stay mixed with if i'm not crazy enough, i'm not gonna make it. ah, breaking news on ard see a hospital in the la guns republic is struck by the ukrainian military using us supplied. hi, marge, rockets, killing overhead doesn't sit with, according to the russian ministry of with civilian infrastructure is again hidden, done balance by key forces, hundreds of berliners take to the streets to protest the german decision of delivering time to you brain on market 20 years since the us invasion and occupation of iraq. we begin our special coverage of the legacy left behind by the devastating war which left hundreds of thousands of civilians

with 11 at night here in moscow this saturday, january the 28th. my name's unit and this is the news. our on our team we begin read breaking news, a hospital and civilian housing, being hit in a rocket attack on saturday in the loop council republic. killing 14 people, according to russia's ministry of the fence, or senior correspondent broadcast the in the republic. and can tell us more. we've had the statement from the russian ministry of defense, which has come out and said that you couldn't side launch a surprise me, sol, attack a multiple walking to using you estimate and supplied by mas nissan

called a local hospital noble. i got to the hospital was stopped by book civilians and military doctors have treated both the local population. this is the local clinic, off the world as well as troops an injured in the fighting on the frontlines and taken there for further treatment. the attack left 14 people dead from what you understand 24 at each of those numbers may well rise with keeping up to date with information from the russian ministry of defense. but there's also be another strike concurrently. 2 targeting a medical facility, nowhere to hope to which is the way him saw region of the city of his b adult ed las taking chilling for the past months. and she says again, shelly, that facility will be struck before, but again, we do get know about casualties. injuries of debt, unlike even mobile,

i doubt which the website is already cool. the incident, a war club saying the who's responsible this war did the strike carried out. the strike will be identified and will be punished. the russia deputy ambassador to the un as firmly condemned the attack, stating that the u. s. shares responsibility for the debt sales had supplied the weapons used on coordinates attacks with care another ukrainian heinous war crime. 14 civilians killed in a hospital by u. s. supplied missiles and as we know from ukrainian officials, the targets of high mars are greed by washington. so it makes the u. s. directly complicit us taxpayer should be aware of how their money is used. but another aspect of this german journalist thomas report believes public opinion on ukraine would be different if the western media were not ignoring such deadly incidents.

that's the way it works. there's so many walk runs from ukraine, which, which are what there's no doubt about them. they have one big civil targets into next. well, not only since the beginning of the preparation, but even before. so this is nothing new. we have seen in mario plan while i've been there. i've talked to the people that just came out of the out of the houses, and we have seen that they are your credit army used them as human shields that they didn't let them out. that lizzie lensky announced officially that he was prohibiting any kind of recreation in these kinds of cities in the west weather decisions. decisions are made about whatever they will, delivery of weapons and all this stuff. the other people will, will not get to know. and that's the point if the people would know what's happening really there. and they're a public opinion, would be absolutely different in the west, but it's the jump of the western media not to cover it, not to talk about it. and this is what we see. and yeah,

we can discuss about the role of who was the media at this point, but that will be nothing you because of this, we see paul for since the beginning of operations. well as moscow slumped here for a quote, deliberately targeting civilians, protesters have taken to the streets of the german capital, angered at the government's decision to supply ukraine with its leopard to main battle. thanks, ortiz, dominic rush heard reports from berlin. a few hundreds of people here today, a one might expect more to be on the streets actually, because polls indicate that around half of the german population of strictly against weapon deliveries. the people here are demanding an immediate cease fire as well of peace talk. so that they are against the aggressive foreign policy that germany is taking currently. the important reason why they're not that many people is that there's a lot of pressure actually on peace activists and germany right now, just

a couple of days. we found out that a peace activist was prosecuted for saying, basically that and the war like this all sides need to be her than this water sina supporting russian aggression by german authorities. and he was therefore prosecuted. so there's a lot of fear as well, amongst german people to, to protest against these issues. but nevertheless, we're looking at the new nika, security council, next week, and where a lot of key and nato officials come together. and we are expecting to see a large protest there with at least a several 1000 people joining it. you know, the story to bring you to day ellen mosques, efforts to lift the lid on the inner workings of twitters past management. up delivered. yet another revelation. namely, not an online dashboard concocted by the f. b i listing so called russian bolts was a hoax. moreover, the accounts highlighted were legitimate right? leaning a kind of ordinary americans, my colleagues, marina cost revenue, re sushi,

