is considered to be one of the grimmest pages in the history of mankind. with iranian president ibrahim right the arrives in beijing for his 1st ever state visits at china. it comes as beijing and her odds speak to expand their economic cooperation despite growing pressure from the west. and as you brain show, cities and don bass using nato supplied weapons, the block secretary general urgency alliance 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 u. s. 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 coming out of iraq. we completely stabilized its political system so that we can control it with good afternoon from our tutor, national in moscow to wherever you may be. and welcome to the hour's top stories from across the globe. i'm corolla, isabel, the iranian president's 1st, every 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 steady and all of it that 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 you in recent years under the guidance of president, she and president tracy chinese ran and relations have maintained the momentum of sound growth. they feature strong political, mutual trust, steady progress and practical cooperation in various fields 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 the 1st by an iranian leader in 20 years. china's foreign ministry spokeswoman said right, right comes that is these invitation. as the 2 countries seek to strengthen economic cooperation, a bit sanctions pressure from western countries, the leaders met for the 1st time last september at a summit of the shanghai cooperation organization, or rice,

he 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. ollie has the details last president to brian bracey is in china. upon an invitation by his chinese counterpart, gigi and ping is therefore a 3 day visit, but 2 sides are also expected to sign co operation documents aimed at deepening the trade ties between the 2 states. o'brien 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 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 or wants oil. and now the 2 sides are going to take another step forward to increase and expand their bi lateral 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, 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 iran 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 $24000000000.00 and the past year. ah, 5 people were injured by ukrainian showing in the don yet to republic 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. he should though who are losing a but 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 ukrainian regime blame as on his ivy. some us, we are fighting a war for independence of russia and the russian world. i'm sure we will prevail and have a new victory day and victory parade, norway. but 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 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. it has not changed maple it's us just demonstrated the import missile mental ah, on the how important it has be in the actually since 2014 make to hassan implemented the biggest reinforcements or collected the funds in the generation recalls the war didn't start in february last year it started in 2014 john sultan burg also announced the development of a new satellite network to help exchange data last week, officials in care of admitted they were like directly on us intelligence when picking targets for american supplied artillery systems. human rights attorney,

martin dozer told us nato is pursuing its own interests in the conflicts. so if you look at that, clearly we can see that the war really started in that time. when there's on yes and look at the 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 insight, create but not on the government, which was not wanted to move. and since that time were inside off nature will cause different interests. but all of all, to the interference and the impact on ukraine by nato, and by their own interests you, etc, 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 the militant forces, especially which 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 was that conflict. exaggerated false and misleading. that's how it goes. scientists have summed up the real results of 24 companies, moving toward ned 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. net 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 the 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 that 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 path 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 portrayal. now nestle, 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 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 of 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 and developed. and not only is oil and gas making come back, 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 could be considered green to . right. well, i'll show you claimed that it was entirely possible. it had been peddling so called clean coal on the global market and selling it at a higher, claiming that it's clean burning would mean lower carbon offset cost 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. residents of a refugee camp near jerusalem have reportedly got on strike after israeli forces rated the area following a deadly stabbing attack on a police officer. earlier on monday. in a supper incident, a palestinian man was killed and several people were injured in israeli raids in the north of the west bank. ortiz, middle east correspondent maria phenomena who's now in jerusalem. takes a closer look at the surging tensions between israel and palestine. earlier on one day, a young israeli board, a police officer, died following a stab an attack at the checkpoint to show fod refugee camp. just 5 kilometers from jerusalem's. old c t happened when he got on a bus for security check, and apparently one of the passengers pulled out the knife and attacked him investigation is currently undergoing. but preliminary port spies,

rarely police say that a security guard who saw this attack tried to stop the attack and opened fire, but the bullet ended up killing the officer. he died later from injuries the attack was arrested on the spot. he's a 13 year old boy, the resident of the shore fod refugee camp. shortly after that there's really forces ray that the camp and as a result to the attack, his parents and his brothers were arrested clashes broke out between local residents and these rally police. during this raid, no casualties have been reported. the country's national security minister bennet varies now considering to shut down all entrances and exits to the sharp eyed refugee camp for several days for security reasons. they recent attack happened just hours after another incident. 20 young jewish man was stab and his back in the old c t o jerusalem by a teenager who was later also. hi dennis, fine. as the resident of the refugee camp of shore fought, it has been quite turbulent here on the ground lately. and some explained by

a very hard line that the country's new government chooses regarding palestinian fairies to watch, palestinians respond violently and angrily. the meals your age have been intensified all throughout your pot. westbank ag, especially in the northern parts of it. according to latest reports, $48.00 palestinians have been killed in these rates since the beginning of this year, including civilians, the demolitions all the policies in houses that israel sees as illegal have also been in full swing. include in east in jerusalem, the rock adult is from the other side to 10 israeli civilians have been killed into terrorist tags, including here in jerusalem and had deadly shooting near the synagogue in one of the religious neighborhoods and remnants of interest last week that took the lives of 3 people including 2 children. and also recently there have been had rocket exchange with the gaza strip. so yes, i have to say the temperatures are rising here on the ground recently and fears out

that we're going to see even more dramatic escalation as israel is determined to continue its harsh policy. and palestinians will obviously respond. why now to demetrius de leon the spokes person for photography, reformist democratic faction, welcome. we're seeing another rise intentions between israel and palestine. what in your view are the reasons behind the latest escalations? actually the reasons behind the latest escalation is what your report has missed precisely which is the 48 palestinian people, including 10 children and elderly women that were killed assassinated by israeli soldiers. since the beginning of this year. it's about the 45 ohms that were demolished by the orders of the minister of israeli security

