but again, you probably don't want to watch it because it might just change the way you think . a, an official meeting between the iranian and chinese leaders gets underway in beijing as the nations seek to expand economic cooperation. despite growing pressure from the west. and is ukraine shells? cities in the dumbass using nato supplied weapons the blocks. the secretary general urges the alliance to ramp up the 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 war actively justified by western media. one war reporter shares her memories of the event. part of my job was to sort of control the media narrative, health control, the media narrative that was coming out of iraq. we completely stabilized its

political system so that we can control it with broadcasting lab to read from studios in moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us in our chinese leader. she's in ping has welcomed iranian president ibrahim, racy, as he makes his 1st ever state visit to china with a large delegation of senior cabinet members accompanying him during his 3 day trip . now this comes as both countries refuse to give in to strong western pressure. praising their bilateral relations prior to the visit, shedding and elevator 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. and i mean with your whole,

i think in recent years under the guidance of president, she and president tracy chinese around in relations have maintained the momentum of sound growth. the feature strong political mutual trust, steady progress and practical corporation 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. the talks between the 2 leaders are currently in process, and this visit is the 1st by an iranian leader in 20 years. china's foreign ministry spokeswoman said that races trip comes that she's 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 where racy called for expanded ties. and delegations from the states are also expected to hold talks on these several bilateral agreements which will increase trade relations. r t contributor

use of july has details. last president o'brien 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 and 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 iran's oil, and now the 2 sides are going to take another step forward to increase and expand their bi lateral ties. it seems that

a 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 what we have to wait and see what will come out of that visit. but there is one symbol 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 $24000000000.00 and the past tier 5 people were injured by ukrainian shelling in the daniel republic on monday.

that's according to local authorities and civilians in the region can 20 excuse me, continue to live under constant threat. they shared their views of the ongoing conflict. yes, it though though it loosen up right. 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 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. know it, but up while ukraine uses native supplied weapons to shell, the 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, stockpiles the current rate of ukraine. some initial expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production. this puts our defense

interest is under the strain. it has not changed natal it us just demonstrated the importance only ah, on the how important it has been that the actually since 2014 nato has son implemented the biggest reinforcements all collected the fence in the generation recalls the war didn't start in february lawston. it's thought that in 2014 young fulton berg also announced the development of a new satellite network to help exchange data. last week, officials and keith admitted they relied directly on us intelligence when picking targets for american supplied artillery systems. human rights attorney martin daughter told us nato is pursuing its own interests in the conflict. so if you look at that, clearly we can see that the wall really started in that time. when the on yes and look at the public, the post clear that they don't want the interference of the qu,

government of the might on cool. and that they want to deborah lot has some kind of come from those similar inside. creat another government, which was not all to democrats. and since that time were inside off major cars, different interests, but all of all 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 forward and already in the queue in the queue. that was militant for this, especially for faith or provided with weapons by the us and by the nature of a naval states. so we can think that from this point on the nature of some was that conflict. exaggerated false and misleading. that's how

eco scientists have summed up the real results of $24.00 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. 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 a german car maker, volkswagen french grocery retailer cow, 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, nestle 3, the 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 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 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, 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, claiming that it's clean burning would mean lower carbon offset cost for its buyers . turns out their 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 a 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 likened to southeast asia. we don't see funding gaps of this magnitude . why africa? this comes as the continent still struggles to provide as people with energy supplies, 600000000 africans, more than 40 percent of the continents population lack access to electricity, while almost 1000000000 cannot use clean cooking fuels. but as the continent faces fuel shortages and a lack of investment into energy generation, the you views of 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 for his own development and take into

account the energy situation, it will assist conscious discipline for africa. i guess a lot of investment costs in industrialization. but in general, it's minerals and oil and gas for just the most in terms of invest, in many cases where the african countries have got more minerals, we started finding in inputs into the new technologies of the future. i mean like betsy lee and so forth. so they used the risk that the 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 do 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 of offices in the cities of new delhi and from 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 receive the b, b, c. you have said it is cooperating with authorities this week after the news cast broadcaster air, the documentary critical of the country's current prime minister and it's the legit role in the good job at 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 israelis forces rated the area following a deadly stabbing attack on a police officer earlier on monday. in a separate incident, a palestinian man was killed and several people were injured in israeli raids in the north of the west bank, middle east correspondent, or if an ocean who is now in jerusalem takes a closer look at the surging tension between israel and palestine. 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. it'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 report spies. 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 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. the 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 high down to fight 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 power. senior affairs, to watch, palestinians respond violently and angrily. the f meals your age have been intensified all throughout your coupon westbank a especially in the northern part 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 policy 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 israeli civilians have been killed into terrorist tags, including here in east, in jerusalem,

and had deadly shooting near the synagogue in one of the religious neighborhoods. chand, 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. dmitri giuliani spokesperson for photons reformers to democratic faction says even the current tensions without international mediation could be hard. we are under as many 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 grown to be insufficient and extremely unpopular among the 1000, the people. i think it takes

a lot for an interview that can 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 israeli street and israeli government. while we got to the point that the palestinian people need international protection. as the grandma anniversary of the us invasion of iraq approaches the 20 year mark here on our tea, we 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. a .

with the medicine and fleeting. with to day march 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 did not stop the u. s. which used the false presence of w, m. d, 's as a pretext for attacking the middle eastern country in 2003. now 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 owner 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. 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. american reporters also worked around the facts justified 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.

and i didn't want to be a journalist anymore, 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 viewed it though is doing and night read in a village where there were supposedly some high value targets team. i was with did a knocked on, knocked being kicked in a few doors scares 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 why unfolded, zip tied to smeeley 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 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 lose of control and winning. but what we were doing was terrorizing communities the

the us was fully realized, its 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 basically chased the entire professional class out of iraq. we completely destabilized its political system so that we could control it. so we essentially privatized the rock and the joy dummy

nice story is just the tip of the iceberg. given that most western outlets at the time, turn out, war cheering, slogans, or cheese don quarter digs deeper into how the war coverage looked 20 years ago. but 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 detecting wave cruise missiles followed by the f. 117. so palmer with the so called bunker russian golf americas crusade to shock it all a rack and the world into u. s. 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 effect that job 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 nonexistent. weapons of mass destruction. my stories raising questions about the administration's claim, so the link between iraq and al qaeda were being cut, 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. there 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 or failed 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'll continue our

special coverage of the iraq war and it's a tragic legacy throughout the month. can always visit our website r t dot com to get more on the us and visions grim anniversary. ah ah, ah, ah

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the death of an iranian women in police custody has now had a ripple effect leading to more violence. threatening the crucial oil industry is barking protest across the globe, our international course martinez, solano, is here to tell us how it all started. study these all begun. when on the run in woman masa armine was arrested for improperly where he job just safe after being taken into custody. she died. her family says there were bruce, as all over her body suggests, and she had been beaten to death. however, police are claiming, i mean he died of a heart attack this led to under robson of protest throughout the country. workers for iran, oil and natural gas production began processing over.