a with norwegian police claim, a russia may sabotage its nation's energy infrastructure if relations with the west to deteriorate. just days after a prominent american journalist alleged that offload had a hand and blowing up the north stream pipeline indian tax authorities, rate b. b fee offices in new delhi and $1.00 by over allegations of tax evasion. that's according to r. t forces. iran and china find agreements to further expand bilateral cooperation at a meeting of both nations, leaders in beijing. plus today, march 20 years since the un report on the absence of weapons of mass destruction in iraq, which was insufficient to stop the us from starting the war actively justified by

western media. one more reporter shares. her memories of the events, part of my job was to sort of control the media narrative, help control the media narrative that was coming out of iraq. we completely stabilized its political system so that we could control it with broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. right now. tax officials in india have rated to be b. c. offices in the cities of new delhi and moon by the raids tuesday morning came as part of a tax evasion investigation. just weeks after the news broadcaster aired a documentary critical of the country's current prime minister and his alleged role in the good job riots back in 2002, which claimed the lives of nearly

a 1000. archie correspondent, the room during sharma brings us details from new delhi income tax. also should have landed in bbc offices in new delhi. and in mon, by i speak, they are conducting a so we're calling the 8th a. so in order to read or thought to the point, what we've been given to understand is that phones laptops, all several journalists have been seen. and y'all renew daily where i am right now around 11 am. taxman went inside the bdc also. they are to, there's, nobody is allowed to go out or even of, from the office, insisting that this comes almost a month off to a b b c documentary on 5 minutes from there in the movie. he's role in of the why lives in the community. right? and good job, 2002 was released by bbc london office. remember, it was banned in india. it was removed from several social media accounts as well.

now the, what the opposition is saying is the government is using agencies when data against cdc. i've bought off what we've been given to understand from our sources. and the income tax department is that this has been done allegedly, because of tax manipulation, financial misappropriation, and also that several notices were sent to be seen the false and that they have failed to respond to those now school season. so we are on currently as the talk in the new tele and in my office is in fact there is a statement that has been released by the bbc's saying that they conduct authorities are currently at b c. offices in new delhi mon bye. and we are fully cooperating. we hope to have a solution resolved as soon as possible. exaggerated false and misleading. that's how echo 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 themselves out to be the 24 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 a 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 the you hold them accountable. if they fall short. by the way, if they don't make it, they might just be your fault nicely to the last month that quote, the past to net 0 needs all of us. oh, in that case, if they don't make the target, maybe they're not to play. 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 and the ongoing energy crisis has been reversion to call germany austria, france. the netherlands, italy all have fire whole plants back up. if only cool can be considered green to.

right. well, australia claimed that it was entirely possible. it had been peddling so called clean cool on the global market and selling it at a higher cost, claiming that it's clean burning would mean lower carbon offset 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 hard air being spewed by dodgy, green marketing, doesn't have a carbon footprint. and a price tag. well, at least it doesn't yet. norwegian police claim. russia has plans to spy on its energy infrastructure this year. possibly even sabotage. it if relations with the west deteriorate in 2023,

russia will try to gather intelligence about most aspects of norway, soil, gas, and energy sector. polis security. a saddest. consider it unlikely that russia will carry out any act of sabotage and feagins territory in 2023. he ferocious willingness to escalate the conflict with nature and west, which increase, however, acts of sabotage against strategic targets. norway will become a more likely scenario in the current security policy situation. police security service can see this. they be truly inspect, set to be a particularly vulnerable target. russia has yet to comment on also those claims that comes days after prominent u. s. at journalist seymour hersh, alleged norway itself had her hand and blowing up the nord stream pipelines, according to his investigation, also helped us plan the operation as well as notify sweden and denmark, and that a norwegian plane dropped soon. our boys that communicated with the planted explosives as russian energy supply to europe decreased dramatically. norway is now

europe's largest gas supplier in 2022. the countries tax revenue from oil and gas increased at 3 times compared to previous years. also, sites its role in europe's energy security as the reason why russia may spy on it, nor waste former prime minister and the secretary general of nato, have pledged to increase infrastructure security thing. it's pipelines were seen to be vulnerable. allies will also start to discuss the new the fence investment pledge protection of critical infrastructure in particular and the infrastructure of for infrastructure. because we have seen that these and the c cables pipelines are wonderful. and it's important that we coordinate more our efforts to protect the critical infrastructure. amid the recent revelations, the media has been more focused on

u. f. o is being shot down over the us and canada. this led to a slew of means mocking the sightings as a distraction from the north stream sabotaged with a similar view point, being voiced by the former c i. a analyst and whistleblower. edward snowden. from on the let's go live to go back. who's a german politician lawyer and a member of the europe, paul and parliament for the alternative for germany party. thank you for being with us here on our t international. now, mr. beck, are you with us, sir? all right, we seem to be having some technical difficulties. yes, there we go. all right, so seem for a 2nd that we may have lost communications with you. let me ask seymour hersh, the journalist. he opened up on being pressed by german and us media to reveal his sources. what do you make of that, and why do you think the german media would be pressuring the american journalist into that?

