it holds in europe, rules and ukraine, easy sunshine in order to do this. you know, these things doesn't want to allow us to happen and this is bought them off. what is going on with these trenches are maybe about a kilometer away from google is, are, were intense. fighting continues as we speak, russian and military forces engage in a heavy fighting for the city of google. a daughter and the 20th republic, a correspondent, is still reporting from the front line on a trip to south africa, the use of foreign policy chief admits that the continents natural resources are a major interests for europe. despite the western nation, still pushing africa to go only on renewable energy at all, he begins a special coverage of the legacy left by the devastating war in iraq. it has been

20 years since the u. s. invasion and occupation day which did leave an estimated 180000 civilians. beth with afternoon stories lie from moscow such a pleasure to have you with us. straight now to the updates from jerusalem, where a government has reportedly been neutralized by authorities after opening a fire in an eastern part of the city. now it's off to a previous similar incident by israel. i claimed that the lives of at least 9 people in jeanine yesterday. now the latest a shooter is believed to have wounded at least 2 people at that incident occurred just outside the ancient walls of the old city will keep you updated as the details are still coming in. the previously 7 people were killed and several others wounded and it was basically a mass shooting at a synagogue in jerusalem. or the incident occurred on international holocaust

remembrance that is really to lisa identified that government is a 21 year old resident of the palestinian territory. of east jerusalem authorities, if describe that incident as a terrorist attack and the perpetrator was killed in a shoot out with police when we were speaking earlier to john list. and the government commentator made auto and he says that such attacks in jerusalem, i get another instance of the what is it the end of the day, the ending violence between israelis and palestinians. the reason we shad this cycle of violence. unfortunately it is true. but if you look at the strategic context, if you look at the overall envelope, obviously there is no political rise for the palestinians under the government. on the contrary, the key players in this government such as the police are now we've called national security minister bank fear bank. there has because nothing to do

with the army with the defense poses he's in charge of the police. one important component of the police is the border patrol. bank beer tries to supervise both the patrol personally, the regardless of declarations. and so on bank the side, he's not calling the shots. at least not yet. the russian forces have been pressing for control of the strategically important city of oglethorpe. it's in these on a great region. a following up on verify joined footage appears to show the aftermath of heavy fighting between a ukrainian or russian troops as moscow's forces make their advance into the city artes romano culture ref sent us this report from the front. we are on the outskirts of the city hall over the door. we are with the forces of the next

republic, sir, interior and ben. his free will try and get as close to the door as possible. fighting there continues as that russian forces have already gain control over the nearby town next to glitter the city of lazar is arrived behind me and he can probably, i see it's a heavy fighting continues right now as we speak at the moment. so there are 2 formations here. one is of the internal ministry of the nest republic, and the other are the marines of russia's pacific fleet. now, the forces at the moment are in the suburbs of lazar. there's no street fighting, taking place right now. the plan is, according to my sources, is to execute a so called pincer movement, where the korean army will be encircled. meanwhile,

russian defense ministry have also reported that the roads leading out of google adore towards ukraine are now also completely blocked, should lot. the situation is stable. we are a storm in the city trying to clear the enemy from a gladder. people are waiting for us there and a constantly calling this year. we have learned to identify all major techniques, so they no longer work like the command has already changed tactics. a little drawing conclusions from previous battles. and i repeat once again that we know all the native techniques so off to resist in a little they will start to surrender and mass commander of the 3rd platoon is showing me the trenches that they have just taken over from ukrainian military. hon . take a look. this is a looks like one of the flags of ukrainian regiments.

30341 o 2. now i'm not sure what this means, but so there's lot of ammunition here as well. there is a growing clothing that ukrainian military left and these trenches, or maybe about a kilometer highway from google is our intense fighting continues here on the outskirts of lids arc. now we just raised a drone in order to film a little bit closer to the city to find out what's going on within the city limits . however, we lost our drone according to the military, here, it was intercepted by ukraine. so right now we are leaving this area according to the soldiers that i spoke with. they're hoping that the battle for lazar will end successfully for them very soon. from on quarter of

hearty the nest republic, the african development bank group has pledged $10000000000.00 over the next 5 years for ending food insecurity on the continent. and even in visions, africa becoming a net exporter of food supplies for the world. at the banks, presidents as africa needs to raise his ambitions for economic development. we must raise the bar. we must trace our ambition. we must arise and say to ourselves, it is time to feed africa. the timing is right and the moment is now. feet, africa, we must. so the un as estimate and now the roughly what 35000000 people, including of a 6000000 kids, are unable to meet that basic nutritional needs in western and central africa. the near future shows a number should rise to 48000000 elsewhere in eastern africa. for example, ethiopia can yes, somalia, 24000000 people that are facing dia, water shortages. and we heard from economist charles,

