ah ah ah staging, slams washington for shooting down what it call the chinese weather balloon. they drifted over the us to find numerous assurances, but they didn't know to pose a threat. as well as former prime minister reveals, he was coordinated by the us and his efforts to mediate at p still ukraine last year, which ultimately failed off the washington, pulled the plug also ahead with 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 description of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails 20 years

since the us live to the world of the un about iraq. we recap the legacy, but devastating. a former chief, un weapons inspector to iraq, questions washington's real aims. 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 in disarming iraq. the more threat we posed to the american policy, a very welcome you're watching, the weekly on the international, bring to get the latest wealth news out days along with a round up the stories the shapes the week is good to happy with us. now bay jane has condemned the u. s. a chinese balloon that had been drifting over the west for several days to spawn his previous claims that the croft was not capable of

surveillance and did not pose a threat. china re stromey dissatisfied with the u. s. attack on the chinese, on mondays ship and voices, it's protests. we have repeatedly informed the u. s. side 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. beijing 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 june the 30th to successfully took it down. and i want to compliment on our aviators who did it, and we'll have more to report on a little later. thank you. what they say by the, by now on the same recommendation from you was funny and that's like

a whole that mr. down or wednesday i was like a recommendation 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 us to stay on the blink and to churn. and now that was subsequently cancelled, or was he says, indefinitely postponed. but by using a 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 and 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 blinking, canceled his visit page in his head, china is never violate to the territory an air 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 twist. 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 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 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, 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 bind 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 of 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, it was just last summer that the us house of representatives speak. and nancy pelosi inflamed tensions with a provocative visit to taiwan,

which m 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 it queues 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 for my israeli prime minister. now the lead bennett has detailed his role was attempting to broker a peace still in the 1st weeks of the ukraine, conflicts last year. and it interview which moscow have yet to respond to bennett,

said his f as well to me at least down by washington. and its allies unable to call, i was just a mediator. 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 west, wanted to keep the pressure on to tim, rather than negotiating money. there were several round the negotiations between moscow and k of in the 1st weeks of the conflict in late march. after some it is stumble, russia agreed to de escalate and pulled its troops. sounds of north in ukraine. however, k, as on this west and back as if since refused to talk peace. and according for victory over russia on the battlefield, not to be bennett said, precedence lensky only agreed to leave the safety of his key of bunker off that the israeli lead. assured him that russia is not trying to kill him, which is something presence imputed, allegedly promised to balance. who yard me there. not if he got,

sir. i knew that zalinski was under threat. he was in a secret bunker. i called him and said excuse i came out of a meeting with putin on his not going to kill you because he asked me your car, you sure? i responded 100 percent. he won't kill you. zalinski thought 2 hours later zalinski went to his office and posted on twitter. michel, i'm not afraid, as it bears, as you shall love, shall yet. cuz all, now i will say one thing to, i'm staying here in here on bank of our, your street bunker hill. i'm not hiding. why? and i'm not afraid of any one. when you call and they will use author and will correspondence. thomas roper says, the west 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 interest. that's why he said, acted on behalf of the us. he did what the us wanted. did you also say clearly? yes. if it were not negotiations between russia and ukraine, but with,

let's say the west in the next door. and the west didn't want to end this war because the west was we can russia and therefore they need this fighting in ukraine . there were no serious intention from the west for any peace negotiations in the start of the war. and on less than 2014, we know from the agreement that this was just in their attempt to buy time for your brain as to and allow set and breast johnson called dominican agreement an invitation to diplomacy. and we see the same though, after discretion of the conflict nearly one year ago when the west by the words of bennett, stopped ukraine from negotiate negotiating anything with russia. hundreds of rallied in the western german city as often to protest against berlin's decision to send tank. c ukraine. the demonstration sled up off the local authorities

awarded the country's foreign minister applies. this usually hung out for humanitarian achievements. many germans once impressed with the move as an alina bab, focus box control busy with her fiery rhetoric. she recently claimed that europe is fighting a war against russia, then agrees to donate some of its more than tang. i'm 50 percent of americans believe that government should lift sanctions if they negatively impact the innocent lives in other countries. as, according to the harris poll and american market research company that tracks public sentiment. well, let's take a closer look at the results of the poll. the majority of respondents agreed, the sanctions which interfere with he went to terry and aid and public health should be lifted. 50 percent of americans say that the u. s. should remove such restrictions if they wire late international law as more than half of the respondents agree that limitations should be repealed. if they home the economic activity and livelihood of common people. and half of those polled beliefs such

