it is a ah, iranian president, abraham or i, you see arrives in beijing for his 1st ever state visit to china. it comes as beijing and parents seek to expand their economic cooperation despite growing pressure from the west. and as ukraine shells, cities and don bass using nato supplied weapons, the block secretary general urges the alliance for ramp up production. plus today, march 20, here is 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. one war reporter shares her memories of the events. part of my job was to control the media narrative,

help control the media narrative. those to me out of your rod need completely destabilized its political system so that we could control it with good afternoon for mark international in moscow to wherever you may be. and welcome to the hour's top stories from across the globe. i'm fiorella is about the iranian president's 1st sever state visit to china, kicks 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 into strong western pressure, praising their bilateral relations prior to the visit. the said in the elevator jose, our bilateral relations with china are in various fields, including economics, especially energy, financial and monetary affairs. we will sign 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. the afternoon, as i said, you mean to with your elijah in recent years under the guidance of president, she and president tracy chinese. iran in relations have maintained the momentum of sound growth. they feature strong political, mutual trust, steady progress and practical cooperation and various filled and sound communication and coordination in international and regional affairs. in defense of the principle of non interference in internal affairs and a common interest in developing conscious this visit is the 1st by an iranian leader in 20 years, china's foreign ministry spokeswoman said raised his trip comes at zis invitation. as the 2 countries seek to strengthen economic cooperation amid sanctions pressure from western countries, the leaders met for the 1st time last september at a summit of the shanghai cooperation organization were raised. they 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. hallie has the details. ross president to 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 cooperation documents aimed and deepening. the trade ties between the 2 states where everyone bracey has got a lot on his plate. he has a lot to do on his itinerary. but all of those activities and class boiled down to one single goal. and that is to expand economic and political ties between to iran 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 a 2 sides and russia as well are forming a united front, a counter force to the west, and on top of them to the united states, ha 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 and 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 dollars 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 when 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, norway, but up while ukraine uses nato supplied weapons to sheldon bass. the alliance is secretary general says the block needs to ramp up production as kev burns through western stock piles. the war in ukraine is consuming an enormous

amount of ammunition and the plead thing allowed stock parts. the current rate of ukraine, some initial expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production. this puts our, the fence, is this under strain? it hasn't changed. natal it us just demonstrated the importance only. ah, on the how important it has been that the anxious since 2014 nato hassan implemented the biggest reinforcements or collected defense in the generation, recalls the war didn't start in february last year. it started in 2014 jen salton berg also announced the development of a new satellite network to help exchange data last week. officials in care of admitted they were alive directly on us intelligence when picking targets for american supplied artillery systems. human rights attorney martin dole sir told us

nato is pursuing its own interests in the conflicts. so if you look at that, clearly we can see that the wall really started and that time went on. yes. and you guys have to post that they don't want the interference of the coup government of the my don't cool. and that they want to deborah law as some kind of come to similar inside or to create a government which was not wanted to move quickly. and since that time, the inside of nature, of course, different interests. but all wanted the interference of the impact on your crane by nature and by their own interests that use such kill interests against russia and to get ukraine into their own sphere of influence. they wanted to bring that follow ups that already in the q q. there was a militant forces,

especially forces safe or provided with weapons by the u. s. and by the other natal states. so we can think that from that point on the late summer was that conflict. exaggerated false and misleading. that's how it goes. scientists have summed up the real results of 24 companies moving toward that 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 90. 5 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 a german car maker, volkswagen french grocery retailer, cal fool aims to be carbon neutral by 2040 so 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 the you hold them accountable. if they fall short. by the way, if they don't make it, they might just be your fault. nestle tweeted 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 what happened 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 that it 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 tonight. i'm busy removing carbon from the atmosphere and you know, who can possibly argue with that. so there's a lot of 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 took celebrate the energy transition. and number 2,