bogey and uganda. he said that while the international reaction to africa, hunger crisis could be more proactive. it's up to the consonant to solve its own issues. i think they did. i should reception in my few quite lukewarm in such an area that i'm saying. but because most of the time is small, reactionary, non proactive, if i may say. and that's why i again, would like to maintain, but he has to be sold by africa. the others can comment on friends to support and hope where they can. but, but if what you know, needs to be really pushed 5 by african countries themselves, leaders already. that's what, as well as africa, struggles to cope with hunger and energy issues that you use. foreign policy chief, joseph burrell, has arrived on the continent for a working visit. in

a speech and south africa, he emphasized europe's interest in the regions, natural resources. just so basic, punish areas where we work together and could do more. that way you could work in a more strategic way had to meet the lateral continental levels. instrument is the, are the interest to move forward. for example, the pardon the shape of the sustainable roll, my g d values change and we're ration on renewable region. which these new studio should push for european powers have been buying oil and gas from africa, or if they did some distance themselves from the russian supplies, amid the ukraine conflict. but while europe imports fossil fuels, the e u were still pushing for africa to switch to a greener agenda. in the meantime, many african countries are struggling with an energy crisis as they try to cope with shortages of power and economists to charles,

bogey and uganda. again says that while the e u. bies fossil fuel to shouldn't be pushing africa to switch to renewables. specifically if you talk about the collision between the you and africa. ok from way see it's i believe it's more relationship with, but you will have the peer to peer relationship. it's more of been if you should have been infected relationship, which in my view is not really the best way to deal with an economy relationship. what fits we need to be at the same level. this will be fanning in that regard. but if the you still buys for so many, shouldn't actually push african countries to jump into special renewables at this moment because i know the data will crush us. we have to get, build the muscle, you know, to make that report. so what i can say that there has to be fantasy, you know, both sides. washington has been pushing should i say,

putting pressure on tokyo to allow sweden and finland to join nato. a senior us official has implied that turkey a refusal to ratify that membership could hold up other deals between washington and ankara. simon in sweden are ready to join nato now, and we were grateful for the speedy ratification. here. and as you know, almost all allies have now ratified with the exception of a hungry in turkey. this comes up in every single conversation we have with turkey . um, we need this congress is support moving forward for the security enhancements that we think that they need as allies of 16. some of them are old. but that this congress is likely to look far more favorably on that after ratification. meanwhile, the turkish foreign minister has stressed that anchors request for f. 16 fighter jets is an entirely separate issue from sweden and finland nato aspirations. but this isn't the 1st time the washington has basically used all sorts of tactics to

pressure ankara. the u. s. removed a tokyo from another fighter jet program, a 2019 off to anchor a bought a russian missile defense system. now u. s. officials are a portly threatening turkish individuals with jail time if they service sanctioned russian airlines. that sophia is a major destination for russian. busy christ so accounting for a sizable source of income for the turkish economy. and we heard from a turkish political scientist. oh, not a single sultan. he says ankara is unlikely to continue to give in to washington's demands. well, patient it took is a member of nathan, but when you look. ready in the station on the field, and then the cycle it level turkeys, no more. a member of nato because we don't have any common interest strategy, which is followed by the natal members company like united states or france or germany. i don't think that will fall low

u. s. demand. because essentially it needs that for corporate, we did russia. so i don't think that took you will like to make it apply sanctions to the turkish citizen, or the turkish company was dealing with the russia us all makers are seeking to buy the chinese app, tick tock in america. though the f b, i is essentially struggling to provide the grounds for such a i asked one of my asked the i analysts. she emailed me towards the end of the day to say that she couldn't find evidence that we had any additional information to share. she further stated, it seems like maryland and other states who have similar bands based their decisions on news reports and other open source information about china in general . not specific to tick tock. the social media app, known as tick tock has been the subject of a huge amount of scrutiny and alarm ism from

u. s. officials and media. there has been a claim that this app is somehow used to collect data for chinese intelligence. it's a threat to the u. s. national security. in december, the u. s. government banned the use of tick tock on federal government employee devices. now other u. s. states have followed suit and pass laws regarding government device is issued at the state level. and now it appears that what we've been hearing from u. s. officials from media and from other voices in the united states. this claim regarding tick tock and it's put supposed danger to national security. it's not exactly based in reality i, we're hearing that apparently the intelligence agencies didn't have any data on it themselves. they were simply following what was said by open sources and by media reports, but that hasn't stopped them from sang and we the f b. i do have a national security concerns about the app. it's

