the news the iranian president he brought him reiki, arrived in beijing for his 1st ever state visit to china. it comes as basing and expand their economic cooperation despite growing pressure from the west and as ukraine, it shows the cities in john bass using natal supplied weapons. the block secretary general urges the alliance to ramp up production plus today, march 20 years since the un report on the absence of weapons of mass destruction in iraq, which was insufficient to stop us from starting the work actively justified by western media. one more report shows her memories of the events. part of my job was to sort of control the media narrative, help control the media narrative coming out of your completely stabilized

political system so that we can control the broadcasting live from our studios in moscow. this is our international, sean thomas, and certainly glad to have you with us. now, the iranian presidents, 1st, every state visit to china, kicks off on tuesday with a large delegation of senior cabinet members accompanying him during his 3 day trip . it comes as both countries refused to give in to strong western pressure, praising their bilateral relations prior to the visit. stating 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 that these relations should be followed strategically in

a bilateral fashion. to meet with your holiday 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 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, it is the 1st by an iranian leader in 20 years, china's foreign ministry spokeswoman said, raphael trip comes as she's invitation. as the 2 countries seek to strengthen economic cooperation amid sanctions pressure from the western countries. the leaders met for the 1st time last september, the summit of the shanghai corporation organization where racy called for expanded ties and delegations from the states are also expected to hold talks on the several bilateral agreements which will increase trade relations or tea contributor use of

jelly has details, was president of brian bracy is in china upon an invitation by his chinese counterpart using ping is therefore a 3 day visit. but 2 sides are also expected to sign cooperation documents a that deepening the trade ties between the 2 states ever. i embrace, he has got a lot on his plate, he has a lot to do on his itinerary, but all of those activities and plans boiled down to one single goal. and that is to expand economic and political ties between to run and beijing. of course, it goes beyond saying that chucking is it was major and number one, trade partner, it is a major buyer, other ones, oil. and now the 2 sides are going to take another step for work to increase and expand their bilateral tires. it seems that the 2 sides and russia as well are

forming a united front capital 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 in their trade. so it's a very key step now, every time races with a china and we have to wait and see what will come out of that visit. but there's one symbol message and major message to the united states and west that it want to china are going to engage more on different france from military to politics and now economy. the 2 sides traded more than $24000000000.00 in the past year. 5 people were injured by ukrainian shelling in the done yet 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 conflict. the issue though, oh, loosened 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 ukrainian regime plain as any service, unless 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 and all that. but while ukraine uses nato supplied weapons to shell, don bass, the alliances secretary general says the block needs to ramp up production. as keith 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, simon nation expenditure is many times higher than our current rate or production. this puts our defense interest is under the strain. it has not changed maple it us

just demonstrated the import missile, ne, ah, on the, how important it has been that the axis since 2014 nato has sun implemented the biggest reinforcements or collected defense in the generation of recalls. the war didn't start in february last, it started in 2014 young stilton berg, also announced the development of a new satellite network to help exchange data. last week, officials and cave admitted they relied directly on us intelligence when picking targets for americans supplied artillery systems. human rights attorney, martin dozer told us nato is pursuing its own interests in the conflict. so if you look at that, clearly we can see that the war really started in that time. when that on yes and look at the public, they're both clear that they don't want the interference of the government off the

my don't cool and that they want to look at some kind of come from those similar inside you create that not government which was not or to democrats. and since that time, we're inside automation will cost different interests. but all of all, to the interference and the impact on ukraine, by nato, and by their own interests, you stretch 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 the militant forces, especially for the 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 natal, some was that conflict, exaggerated false and misleading. that's how eco scientists have summed up the real

results of 24 companies. moving towards 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 fool 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. 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 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 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 a comeback. 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 can be considered green to right. well,

australia claimed that it was entirely possible. it had been peddling so called clean coal on the global market and selling it at a higher cost, claiming that it's clean burning would mean lower carbon offset cost 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 tests. it's just a good thing that all that hot air being sued 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 lack of financing for renewable energy in africa, despite persistent calls to jump on the green energy bandwagon. such projects only received 3 percent of global investments into renewables. even another regions of the world where energy access is still a challenge, like in the southeast 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 light access to electricity, while almost a 1000000000 cannot use clean cooking fuels. but as the continent faces fuel shortages and a lack of investment into energy generation, that you've used 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. i think if you look at each country from the perspective of his own development and taking into account the interest situation, it will assist conscious develop like for africa,

i guess a lot of investment costs in industrialization. but in general, it's minerals and oil and gas. i guess the most in terms of investments, there are many cases where african countries have got more minerals which are fired in inputs into the new technologies of the future. i mean like better, we live down and so forth. so they use the risk that most of the work could be extract the mineral which will assist the world in terms of building technology was and vision. but that may not benefit africa a to the expression of african resources for the benefit of the rest of the world, but not over to india. now, where tax officials have rated to be b. c. offices in the cities of new delhi and mon, by the raids tuesday morning, came as part of a tax evasion investigation. employees were reportedly asked to leave the office