talk through the story earlier. these later sneaks basically show that the western mainstream media were all duped by one source, one dashboard. in particular, we mentioned this before during the previous twitter leaks. they mentioned this hamilton, 68 dashboard, and this is the source that or the mainstream media use. the when the came to talk about russian bots, russian misinformation online. now this is a real time monitoring the site. and what they do is they found that there are 6 hundreds. what are accounts which they found to be russian bots are, or people who are associated with the russian so called propaganda. and the problem here is, is that as it turns out, these bots, these russian bots have nothing to do with russia. the hamilton dashboard falsely accuses a bunch of legitimate right, leaning accounts of being russian butts. virtually any conclusion drawn from it

will take conversations in conservative circles on twitter and accuse them of being russian. so essentially what we're seeing is if you happen to share rushes points of view than you will be labeled a bots, you could be in canada, for example, you could be writing or it's sweetened from the united kingdom. but if your points of view coincides with the point of view of the russian government that you will be labeled as a bought will exactly all these so called russian votes. well, let's take a look of one of the photographs. because according to this dashboard, hamilton, 68 of these are your russian bots. now, let's have a look at some of these people. for example, you have chicago based a lawyer, dave sher, stalkers, and he says, i've written a book about the u. s. constitution. how i made the lists like this is incredible to me, that's what one of them is saying, oh, an american. another one is an organ native and he says when i was growing up, my father told me about them. mccarthy. blacklist as

a child that would never have occurred to me that this would come back in force and broadly in the way designed to undermine the rights we hold. dear. another person who was surprised to find himself on the list of so called russian bonds. there are some more, there is no evidence to support the statement that the dashboard is a finger on the pulse of russian information ups. it's hardly illuminating a massive influence operation as to what a try to up interfere or get involved in this problem somehow that it trying with did see it in the past leaks, and we've seen that they're addressing the issue. they're not stopping the activity . there are still skewing washington's propaganda their misinformation, as it turns out now. but they're not stop in it, i guess. because if you take a look at who's behind this, this, hamilton, 68 dashboard now, who founded it? it's headed by former f. b. i counter intelligence official and current emerson, we see contributor cleanser watts and it's funded by

a neo liberal thing tank. a cold. busy alliance for secure in democracy. so this is who the dashboard belongs to the found a $600.00 account. and what's interesting, and in a way tragic, i would say is the fact that the who are the listing as russian balls anyone, rory, anyone that happens to agree with the russian, what they call propaganda. sweater knew that and it was trying to address it. but i guess there's only so much they can do. breelle, people need to know they've been unilaterally labeled russian stooges without evidence or recourse. it's a major problem, i guess, is better late than never a bots. a gotten a job done that it had lots of people millions around the world war we think in that russia was responsible, for example, on a number of issues. this wasn't just isolated towards what's happening in ukraine. there were other issues as well. for example, russia was accused of a pumping up support for bret cavanaugh on the debit. newness memo as well. we had the parkland shooting. there were

a manipulation of black voters. these stories raised fears in the population and most in medius of all, we're used to smear people like tulsa gilbert as foreign assets and drama. sympathy for political causes like jo biden's campaign by describing critics as russian aligned anything so that they can push their agenda and try and see use russia to push their points of view further on. and this is something that we've seen before and once again. and this is not going to make mainstream media or am sure it will not police officers in haiti have taken to this streets, angered by government inaction after a violent gangs attacked their colleagues. the rebel officers barricaded roads, burned tires and damaged vehicles. more than 10 officers have been killed since the start of the new. also in a rural stories, in brief, a check republic has elected a new president who's been a vocal backer, all view crane. the former nato general that her puzzle has pledged his full blown

support to kiev and the military alliance. he's defeated rival hud salt to broker peace talks between russia and ukraine on dutch eco activists have chain themselves together to block the main road into the hague. as part of a protest against the government's climate policies lease made a number of arrests up the c detention to earlier this week. sparkly free speech was being infringed in the european i saber rattling in u. s. military circles over china appears to be reaching new levels. a senior american or a force general has warned that he thinks his country will face off in war with beijing within 2 years. i hope i am wrong. my gut tells me we will fight in 2025. she secured his 3rd term and set his war counsel in october 2022 ty,