all right, so we seem to be again having some technical difficulties with our connection with mr. beck there. we'll try and get them back for you at a later date. but now let's switch gears to a meeting between the iranian and chinese presidents in beijing. both leaders have signed agreements to further expand bilateral cooperation in various fields. the deals include areas such as crisis management, international trade, export, and many other key spheres. chinese leadership ping has welcomed iranian president ibrahim, racy, as he makes his 1st ever state visit to china. with a large delegation of senior candidate members accompanying him during his 3 day trip. this comes as both countries refused to give in 2 strong western pressure, praising their bilateral relations prior to the visit. here as c d t and correspondent you'd say show with more on the meeting pages for the rated 3 to

visit can further boost a comprehensive, strategic partnership between the 2 sites. so the 2 presidents also exchange very significant important topics on international issues to see that trying to support the right ends in protect the warranty and territorial integrity. and that any confrontation should be resolved through dialogue, negotiation rate. they also says both nations are against germany and unilateralism . it says the run is willing to strengthen communication with china on regional affairs as well as international chinese. the such a cooperation does not target any 3rd parties. and the relationship between a 2 is based on really multiple areas of common interest as well as the interest of the world. as the grim anniversary of the us invasion of iraq approaches the 20 year mark here on our key will bring you our special coverage of one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century. so far 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 pain. with the medicine and sleet 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 and iraq. however, this did not stop the west, 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 a peace regulation proposed by the french foreign minister in this temple of the united nations. we are the guardians of an ideal, the guardians of 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 actually follow their lead, closely observing and supporting the us bombing of baghdad. and on the ground.

american reporters worked around the facts, justifying the us led invasion. one war journalist who was in the ranks of the us army at the time, shared her memories with us. so 20052006. i went to iraq, 2072 thus made. by the time i got out, i just realized it was much different from how it was 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 do knocked on, knocked me kicked in a few doors scares people you know, did a lot of a lot of, you know, intimidating of people and entering of buildings. but i did not come back with anyone, but the other teams did. and so the next day night rates are in the morning, i went out to the place where they were detaining people. they had all the detainees, and they had him all lined up. and just why unfolded 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. but what we were doing was terrorizing communities the 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 said for the loss of life, you know, the achievements are all very dark and negative and terrible. nothing having

to do with any was liberation. we destroyed the infrastructure in iraq. we destroyed, you basically chased the entire professional class out of iraq. we completely stabilized its political system so that we could control it. so, you know, we essentially privatized iraq and joy, dummy nice story is just the tip of the iceberg. given that most western outlets at the time turned out more cheering, slogans. ortiz don quarter diggs, 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 campaign calls 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 and 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 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 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 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, washington seems to be targeting stable coins and is now taking aim at b. nance. u. s. d owner paxis. you are securities and exchange commission plans to sue the company over an alleged investor protection breach. as it considers the b u

. s. d, coin and unregistered security, or to contributor chris m discussed these table coins, weight in the financial system. and the reasons for the potential lawsuit with my colleague the care awards. exactly. are crypto stable coins and was their significance in the grand scheme of things? yeah, it's a really great question, nick, they are crypt occurrences the about one to one on a real stable world assets, currencies like the rubel, the euro, the us dollar, or even assets like gold. and essentially you can take these currencies and you can trade them. what you can even send them. so really the, the real world use case for the nikki is, let's say i want to actually send you money using crypto currency, but i don't want to be subject to the volatility them. i might have if i send you something like bitcoin, that is quite volatile, it goes up and down. i can send you for example, b u. s. d, in this case, which volume going to discuss, which is back to $1.00 to $1.00 on the dollar. so you're not going, we don't have to worry that if i send you, for example, $100.00,

when it arrives to you, it'll only be $90.00. okay, so you mentioned b u. s. day. what is the, the big height that a big deal about the u. s. d and the fact that apparently it won't be minted any longer. b u. s. d is a stable coin back to an u. s. dollars issued by, by nance, which is the largest crypto currency exchange in the world. now the se seem to have it out for violence. so what they've said is they went to violence, is custodian, which is the 3rd party that holds the dollars that back the b u. s. t. and that, that holds these dollars and said to them, look, stop mincing them. you're not allowed to any more because we suspect that b u. s. d is a security and therefore unregulated and we need to regulate it. but it's a suspicion, it's not a charge, but they still managed to effectively shut it down. and what do you think the u. s . government is so interest in controlling stable coins and the crypto currency market in general. well, i think you have to go back to the inception of crypto currency nicky. so most famous crypt currencies, arguably bitcoin. i think we've got a big,

