are important for preserving our history so that it is a loss to future generations. but our physical museums, places themselves a relic of the past. this is one of the best museums in the world. the competition st. petersburg to help roughly is the director here. and i bet he has met with fading, slams washington for shooting down what it called a chinese, whether believing that drifted over the us. it's by numerous assurances that they did not pose a threat as well as former prime minister revealed with coordinated by the us in his efforts to mediate a pace failed for ukraine last year, which ultimately failed off the washington. pull the plug also ahead with less than a teaspoon of dr. and right little bit about this amount. this is just about the amount of a teaspoon. we have 1st and description of biological weapons. factories on wheels

and on rails 20 years since the u. s. lied to the world to be un about iraq. we recap and legacy at the devastating war. i'm a chief, un weapons inspector to iraq questions washington's relays. the united states government had no intention allowed in the inspectors to do their job. the united states was going to go to war with iraq regard regarding 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 a very well welcome to you. you're watching the weekly on our t international bringing you the latest wealth news updates, along with a round up the stories the shape, the weight. top story this, our 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 craft was not capable of surveillance and did not pose a threat. china re stromey dissatisfied with the u. s. attack on the chinese on monday ship invoices, it's protest. we have repeatedly informed the u. s. site that the balloon is 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 u. s. foreign to 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 successfully took it down. and i want to compliment on our aviators or did it, and we'll have more to report on a little later. thank you. by the way, i know you're saying the recommendation from you was funny and that's why her whole

that is through the down or wednesday. i was like, the recommendation 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 u. s. equity estate, the blink and to china. now that was subsequently cancelled or was he says, indefinitely postponed, 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 blinking counselor, 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 the chinese spy balloons flew over us territory, or at least 3 caves and occasions under the trump administration. now, former us defense, etc. 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 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 failed to protect american national security. that's i would 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 that i've ever seen in american diplomacy . we sped trillions and trillions of dollars on hardware, on soldiers, on airman, on sailors. and we can't do anything about it. why was allowed to go clear across the country for so many days? if you look at this, national security is one of the biggest things that any country can do. it is a function of government. we see that the by the administration knew about this 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 course china denied that the balloon was carrying out surveillance and the u. s. navy is currently searching for the wreckage of the balloon. we can expect to hear more from the over the coming coming hours. but the, the are the claims of the threat posed by china or something of double standards. let's not forget, it was just last that the us house of representatives speak. nancy pelosi and flame

tensions with a provocative visit to taiwan, which 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 continued to say, oh battleships down the south china sea and is a q itself of undermining regional stability with the signing of the o. because packed with the security packed with britain, australia in 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. the head of china, the national weather service, responsible for the balloon has not been fired. earlier we spoke with nelson, long vice chairman at the shanghai center for wind park and international studies. he said, bating doesn't need pollutants to spy on america. 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 they see below august ship or exactly what have you call it is from china and china fails regret for its intended entry into us 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

ah, for my is wally prime minister, natalie bennett, has the town his role in attempting to broke at p still in the 1st weeks of the ukraine. conflict last year in an interview which moscow has yet to respond to. bennett said his efforts were ultimately shot down by washington and its allies. her name is saquina, 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 vein block to the west. wanted to keep the pressure on putin rather than negotiating money. there were several rounds of negotiations between laska and k, as in the 1st weeks of the conflict. in late march after a summit in istanbul, russia agreed to deescalate and pull this trips out of northern ukraine. however, kiev and as western bacchus had since refused to talk peace in their calling for victory over russia on the battlefield,

natalie bennett says president lensky only agreed to leave the safety of his key as bunker after the israel. lita assured him that russia is not trying to kill him, which is something president putin allegedly promised to bennett. who your guard me did not. if he got sir. i knew that zalinski was under threat. he was in a secret bunker. i called him and said if i came out of a meeting with bruton, he is not going to kill you. he asked you, are you sure? i responded 100 percent. he won't kill you. zelinski. 2 hours later zalinski went to his office and posted on twitter. i'm not afraid of it business. you shall love sugar. yes. castle. now i will say one thing to i'm staying here in keowee on bank via street montgomery. i'm not hiding. and i'm not afraid of any one you call and they will use author and war correspondent, thomas roper faith, the west. it isn't interested in peace talks, as it's focused on trying to, we can russia if he 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 you also said clearly and yes, if it were not negotiations between russia and ukraine, but with next a, 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 on the west for any peace negotiations since the start of the warrant on less than 2014. we note on the beach agreement and that this was just in attempt to buy time for ukraine is melt lind onset and was johnson. i called davinsky agreement and invitation love to book diplomacy. and i will see the same though, after the escalation of the project really one year ago when the wrist by the word of bennet, i stopped for ukraine from negotiate negotiating anything with russia. and