the transition needs to be orderly needs to be orderly because if it's not supply and demands, 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 come back. but the trend in europe, amid the ongoing energy crisis has been reversion to call germany austria, france, the netherlands, italy all have fire, whole plants back up. it's only cool. could 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 than 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 tests. it's just a good thing that all that hot air being spewed by dodgy, green marketing, doesn't have a carbon footprint and a price tag. well,

at least it doesn't yet. researchers are sounding the alarm over a lack of financing for renewable energy in africa, despite persistent calls to jump on the green energy bandwagon. such projects only received 3 per cent of global investments into renewables. even in other regions of the world where energy access is still a challenge, like in the south east asia, we don't see funding gaps of this magnitude. why africa this comes as the continent still struggles to provide its people with energy supplies, 600000000 africans, more than 40 percent of the continents population live access to electricity, while almost a 1000000000 cannot use clean cooking fuels. but as a continent faces fuel shortages and a lack of investment into energy generation, the e, you views the situation as a way to boost its own energy transition. africa is probably going to be the

most important partner for europe in terms of developing the renewable energy sector. the european union will need more green hydrogen than we can produce ourselves. so we're looking for countries where green hydrogen can be produced. ah, today marks the 20th anniversary of the un security council meeting when the head of the united nations is monitoring mission at the time said that there were no traces of weapons of mass destruction in iraq. however, this didn't stop the u. s. which used the presence of w m. d, 's as a pretext 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 its people. and to defend the world from great. he

dreams, food, and sleep. with since the us led invasion of iraq over 1000000 people have been killed with more than 9 mailing, iraq is 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 us officials were not the only ones justifying the invasion.

western media actively follow their lead, closely observing as supporting the us bombing of baghdad and on the ground. american reporters also worked around the facts, justifying the us led invasion. one more 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 that 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. you probably don't like you and don't care about you. and, and, you know, being trained to help people who are much more like you than it,

than the people who are telling you to, you know, do that. and then there's the individual traumas of you, seeing 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 narrative, 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 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 wine folded. zip tide, just neely on the ground and, and the other is no, she was identities were not given. and it was, it just seemed to me like it was just, it was a lot of random people to me. her, we, it is hain them anyway. so the story had to write was, you know, that this mission had been largely successful and we had detain 90 insurgence. ah,

i see, it is a tragedy on every level. and i see it is senseless loss of life. you know, the achievements are all very dark and negative and terrible, nothing having to do with and he was liberation and we destroyed the infrastructure in iraq. we destroyed you basically chased the entire professional class out of iraq. we completely disable i us. it's political system. so that we could control it. so, you know, we essentially privatized iraq. enjoy dameon a story as just the tip of the iceberg. given that most western outlets at the time churned out, war cheering, slogans, artes donald quarter. dig deeper into how the war coverage loved 20 years ago. what we have seen on televisions though, is indeed the 1st phase of a day. the campaign calls shock and awe by the u. s. military,

detecting wave cruise missiles followed by the f 117 still farmer, with so called bunker russian golf americas 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 and 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 and associated commerce. so rapidly as to achieve a level of national shock. i came to the effect that drop in 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 non existent 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 warned 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 lives 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, her 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 is 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 here. she was a student. she was helping me with my work. like any child she dreamed about finishing school and becoming a teacher. 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 the need would be killed. maybe it could have happened to my brother or any other family member or neighbors, but not as anita one that she used to get out of a 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 is led to casualties. ah, lot of 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 marches. i not bizarre 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, childrens ride organizations and women's rights. ah

. one of my son. okay. i miss all father was murdered in 2003 by us 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, they shot him. later they admitted they made a mistake when they killed him. only when we were 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 are taken to encounter last of all. know the iraqi blood is worthless for them. 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 be simpler. muckraker on 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 blackwater contract is against the people. the murder of zainab 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 rough war and its tragic legacy throughout the month. you can always visit our website, rti, dot com, to get more on the u. s. invasions graham anniversary. ah ah.

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