ah, ah ah, what do you think i should do is use his name and get in jail? it's amazing for me that how they for my seymour hersh, the journalist behind the investigation into the u. s. role in the north string pipeline blasts reveals the pressure he has been facing by mainstream media to divulge his sources. ukrainian city of almost widely known as bach, mood has been restricting civilian and press access since monday. that's according to the russian military. as its troops advanced towards this strategic point and with the full would lose the position over the russian

forces inside the village of mahdi and cub, archie follows russian troops as they advanced in a battle from one of the key ukrainian strongholds outside. done yet, a broadcasting live to read from our studios in moscow. this is our to international . i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. and our governments are good at tracking down. people who talk. that's the message from seymour hersh. the journalist behind the bombshell nordstrom blast investigation, which concluded that the u. s. was behind the attacks in september earlier, archie's marina kosovo explained how hersch is now standing strong to protect his sources, despite overwhelming media pressure. i think with the newspapers, particularly the german newspaper nurse asked me and, and you know, the are times in the washer most just army what they want to really what they think i should do is, you know, use his name and jail. it's amazing to me that how,

how they fall in line, my colleagues, they into the new york times. they do that. the one thing that government good at is tracking don't people who seem or herse or was so very nonchalant and this podcast interview. and he said that this is something that was out there all along and that it wasn't very hard to find. and all you had to do was a little bit of digging and he did just that, which is how he found his source. and once again with direct operational knowledge into how the us did it, how it planned these attacks and how got rid of no, it's 31 and north city through the pipelines. and he says that even though we're making a big deal out of this, he says, yes, it is a big deal. but in terms of finding out the information, all you have to do will search for it. it was out there. and now of course, he's under a lot of pressure to reveal his source even jokes at one point saying that this is his 1st and perhaps his last interview since writing that article because he

doesn't know what will happen. and if perhaps there will be some pressure on him, we've seen radio silence, no pun intended. regarding a headlines from mainstream media, there has been barely anything. and when we do see mainstream media talking about the revelations in that bombshell article that you wrote were seen, it twisted in a way, russia wants answers now regarding america's involvement and blowing up the blowing up the pipelines. and again, this is not the rasa wanting answers. it should be the world wants, answers, the world needs to know what happened. or for example, one of the articles they say, once celebrates a journalist, seymour hersh, in a way, trying to defame him. but let's see what seymour hersh himself has to say regarding who the source was. it's not even a hard story to understand. the president of the united states and the under secretary of state, both said they were going to do it. i did it. there's something called the pipeline

industry as an industry that makes people make american companies involved. they build pipelines around the world. you need to me. yes. yeah. you know what happened? see my hearse there, of course talking about the fact that joe by then spoke about it openly. victoria newland spoke about it openly, that pipelines get rid of them if need be. and that's what he's saying. and they did just that. and regarding he gave us seems to be give us a little hands about the pipeline industries. and also in that interview says it doesn't necessarily, his source doesn't necessarily have to be american. let's don't forget that nato countries were involved in that even energy companies knew that this was the implant. they just couldn't talk about it. marina, you know, about north stream. i know about not sure we've been hearing about it for years, covering it here for years. but many people don't really know the full story, the background. can you tell us a little bit more about the background of the north stream projects and the revelations and how they've been handled since they've come out? of course,

north seen gas pipelines were used to deliver cheap russian gas to germany and see europe in general. and germany was receiving a substantial amount. now, nordstrom to which was finally completed, was going to double the amount of cheap russian gas flowing to germany. and of course, to europe. and america wanted to put an end to it and they needed to get rid of those pipelines. so as early as 2020 wong joe biden authorized his national security advisor to come up with a team and find a way to we can rush defeat boots. and as i mentioned in that article, and what happened was that jake sullivan, the national security advisor, put together a team that involved the joint chiefs of staff, the cia, the state and treasury department. they had lots of top secret meetings right next to the white house. and lisa, some of the details that seymour hersh mentions in the article, that's what makes this thing that the source is legitimate. because some things that you wouldn't find unless you know that this is someone, as he says,

