thanks with ah, iranian president, right. these 1st ever state visit to china is to kick off on tuesday. it comes as beijing and parents speak to expand their economic cooperation despite growing pressure from the west. and as ukraine shells, cities in the don bask using nato supplied weapons. the block secretary general urges the alliance to ramp up production. plus today marks 20 years since the un report on the absence of weapons of mass destruction in iraq, which was insufficient to stop the us from starting the war. actively justified by western media were reporter shares her memories of the events. i went out with

a unit that was doing and night read the story had to write was you know, that this mission had been largely successful and we had detain 90 surgeons a good morning from our to international and mosque though to wherever you may be. and welcome to the hour's top stories from across the globe. i'm furious about. the iranian presidents, 1st ever state visit to china is to kick off on tuesday, with a large delegation of senior iranian officials accompanying him during his 3 day trip. it comes as both countries refused to give it to strong western pressure and praised our bilateral relations prior to the visit steady over there. jose, our bilateral relations with china are in various fields, including economics, especially energy, financial and monetary affairs. we will find 20 memorandums of understanding during

this visit by the high ranking officials of iran and china. and what is important is that these relations should be followed strategically in a bilateral fashion. to meet with your whole life. in recent years, under the guidance of president, she and president tracy chinese ran and relations have maintained the momentum of sound, grow the feature strong, political mutual trust, steady progress and practical cooperation in various felt and sound, communication and coordination, international and regional affairs in defense of the principle of non interference in internal affairs and the common interest in developing countries. this is, it will be the 1st by an iranian leader in 20 years, china's foreign ministry spokeswoman said, right, these trip comes at these invitation. as the 2 countries speak just straight then economic cooperation, a bit sanctions pressure from western countries. the leaders met for the 1st time last september at a summit of the shanghai pul,

operation organization for i see called for expanded ties. delegations from the states are also expected to hold talks on the several bilateral agreements which will increase trade relations. r t contributor use of july only has the details was president of brian bracey is in china. upon an invitation by his chinese counterpart, gigi ping is therefore a 3 day visit, but 2 sides are also expected to sign co operation. documents ain't that deepening . the trade ties between the 2 states for ever bracey has got a lot on his plate. he has a lot to do on his itinerary, but all of those activities and plas boiled down to one single goal. and that is to expand economic and political ties between to ron and beijing. of course it goes beyond saying that china is it was major and number one, trait partner. it is

a major buyer of iran's oil, and now the 2 sides are going to take another step forward to increase and expand their bilateral ties. it seems that the 2 sides and rush up as well are forming a united front, a counter force to the west. and on top of them to the united states are unilateralism. they are planning to even ditch the daughter and use their own national currencies. either trade, so it's a very key step. now, abraham races was, it's a china and we have to wait and see what will come out of that visit. but there is one single message and major message to the united states and west that it one in china, are going to engage more on different france from military to politics and now economy. the 2 sides traded ah more,

that's what $24000000000.00 and the past tier 5 people were injured by ukrainian shelling in the don yet for public on monday. that's according to local authorities. as civilians in the region continue to live under constant threat, they shared their views of the ongoing conflicts. yes it though. oh, loosen up. i think there is no way back. we need to push them back and then negotiate. no, i think we can't negotiate. it's the 9th year we've been living here without the ukranian regime plain as on his ivy summers. we are fighting a war for independence of russia in the russian world. i'm sure we will prevail and have a new victory day and victory parade. no, but up while ukraine uses nato supplied weapons to shall dawn bass. the alliance as secretary general says, the block needs to ramp up production as kim burns through western stockpiles. the

war in ukraine is consuming an enormous amount of ammunition. and the plead thing are large stock parts the current rate of ukraine, some initial expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production. this puts our defense industries under the strain if hostile changed maple it thus just demonstrated the importance on the on the how important it has been the actually since 2014 nato hassan implemented the biggest reinforcements or collected defense in the generation of recalls the war didn't start in february lawston, it started in 2014 johnston berg, also announced the development of a new satellite network to help exchange data. last week, officials in kiev admitted they were light directly on u. s. intelligence when picking targets for american supplied artillery systems.

