a with kindness plans, the u. s. for shooting down as a weather balloon which floated over u. s. territory, despite its numerous warnings that the airship does not pose any threat to american security, also ahead. left for the teaspoon of dry and write a little bit about this amount. this is just about the amount of a taste we have 1st hand descriptions of biological weapons, factories on wheels, and on rails blinds that have claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent iraqis, 20 years in the us push the invasion of iraq at the new and we continue our special stockbridge of the legacy left behind by the devastating war. a former chief un

weapons inspector to rack unveiled the true vote of washington in the conflict. united states government had no intention allowing the inspectors to do their job. the united states was going to go to war with erect regard regardless, it doesn't matter what the truth was. and the more successful we inspectors became disarming. iraq. the more threat we posed to the american policy and an iraqi journalists had through the issue, is that then president george w bush became a symbol of protest against you as invasion across the world. he told us his message to the man responsible for thousands of iraqis, dad. and i wish to say to former u. s. president bush, that i wish to see you in prison before you die. and if that does not happen, i wish before i die to see you face real condemnation. with ah,

and good morning for martine or national, sears and moscow, and welcome to the weekly with the hour and weeks most pressing you stories worldwide. i'm fearless about beijing has condemned the u. s. attack on a chinese balloon, which had been floating over u. s. territory for several days, despite its previous warning that the balloon is not capable of surveillance and does not pose any threats. china is strongly dissatisfied with the us attack on the chinese, on monday, ship and voices in protest. we have repeatedly informed the us side that the balloons designed purely for civilian use, an accidentally across the u. s. borders. in such circumstances, the u. s. use of force is an obvious overreaction and a violation of international practice. finally, after days of deliberation and doubt, us find 2 jets of short time. what they claim is a chinese spy bloom by aging, of course denies this. it says that it was a web whether observation balloon, although there is some confusion over whose recommendation it was to,

to shoot down the balloon and listen to what us president joe biden told jan this earlier. the successfully took it down. and i want to complement our graders who did it, and we'll have more to report on a little later. thank you. bye bye. now on that same recommendation from year it was funny and that's why the whole through the down or wednesday i was like the recommend day said to me that way to look take this place to do it. some are already asking questions over the timing of the incident. it came just ahead of a time visit by the us to stay on the blink and to churn. and now that was subsequently cancelled. it was, he says, indefinitely postponed, but beijing said now is the time for co heads and it continues to insist on diplomacy. some politicians and media in the u. s. have hiked it up to attack in smith, china. the chinese side is firmly opposed to that one of the tasks, of a diplomatic teams on both sides is to properly manage bilateral relations,

particularly to manage semantics. spect situations in a cool headed and prudent manner. well, i think just in another statement since by a blink and cancel his visit page in his head, china is never violate to the territory an aerospace of another sovereign country. but of course, the u. s. and western media has wasted no time in ratcheting up the anti china rhetoric and the supposed threat posed by, by aging in a twist. now, the pentagon is now claiming that chinese spy balloons flew over u. s. territory, or at least 3 occasion occasions under the trump administration. now, our former u. s. defense sexy more casper said. he was surprised by this statement from the pentagon and he said he was never informed of such incidents during his time in, in office. but we now have a former u. s. defense and military officials have described the latest incident as embarrassing, especially given that the u. s. is the world's leading military power and opposition. republican party members have now they've got on the offensive,

and they've accused biden of not acting decisively enough, and they say that he's fail to protect american national security. that's i will listen to what they've said. i friend robert o'brien, former national security adviser. why aren't we taking action to deal with this? and why did we know about it? robert o'brien? larry, this is one of those embarrassing things i've ever seen. and an american diplomacy, we sped trillions and trillions of dollars on hardware and soldiers on airmen, on sailors. and we can't do anything about it. why was this allowed to go clear across the country for so many days? if you look at this, national security is one of these things that any country can do. it is a core function of government. we see that the by the administration knew about this sir balloon days ago. and it seems that there was an opportunity when it was coming over islands in alaska that we could have taken it down now, cause china denies that the balloon was carrying out term surveillance. and the u.