big coin be probably on a screen behind the somewhere. so say bit could if you read the initial white paper that was written, which would explain what it's about. but so that means it was designed to really distance immediate and to create an alternative way of transacting outside of the centralized control. the governments have a financial system. and if we, if we take the government that really has the most in its kinds of control, the financial system is the government that controls the world's currency, the world reserve currency, which is us dollars, the us treasury. so i think they now they kind of woke up now and they've realized that as the currency performs becomes more adopted. we're seeing that now. i mean, i've been in this is 2015. if i'd have asked you what a big claim was in 2015, you'd have looked at me like i was absolutely mad. now a lot of people know what big coins are. a lot of people know what us the t b us, the stable coins are so happens. it's going to remove the level of power that they have. and that whole hedge of money that they have over controlling the financial system, including sanctions, right? at the end of the day, right now, there's nothing inhibiting me in russia,

sending money to my friend in the us using crypt currencies. specifically staple point, if i want to, they can't stop me, they can't track it and they can't control it. in israeli soldier has been jailed for 10 days after he assaulted a palestinian human rights activists during an interview with a journalist from the new yorker magazine i in by the journalists, cameraman, which shows the activists being grabbed and kicked to the ground in a statement. the israeli defense forces have claimed that the activists have been cursing at the israeli soldier which led to the physical altercation. the journalist, though, has disagreed with that narrative, saying the situation was, quote, the opposite. the idea of misrepresented what led to this? the soldier initiated the encounter. i'm ra, did not curse him,

only asked him to call his commander, nothing to justify the violent assault at fault. let's cross lived to the palestinian activist who was assaulted by the israeli soldier that you saw there in the visit video. he saw amro, thank you for being thus here on our to international. can you share with us what really happened that day and what was going to your mind? i was showing famous journalist the situation and he brought i was showing him the eighty's degree, gish and superstition about the close drawn close 3 days in a military facility violence. i was telling him about those are in the policy of evicting from their homes by making their life harder and harder and make it impossible for them to stay and remain in their home home. i was working on the symmetry on the graveyards, and the journalist was working on me 3 because i'm about a senior and i'm not allowed to walk in my own streets. and he brought because of

those about tied policies in the city. the soldier sold that. i'm showing international visitors, the city and the situation. he came to me and asked me to leave and not to talk to them. i really left and i tried to go and meet them in the meeting point. i found out that the soldier was trying to force generalists to delete the videos of what the fund clothes, please, or what we pull it up on time. i started filming too, and the soldier got angry because we were filming him and refused to leave the video. when i refused to delete the video, the soldier detained me. then he beat me up, hit me, caught me, brought them from me to the ground and kicked me again. i was left on 40 minutes without any medical treatment. i called the police and the police didn't come and they didn't care. no one came to me. is there any sisters back on me when i was

laying down the ground? shaky fuel cold and tumor tide? until now, i have been all over my body and i was more hurt when i saw the military lying about what had been on, on the spot, because i'm a human rights defender. my work is to expose is a, in a military tradition. and about a time but, and puts me, those are the leaders, they try to manipulate and they try to style of the boston invoices and they want not to explore that about tied regina and then you fascist government. now, you said it certainly is a harrowing experience. it's all caught on tape. now i have to ask the israeli soldier has been jailed for 10 days as a result of the incident. in your opinion, does the punishment fit the crime here? first of all, it's not true, it's not the from a old experience. it's not the case. it's not about the soldier, even it's about the military system, the bulk of the military leader. i want you to be listed on the team and

accountable part of saying that he's backing up the soldier. i want the army folk person who try to fall and manipulate the truth. it's about the system. it's about the whole system. i didn't be in jail. he will the military be playing games and digital games. it's not true. and i want the really commission to, to end. i want to get there like i want them to stop attacking other policy and women and show that i'm not real. it's not unique incident, many other incidental or the theme that policy and they suffer from the paternity of. there's a police and there's a army. we've been live as a 2nd class citizen in our own country. we are not equal according to the law, with a lot of living in our own land. we are under the military lower duty. we don't, we're not allowed to do any kind of simply pull up where we are status, we don't have any life. so this is what we want that i want is to be accountable

according to the international.