a with a nationalist use multiple launch rocket systems against civilian the once again. here. in my case, one of the shells is still stuck here in this house. we report from the ground in russia, john, as good public when multiple civilians wounded and the latest ukrainian artillery attack which destroyed the homes of local residence. or on march the 44th anniversary, and the as long revolution in commemoration of the countries unity and a reminder to the us of its failure to contain the will of the iranian people. and the central american nation of nicaragua releases more than 200 people who were

jailed several years ago for trying to overthrow the government and the u. s. back who attacked with coming to i'm from the russian capital versus r t international. i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories of the our welcome to the program. and we begin with the latest from the conflict in ukraine as several substantial attacks were reported on friday night. these are unverified images from ukraine, 2nd largest city of harcourt, where a local air defense system apparently tried to repel a drone attack, powerful explosions and a large fire were also reported near the national capital in the region. this comes a day after a local authorities throughout ukraine sent a massive missile attack crippled the country's energy infrastructure. meanwhile, on the other side of the border and the russian region of the opera, oci local officials say air defense systems, republic,

ukrainian artillery attacks that you've us supplied high mars rocket. however, some rocket fragments fell on residential areas, damaging homes. at least one civilians died as a result and another was wounded. and in the neighboring done that region. the latest ukrainian artillery showing has wounded at least 2 civilians. residential areas in the city of nike came under intense ukrainian fire. our correspondent roman coke road reports from the scene. ukrainian nationalist g is multiple launcher rocket systems against civilians. the once again here in my case worker. now one of the shells is still stuck here in this house. as the result of this had sat against civilians, 2 people were wounded. 2 women. right now the men are trying to clear up the debris can see the garage right here was

also destroyed. now the man who the owner of this house, he was lightly wounded as well, and he told us his story. what happened? he was at home alone at that time. beautiful. but lord thoroughly bruce shall hit then the 2nd i realized that i was alive, the dust rose, none the showing stopped short. i went outside with a neighbor and another shall hit. i fell down again. i could feel blood running down my elbows. got you up here, i went with the ne bud to the basement to sit all the shelling. there was a direct hit on the garage. there's no roof now. the gas supply was caught, the bathroom was destroyed and there is no water. this family has a foster child right now. she is out of school and usually sits right here at this dining table that day. something prompted her to leave the house and go to her grandma's or had she been here. she would have probably died because the shell

struck directly into the house. tell her i was at work. my husband called me and said, oh hollis is apparently no more. i said go and look. if the roof is intact, he says i cancelled as there is dust everywhere. and then he looked and said that the roof was destroyed. thank god, the child was not at home in the. she had gone to the grandmother's, not which, usually if she is at home, she sits here. civilian areas like this one here in the nest public are under constant artillery showing by the ukrainian military. now the soldiers of the key of regime are using a various weapons or for various calibers against civilians including multiple launch rockets system supplied by nato countries. missile defense systems have been working nonstop or the last few days. nevertheless, civilians are still falling victims to the shelling of ukrainian nationalist room

on call for a marty done escrow public. tensions are on the rise between washington and beijing, as china denies you as accusations of espionage saying it's actually america that is the world's biggest by. we have learned a lot about the chinese surveillance, high altitude balloon program. we've, we've gathered a lot of information over the last couple years. and so we were able to, based on that information, detect at a very early stage as it approached us airspace. we had a good understanding of what it was that narrative is probably part of the information and public opinion wolf at the u. s. has waged on china as to who is the world's number one country of spying, eavesdropping and surveillance that is plainly visible to the international community. us aircraft and warships frequently conduct close in recognizance around china, which seriously threatens china's national security and undermines regional peace

and stability. or u. s. congress has condemned suspected chinese surveillance balloon that the us shot down in recent days. that in and c h. it was a rare moment of solidarity between the usually bickering u. s. political parties. the resolution by the house of representatives said the balloon was a quote, brazen violation of us sovereignty. us officials say china has been developing a surveillance program using balloons to collect intelligence around the world before and original, and us airspace was shot down as it reached the atlantic coast of south carolina. there were concerns that it could have been used your photograph, nuclear missile silos or other military facilities and response us secretary of state antony blinking, cancel the planned trip to beijing that had been meant to mend the tides between the countries. china has taken issue at u. s. support for independence movements in taiwan as well as the build up of