will direct knowledge of the operational planning. so top secret meetings and they find a way to do it. so us, navy, divers are to be used. but when and how do you do it? norway gives them the idea. hey, you can do it during the annual nato drills that we have every june. so u. s. navy divers supposedly go down under and put the bombs and then they decide to detonate it at a later date using planes that drop. absolutely. and that's how it starts off and then frequency radio frequency, the sounds. and it does ukrainian forces are facing increasing pressure as russian troops advanced towards the strategic city of our kill mosque, also known as buck moot, with a ukranian field commander announcing that access for civilians and press to the embattled area would be restricted starting from monday. for me to see the

street fighting continues in the suburbs of eastern and southern parts of the city, the access millions will officially be closed to see will at least so they probably should have been done earlier. so it's not to endanger people seem to look like ukraine currently controls only one road linking troops in our mosque with the rest of the army. this, according to media reports earlier, the head of the wagner group confirmed his fighters to control of the village of class. now go to a key foothold in the north, just 9 kilometers from almost the control of this settlement potentially paved the way for further advancement in the done yet republic. as the situation on the battlefield intensifies, unverified video circulating online shows a ukrainian soldier calling for q have to withdraw its troops from the embattled area lily deal, but to get the boys out of bach. note that they told their repeat of ourselves all did but bring out the boys. if they have already made many appeals or why aren't

you listening to do like it? when all boys dykes, take your son a wife to the positions embankment? miss will will let them take a stand there with you on the murderer. with nepalese you young has put conan editor in chief of and the media news online thinks the battle for buck mount is a key factor of the ukraine conflict. but what is the key to the very deep into the region? oh, don't ask people republic to just lobby asked to cromwell doors where everything started in 2014. of course, this is the main battle. what we see now, 2014, when these of civil war in chris started and especially dear ago, went a claim of go russian attack. what happened was that 250000 nationalists was getting ready with the night to support do attack. and they started week later russia made an intervention again to help us here. we have lived

every year and we haven't seen the 2 in the western media at all liberation of dawn . it is an important step forward because that the whole region of wealth are to most bottom would slow via us, dry mouth doors. they are all reaches rich walton, for independence which molded against the western bucket, grouping gear in 2014. so this is a very mutual, very important decisive moment for the russian world. a woman faces charges by ukraine security services for stating that give started the war in 2014, by attacking its own citizens in dumbass. i'm not into politics who started the war ukraine. ukraine started the crane of the war in 2014, against someone when the crane attacked yourself to learn. don john, do you? who's regional or the done by the video surfaced after ukrainian blogger stopped

the woman and asked her some provocative questions about the conflict in the country. 65 year old women initially refused to talk politics, but then started blaming kit for it's cracked down on dumbass. ukraine's security surfaces are now investigating her on charges of justifying rushes. military operation are monday. we can discuss this with human and labor rights lawyer. den kovachick, thanks for being with us here on our t as usual. so what's your reaction to this controversial case? schwab is t i condemn this. obviously, any citizen of any country should be able to really criticize their government with without repercussions. but i'm not surprised. i mean, i was actually visited russia and, and that's in november. and i met people who had been arrested by the ukranian intelligence services because they were criticizing the government

. i bet one man in moscow for example, who was held for about 2 and a half years by ukrainian intelligent services. they pulled out his teeth one at a time at a time, leaving only 16 all in response to his being critical of the reigning government treatment of russian speaking people in their own country. so this is nothing new, but it is deplorable. now you just mentioned it's nothing new. it's not the 1st time ukraine has press charges against its civilians for alleged pro russian sentiment. but is this really about people supporting moscow or they simply trying to tell kids that the truth is really inconvenient about their own actions. they're yeah, they're just telling the truth, this war has been going on since 2014. and it has been a war by the ukrainian government against its own people. is that woman set?