s. navy is currently searching for the wreckage of the balloon. we can expect to hear more from that over the coming coming hours. but the are the, the claims of the threat posed by china or something of double standards. let's not forget, it was just last summer that the us house of representatives speak. and nancy pelosi inflamed tensions with a provocative visit to taiwan, which her beijing said was in breach of the one china policy, which of course is supported by washington, which has also flooded the island with billions of dollars in arms. i think reco spending levels and by didn't himself, has threatened military action to defend taiwan from china. and the u. s. has continue to say, oh, battle ships down the south china sea and is accused itself of undermining regional stability with the signing of the o. because packed with the security packed with britain, australia, when 2021, which is containing china's military power. but of course, this latest incident is

a new blow to the already tense us china relations. earlier we spoke with nelson wong, vice chairman of the shanghai center for rem path and international studies. he's those china has no need to use such balloons as surveillance devices they say is apparently not a pleasant incident, but i don't believe it is. why is for anybody to make a big fuss up there because the chinese government has confirmed in the 1st place that this below all this ship or exactly what you call it, is from china. and china feels regret for its intended entry into u. s. s. space china has enough satellites already in china, wants to do any surveillance. why should they use the balloons, which are so big and so obvious?

no, i don't think this connection makes any sense. so let's see. i mean, we're all have to watch and see. but whatever the case, i think the wisdom of both countries, leaders and i've all depressed and now protest test. oh, it's been 20 years since the u. s. invasion of a rock and here at r t. we continue special coverage of the anniversary, examining the devastation and destabilization the war 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 awe .

with food and sleep with today also marks 20 years since then u. s. secretary of state pushed military action in iraq at the un security council . an episode well known for his display of a vial in an attempt to prove allegations of the existence of weapons of mass destruction in iraq. that claim later proved to be false. one of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on racks. biological weapons is the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological

agents. we have 1st hand descriptions of biological weapons, factories on wheels and on rails. it's not like justifying an invasion of iraq to the world. mattered that much to the u. s. though, after all, then president george w bush already had plans to invade the sovereign middle east or nation claims that baghdad. 9 was stock piling, illegal weapons and developing its nuclear program war plenty. and the catch fear, phrase, weapons of mass destruction had already been popularized. evidence, however, was either lacking or in powells case, fabricated like the vile of white powder he so confidently waved in the world's face. as he accused saddam hussein of having a mast titanic reserves of chemical weapons when a rack finally admitted. having these weapons in 1995, the quantities were vast. less than a teaspoon of dry anthrax, a little bit about this amount. this is just about the amount of

a teaspoon. less than a teaspoonful of dry anthrax in an envelope shut down the united states senate in the fall of 2001. this force several 100 people to undergo emergency medical treatment and killed 2 postal workers. powell pointed the finger at faulty intelligence after it became clear that there was no merits to america's accusations. he said he was very disappointed. i'm very concerned when i made that presentation in february 2003. it was based on the best information that the central intelligence agency made available to me. but it turned out that the sourcing was inaccurate in wrong and in some cases, deliberately misleading. and for that i am disappointed and i regret it. oh, how quickly the u. s. is closest ally jumped into the blood bass at washington's command, but what all was said and done. former british prime minister tony blair said it was all in good faith since the west needed to bring down evil saddam. after trying

to deflect blame. though blair also said he was very sorry, i did not mislead this country. i made the decision in good faith on the information i had at the time. and i believe that it is better that we took that decision and a nation whose people we wanted to set free and secure from the evil of sedan, became instead victim to sac, terry and terrorism. for all of this, i express more sort of regret and apology that you may have a know will complete other world leaders sense something foul from the get go, which is why powell thought fit to give his speech. and the 1st place, france, germany, and russia all decided they would vote against the u. s. s hawkish initiative that the united nations devoted, i'm for, and then is creek. the world is close to war. my question was instill as this is

the threat coming from the iraqi dictator justify a war, a war which will kill thousands of children, women and men 1000. and my answer is no. tell us what is your stars no matter what? the circumstances will vote no because we consider at this time that there is no place for going to work to achieve the object of that. we all want at the moment, which is the disarmament of iraq violent approaches eureka misery. action against the rock is a huge political mistake. already sat about the humanitarian side of the shield viscouso. on top of that, the u. n's, former chief weapons inspector to iraq, scott ritter said iraq's capability to have weapons of mass destruction had been eliminated by december of 1998. it's no wonder writer saw paolo's, accusations against baghdad as relying only on circumstantial evidence. powell just keeps hitting you with circumstantial evidence and he confuses people and he lied. he lied to people. he misled people. fabricating evidence, lying killing,

hundreds of thousands of people. another stark reminder of the lengths washington is willing to go to the success of its foreign policy agenda is at stake. and 20 years after the us invasion of iraq, we asked thought, read or what was be a kind powers claim at the un security council. the former chief un weapons inspector to rock says washington never had any intention to let the experts do their job as iraq's disarmament was. the last thing the u. s. wanted, in reality, has brought in to help create an intelligence organization that would assist the special commission and evaluating the accuracy of the iraqi declarations about what weapons of mass destruction they had. you see, i thought that the mission of the special commission was to disarm iraq. and we worked in a very assiduous manner to carry out that mission. but it turned out that the