u. s. military forces in the asia pacific region. recently, the u. s. agreed with the philippines to expand defense cooperation, including access to military bases within range of taiwan or u. s. general side washington and it's asian allies are committed to countering quote, aggression from china. i'm personally a very booey by what i see by our allies and partners in this region. and the way we've come together in response to aggression by the p r c by north korea to say we will not let that stand countries like japan and australia to other great allies in this region for us have shown that they will band together, that they will that they will not stand for aggression from these, from these nations that have decided they want to change the world order out here. state hearing will be bringing the gas later in the show to discuss this topic further in depth. iran is

celebrating the 44th anniversary of is it sonic revolution, isaac of aeration, of the unity of the nation. and a reminder to the u. s. of its. 6 failure to contain the will of the iranian people 44 years ago, although the square root of one was jam packed with hundreds of thousands of iranians, if not millions, to welcome a man who changed the course of history in iran. in mom khomeini, when the mom returned from force exile in 1979, it meant that thousands of years of monarchy would make way for religious democracy . former monarch mohammed resolved out of he known as the shot, had already fled the country. just a few months later, these womach republic became iran's new ruling system in a nation wide referendum. the slum as republic as the fruit of the nation void uprising was formed based on the idea of religious democracy. the will and vote of

the people. and based on the divine and spiritual teachings of the iranian nation, a nation that throughout history has always risen against the oppression of tyrants . and has stood up to achieve justice and independence and has not tolerated captivity either for itself or for a nation. this army coverage and was driven by anti imperialist sentiment with the public fed up with the u. s. and u. k. pondering the country's wealth and resources. however, the revolution caught washington by surprise. here at the former u. s. embassy, which iranians called the den of espionage american intelligence service, used to possess the most sophisticated spying tools. they even boasted they had every single detail about major events, particularly demonstrations and riots on the table. however, the cia did not see the prospects for a revolution. any time so that he was and u. k, were not prepared for

a regime change in iran. m khomeini chanted the slogan of independence from superpowers. something which would put an end to the british and american dominance on iran soil. the 2 countries had already overthrown the democratically elected governments of mohammed mo, sat down by orchestrating the 1953 co and restating the shot to power. that's what made toppling the shot in 1979 thinking the unthinkable for washington. as if viewed, mohammed resolved on the v as a close ally, and then the best sense of the word, a puppet. this is an enchanted land, in which maternity, thanks to an enlightened young ruler in the presence of an enormous supply of petroleum harmonizes with one of the earliest civilizations known to recorded history. but the will of the iranian nation seem to outweigh the will of western powers. iran will be an independent country, non aligned, not under the influence of any superpower. and it will only have friendly relations with those super powers that demonstrate that they are ready to respect our

national interest and our independence. what we want from the united states is to respect our revolution except its reality, understand our movements, and submit to it. unwilling to accept this, the feat the worst, resorted so many ways to deal of rosa beneatha is monica baba, casing point this logistic and financial support for iraq. the 1980s you only walked for today's hostility toward the wrong continues of the former fashion. economic measures. a price wisely. these ones are probably on the global stage use of the early party chevron. despite the u. s. failing in its attempts to stop the 1979 revolution. iranian authority is continued to express concerns about foreign meddling, particularly from washington and the islamic republics domestic affairs. last year for chester rabbit following the death of a 22 year old woman and believed custody. the secretary of iron's national security countess as the demonstrations were fueled by outside powers and

a hapless attempt to topple the state. the americans themselves have admitted this . they steal not only afghan money, but syrian oil is well. this economic strangulation is a manifestation of the inhumane nature of the u. s. which unfortunately manifests itself not only in terms related to nuclear weapons, but also in terms of economic pressure. enemies, use all instruments available to them. the media psychological warfare linking the development of relate with the west, with a decrease in the level of relations with russia, inciting, internal discontent, stigmatizing the development of cooperation with eastern countries. the think tanks in the west, particularly in the us, are developing plans to undermine our relations and are sending those plots to their decision making centers. however, as my meetings with russia's leadership have shown, all that is in vain. we always consider all our people,