ones. presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer she a reason. united states presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer she a distracted america. she's team reason an opportunity are all aligned for 2025. and a live memo the general laid out his goal, sir. build a quote. fortified ready into greater la giles joined force maneuver teams on her 4 spokesperson has verified that the email is authentic. although said it hadn't been intended for public reading and doesn't reflect u. s. policy on china. beijing earlier said that the spy 3rd difficulties that people's republic was trying to find a way to cooperate with washington. well, despite claiming china is a threat in the region, us actions there have led to us by contentions washington, significantly all its military ties with japan. and move the china seas as

provocative while last years visit to taiwan and then high speaker and nancy pelosi . so paging, respond with huge military drills at ra in the island territory. earlier, the u. s. had agreed to sell taiwan more than $1000000000.00 worth of weapons. a deal wholly criticized by beijing. their intentions and trade to american and dutch officials recently strike a deal to impose a new restrictions on the export of advanced micro chip tech. to china. malaysian, the 1st specialist victor gallow, says any talk of war by us officials is a gross mis, representation of where relations between beijing and washington stump. this general is a warmongers and what he is saying and telling his troops is very dangerous thing for world peace and stability. china does not threaten the united states at all.

and if washington believes china threatens the united states because china is growing larger and larger, then they will lose all their sanity because china will continue to grow. ready larger, i hope washington will realize that war is not and should not be an option between china and the united states. because a war between china, the united states will soon get out of control and lead directly to armageddon. china and the united states need to get along with the, with each other channel wants to treat with every country, including the united states as an equal rather then and handling any of these countries. therefore, such fantasies are false to start with. ah, it's 20 years since the u. s. invasion of iraq and r t special coverage of the anniversary kicks off. now, for the coming months we'll examine the devastation and

d stabilization. the operation caused throughout the middle east. 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 danger. who's with with in january 2003 us president george w bush outlined the coming invasion of iraq in his state of the union address. bush

called iraq leader. saddam hussein, a quote, brutal dictator would ties to terrorism, posing a direct threat to the united states. now he pledged to disarm his sane and bring freedom to the iraqi people. something the u. s. was already involved with in afghanistan, kate of iraq 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 him. and later it turned

out that hussein did not have the so called weapons of mass destruction program that washington insisted it hard. so it was in march, 2003 b. u. s. joined by its allies, launched operation iraqi freedom. the coalition started a bombing campaign directed against the iraqi government and military installations . despite months of must of anti war protests were a wide u. s. forces invaded iraq from 2893 weeks into the invasion. baghdad fell the cia top weapons inspector in iraq. finally closed the w m. d, investigation 2 years after that concluding there were no such weapons in the country will the years of war and the subsequent rise of terrorism have taken a grim toll on a rock and its people. let's take a look. there were at least 180000 documented civilian debts in the country, while some surveys estimate the actual figure to be over 1000000,

many of those died from earl bombing, shelling gunshots and suicide attacks over 9000000 people. by the way, the fled, the country were displaced, while the us led coalition lost almost 5000 of its own soldiers. the war scarred the lives of many iraqis of different generations, some of whom shared their stories with us. oh. michelle at the streets were packed with barriers and tunnels. i remember it well baghdad became a battlefield tanks and security forces of all kinds of been deployed there. oh wow . i up now. so yeah, they are live became a living. hell. because as a child, you're supposed to see beautiful things, but we so bullets tags and kennedy, tara, for humanity, children and society as

a whole. there was nothing but war. oh, don't most of the families last 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 and it, 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. the zip up 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,

nothing about that one but used to live in bagdad. our dreams were shattered. we wished to complete our studies that we could not because of the war and the killings in the streets. we had to leave our homes and go to not a place. i would like to know 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 let go. what do you want? what do you remember my thursday at the kindergarten? the thursday i tell a mattress cold, the textbooks shall picture some, a full my regime, but they took them away. a gave us new, different books. i'll never forget the close up of a bullet. the sound of an explosion. even just a smoke, an american soldier, a life full of blood, already shine 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, ah, will you too you may say to me,

your childhood was stolen and i didn't have a childhood. i spend the money war and terrorist organizations, such as anti that among slaughter. americans bombing kinda and kinda bowman americans. when we went to school, i used to walk along the wall so as not to be shot and killed. ah, the alaska fellow smith though my cousin, my brother in law. unfortunately, the americans did not fulfill the promise you how to rock because of your lost my loved ones. you hold has a lot of good areas in with either 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 me stop destroying stuff control in us. now let me so says, let the rocky people leave in peace. something