sanctions should be lifted if they impede cooperation on climate change. congress thing a foreign military insect that is not an unusual tactic for the us as washington has imposed many sanctions on countries such as by the way, the wrong preventing the supply of humanitarian aid. since 2005, the u. s. has upheld heavy handed measures against his whaler leading to more than 40000 deaths in the nation in a single year, due to lack of food and other primary needs. in 2018, washington impose new restrictions on iranian banks. constraining the country's ability to provide essential like medicine than in 2021. following a 20 year occupation of afghanistan, the us froze more than $7000000000.00 of the countries assets preventing the provision of vital necessities to millions of already suffering civilians. human

and labor rights lawyer, don kovachick, se such devastating sanctions could potentially amount to war crimes, which many americans and now waking up to they are not happy when they learn that their government is sanctioning people, you know, to the point of starvation. it is officially and extensively democracy, but his jimmy carter said recently it is not a functioning democracy. it is not a democracy. in cracks, most americans again don't want to spend is much on military ages. we do. most americans want more money spent on social spending than on the military. but we're not saying that we're seeing quite the opposite. and that is because again, we don't have a functioning democratic system. the suffering venezuelans are going through is almost 100 percent attributable to us nations, which again, us officials said, were designed to cause human suffering. they're very clear about that. so these types of sanctions violate minimal standards of human rights,

minimal standards of international humanitarian law. as set forth in the geneva conventions, and yes, therefore could be tried as war russia is. foreign minister is in the iraq capital for talks for the 1st time since 2019 the visit is part of a lot of extensive tool of african and middle eastern countries. which surely after his arrival in bagdad lab sat down for a brief discussion with a walk basket to jordan, russia's top diplomat is also due to meet a rocky officials, including the prime minister that are expected to talk bilateral ties as moscow seeks to boost economic cooperation with iraq and other countries in the region. so a lot of he's also scheduled to visit molly lloyd pena and sit down next week. his arrival in iraq came on a grim anniversary, all the country while it's 20 years to the

day says the us deceived the whole world about it. walks weapons of mass destruction, and all special coverage. we look back at the legacy of the illegal war, built on a lie 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 with with

rushes foreign ministry says the united states will have to get rid of the anything goes attitudes so vividly manifested in the test tube scandal back in 2003. the statement was released on the 20th anniversary of colon pow's infamous performance at the un security council. moscow added that power has since become a household name as the personification of hypocrisy, and the conviction of the ruling elite of the united states in its own impunity. or during his notorious speech, the us secretary state secretary displayed a mysterious vile of white powder and an 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 amassed 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 trying 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 the other world leaders sense something foul from the get go, which is why powell thought fit to give his speech. in the 1st place, france, germany and russia all decided they would vote against the u. s. s hawkish initiative that the united nation world is 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 matter what the circumstances will vote no, because we consider at this time that there is no place for going toward to achieve the object of that. we all want at the moment, which is a disarmament of iraq approach. if you're at the military action against iraq is a huge political mistake. already sat above the humanitarian side of the ship. on top of that, the un former chief weapons inspector to iraq, scott ritter said. rex capability to have weapons of mass destruction had been eliminated by december of 998. it's no wonder writers saw pals, accusations against baghdad as relying only on circumstantial evidence. pal, just keep hitting you with circumstantial evidence and he confuses people and he lied. he liked the people, he misled people, fabricating evidence, lying, killing,

hundreds of thousands of people. another stark reminder of the length washington is willing to go to the success of its foreign policy agenda. is that steak or 20 years old? we all schools with what was really behind power claims. the former chief un weapons inspector to iraq believes washington never had any intention to let the experts do their job as walks disarmament was apparently the last thing the us warranties 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 iraq. 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 dressed the iraqi parliament. i 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 law 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 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 5 years after the beginning of the iraq occupation by us forces than president george w bush proudly visited baghdad. but didn't get the welcome. he expected, as bush had to dodge a pair of shoes thrown in a space by in a rocky journalist. ah, ah

phone. 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. any one who wants to colonize, ah, when, ah, my to live in 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, thought. what i went through may be less than what others have been through in the

rocky 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 a key 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 used to 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 below 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 american, 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. when it was doing 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, 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 and 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. or these aren't just some of the stories from the decades at long conflicts will be bringing you more throughout the next 10 months and our special coverage on the 20th anniversary of one of america's longest. i love the way for the latest news on days as well as documentary is visit our website r t dot com. thank you for choosing us and smash. mm. ah

oh mm hm. with me. hello and welcome to one's apart. well, 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 more is still a continuation of politics or geo politics. by other means can the fear and moral rejection of more obscure or something heathen and be up.