human rights attorney, martin dozer told us nato is pursuing its own interest in the conflicts. so if you look at that, clearly we can see that the war really started in that time. when they're on yes and public, they're both clear that they don't want the interference of the qu, government of the might on cool. and that they want to. deborah law has some kind of come to know similar inside. creat another government which was not altered democrats. and since that time were inside off nature will cost different interests. but all wanted interference and the impact on ukraine by nato, and by their own interest said you will let it go against russia. and to get ukraine into their own sphere of influence. they wanted to bring that follow ups

and already in the queue in the queue that was militant forces, especially for forces faith or provided with weapons by the us and by the nature of a naval states. so we can think that from that point on the nature of some, almost in that conflict, exaggerated false and misleading. that's how it goes. scientists have summed up the real results of 24 companies, moving toward net 0 emissions. as it turns out, companies that consider themselves leaders in the fight against climate change are not quite as green as they make out. the $24.00 companies net 0 pledges amount on average to a reduction commitment of just 36 percent. this demonstrates a huge chasm between what the companies are currently committing to and what is needed to avert the most damaging impacts of climate change. the goal of global net 0 emissions requires deep emission reductions in all economic sectors. met 0

targets that do not reflect deep emission reductions of at least 90 to 95 percent are misleading. the researchers accused the companies of relying on most of the carbon to be removed from the air, either by offsets or by just striking the emissions off from the total swiss face nestle, the food and beverage company, which has a whole page on its website marketing its climate action plan, like all these companies do, plans to have net 0 emissions by 2050. at the latest. so as german car maker, volkswagen french grocery retailer cal who'll aims to be carbon neutral by 2040. so a little bit earlier. so be sure to make a little note right now in your agenda for 20 or 30 years from now to follow up and make sure that you hold them accountable. if they fall short. by the way, if they don't make it, they might just be your fault nicely to the last month that quote,

the past to net 0 needs all of us. oh, in that case, if they don't make the target, maybe they're not to blame. maybe we all are, we already saw it happen when countries failed to meet their emission reduction pledges. nothing happened to the countries. the company cited in this new report disagree with their per trail. no, nothing for example says. busy that will quote, continue reducing our emissions and removing carbon from the atmosphere. that sounds like a good one to try. the next time you're invited out somewhere, but really don't want to go. sorry, can't join you denied. i'm busy removing carbon from the atmosphere. and yeah, who can possibly argue with that? so there's a marketing going on here with questionable benefits and results. and at the same time, oil companies have also been talking up that he to speed up the green energy revolution . there are 2 things that need to happen in this world. number one,

when he to accelerate the energy transition. and number 2, the transition needs to be orderly needs to be orderly because if it's not supply and demand get out of whack, you get what happened last year. prices will skyrocket, and people around the world will be dealing with a cost of living crisis. we're doing both accelerating the energy transition and ensuring the transition is an orderly one. but now that europe is actually facing an existential crisis and needs energy in large supply right now. big oil is shifting its focus back to fossil fuels, and last year's profits for shareholders didn't come from green energy renewables. they came from oil and gas and money talks. it's also disappointing to a group of $27.00 climate minded investors, representing $1.00 trillion dollars in assets who have now just written a letter to big european banks. pleading for them to please stop financing new oil and gas fields and projects by the end of this year. they must stop directly

financing new oil and gas fields. second, banks must urgently turn their attention to the companies that are enabling new oil and gas feels from being discovered undeveloped, and not only is oil and gas making a comeback. but the trend in europe and the ongoing energy crisis has been reversion to call germany austria, france. the netherlands, italy all have fire whole plants back up. if only cool can be considered green to. right. well, australia claimed that it was entirely possible. it had been peddling so called clean cool on the global market and selling it at a higher cost, claiming that it's clean burning would mean lower carbon offset costs for its buyers. turns out the whistleblower came forward last year saying that it was all just a big scam and that the clean aspect of the coal had been falsified in quality control to us. it's just a good thing that all that hard air being spewed by dodgy,

green marketing, doesn't have a carbon footprint and a price tag. well, at least it doesn't yet. washington seems to be targeting stable coins and is now taking aim at finance. usd owner paxis. the u. s. securities and exchange commission plans to sue the company over an alleged investor protection breach, as it considers the b u. s. d coin and unregistered security r t contributor chris adams discuss the staple points weights in the financial system. and the reasons for the potential lawsuit with my colleague nicky. aaron, what exactly are crypto stable coins and was the significance in the grand scheme of things? yeah, it's a really great question. nick, they are crypt. the currency is the a back $1.00 to $1.00 on a real stable world assets, currencies like the variable, the euro, the us dollar, or even assets like gold. and essentially you can take these currencies and you can

trade them or you can even send them. so really, the, the real world use case for the nikki is, let's say, i want to actually send you money using crypto currency, but i don't want to be subject to the volatility them. i might have if i send you something like bitcoin, that is quite volatile. it goes up and down, i can send you for example, b u s. d, in this case, which we're going to discuss, which is back $1.00 to $1.00 on the dollars. so you're not, we don't have to worry that if i send you for a couple $100.00 when it arrives to you, it will only be $90.00. ok, so you mentioned b u. s. day. what is the big high for the big deal? about b, u. s. d, and the fact that a party it won't be minted at a longer. b usb is a stable coin back to us dollars issued by, by non us, which is the largest crypto currency exchange in the walls. now the fcc seemed to have it out for binds. so what they've said is they went to binary, c custodian, which is the 3rd party that holds the dollars the back, the b u. s. d and the holes these dollars and said to them, look, stop mincing them. you're not allowed to anymore because we suspect that