now the latest developments on the ukraine conflict, the russian defense minister, his wound of an upcoming ukrainian false flank operation involving a plot to bomb medical facilities in antoniette square public and pointing the finger at muska 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 cave, which would allow it to carry out strikes in russian territory. the alleged false flag wouldn't be the 1st of its kind as moscow has warned, of similar acts, plans by kia before the defense ministry. also note that such provocations are a result of the ukrainian army, suffering heavy losses leading to a desperate need for more west and weaponry. meanwhile, ukraine is maintaining its deadly shelling of residential areas in don yeske. as our correspondence with long concert reports from the ground. 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 dunaway 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 co. 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 in the 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. i believe russia has the best doctors, so they will do everything they possibly can. meanwhile, in donetta, also on saturday, ukrainian nationalists used multiple launch a rocket systems against civilians in the nets. emergency workers continued to dig for the rubble of theirs, 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 shutting by ukrainian artillery. one family has a 2 daughters that have now been orphaned. ron cauthrin party done escrow public.

it's have rallied in the western german city on a hand to protest against berlin's decision to send tanks to ukraine. the demonstration slay the path. the local authorities awarded the country's foreign minister. a price that's usually $100.00 doubtful. humanitarian achievements. many germans once impressed with the move as anna lena bear, bonkers, sparks controlled receipt with her fiery rhetoric to recently claim the year of his fighting. the law against russia, after berlin, a clue to donate some of its modern tanks to key f. b, or ukraine's ex presidents petro parisha and co has boasted about scamming, russia with the minsk p sales to buy time to prepare for war. do you know what the success of the miss grimace ish in middle russia has not fulfilled any of their points? this document gave you credit 8 years to abuse, an army and economy, and the global pro, you credit in onto booty called ition. the 2nd and last uminski deal was signed in

february 2015, following nearly a year of bloody conflict in dumbass. the initial agreements involved more autonomy for the people at the dawn. yes, guns, no guns, republics on the complete cease fire. however, none of those conditions were destined to be implemented by key of a year ago. ukraine's pharmacist stated that the agreements will no longer relevance. oscar confirms that the deals had been scrapped as russia was forced to launch his military operation to protect the people of dumbass. with the leaders who were involved in mediating the minsk deals have also admitted. it was all a sham. the 2014 minsk agreement was an attempt to give you crane time you credit use this time to become stronger as you can see today, the ukraine of 20142015 is not the ukraine of today. since 2014 ukraine has strengthened its military posture. it is the merit of the minsk agreements to have given the ukrainian army this opportunity. thus the time the prudent thought was an asset for him, turned out to be in fact,

an opportunity for the ukrainians, political commentator and still web essays that future piece talks may be undermined by these admissions regarding the means agreements. it shows a deeper city. i makes one not have confidence in the future. agreements are sort of good thing for the point of view of the future. and so the, you're creating conflicts. we have got a real problem. our medical people aren't francois holmes. i'm sure module. i sort of say very, very ok, she did not have the best of intentions with the medicine agreements. and of course we know that song is look right here. that meets agreement primarily by friday, which is both about the, the con, our conflicts. so it really means that there's only one way forward for

russia. i'm actually is true to have also much victory because they, they tone going by any certain piece agreement because in our says it's still being denied access to the size of last year's and nodes train pipeline bombings, which most go blamed on the u. k. and one london denies any involvement in the west of been trying to achieve russia orchestrating b as hack. i have a japanese, prosecutor general now says there's nothing to implicate most good at the moment. there is no evidence the investigation is ongoing. we're currently volleys and all of this forensically, what i can say is that the suspicion that this was a foreign sabotaged action has not yet been substantiated. according to some reports, berlin seems to be open to theories that a western state could have carried out the gnawed stream, bombings with the aim of blaming. it's all on russia. the latest statement from the german prosecutor general is somewhat at odds with what some other european