especially rainy and citizens in total, comprising all the layers of society. unfortunately, ideological attacks, as well as some of our own miscalculations have led to the store of protests. some mistakes were made on the anniversary of the victory of these logic revolution. it was decided that these mistakes which were caused by incitement and miscalculations, would be forgiven. this, of course, would anger our enemies, but make the people of iran happier. let's go back now to our top story on the hour and take a look back into the rising tensions between the us and china and what it means for the overall world stage. las cross live now to hong kong based international affairs specialists, andrew loan, andrew, it's great. have you on the program today. now let's start off with this in these increasing tended to really rhetoric between the us and china. what do you make of that? given the fact that the,

you asked rhetoric about saying that it needs to counter alleged aggression from china. well, there was an initial attempt i seconds of as a secretary of state blinking and to visit china. but that was the rail. and because of this balloon incident, but the reality remains that are large countries and including the united states and also china and others are regularly and it is a surveil as so by other countries. i mean, this is the part of the game either in terms of a satellite sam and also spam spy planes in the united states regularly flying over other countries territory. so that's and the reality however, as far as this balloon is concerned, is been reported that the balloon which was shot down was about $200.00 people. just imagine 200 people i've been waiting and. busy the weight is about the weight

of several buses, and then these are balloons are not completely navigable to why should country like china and poise at large objects, which are not totally controllable, aspire installations when they can do much better job than using the satellites. um and then of course the abbey, at. ready the u. s. l and again shot down and identifying objects. i'm again, sort of insinuating the part of the, of, of, of, of this game. but the reality remains that this balloons are on their vehicle. totally. and why should such laws object in flying, the stars be used to spy on other countries military they. so i think that the system no doubt seems to be part of this. ready and a rhetoric are china blackening. connor in patient morrison seem to be important against all. is m team adversaries?

yes. i know when it came to that balloon, it certainly did lead to a lot of attention in the news media in social media all around. everyone was talking about it. and the united states really did try to use it as a way to try to make them look tough. they shot down this balloon and it became, it really kind of took on almost all life of its own. now, at the same time giving that rhetoric that you mention is that increasing concern that the u. s. could be pushing for a direct conflict with china that goes far beyond just what they've led up to at this point. well i think that this is quite clear that you data stakes and that does not want to provoke a. ready nuclear war we tried a lot. ready mold and provoking a new creal. busy we russia, that's why the united states is keeping on using proxies or other means to achieve the objective without realizing that this is really and

a why was chase. because for example, and, and for example, using the proxies over ukraine, a does not guarantee success lighted us the at this using a balloon, which is called the call to heighten this kind of blackening rhetoric of china. and sometimes the borders on the physical. because as i said, know why she confess you such a large object, you're weighing 20200 feet tall. we and i'm at the size of several buses as a surveillance, a systems which are not totally level compared with satellites. so obviously i think that more and more all the m m and a more informed people around well being being the sea. so, but the but this tragedies that. ready the united states keep long doing all to say

yeah, and certainly not the same as others tensions continue to increase, but i really appreciate you joining us to break it all down. andrew, learn hong kong based international and independent specialist on china. thank you so much for your time and thank you. thank you. with meanwhile, and central america, nicaragua has released more than 200, i time big coup waters from jail. they are trying to overthrow the national government back in 2018. and what was believe to be a u. s funded operation. it wasn't about negotiating. anything that has to be clear . we're not asking that they leave the sanctions. we are asking for anything in return. the united states should take their mercenaries and investigation by the greys own media outlets. show that american government agencies such as u. s. a. i. d, provided funding for the insurgency. hundreds of people were killed at the time and chaotic scenes as armed gangs attempted to storm the presidential palace,

with apparent plans to kill the head of state. those jailed over the crew attempts were later labelled as political prisoners by the us state department. we heard from nicaragua, based independent journalist, but norton who says that washington has links to violent extremist all across latin america. that it states was the main sponsor of the violent very rightly elements that tried to overthrow nicaragua democratically elected government. i personally have interviewed a man who is a security guard at the mayor's office in the city of messiah, and he was tortured by these coupla daughters. and he lost one of his arms. so there are very many victims of this violence to attempt to 2018. and we have document showing that many of the leaders involved in this co attempt were funded by the u. s. government through traditional caea cut out to like the u. s. agency for international development, usa id and also the national endowment for democracy. the any the one of the co