a parent company is controlled by the chinese government. we've been warned repeatedly by our own intelligence agencies that tick tock is a security threat heck. the director of the f. b. i has testified under oath that tick tock poses major security risk. so i think everyone agrees are a privacy danger to america, to our national security. we shouldn't have the communist party, a china having access to a treasure trove of american data that they can use to try to influence and divide us. now it's certainly got to be a blow to the ego of u. s. officials see that tick, tock. an app that has chinese origins is now the top downloaded app in the world. it's beating facebook, instagram, twitter, and other us born apps. now, many look at the controversy surrounding tick tock and have to smile because it is well known that these us based applications on social media have a very close relationship with the american government. facebook has been hit with

a number of scandals regarding the violation of the rights of its users privacy. just recently the european union find facebook $414000000.00 for collecting the data of the you citizens tricking them into agreeing to data collection that was then used for targeted ad campaigns. but regardless, we continue to have reports from the u. s. government raising the alarm about the dangers of tick tock. we are not yet awake to this threat. 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 is time to wake up free and open countries, ford van, chinese manufactured io t modules from their supply chains as soon as possible. now all of this might be humorous if it did not have such serious implications. tick tock and application on social media that involves a lot of teenagers dancing gossip about celebrities. all kinds of silliness is said

to be a big threat to the safety and security of americans. and this comes, as us officials are traveling around the world, drumming up hostility to china. australia is putting mines in its waters, playing up the fear of some kind of possible confrontation with china or chinese invasion. citizens in taiwan are raising the alarm about the fact that they feel that the continued flow of us weapons is escalating things and putting the danger of war in the taiwan straits into a new reality. and all of this has very serious locations. many are concerned about this continued provocation, and this continued hysteria that china is somehow a threat and the implications it could have. now we find out that so much of what we've been hearing about to so called dangers of tick tock wasn't even coming from verified intelligence sources, but was recording to unverified open source claims. and us media reports, according to a former new professor and author of

a google archipelago michael rectum wold he says that the u. s. is using to talk to the facts of tension away from issues with western social media platforms. there's this competition with china economically and the fear that china will surpass the us social media represents a rather significant economic sector. the u. s. the officials are the f. b, i is using, take talk as a foil to deflect attention away from the fact that they, the f b i, the department of homeland security and other agencies. and the white house itself is actually infringing on our rights are for our rights of free speech. and also our, our information, our data. so this is really hip, hypocritical, double standards deflection from this fact that the f, b i and the department of homeland security and twitter and facebook have been in,

in bed with each other for all this time. and surveilling upon us citizens as they are well, it's good to have your company for this saturday program as we do begin a special coverage of 20 years since the us invasion of iraq, which left an estimated 100 $90000.00 civilians that now throughout the coming months will examine the devastation on the well, the destabilization that essentially cause throughout the entire middle east region . at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people. and to defend the world from great. how

we with with so it was january 2003 us president george w bush at the time the outline, the invasion of iraq and his a. what was a state of the union address? bush coal, the iraqi leader. saddam hussein, a brutal dictator with ties to terra hosing, a direct threat to america he pledged to disarm who's saying and bring freedom to the iraqis as something america was supposedly already doing. at that point in afghanistan, decatur rack is not disarming. to the contrary, he is deceiving from intelligence sources. we know, for instance, that thousands of iraqi security personnel are at work hiding documents and

materials from the un inspectors sanitizing inspection sites and monitoring the inspectors themselves. if saddam hussein does not fully disarm for the safety of our people and for the peace of the world, we will lead a coalition to disarm or later it turned out that saddam hussein did not have a so called weapons of mass destruction program. and what had triggered the american invasion of iraq, a peer to what some of cool been that of a pack of lies. the cia is our top weapons inspector in iraq. close the investigation to finding well nothing in 2005, 2 years after the invasion of the u. s. war and a rod began on the 19th of march, 2003. when the u. s. a launched joined by his allies. rather, they kicked off operation iraqi freedom. coalition started a bombing campaign directed against the iraqi government and military installations