b u. s. the is a security and therefore unregulated and we need to regulate it. but it's a suspicion, it's not a charge, but they still manage to effectively shut it down. and what do you think the u. s. government is so interested in controlling stable coins in the crypto currency market in general. well, i think you have to go back to the inception of crypt, currency nicky. so most famous crypt currency is arguably bitcoin. i think we've got a big big coin be probably on a screen behind the somewhere. and so say bit, but if you read the initial white paper that was written, which really explains what it's about. but so that means it was designed to really this intermediate and to create an alternative way of transacting outside of the centralized control that governments have a until system. and if we, if we take the, the, the government that really has the most in it to kind of control the financial system is the government that controls the world's currency, the world reserve currency, which is us dollars, the us treasury. so i think they now they kind of woken up now and they've realized that as chris, the currency performs becomes more adopted. we're seeing that now. i mean,

i've been in this is 2015. if i'd have asked you what it was in 2015, you'd have looked at me like i was absolutely mad. now a lot of people know what big coins are. a lot of people know what usb t b us. these stable coins are. so happens, it's going to remove the level of power that they have, and that whole hedge of money that they have over controlling the financial system, including sanctions, right? at the end of the day, right now, there's nothing inhibiting me in russia, sending money to my friend in the us using crypt currencies, specifically stable coins. if i want to, they can't stop me, they can't track it and they can't control it. and now to some news from moscow, where a huge fire broke out in a car service building in the north of the city, firefighters rushed to the scene, tackling the flames an extremely tough conditions. as of now, the fire has been extinguished with 3 people rescued. the fate of 2 others remains unknown. are teeth, sophia nunez reports from the scene. if eustace way middle blaze broke inside the

car repair shop in north moscow, sending heavy black smoke into the sweetest air, the 2 stories shop what's why around midnight, on monday, people who live nearby said that they heard loud blast that now have been confirmed to the sounds of exploiting fuel canisters, 108, emergency personnel and 27 pieces of equipment had been brought to the scene with more help on the way. the biggest concern quickly became prevents inquire from spreading scenes. there is a gas station, only a few meters away. so far the fire fighters were able to subdue the flames and rescued 3 people from the burning building. it was nothing mediately clear what might have sparked the fire and investigation is on the way to day marks. the 20th anniversary of the un security council meeting when the head of the united nations is monitoring mission at the time, stated that there were no traces of weapons of mass destruction in iraq. however, this did it stop the u. s, which used the presence of w. m. d's as

a pretax for attacking the middle eastern country in 2003. here's our special coverage of one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century. at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free people, and to defend the world from great danger. food and sleep. with

since the us led invasion of iraq over 1000000 people have been killed with more than 9000000 iraqis being displaced both internally and abroad. one of the architects of the war is considered to be then u. s. secretary of state colin powell, who claim that the iraqi leader saddam hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction. top u. s. officials were not the only ones justifying the invasion. western media actively followed their lead closely observing and supporting the u. s. bombing of baghdad. and on the ground, american reporters also worked around the facts just to find the us led invasion. one war journalist who was in the ranks of the u. s. army at the time, shared her memories with us. so 2005 to 2006, i went to iraq 207-2000 8. by the time i got out, i just realized it was much different from how it had been painted.

multi layer trauma comes from, you know, 1st like the systemic trauma being trained to kill on command on, on the command of, you know, people that you don't know. probably don't like you and don't care about you. and, and, you know, being trained to kill people who are much more like you than a, than the people who are telling you to, you know, do that. and then there's the individual traumas of yoshi, your friends, be killed and injure being injured yourself. part of my job was to sort of control the media narrative, help control the media narratives. those coming out of iraq ah

i went out with a unit though is doing and night read in a village where there were supposedly some high value targets t. my was with, you know, knocked on, knocked being kicked in a few doors scared people, you know, did a lot of a lot of, you know, intimidating of people and entering of buildings. but i did not come back with anyone, but the other teams did. and so the next day night rates are in the morning, i went out to the place where they were detaining people for they had all the detainees, and they had him all lined up. i'm just why unfolded zip tide? just neely on the ground and, and the other is no, she was identities, were not given. it was, it just seemed to me like it was just a lot of random people to me are we detain them anyway. so the story i had to write

was, you know, that this mission had been largely successful and we had detain, 90 in surgeon. ah, i see, it is a tragedy on every level. i see it is central loss of life. the achievements are all very dark and negative and terrible, nothing having to do with anyone's liberation. we destroyed the infrastructure in iraq. we destroyed, you know, basically chased the entire professional class out of iraq. we completely disable. i said the political system so that we could control it. so,

