviewed this booking, which was a 3rd party hire of our venue and not part of our program and informed the organizers that it will no longer be taking place at conway hall. should you have any further questions or comments about this event or it's content we would ask you to direct them to the organizers, max blumenthal, the greys own editor in chief who was among those to, to speak at the scrap conference says freedom of expression doesn't really matter

for most venues, unless it falls strictly in line with the narrative of the establishment. cowardice, political cowardice, which were you seeing across the board? i've witnessed it events where i've been due to speak for the past several years when they relate to the wars of regime change and proxy wars that the west is waging around the world to become sort of impermissible, to speak out against these wars. them about the ravages of nato. it's sort of a political 3rd rail and in this case, and in many other cases that i've experienced, we've seen organizers who profess liberal values and profess to uphold free speech principles. immediately cave when they come under attack from online trolls . what shows up against the wall. the anti war movement is inside the supposedly

democratic west. and what we're up against. there are very few venues that are willing to host us. there are very few. if any media outlets that are willing to entertain our views, and yet no one ever is willing to actually stand up and debate us on the same stage or explain exactly what we're getting wrong, it's about silencing us and be organizations. to the extent did the be elements behind these organized trolling campaigns function, essentially as a proxy for a collective wes intended, which is, according to german foreign minister. and alina burbock and her comments this week, waging war with russia as the ukraine conflict rates is on. there's an increase in severely wounded people who've lost their limbs on the battlefield. r t . sophia nunez, explores one of the leading rehabilitation centers where doctors help russian army veterans and regular citizens get back on their feet. to day one and 3 people in

the world are living with a health condition, then benefits from rehabilitation and medical specialty focus on restoring and maintaining the highest possible quality of life after injury or illness. until recently, it has been viewed as more of a sub sector of medicine. but as medical progress develops, enabling more and more people to survive, major traumas and diseases. and the benefits of rehabilitation become more clear. developed in the fifty's is a response to a large number of people have disabled after 2 world wars rehabilitation has been an irreplaceable form of treatment for combat related injuries. for example, last year, in the midst of the ukraine conflict, the governor of moscow region initiated and medical center, where the goal of providing rehabilitation and prosthetic services to soldiers retired with combat related disabilities. dissenter also trips, sealants. so, so what sandoval got those patients who are missing their lower lamps have low mobility and get them some medical help, as well as treating their stamps as the main aim of fargo. heavily taishan santa

rehabilitation programs are often sailors and individual patient's needs. as every case is unique and special. ha, sure. so watch what's happened has happen. life will be a little bit different. it will change a bit. it's not terrible for god's sake. many walk around with prosthetics, with dancers, for example. and yet you said so it's all right. okay, wonderful. what plans do you have for the future? plans for the future? i'll probably go to train as a supper and i will return there to get my leg. i need to find my all the speaker. this medical specialty is proven to be a vital branch of medicine and its life changing results are finally getting desert attention. those were the latest stories for this. our for more news updates had over to r t dot com and up next ukrainian opposition leader victor met. but chuck speaks to our teen and exclusive interview sherry his take on the future of you. praying at its relations with russia, against the backdrop of western meddling. we'll see you back the next hour

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