$14000.00 people died in that conflict before russia began special operation. in february of last year, this was well documented at the time, even mainstream press reported on it, not very much, but intermittently. and then when the special operations began last year, the mainstream press just pretended this never happened, but it happened. we'll talk about the mainstream press for a 2nd with all of the foreign support, the key i've been receiving against russia. do you think that such cases of ukrainian civilians being persecuted by their own government are likely to get any coverage in the west? absolutely not. the press coverage of this conflict is the very worst i've ever seen. while of course, there are many lies that go along with war. i've never seen a complex so poorly coverage covered so covered in a one sided manner. depress,

doesn't care about the ukrainians using chemical weapons as has been recently video tape. they don't care about the ukrainians, carrying out mass abuses again of their own population. going back to 2014 very few of the western press cares about these revelations that the u. s. blew up the north stream pipelines in the worst active environmental terrorism known. so now we're not going to hear about it from the mainstream press. so from the press to the international political community, to what extent could international organizations like the un get involved to help resolve cases like this? while they could, the international criminal court to get involved, for example, but they're not going to get involved. sadly, the un and its agencies are largely captive of the united states. and i witnessed this recently. i gave a presentation to the un security council i'm,

it's very clear that the west told the dominates that body as well. so i don't have a lot of hope that the u. n. is going to get involved in these sorts of cases. i'd like to see them do so, but, but i don't have much hope. right. him and labor rights lawyer den collect. thank you very much. as always for being with us here. now change nation. thank. now, meanwhile air defense systems have shot down a ukrainian touch k u ballistic missile over the daniel republic. city of mario pal, that's according to russian media siding, the city's commander's office following an explosion reported earlier, and as fighting rages across the region. the russian defense ministry published a video of its paratroopers in combat on the front line. officials same more than 250 ukranian soldiers have been killed in the latest battles near done yet. russian troops continued to storm a major ukrainian stronghold on the outskirts of the city at if it was done off reports. so right now we are entering the small village of modern just outside

of dynette. so we have to do it at night because it is simply too dangerous to take this road during the day. in fact, the korean forces are so close already. we can see the flashes of their artillery firing towards the russian positions. under the cover of darkness we had towards the troops living quarters on the front line, we wake up to a surreal landscape and the pit to me to desolation and death. while this is martin car and with the 1st rays of sunshine, the extent of the damage dealt to this little village. while it becomes obvious and it is close to a 100 percent. you can see that all around us so far. we haven't seen a single building that comes to even close as to being intact with more or less intact. the fighting continued throughout the night, although it's intensity did die down, did receive a little bit compared to what happens here during the day. while martin k is also

a graveyard for nato made machines and vehicles like this a p. c, that was supplied to ukraine by house trailer. wow. size is unchanging here. feeble building frames, scaffolding and breaks from torn apart houses. oh, this is the forward most position. all the russian forces inside the village of my income, basically between us gradient forces. there's only about 3 to 400 me into the soldiers in this particular position. and this machine gun to the left of me is meant to stop any sort of advancement that the reading group might attempt both day and night. basically, to give you an idea as to how close quote says the fighting. here is the former building of the local library is right now occupied by both russians and ukrainians

. one sections is under the russian control, and the other one is out of ukrainian. and now both sides have drawn reinforcements to duke it out and see who remains in control of this building. or we hear the roar of 2 engines, a few 100 meters away, a russian tank and an infantry fighting vehicle. they open fire at a point blank range or washing seats console. about 2 thirds of the village cave had 8 years to prepare the fences here and wasted no time. the density of battles is heavy. you quinn is pulling up reserves and we're grinding them down with artillery. then i mistaken massive losses, and a lot of them are refusing to fight. as far as i've heard, there's a crack in national battalion behind them. the enemy is well prepared. they're holding fortified positions, green,