you know, we essentially privatized, iraq. enjoy down the story is just the tip of the iceberg. given that most western outlets at the time turned out, war cheering slogans are tease donald quarter. dig deeper into how the war coverage looked 20 years ago. but we have seen on television though, is indeed the 1st phase of a day. we a campaign called shock and awe by the u. s. military. the attack came in wave cruise missiles followed by the f. 150 still farmer, with so called bunker russian golf, america's crusade to shock and all a rack and the world into us dominated democracy had begun. no cost was too high if it meant accomplishing the goal shut in the country down would entail both the physical destruction of appropriate infrastructure and the shut down and control of the flow of old vital information. an associated commerce so rapidly as to achieve

a level of national shock. i came to the fact that japan, nuclear weapons on hiroshima and nagasaki had on the japanese this term shock and all quickly became a household name, appearing on everything from energy drinks and coffee to video games and condoms. kind of morbid, considering thousands of people were killed in the 1st several weeks of this doctrines application. but back then the mainstream media did everything it could to justify the u. s. invasion. there were no strangers to censorship either in their mission to win over average american hearts and minds for a hunt to find nonexistent. weapons of mass destruction. my stories raising questions about the administration's claim, so the link between iraq and al qaeda were being cuts buried or held out of the paper altogether. i grew so sick of this that when the washington post reported that a rock had turned over its nerve gas to terrorists, i refused to try to match the story. one mid level editor in the washington bureau

yelled at me for my refusal. he came to my desk carrying a golf club while berating me after i told him that the story and i wasn't going to make any calls on it. later on. the same media outlets even admitted much of what they published was not based on a shred of evidence. we have found a number of instances of coverage that was not as rigorous as it should have been. in some cases, information that was controversial then, and seems questionable now was insufficiently quantified, are allowed to stand on challenged. looking back, we wish we had been more aggressive in re examining the claims. as new evidence emerged, all fe to emerge, we should have worn to reduce. we had information that the basis for these will shakia. those are exactly the kind of statements that should be published on the front page. so many lie, so many people sent to fight a brutal war based on those lies. and for those responsible for it, all, the lack of any sort of accountability allowed them to wipe their hands clean and

move on with their political careers as if nothing happened. the human cost of the invasion were immense, and despite the war being officially over, a rocky still suffer. the consequences of us presence in the country to day as civilians frequently become targets of american violence. one of these victims, as an iraqi girl who was shot and killed in september last year, her relative shared her story with us. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, a lot on there. she was a student. she was helping me with my work. like any child she dreamed about

finishing school and becoming a teacher about she was only in her early, it definitely was an american bullet. i think that the responsibility lies primarily with us troops. i didn't expect that any would be killed. maybe it could have happened to my brother or any other family member or neighbors, but not as any the one that she used to get out of the house only for 2 hours. i believe. i remember dia, the incident with zainab is not the 1st we've suffered from the shootings constantly as the training grounds are behind us. there's been more than 14 cases of people wounded by the trainings with aiden, called only officials, to deal with the shootings which has led to casualties ah lot. i don't believe the crime has been reported internationally, but locally it has become

a matter of great public opinion. the war sin was she killed the marty. a sign up is saw magic. i casale. 15 year old girl will kill on the farm with her father killed by american troops. but the silence of civil society organizations, human rights organizations, children's right organizations and women's rights, ah . one of my final comments on my father was murdered in 2003 by u. s. troops. there was a camp near our house, which was adjacent to the airport. their troops were always on standby. and when they saw my father sitting there and thought he was monitoring them, not a shot of later they admitted they made a mistake when they killed him. only when we're at the hospital, the americans told me that their cameras spotted my father and accidentally they shot him. but no contact was made after that. the americans only care about themselves while other foreign citizens,

not only iraqis or take into account. last of all, the iraqi blood is worthless for them. all. americans only have brought harm to us . things have been getting worse and worse since the invasion. and we do not see any improvement. i would like to say to all americans that the iraqis have dignity despite the tragedy which happened to us. if they were humane, they would come and apologize, but they did nothing and we do not expect them to a simpler, murphy, tom, the invasion of iraq is led to the destruction and fragmentation of a rocky society. americans destroyed on national unity. we all saw the crimes perpetrated by the u. s. troops and the black board to contract as against the people. the murder of zine ab is a continuation of the american crimes. they did not come to do justice to iraqi people, but to demolish us. we will continue our special coverage of the iraq war and it's tragic legacy throughout the month. you can always visit our website at

r t dot com. to get more details on the u. s. invasions grim anniversary. ah ah, o. protest from the streets of iran on the name of women's rights. i'm scott out hughes. and on this episode, at $360.00 view, we're going to look at what is driving the protest and what effect outside countries are having. let's get started. ah.