founders of the any d, i'll in weinstein told the washington post that it was created to do basically what the cia had done previously. but to do it out more covert, more overly in the open and the n e d and the usa i. d spent tens of millions of dollars, funding opposition groups that opposed this on the nice to government and the elected president, daniel ortega. and of course, anyone who knows the, the more recent history of nicaragua, going back to the 1980s knows that this is not new. the united states in the 1980s through the ca, armed and trained terrorists that the congress, they, they burned down schools and hospitals according to one of their former leaders. they use terrorism as a systematic tactic. they put the cia health, the controls, put mayans in the porch to blow up nicaragua ports. so for many people, nicaragua, unfortunately, it wasn't surprising to see that the u. s. government returned to those same tactics that it had used in the 1980s, so that the stabilisation attempts never end,

but the responses of the governments has been different. right? so if a government, which is sovereign, tries to prevent these, qu plotters funded by the u. s. from overthrow their government then the u. s. deems them authoritarian, the u. s. imposed sanctions on them. this is the same thing that we've seen venezuela, cuba, nicaragua. and then other countries that don't take action against the coupe ladders, well they often get overthrown, as we saw in 2019, in bolivia or right now in peru. ah, they confirmed at salt from recent earthquakes, inter kia and syria has risen to more than 22000 people. rescue operations are ongoing despite rapidly fading hopes for finding more potential survivors in war torn syria. the search through the rubble continues and areas devastated by the earthquakes. what western sanctions are making the situation even worse? international help couldn't reach syria in the initial days after the disaster. and the moments when the aid was needed to set to save lives. after several days,

the u. s. agreed to ease its sanctions on syria and mid mounting international pressure baths, while russia and arab nations were the 1st in line to help the middle eastern country with life saving efforts. archie correspondent in the same e i has the details. as he reports from aleppo, syria continues to receive humanitarian aid from arab countries. civil society is taking active initiatives to alleviate the terrible consequences for those who were affected by the devastating earthquake that struck cities in northern and western syria. the city of aleppo is one of the most affected areas. when we arrived here, we saw the level of destruction. whole families are sleeping in the open air because they have left their crumbling houses. for 10 years we have had a war and i demand that air of and or other friendly countries, appealed to the americans to lift the blockade from us. hello, you so our people are suffering and dying on it. zita dan fabricate necessary. 8

was not delivered to syria, the home, so the effect of families have been destroyed or severely damaged. these residents have no shelter. the only shadows at mosques and schools. dozens of victims are lying here in the our ozzy hospital in the city of aleppo. many stories are told about the catastrophe, the claimed, the lives of thousands of people and left deep scars in the hearts of those who escaped. at 1st, this house was destroyed by terrorists. we restored it and now it has collapsed. i didn't feel anything. the whole building collapsed. a whole family lived in the same house. 2 sons and daughters survived. god save them. as you have seen, there are many victims with serious injuries in the hospital who need serious treatment. we faced difficulties because of the lack of resources due to the blockade in a large number of victims. the blockade has greatly affected our capabilities needed to provide medical care or love and what time passes, there is less of a chance of finding people alive after the cries for help. from under the rubble

have stopped. hundreds of victims or in hospitals. families have been left homeless . people here hope to find their loved ones. all these complete the picture of the catastrophe of the syrian people under the american blockade. the walk, the end of the war did not put an end to the suffering of the syrians, but perhaps the consequences of a devastating earthquake are more painful for these people who are still counting their casualties as hundreds die under the rubble let you, let me syria is facing a severe humanitarian crisis as it remains under strict lester and sanctions, even before the earthquakes, the theory and economy was inclined, and hospital struggle to get medication and other machinery supplies. there are concerns about the sanctions impeding not only the delivery of aid, but other efforts as well for recovery from the natural disaster. you can find out more about that on our website, r t dot com e y maker estate. the blog has