disarmament of iraq was the last thing the united states wanted. the united states was going to go to war with iraq regardless. regardless, it doesn't matter what the truth was. so i dressed the iraqi parliament. i gave a speech that wasn't pre screened. and as a speech, a said, if you don't let weapons inspectors back in your country will be destroyed. you have to let them back in without any pre conditions said, something's going to let weapons inspectors back in. i one i succeeded. and so when i came out is the exact opposite. feels like inspectors are going to be la back. and i said, yes, you can't talk about going to war with iraq unless you allow the inspectors to complete their job. if i rack kicks inspectors out again, if a wreck doesn't cooperate, then you have justification to accuse iraq of bad stuff. but you must let the inspectors do their job on the maybe i was a little naive. maybe the iraqis were because the united states government had no intention allowing the inspectors to do their job. the bottom line is, america's policy wasn't disarmament. but regime change and the more successful we

inspectors became in disarming iraq. the more threat we posed to the american policy of regime change. and so when weapons inspection teams left iraq in 1098, the world was blind. which means that when colin powell gave his presentation to the united nations security council in february of 2003, it wasn't just misleading. it was deliberately misleading. he knew what he was saying was false. and as a result, we went to war 5 years after the beginning of the iraq occupation by us forces than president george w bush proudly visited baghdad. but grateful residence of the war torn country did not give him the welcome. he apparently counted on as the former president had to dock from the infamous shoes thrown out his face. ah ah

ah fun. if you looked at his face yellow and twitching, you could see the embarrassment he was so scared from. so i don't think his smile was normal as for the shoes, i demanded them when i was with the investigating judge. i told him you can do whatever you want with me, but i want my shoes. the next day he told me that the shoes had been destroyed in case they contained explosives. but when i was transferred to court for my trial, ordered by an iraqi army division, the divisions commander sat beside me. he asked me, do you know why they destroyed the shoes? i told him i heard they did so because they feared they contained explosives. he said, no, i was there as a security guard for the president. and they said that they were destroyed so that

they would not turn into a symbol every one who participated in the occupation of iraq and supported the occupation of iraq shared the fate of george bush in this makes me happy. a group of beneficiaries of the american occupation said that the shoot throwing incident shows us as undeveloped people. but on the 2nd day there was a rally outside the white house with people carrying shoes and hitting pictures of the former president bush. later it was the prime minister of australia, john howard, than the prime minister of spain, who participated in the war, berlusconi, et cetera. and then it became a symbol of protest in the face of every tyrant. and anyone who wants to colonize, ah ah, my little of his up. they separated the body from the soul, removing the skin from the flesh and the flesh from the bone. they have other

methods like electrocution, beating, flogging and breaking bones, thought. what i went through may be less than what others have been through in iraqi detention facilities after the invasion. the hardest memory was when i was with other detainees, because i saw the inequality, the innocent people, and victims of the secret informants in the american occupation. the imprisonment of those who resisted this is a painful and disturbing memory for anyone. with for london, nicky, we woke up at dawn when the bombs began falling on baghdad. it was a shock and awe strategy. there was actually shock. what could we do initially? i thought about my family, my studies, and everything else. it remains

a bad memory with more memories coming after the american soldier does not defend his land and fights in a land that has thousands of miles away from his country. therefore, they know for sure that they are wrong. we see it in their eyes when they interrogated and detained us. they were either very aggressive to justify their existence on your land, or very shy, trying not to look at you while saying they are wrong. many occupants, when we told them you are occupying our country, couldn't respond. they just shook their heads as if to say, what can we do? ah, whoa. once an american journalist asked me a question, was in saddam hussein's dictatorship, tough, but based on logic and common sense, one can say that vicious dictatorships worldwide do justify occupation. even if there is a dictator. the earth is full of dictatorships and oppressors. did america invade iraq for the benefit of iraq or to topple saddam hussein and to whom will america

hand over power to the marines? are a group of corrupt people brought in by america itself? many iraqis did not welcome the americans, even though at the time to be honest, there was injustice, fear and dictatorial authoritarian system that was trying to control everything. yet the situation doesn't give us the right to rejoice about the occupation. at least some had said that the occupation, as well as regime at the time, was unjust. ah minute. doing this, do you in security council? the united nations are too weak to play their real role. even the european union, which america views as a poor, old man on the verge of falling, who dares to hold america accountable? since 2009, i had the idea of establishing an organization in geneva to provide relief to the victims of the occupation and hold iraq's killers accountable. imagine even the tv

channel where i worked, terminated my contract, and the owner said he was afraid they will freeze his money in europe for being supported by me or supporting i returned to iraq trying my best. it was my dream to collect the signatures of all iraqis who are affected by the invasion in order to file a lawsuit against the vice president in his team. i hope that the stream will one day be fulfilled. ah. my fellow americans, major combat operations and iraq have ended in the battle of iraq. the united states and our allies have prevailed. oh, i'm done with the hurtful fact is that bush ended up a victor like caesar. he walked past his soldiers to hide the signs of the invasion