and some of their phones were seized. the b b. c. has said this, cooperating with authorities this week after this is weeks after the news broadcasters, as a documentary critical of the country's current prime minister and his alleged role in the school jot out riots back in 2002, which claimed the lives of nearly a 1000 residents of a refugee camp near jerusalem have reportedly gone on strike after israeli, forced to rated the area of falling a deadly stabbing attack on a police officer earlier on monday and a separate incident. palestinian man was killed and excuse me. we're having some technical difficulties here. murray, phenomena as detail. earlier on monday, a young israeli border 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. 's 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 reports by rarely police say that as 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 they attacked. he was arrested on the spot. he's a 13 year old boy, the resident of the show for refugee camp. shortly after that israeli forces re that the camp. and as a result to the attack, his parents and his brothers were arrested clashes broke out between the 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 3 since attack happened just hours after another incident. 20 young jewish man was stab and his back in the old t t o jerusalem by a teenager who was later also high down to fight. as the resident of the refugee

camp of shaw 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 power. senior affairs to watch, palestinians respond violently and angrily. the idea mail through age have been intensified all throughout the pot. westbank ag, especially in the northern part of it. according to latest reports, $48.00 palestinians have been killed in these raids 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 it's in jerusalem, the rock adult is from the other side to 10. israel civilians have been killed into terror attacks including here in jerusalem and had deadly shooting near the synagogue in one of their religious neighborhoods tend. 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 a gas stream. 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 a israel is determined to continue its harsh policy. and palestinians will obviously respond. dimitri juliani spokesman, person for photography before mr. democratic faction says, using the current tensions without international mediation could be hard. we are under a 1000 people under a pressure cooker that might explode at any moment anytime. nobody can control take control of it, not even the palestinian leadership that has proven to be insufficient and extremely unpopular among the 1000, the people. i think it takes a lot for an interview to happen. but what happened is going to be in a totally different shape because people are simply hopeless of achieving peace under the ever going to the right is wally street and israeli government. well,

we got to the point that the palestinian people need international protection. as the grim anniversary of the us invasion of iraq approaches the 20 year mark here on our team will will bring you 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 gray. with food and medicine. and sleep

with today marks the 20th anniversary of the un security council meeting when the head of the united nations monitoring mission at the time stated that there were no traces of weapons of mass destruction in iraq. however, this didn't stop us which used the false presence of w. m. d 's as a pretext for attacking the middle eastern country in 2003 back then the u. s. secretary of state flatly rejected the idea of peace regulation proposed by the french foreign minister in this temple of the united nations. we are the guardians of an ideal. the guardians have a conscience. the honor is responsibility and immense honor. we have must lead us to give priority to disarmament through peace. ah,

we are facing a difficult situation. more inspectors, sorry, not the answer. and top us officials were not the only ones justifying the invasion . western media actively followed their lead, closely observing and supporting the us bombing of baghdad and on the ground. the american reporters also worked around the facts. just find the us led invasion. one more journalist who was in the ranks of the us 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. ah, i went out with a viewed it though, is doing a night read. in a village where there were supposedly some high value targets t. my was with their knocked on knocked. they 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 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. 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 the other is know, these people's 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 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 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 of winning the what we were doing was terrorizing communities

the us was fully realized. it's dream of becoming the largest terrorist organization. i see it is a tragedy on every level. i see it is a sense of loss of life. you know, 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 basically chased the entire professional class out of iraq. we completely de stabilized political system so that we could control it. so we essentially privatized iraq and joy dummy uneasy stories, just the tip of the iceberg. given that most western outlets at the time turned out more chewing slogan or teased on quarter,

dig deeper into how the war coverage looked 20 years ago. what we have seen on televisions though, is indeed the 1st phase of a day. the a campaign called shock and awe by the u. s. military attacking wave cruise missiles followed by the f. 117 still farmer, with so called bunker russian golf. america's crusade to shock in iraq and the world into us dominated democracy, had begun. no cost was too high if it meant accomplishing the goal shut on 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 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 non existent weapons of mass destruction. my stories raising questions about the administration's claims over 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 unchallenged. 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 this 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. we will continue our special coverage of the iraq war and it's tragic legacy throughout the month. can always visit our website, r t dot com, to get more on the u. s. invasions grim anniversary.

ha. ah, 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 who's with we will bring to the iraqi people, food and medicines, and supplies, and freedom with

with some of the largest mining companies in africa, b. h t bulletin, anglo american extra, and barrick. these american australian and european own companies, so they pockets to the tune of an if the made for the $355000000000.00, you have dollars. they exploits africa and africans who laws the mineral resources. hello and welcome to this week. the african now show i'm paul is to you and in this week's episode, we explored the effects of western companies who made greed to make a big back in africa, leave behind more than just a mining company for decades. foreign companies have done got oil, gas,

gold prices, monroe than various other resources from africa that have left them with big profit . but with little bit to the local, what's more, they've left behind, environmental health and social problems that cripple generations to come. i'm in a band and mine done in the city of johannesburg, which is home to thousands of people. they live under a cloud of radio active dust, the result of an australian company, mental decades long operations. me a di. although the mind is now closed for years, environmental had sounded the alarm resident know too well, these health hazards. they face a mother his date course on this page. he gauge in 2000 and save it to us that he knows with t b also. then they told him that that does.