staunch resistance. he is not driven by principle, by cold military tactics. losing this seemingly anonymous village means that russian forces will flank keeps other frontline garrisons to the north. but there's no doubt among soldiers here. soon. they'll march on hamish done of reporting from the dumbass. r t. arrow india 2023. the biggest asian aerospace show kicked off on monday in banga lulu the event held at the yellow hancock. air force base is a 5 day exhibition showcasing military defense products from indian manufacturers. 32 defense ministers from around the globe as well as a slew of private defense contractors are expected to be in attendance for more we can cross. why to our correspondent runjun sharma. now region, can you tell us a little bit more about the exhibition and how things are looking on the 1st day

and reference? well, in fact, the prime minister over the country no more the inaugurated the event earlier in the day. and anyway, india is the 5 d event which is taking place in of a sudden part of the country. bengal, lew, essentially, the region of this event is for the country to move from being making india to make for the walls. now there are $800.00 companies from around 100 countries, a $98.00 to be precise, that participating in this event and no points for guessing that russia is amongst those countries. in fact, needless to see that the defense partnership between new deleon more scope is a very important one, a strong one dates back to the cold war really. so we are looking at a, some product sell possibly that could be manufactured in india with a chance for technology or from a russian company is now for instance,

the t 662 to $6.00. in fact, helicopters and something that has been in consideration to be manufactured in india. also remember, the joint venture between india and russia is now manufacturing to get all, all 3, in fact, in the country and for the, you know, me t, i'll so at the end of the summer there could be more contracts that we could, i'll see sign between the 2 countries, and when we are talking about arrow in down when we're talking about the culmination of this event, remember it's a 5 day event. we're talking about assigning overall to 50 agreements. and the investment of that is expected to be over millions of dollars between india and the foreign defense companies. so really a big, big event in

a sense as india sees it, it really is a wrong way to a 1000000000 opportunities for india and rest of the world in the s. these are tease india correspondent rule sharma. thanks for that report. we know you'll stay across the topic for us as the echo unfolds. and now the u. s. is recruiting islamic steven alca, the affiliated militants to conduct terror attacks inside russia and neighboring states. now this is according to russia's foreign intelligence service which says the militants are being trained at an american base in syria. ortiz, on quarters across the story. us is apparently trying specifically to attract militants and separatists from central asia as well as the caucuses. and just last month, 60 of these terrorists with fighting experience in the middle east, were selected for training. according to the intelligence report they've been going through an expedited training program on the all toms

u. s. military base in syria where they're learning how to create and deploy, improvised explosive devices as well as carry out sabotaged operations. so, based on this new information, russia's foreign intelligence service has said that washington is on par with terrorist organizations. we see the us security forces losing all moral principles, been obsessed with insane idea of bleeding russia dry. washington strategists consider appropriate to direct use of terrorists, so they're dirty goals. such actions plays watching the on pair was the largest international terrorist groups. this report also says that these terrorists are planning to enter russia and other former soviet states in small groups. they're apparently being tasked with carrying out terrorist attacks against diplomats government workers, police officers, and the military. so this is no doubt, startling, new information that could risk further escalation of already high tensions between moscow and washington to iran. is it strengthening its economic ties with baghdad,

despite us sanctions, as exports to iraq are projected to surpass 10000000000 dollars this year? according to iran, iraq's main purchases from iran include electricity and natural gas, which bag that was required to get a waiver for by washington in order to receive. in exchange, the us use the grip on 2 rounds economy by allowing the nation to import essential medicines and goods. iran still remains one of the most sanctioned countries in the world, especially from america which has imposed sanctions, restrictions. well, various models of them since $979.00. in the meantime, washington is taking a different approach comes to baghdad, from an invading force in the past. us now proclaims its interests in the countries future and economic development. that's according to the u. s. secretary of state who during a recent visit by iraq foreign minister to washington, stated the baghdad should be energy independent and that washington would offer its