. he committed that the mission was accomplished. but at that moment the mission of destroying iraq began the mission. bringing your act back to the middle ages began . we know very well that he is a liar continues to life because his mission iraq has not yet been completed. i wish to say to former u. s. president bush, that i wish to see you in prison before you die. and if that does not happen, i wish before i die to see you face real condemnation. these are just some of the stories from the decades long conflict. we will be bringing you more throughout the next 2 months in our special coverage of the 20th anniversary of one of america's longest wars. ah, nigeria foreign minister has praised the anti corruption policy of the current president of the country, which has held to start repatriation of

a large amount of loot that was stolen out of it. that's as the president warned of the possible sponsorship of insecurity in nigeria by foreign countries. one can clearly see how the swan countries took on the weak part of nigeria lake shat, where we have crudo reserves and coast series. ma'am, there with consistent attacks to actualize their devilish motives. the country's president noted the exceptional work of the some forest state governor in opposing for an interference near the lake chad region saying that most local governments near the lake we're in the hands of terrorists when he came to power with most now free in stability remains a key issue for nigeria, northern provinces were security forces are fighting a 13 year war against your hottest and criminal militias. now nigeria is facing new security challenges as it prepares for a presidential election at the end of february. one already accompanied by militant

attacks on a pulling station africa's largest crude oil producer also faces a worsening shortage of petroleum products as locals q 4 hours for petrol, with the new national currency swap, adding to that turbulence we spoke with my dearest 2023 presidential candidate, adamo gar, by the 2nd, who thinks that cutting off all links with foreign interest will make the country more stable? use that you would you tell him, do the web for cindy? you know what region the dominant to have to do and insecurity in the french speaking with africa. countries, sorry to very important for us to take vintage drop mitchells to protect our board . of course, all of these turn, what is include like mental, just to blight all $13.00 on us or people are we for the next election that is coming into the country once? no, julia huston nor any link would fall into that dominates how do condo gas?

yes. then it moved up, nigeria had become a most shibel most pro produced in 1st. what was going to let you know how sticking it prompted middle to drain even to briggs completely. just wanted to assume from you again when you do have dollar for this, this is not been order was didn't want to like interested in, of course it negligible rent or if it was able to do that, it should be just, i believe. so it's good out the we have some forces that are coming from to foreign walls, especially the village that may be interested in just to block the material. so out to, to get a strong brought the middle to prevent people getting into the hands of old toad is masking, you know, as, as fighting ideology. meanwhile, renewed a doubling. what important interest those are the hour and weeks, most vital new stories and coming up ukrainian armed forces have been deliberately targeting water towers cutting off this was a water supply for don best residents for almost a year. people have been facing the daily challenges of finding water to survive.

find out how residents of john bass deal with this struggle next. on our tea documentary, water don, yes is lifeline. we'll see about soon. for ah ah. in 1884. the german empire began its colonial invasion into namibia from the very start. berlin encouraged the white colonists to settle in south west africa and take away the best land from the local drives. the germans were actively draining

natural resources and using the local population as a cheap labor source. this was causing major protests and led to a rebellion. in 19 o 4, the hero and nama tribes rebelled against german colonial rule. kaiser wilhelm the 2nd was fully determined and ordered to suppress the rebellion with the utmost severity against the inhabitants of nam may be a germany through is 15000 well equipped army all around the country. concentration camps were built in humane medical experiments over citizens were conducted within the period of 4 years. the germans killed up to 60000 people, among which there were 80 percent of the hero tribe, and 50 percent of the nama tribe. the events in south west africa are called the 1st genocide of the 20th century, and not without reason are compared to the holocaust just 2 decades later after the

massacre in namibia hitler's assault unit put on the same brown colonial uniform which push the world into the chasm of the 2nd world war ah, ah, i thought was there by that got to work. are you busy? right? mm. yeah, not when you're here, but i would be when you're in or more like a book or do you, would you say y'all, did you hear horses familiar with those or b as in boy, you wouldn't see what it would be that would be an issue with a few way model we've published them both for neil. we do most of the border

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