. and despite a months of enormous anti protest, 20 will protests, world wide u. s. forces invaded iraq from kuwait in the south within days and 3 weeks into the invasion. baghdad fell well, the years of war and the subsequent rise of terrorism have certainly taken a grim toll on a rock. and of course it's people. there were at least a $180000.00 documented civilian deaths in the country. some say the numbers are actually closer to a 1000000. well, most to iraqi died from area bombings, shelling and suicide attacks over 9000000 were displaced or fled. the us led coalition last, almost a 5000 soldiers of it's are now the war scott, the lives of many iraqis and some of them share their stories with us. oh, here's how to michelle. at either the streets were packed with barriers and tunnels

. i remember it well, baghdad became a battlefield tanks and security forces of all kinds of them deployed. they're high up now. so yeah, they are live, became a leading health because as a child, you're supposed to see beautiful things, but we saw bullets tanks and kennedy tara for humanity, children and society as a whole. there was nothing but war. oh, most of the families lost members and i lost one of my brothers because of the bomb banks. the americans were killing everything in front of them. i know that i didn't hear that one of my sons wanted to celebrate his success with his studies. so my wife gave him money to buy some junk food and eat out with his friends, and they sat to eat. they were an american bass. he was shot in the head by the americans. he died on the spot. oh, my friends were killed by the explosion at that time. my neighbor was killed by the americans where he was going to buy a kenneth could can guess. they thought he was

a suicide bomber and kill him or love, hear the crowd chrisala. these are very difficult memories for me. a mortar shall fell at the door of our house and killed one of my playmates. ah, no sucking. well that used to live in bagdad. our dreams were shad it. we wished to complete our studies that we cannot because of the war and the killings in the streets. we had to lead our homes and go to north a with while i mentioned about the with up the top we were in baghdad who stayed at home and closed the windows, covered them with blankets. we were afraid of a chemical bombardment. we saw america come to us, they told us that a rock would become a paradise. they published news about how they were distributing food,

but those were all false dreams. a. and only after i turned 14 years old, was i able to leave the house with my friends before that i couldn't even think about it. i was afraid something would happen outside. and even now i don't want to leave without telling my family where i'm going. mm. mm got it. i want you to remember my thursday at the kindergarten, the thursday i tell a mattress cold, the textbooks shall picture the summer for my regime. but they took them away and gave us new different books. i'll never forget the coal sop of a bullet. the sound of an explosion, even just a smoke, an american soldier, alive full of blood. already showing jo avoid the americans arrested my father. he did not belong to any party. he was working at the market. he was kept in prison until 2018. i didn't have a chance to know my father. after he was released,

his health deteriorated, but took him to germany for treatment. but up to 4 surgeries, he died. ah, will little you may say to me, your childhood was stolen and i didn't have a child food. i spend the money war and terrorist organizations, such as anti that among slaughter americans bombing that kinda had kinda bowman americans. when we went to school, i used to walk along the wolf, so as not to be shot and killed. ah, the alaska fellows, though, my cousin, my brother in law, unfortunately, the americans did not fulfill the promise. he hotel rock because of the i lost my loved ones. you hold as a lot. i didn't want to had the united states. you destroyed iraq. you,

we can national sovereignty, and over 20 years you fail to manage a rock. i wouldn't think that he stop destroying stuff, control the national resources, let the rocky people lead in peace. i just, some of the stories are from the decades long conflict now paradox. he will bring him all throughout the next couple of months. it's awesome. special coverage, i should say. that of the 20th anniversary of one of america's longest was ah oh ah

ah, this is far more a conflict overpower in status involving to united states and russia. it's a question about assert deep a sphere of influence in the former soviet space. it holds in europe rolled and ukraine easy sunshine in order to update this. you know, these things doesn't want to do a lot to happen and mrs. bought them off. what is going on

i will never be a victory for russia. we police with them, but you look at a meal. crane war is a proxy war. this is a war between russia and the united states. naz on maybe comes to not shooting them in carbon dioxide. america forces are in, you're not in europe to gauge in conflict with russia for use. american forces are here and defend nato allies. what happens that nato escalates even more in the special military operation, become a war with wilson. dela 1000 is my store. i see it. i see if they do it to us. thank team customers to really live. so i use 3. he should me, can you stuff to with almost them let's you live at home and

just don't foolish them in your sewage. never seen that girl. mm. we're all aware of whistleblowers whose lives are permanently changed when they make their revelations. many had to prison. many never work in their fields of expertise, ever again, many lose friends, family and the respected their peers. so why is it that some whistleblowers get the red carpet treatment? why are some lauded by congress and the media will look at the double standard between whistle blowers, who risk everything and people whom the media like to poll whistleblowers, who are little more than corporate spokespeople or individuals hoping to make a political point. i'm john, carry out who you're watching the whistleblowers.