officials have said about the incident. sweden was quick to state that the underwater bombing was clearly a deliberate attack without going into any details. despite the fact that russia's gas prom is the main stakeholder of the pipelines, european states have refused to let russian representatives take part in the investigation. some u. s. officials and previously threatened to take down the russian gas pipelines to germany. if russia invade ukraine, one way or another nord stream to will not move forward, there will be no longer a nor stream to we will bring it into these 5 points. that is more streamlined horse from 2 ha, we're not pumping gas into europe at this time. or through to never became operational, knew that offers tremendous strategic opportunity for, for the years to come. when german opposition politician ralph ny, my st. berlin is allegedly suppressing some very sensitive facts of his ongoing investigation. well, one has to ask actually,

what kind of investigation do they really want to find out the truth or not? we do know for sure that the swedish have started an investigation that led some to some findings that they probably didn't share with the german government as well. but the german government put a cap on information industry got they don't want to have to russians get knowledge about who exactly did it. but my take on it is for the political logic and that it was probably shots or mr. hardback who rang up in washington. and so we got a problem here, and as the intro said, mr. bivens clearly says at the beginning of the year to mr. short a, we have ways to stop and they seem to be less interested than they actually should be. i mean, it is our lifeline. or economic lifeline that got bomb there. and as i said, it's the largest bombing of german infrastructure since 1945. we should be more

interested in finding out to real causes or the government already knows or is being told by the partners that they should not investigate and ask further questions. those would be frightening to think ah, russia is foreign minister is in the erotic capital for talks for the 1st time since 2019 the visit is part of 3rd, galen, for the extensive tool of african and middle eastern countries, which announced his arrival in baghdad live upside down for a brief discussion with the rocks and basses at the jordan. russia stock diplomat is over here to meet the rocky officials, including the prime minister. they're expected to apply lateral ties as moscow 6 to boost economic cooperation with iraq and other countries in the region. so again, like 12 is also scheduled to visit molly martini. i'm so done. next week. his arrival in iraq came on a grim anniversary for the country. oh,

it's 20 years a to the day since the u. s. deceived the whole world about iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and all special coverage. we look back at the legacy of the illegal war, built on ally 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. a green food it's with

russia is foreign ministry says the united states will have to get rid of the anything goes attitude so vividly manifested in the test tube scandal back in 2003 . the statement was released on the 20th anniversary of collin pals. infamous performance at the un security council must go out to the power has since become a household name as the personification of hypocrisy, and the conviction of the ruling elite of the united states and its own impunity. or during his notorious speech, the us state secretary displayed a mysterious vial of white powder and attempt to drum up support for the war which the un ultimately refused to sanction. and the weapons of mass destruction claim eventually proved to have been a complete fabrication. 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 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 east or nation claims that baghdad was stock piling, illegal weapons and developing its nuclear program. war a 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 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 a 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, than 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 nations. the world is close to war. my question was in still us,

does the threat coming from the iraqi dictator justify war? a war which will kill thousands of children, women, and men. my answer is 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 a disarmament over the rock. william the axa approach of eureka military action against iraq is a huge political mistake. already sat about the humanitarian side of the she'll just go on top of that. the you ends, former chief weapons inspector to iraq. scott ritter said racks 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. 20 years only our school twitter. what was really behind pounds claims if only you from a chief, un weapons inspector to iraq believes washington never has any intention to let the experts do that job as a rocks. disarmament was apparently the last think the us wanted. i 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 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 rec, kicks inspectors out again. if a rec doesn't cooperate, then you have justification to accuse a rack 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 was a 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 $1098.00, 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. these to some of the stories from the decades long conflicts will be bringing to you more throughout the next 2 months in our special coverage of the 20th 20th anniversary of one of america's longest wars. ah, well thanks for keeping us company here in our tea international as always, all the latest news updates can be found on our website. our team dot com will be back in 30 minutes with

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