at a mar big beer, who has previously been convicted of supporting terrorism in the state of israel. and it's, it misses out the daily aggravation and insults to our religious sites, to our persons, the threats that our kids based under military occupation. this is what causes the escalation. and unfortunately that's what you report as nist totally. it spoke about the israeli pony. you spoke about less than 10 is right there were killed actually in mentioned something about killing new or synagogue. i live in that neighborhood. there's a park, there's a huge bus stop before you get that, isn't god. i mean, the, the, the, the shooting took place closer to the park and closer to the bus stop than it is to the synagogue. and you reported chose to mention in the synagogue as if there is any kind of religious background to where that that person that did. that fact is

grandfather was brutally murdered by in israel. you buying is really terrorist. his name is hi employment. and the current minister of security was, is lawyer back then is a serial killer. it is that killed over 10000 years to slash. and one of them was the grandfather of the kid that did it back on the, at near the bus stop. and the park where you are, are, are reporter chose to mention the synagogue. so in other words, this rarely, military occupation is constant is to geisha it's content infringement on our national, religious and human rights is the main and only cause to any escalation, once, occupation. and according to you on resolutions, according to the agreement agreed upon in 19, in the ninety's,

early ninety's. all this escalation were, died out and peace will prevail. but as long as there are people passes racist as a benjamin netanyahu, i've been, we're a small trish and other ah zines that rule the said israel yet no peace will be reached, occupation will continue to commit crimes. and we will continue to resist we as palestinian people, we are different diversified people. some of us are protest and was this through a peaceful protest through non peaceful protests through our military actions, who are art, through poetry, through articles. so, and especially at the time where there is a political vacuum, each one of us a single person in the past in new people feel the duty to react in his are on our way that they see fit, undeniable violations of human rights. aside,

what does the current situation mean for the netanyahu cabinet? in your opinion, has he changed his policy at all towards addressing the conflict or what his government has done, or is it more of the same? it's more the same benjamin that the now is a right way zealous. i have to log out the only difference between him and then career and support is that and then you know, is eloquent and diplomatic in we're presenting himself while on the ground is committing just as harsh criminal terrorist actions as being via expresses boldly with no filter and this is the difference between them, but that deep down inside it's the same military occupation that has been violating our rights as palestinian since the establishment of their israel. and continues to do that. and with the drift of the israeli street more towards the extremist

religious. right? we are being faced by people that are governed by it because some scripts were in around 4000 years ago, which is totally the same model as other states, such as have gone to sams another against another. but the only difference is that is will look smaller, while the other was ones look backwards. dimitra daily on the spokesperson of a test performance democratic faction. thank you very much. thank you. ah. as the grim anniversary of the u. s. invasion of a rat approaches the 20 year mark here r t will bring 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 rooms with food and sleep. with today 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 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, back then french foreign minister called for the use of international inspectors. not violence in iraq. an idea flatly rejected by the u. s. secretary of state, in unanimously adopting resolution 1441. we collectively expressed our agreement with the to stage approach proposed by france disarmament through inspections. we are facing a difficult situation. more inspectors. sorry, not the answer. top us officials were not the only ones just the find. the invasion, western media actively follow their lead, closely observing and supporting the us bombing of baghdad and on the ground. american reporters also worked around the facts, justifying 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 that it was much different from how it had been painted. and i didn't want to be a journalist, any more, per se, part of my job was to sort of control the media narrative, help control the media narrative, those coming out of iraq. 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 their knocked on knocked. you kicked in a few doors scared people there, 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. they had all the detainees, and they had him all lined up. i'm just wind folded. zip tide, just neely on the ground and, and the other is know, these people's identities were not given. it was, it just seemed to me like it was just, it was a lot of random people to me or when we detain them anyway. so the story had to write was, you know, that this mission had been largely successful and we had detain 90 insurgence. i always kind of go back to that as like all we were ever really trying to do is provide the illusion of control and winning and but what we were doing was

terrorizing communities i think the us has fully realized it's dream of, you know, becoming the largest terrorist organization, 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 are completely disable i as it's

political system so that we could control it. so, you know, we essentially privatized iraq. we all continue our special coverage of the iraq war and it's tragic legacy throughout the month. you can always visit our website, arc t dot com, to get more on the u. s. invasions rim anniversary. ah ah, with

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on, often very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk with me. hello, welcome to wealth apart. once consider the world's most divisive, these railey palestinian conflicts have long been overshadowed by many other hot

wars, but it still continues influencing jo, politics in barely perceptible. yes. fundamental waste is a fair resolution even possible at this point. and can these really palestinian stalemate or for any card one inside with a war and ukraine. want to discuss that analogy joint from long done by daniel lee, b, a former israeli peace negotiator and president of the us middle east project. it's, it would be great to talk to thank you very much for your time. thank you. ok, sounds good to be with you. now let me start with that and use the subject that is israel's old new prime minister. benjamin netanyahu are expressing his willingness and readiness to mediate to conflict in the ukraine. if both sides agree to that. um, do you think israel or this is really government in particular, have a solid piece making credentials or potential for that matter,

but it's an interesting way of approaching the question. ok, i don't think it's prime minister not on yahoo's credentials as a peacemaker. of the word possibly stand him in good stead to play a role in the ukraine crisis. he prime minister, not in yet may well disagree with me and say, look, i've done amazing things between israel and certain gulf and the arab states with the so called abraham records. but these were very much stitched together by the united states. and the given that the parties involved will not actually in any conflict situation, i don't think this really falls into the realm of peace making. so i don't think it's not in ya who's credentials as a peacemaker. of open the possibility of him to have a rose in this crisis. what may open that possibility and i'd be very cautious in suggesting he has a role.