rarely spoken about is that all that suffering might have been avoided. if washington had not rejected, i'd write the negotiation conditions that were offered by saddam hussein's government. back in january, 2003. with the recap, ortiz, steve sweeney. 20 years ago us president george w bush tried to convince the world the iraqi leader, saddam hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction. and that he had the evidence to prove it. the phrase w m d, entered the lexical with politicians, repeating it over and over again despite in fact, knowing that they didn't actually exist in iraq as their own intelligence services told them while un weapons inspectors also said that they found no evidence of w. m days. none of doris turned up with ins of mess, distraction, and you've been surprised and then you were surprised that that was the case. do you believe the information that gave you was good information? we got, i got a good many obsess, 2 sites to go to and we went to many of them but,

and only on 3 of those cases the, the find anything and, and none of these cases was the weapons of mass destruction. so that shook maybe if i met, i'm all beating the drums of war. washington ignored last ditch effort by iraq to negotiate for peace. the effort began in january of 2003 in which they contacted us . and through my intermediary friend, he was asked by the syrians to go to baghdad, get unconditional terms from saddam hussein and the intelligence and the iraqi intelligence at the time. and he brought them out and sent them to me as conditions that saddam hussein would agree to if the united states did not attack up to this, there were 6 conditions, 2 of which we could have implemented immediately to test ah, ah,

the, the, the seriousness of their of their proposals. one was we would be allowed to take the allow $5000.00 us troops to go into iraq and look for weapons of mass destruction. there was talk at high levels, almost terms because i turned and turned them over to the secretaries office. and, and was it basically the intermediary while they decided to launch the attack on and in march of 2003. so who were the architects of the invasion? well, it's a long list. first to politicians. a no, no, only president george w bush, the day before the 2003 states of the union address. u. s. secretary of state colin powell said the options were on the table including military intervention. one rack is in material breach 2, this is their last chance there have to be serious consequences and those serious

consequences. matthews of force and you've heard me say that repeatedly, repeatedly. i've also said that if the international community to the un when the time comes, does not wish to use force the united states reserves, it's right as a sovereign nation to make a judgment within this. this clear record of violation to use force alongside like minded nations. who might wish to be part of such a coalition. back in 2002 us vice president dick cheney had his eyes on regime change in iraq. with our health a liberated iraq can be a great nation once again. iraq as rich a natural resources and human talent and has unlimited potential for a peaceful, prosperous future. our goal would be interacted as territorial integrity. a government that has a demo, frantic and pluralistic a nation where the human rights of every ethnic and religious group are recognized and protected in their troubled land. all who seek justice and dignity,

and the chance to live their own lives. can know they have a friend and ally in the united states of america. then of course came the media, which will crucial during efforts to build public support for war. pushing the narrative on saddam and wm days. in september 2002, the york times americans newspaper of record went big on a sensational story, claiming a rack was trying to get its hands on nuclear weapons. more than a decade after saddam hussein agreed to give up weapons of mass destruction. iraq has stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb, but counter to all good journalistic practice. the only source was an anonymous one . the whole story could have been made up. and guess what? there was drums beating there and, and there were,

we had the agency over there ca saying there's debbie and d. i personally believe to this day basically set up george bush for failure. knowing that there was no w m d, they knew it, they knew it, and they had one source that proved later to be on reliable. we presented all the information that we had, all the and, and, and, and with the hope that we could prevent a war. again, not knowing at that time, that there were alteri or motives. so it was just a matter of time before the u. s. unleashed it's shocking or bombing campaign. while across the pond, british prime minister, tony blair, also sold a case for war on a lie, but now infamous dodgy dossier, which claim sams nonexistent, w. m. days could attack the country in 45 minutes. the intelligence picture they paint is one accumulated over the last 4 years. it is expensive, detailed,

and authoritative. it concludes that iraq has chemical and biological weapons that saddam has continued to produce them. that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own chia population. so who's to to benefit from all the most? well, before the 2003 invasion, iraq's domestic oil industry was fully nationalized and close to western companies . to decades later, it is largely privatized and dominated by foreign firms, which have right in billions to understand the dynamics that are going on in the middle east. and of course, it's about oil. it's very much about oil, and we can't, we can't really deny that. i'm saddened that it's politically inconvenient to acknowledge what every one knows the iraq war is largely about oil.