ah, with washington fishing thing down, what a called a chinese weather balloon that drifted over the us despite numerous assurances that it did not pose with wealth, but in the prime minister says he's a tendency for a co pay still between russia and ukraine last year was sculpus by the us and its allies also had less than a teaspoon of dry anthrax. a little bit about this amount. this is just about the amount of a teaspoon. we have 1st and descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rail photos that have claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent

iraqis, 20 years since the us push the invasion of iraq and the un. we recap the legacy of the devastating war, former chief, un weapons inspector to iraq. questions washington with the united states government had no intention allowing the inspectors to do their job. the united states was going to go to war with iraq regard regard. 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 with very welcome to you. you're watching the weekly on the international bringing to the latest world news updates, along with around the stories the shapes the week. it's good to have you with us. now, beijing has condemned the us attack on a chinese balloon that had been drifting over the us for several days. despite his

previous claims that the balloon was not capable of surveillance and did not pose a threat. china re stromey dissatisfied with the u. s. attack on a chinese, on monday ship invoices it's protest. we have repeatedly informed the u. s. site that the balloons design 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 weather observation balloon, although there was some confusion over whose recommendation it was to to shoot down the balloon and listen to what us president joe biden told jan this 30 a successfully took it down. and i want to accomplish on our aviators or did it and we'll have more to report on a little later. thank you. by the, by now on the same a recommendation from you was funny and that's like

a whole that is true to down or wednesday. i was like the recommended to me, let's wait 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 u. s. equity estate, the blink and to china. now that was subsequently cancelled or was he says, indefinitely postpone, but by using a set 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 some on expected 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 and space 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 beijing in a swiss. now the pentagon is now claiming that chinese spy balloons flew over u. s. territory on at least 3 occasion occasions under the trump administration. now, our former u. s. defense sexy more casper said he was surprised by the 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. let's have a 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 didn't we know about it? robert o'brien, larry,

this is one of those embarrassing things i've ever seen. and in american diplomacy, we sped trillions and trillions of dollars on hardware and soldiers on airmen and 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 biden administration knew about this sir balloon days ago. and it seems that there was an opportunity when i 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, the, the, the claims of the threat posed by china are something of double standards. let's not forget that was just last summer that the us house of representatives speak. and nancy pelosi inflamed tensions with a provocative visit to taiwan witcher,

beijing said was in breach of the one china policy, which of course is supported by washington, which has also flooded the island with millions of dollars in arms. i think reco spending levels and bite and 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 it cues itself of undermining regional stability with the signing of the all 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 wim, pack, and international studies. he said china doesn't need balloons to spine on america . this 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 fails 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 pollutants, which are so big and so obvious. now, 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 put to test. oh, for my is really priming a sen, nastily burnett,

as the town his role in attempting to broker a peace. still in the 1st weeks of the ukraine conflict last year, and then it says his f as well to me at least shot down by washington and its allies. and he was soccer and i was just a mediator feel. i turned to america for guidance. i didn't do as i pleased anything i did was coordinated down to the last detail with the u. s. germany and france. they blocked the wes, wanted to keep the pressure on putin rather than negotiating money. there were several rounds of negotiations between moscow and kevin. the 1st weeks of the conflict in late march after a summit in istanbul, russia agreed to deescalate and pulled its troops out of north and ukraine, however, cares and its western bacchus have since refused to talk peace and calling for victory over russia on the battlefield. now, silly bennett says president zalinski only agreed to leave the safety of his ukrainian bunker after the israeli leaders assured him that russia is not trying to

kill him, which is something president putin allegedly promised to banners. who your guard me did not if he got so i knew that zalinski was under threat. he was in a secret bunker. i called him and said, i came out of a meeting with bruton. he's not going to kill you. he asked, are you sure? i responded 100 percent. he won't kill you. zalinski. 2 hours later zalinski went to his office and posted on twitter. i'm not afraid as it bears as you shall love sugar. yes. good. now i will say one thing to i'm staying here in kyo on bank. of ru street one. good, i'm not hiding, and i'm not afraid of any one you call and they will use author and will correspond . and thomas roper says, the west isn't interested in peace talks as it's focused on trying to, we can russia. she said he didn't know any, he, israel didn't have any own interests. that's why he is. he said i acted on behalf of the yes, he did what you wanted. this will you also said clearly and yes,

if it were not negotiations between russia and ukraine, but with, let's say the west in the, in the next door. and the west didn't want to end this war because the west was we can rush and therefore they need this a fighting in ukraine. there were no serious intention from the west for any peace negotiations since the start of the warrant on less than 2014. we note from the basic agreement and that this was just in attempt to buy time for ukraine is multiplan unsafe and boss johnson. i called to minsk agreement and an invitation to boot diplomacy. and we'll see the same now after this collision of the conflict nearly one year ago when the west by the words of bennett, are stopped or ukraine from negotiate negotiating. anything with russia allows the latest developments on the ukraine conflict. as the russian defense, minisey has released a statement wanting a possible ukrainian false flag operation,