apparently failed the trace more than 80 percent of the russian financial assets it has frozen. that's as officials are seeking to give the billions in cash to ukraine, claiming the move is entirely legal. if you said, oh, so it's come up. it is, we will also be mobilized to ensure that justice and fairness are applied in relation to the frozen assets for it is right that these frozen assets be mobilized to support the reconstruction of ukraine and be mobilized for fear and legitimate compensation for ukraine. should bills that is according to estimates based on a bank of russia report, nearly $300000000000.00 worth of russian assets are currently frozen in the u. but as of yet only a few tens of billions had actually been traced by the box members days. archie contributor chris and joined my colleague, worry sushi earlier to discuss the implications of this issue. the thing to look at is if we look at these numbers, so the, the european union at the beginning, they reported that they seized $258000000.00 of russian assets. you know that gold

currencies and they were running that ready based off the, the numbers from, from the russian government. and, but coming back with a road, it, which they've come back this way. they've only found $36400000000.00, which begs the question, where's the rest of the money gone? i mean, it looks like it's probably all would be effectively being taken already, or this a massive, massive or the thing era, which you wouldn't really expect from brussels, you know, that has its own currency. the year i run by its own central bank, it just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. but, you know, obviously we've had zalinski during this whirlwind tour right now of europe, london and paris and brussels and all that. but i guess when it comes to the issue of frozen assets or even that the potential for stealing these assets, cuz that's basically what it's going to be as theft. why now? well, i think you've had it on the nail on the heads, right. worry hate, you know, let's me going round saying give us your planes, give us your planes. i don't think any of the european leaders and even the americans want to give these planes because it's completely worthless because that

number one ukrainians can't fly them. and number 2, that very expensive pieces of kit that they need for that their own national defense. i think that's part of the problem. and then you've just thought it just this constant constant issue that we're seeing over and over and over an of, of just just petty law. is that the just trying to justify now somebody, the only way i think to justify is to create another sort of storm of a story in order to make the world see that, you know, i think also it's for the taxpayers and all these countries to say to them, hey, you know what? it's okay, we're not gonna make you set out for the next lot. we're going to give them money. that is, we're going to steal money from russia base if you think they're going to get away with it. it's, you know, really sadly, i think they probably will not tell you for why. i mean we sold the bank of england do this to venezuela. oh, my daughter is gold is still sat in the bank of that or they haven't spent it. but the fact that they were able to get away without, without really seeming much outcry from the international community and doing it, you know, that's quite frankly illegal. you may not like the policies of a government. there are many governments around the world, but you and i probably don't like the policies,

but we don't advocate that you should steal their money. it turns out the summer already benefiting from those frozen russian assets budget and base financial services company and euro clear has reportedly named more than 800000000 euros off of the back of the russian cash alone. last february, the restricted the company from maintaining ties with the customers that had in russia. so it made rapidly rising interest rate. the firm decided to invest the russian money that had been locked up in its system. euro clear is now based on lawsuits from clients who have been trying to access their own funds. german economists, i key hammer, says that the incident raises many questions about the commitment to international law. it is not on shocking in concerning international law, but it's shocking for european citizens to why. because normally the european union itself has no right to seize anything. no,

right to do anything like that. it is the national government of national states who have to do this and they didn't do those yes. making profit on stolen as something. this is beyond explanation and who is next. now, they claim this is, these are rational funds. net who is next. and the funny thing is they are already preparing that every german, for example, has to declare what s s t got. so they next, it should teach everybody that these people are not committing to international law. so get your money back home. this is my, my thing and this is saying that the us, the us is the same stuff. so for every european, every german, it is essential to get your money home. not believe it that these people, and this is now breaking apart the entire concept of the so called globalization,

and it shows only the strongest is right. the other one has to accept whatever the stronger dictates and this is not the international law. this is not the structure of international law we wanted i had a key russia africa conference set for next month, and masters from a range of african countries have gathered in moscow to discuss increasing cooperation. then b as envoy believes that enhance ties with russia will open up new prospects for africa. economy on the whole, africa is looking for investment in key sectors such as energy and agriculture to guarantee and security as well as food security. we have actually a deficit of energy in many african countries. so banking on the russian technology to develop that infrastructure for energy.