support to achieve that goal. from others was crosswise to independent politician. so odd all mood. tar libby, who was joining us from baghdad. thank you. first of all. so what accounts for the spike in iraqi imports of iranian energy and has this cause any issues for baghdad at home or politically? as thank you very much. yes. is there a large number of for private sector doing a large a valence trade balance with iran? i basically foodstuffs cause automobiles and certain goods own goods appliances that is fonda, but via private sector. as for the, a government sector, the government em import from iran gas for their, for the at risk reproduction in iraq. and also import electricity,

direct electricity produced in iran and transferred into iraq. so these 2 items are purchased directly from the iraqi government to the rating government. but also the larger than the largest share of via trade balance is with the private sector. and also so far, food goods and other goods manufactured in the are on now with the events in turkey . one would expect an increase of import from iran to replace the products that used to come from turkey to do to the unfortunate events of the earthquake and turkey. ready which effected the, the balance of trade between the 2 countries. and so basically yes, there is a large ab trade between iraq and iran, partially and divided between the private sector and the government sector. the

americans are not happy with that, and the americans wishes that they iraq stop importing gas from iran. but then the gas turbines are producing tricity and iraq will, will cease to function as there is no alternative for the radian gas pipe that leads into iraq. the americans did not assist iraq producing electricity in the 1015 years that they were present in iraq. and that had great influence on the ministry of a tricity and other departments are fair rock. so we don't see that the americans are serious in helping iraq in the energy sector. we bring up a good point. we can't see that to waive the was gonna say you bring up a good point there. as iraq increases importance, i'll be running energy. the us now wants baghdad to move towards energy independence. and it seems to be that we're seeing mixed signals from the americans

and is such a move even feasible for iraq? no is not conceivable at all. it's not possible there is no alternative for there where the gas as the gas turbine production you in itself, i tricity in iraq. b requires only gas and the only source of gas that we have in iraq is form iran. the associated gas that we produce here in iraq is not suitable to be used for extra shoe production because the acidity and different specification of the associated gas that is produced from the extracting the gas from the oil, which is a different, a completely different process. so it's very hard, oh, actually it's impossible to reduce it dependence. iraq depended on the iranian gas . now the americans have different views. i don't know what they,

what they are planning, how they wish to implement that issue would have to wait and see. but previous experience with the americas, there were not helpful in, in the production of i tricity here in iraq or resolving any of the energy issues in iraq with about that previous experience. let me ask about that. briefly. can iraqis rely on washington's assurances of partnership considering there has been failures in the past to make good on some of those previous promises of reconstruction and economic aid and so forth? well, i will experience with g, the american sponsored company. it is not good. i mean, we speak to officials from the ministry of a christie, as they advice, as that it's very hard to do business with the united states. as there is a number of issues. number of missionaries and equipment that americans

require a senate or a congress approval for these to come to iraq. and sometimes this or approval takes over a year. so it's really impractical to have any viable and useful for them. cooperation, technical cooperation with, with the united states on the matter of energy. if we're talking about g e general electric, that's why iraq now moving to a z mas in germany. and a lot of the prime minister last week was in germany allotment was in germany and he had signed an agreement with the siemens for further. busy negotiations on the improvement of a tricity in iraq. now, if you look at the bigger economy, the u. s. decreased the supply of dollars to iranian markets, and then at the same time we see a devaluation of iraq's currency against the us dollar. do you think that there is a connection here and is the us dollar still optimal choice for international trade?

definitely, there is a connection here. unfortunately, the united states are using the iraqi soil or iraq a sovereign country. as a staging air point for attacking urine or putting your arc in the middle and the midst of the argument that exist between iran and the when i to states iraq, iraq was never a part of this argument. what's happening is that the americans are pushing up, putting a lot of pressure on the transfer of l. c's and transfer of iraqi funds, or basically dora funds to international companies for import and stopping this transaction, taking place which affected the view, created a black market for the american dollar here in baghdad, which raised the price naturally and evaluated the rocky currency that these negotiations.