which involves a plot to blow up medical facilities and the don't yet greeting and pointing the finger at musk. in the western media, the donations of the crematory clinical facilities are to be presented as another atrocity by russian troops, which calls for response from the international community. and an accelerated provision of long range missiles to give, which would allow it to carry out strikes in russian territory. they alleged provocation wouldn't be the 1st of its kind as the russian defense ministry has warned, of similar act plans by key as before. the ministry also noted as such, provocations are a result of the ukrainian army, suffering heavy on that desperate need for western weaponry. meanwhile, the indiscriminate shelling of residential areas of don't, yes, continues taking the lives of civilians on a daily basis onto corresponded women cars or have houses more ukranian nationalists killed 4 and wounded another for civilians in done esc republic. on saturday, 3 of them were buried under the rubble in an apartment building in the nest,

and one was killed right here in this house. a woman 64 years old, was at home with her husband and her son. she was killed instantly by a ukrainian shell. her husband was severely wounded. he is currently at a hospital, in gall, of cra, he is in a coma. and daughters are saying that he might lose his arm. i spoke with his son who was also here during the shelling, personal as of yesterday at around 1 pm. there was a showing attack. i was at home with my parents when it began. my father told us to get an a basement. but i hate doing that because you could be buried alive there after the explosion. i woke up tried to provide 1st aid to my parents, but there was nothing i could do for my mother. my father is now in hospital. he's probably going to lose his arm. sure. i believe russia has the best doctors,

so they will do everything they possibly can. you always remember, broke sectors emergency workers continued to dig for the rubble of those destroyed apartment building for the 2nd day in a row. so for, i have discovered 3 bodies of the people that were killed here by ukrainian artillery shelling. they're all from one family, 2 brothers, and a woman that was a wife to one of the brothers. now they moved here, only 5 days ago, they moved away from another area here in the nest that's under constant shilling by ukrainian artillery. one family has a 2 daughters that have now been orphaned. bron cauthrin party. don't ask republic saying 20 years since the us invasion of iraq. and here at our see, we continue our special coverage of the anniversary, examining the devastation on destabilization the will course 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 pain, ah. with food and medicine. and sleep with today was amongst 20 years since the been us secretary of state's pushed military action in iraq at the un security council. an episode well known for his display as a vile and an attempt to prove allegations of the existence of weapons of mass

destruction in iraq that claimed later proved to be false. one of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on our 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 felt 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 eastern nation claims that baghdad was stock piling. he so confidently waved in the world's face as he accused saddam hussein of having a mass, 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 forced 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 bath at washington's command, but when 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 tried 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 sectarian terrorism. for all of this, i express more sorrow, regret, and apology, that you may have no will complete. other world leaders sensed something foul from the get go, which is why powell sought fit to give his speech. in the 1st place, france, germany and russia all decided they would vote against the u. s. is hawkish initiatives at the united nation world as close to war. my question was in still us,

does the threat coming from the iraqi dictator justify a war, a war which will kill thousands of children, women and men? my answer is no. calculus. what is your whole stalls no matter what the circumstances will vote no, because we consider at this time that there is no place for going to war to achieve the object of that. we all want at the moment, which is the disarmament of iraq. right in the accept group eureka military action against iraq is a huge political mistake. already sat above the humanitarian side of the issue, viscouso. on top of that, the you ends, 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. we're 20 years on. we are school to we, so what was behind power came to the un security council. it's on the chief un weapons inspector to have rock minis. washington never has any intention to let the experts do that job as a walks disarmament was apparently the last thing the u. s. wanted was 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 i. rec, and, 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 addressed the iraqi parliament. they gave a speech that wasn't pre screened. and as a speech to 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 want, 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 rec, 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. 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 1998, 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 of the beginning of the iraq occupation by us forces. then president george w bush proudly visited baghdad, rather than so they walked on country did not give him the welcome. he apparently counted on as the former president had to duck from shoes being thrown in his direction. ah

ah fun. if you looked at his face yellow and twitching, you could see the embarrassment. he was so scared. 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 her, ah, when ah, margins it is up and 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. but 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 oh, once an american journalist asked me a question, was in his 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, doughty view and 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 for 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. a miss, the hurtful fact is that bush ended up a victory 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 and continues to live 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. or these are just some of the stories from the decade. slung conflicts will be bringing you more throughout the next 2 months and all special coverage on the 20th anniversary of one of america's longest forms. ah, many thanks for keeping his company here in archie international this sunday. we'll be back in 30 minutes with

to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy, conform, taishan, let it be an arms race move is often very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very difficult. i'm time to sit down and talk with with hello and welcome to one's apart. while most people of good will have long rejected

war as a legitimate course of action that governments continue investing in new armaments and larger armies, therefore, affirming with the taxpayers money. that's more it is still a continuation of politics or geo politics. by other means, can the fear and moral rejection of more obscure something heathen and yet perpetuating about its nature. to discuss that, i am now joined by so yet a talk has named a retired lieutenant general of the indian army and a former commander of the indian army in kashmir. general, it's great pleasure, great honor for me to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you very much. my pleasure to be on your program. now i take it from your writing that things.