person, because you want to change the behavior of the government because cruise them was that hasn't happened a sanction. second function with american slum joe biden, for prioritizing weapon shipments to ukraine. other tackling problems on the home front, washington's accused or failing to deal with a string of toxic chemical accidents across the country. i honestly feel like the policy and the police department, the fire department, all the 1st responders. they don't have the answers to give us because i don't think they know they're not getting the street answers either. mosca recovers 101 russian prisoners of war from ukrainian captivity. as the country's defense ministry reports, they were in great danger. also with

the po for myself, it was a ortiz speaks with a former namibian minister who support for law to make germany pay reparations for its colonial era genocide. ah, as very welcome to view your watching all t international with the latest world news updates good to have you with us. on top story this out in the united states, they train it carrying hazardous materials as derailed in michigan just as ours off to a different chemical emergency response. in florida, a 5 there in gulf, the plastics, warehouse or thing near by nursery workers to evacuate with all righty, say, a propane tank cause the blazing in an area where thousands of plastic poults were

cats. dozens of fire fighters have been deployed to tackle the flames. no casualties or injuries have been reported as the 5th major industrial related emergency in the us. this month. about 2 weeks ago, a train carrying chocolate chemicals, the rail, a higher the environmental emergency spot to mass outreach online with some suggesting motion. things should be focusing moment is domestic problems rather than helping ukraine. i don't want to see ukraine flags in ohio anymore. the government gave ukraine money for weapons instead of using it to fix or train tracks and trains. now we have one of the worst disasters in the history of our country. reporter on the ground in east palestine says the entire town smells like chemicals. instead of sending the next 1000000000 to ukraine, we should send it to ohio. it's been nearly 2 weeks, and mayor pete has yet to go to east palestine, ohio. perhaps they should consider changing the name of their town to ukraine if they want the biden regime to pay better attention. train derailment in ohio while

another $10000000000.00 goes to military contractors for ukraine. money laundering . others, though, have chosen to express their disdain with a bit of humor, post the names, smoking, how the government has dealt with the crisis. well, the trained realm and catastrophe in ohio has released a large amount of full gene into the soil and compound previously used in chemical warfare. just 5 days after the incidental officials decided to set the toxic chemicals on fire with the state governor saying it was safe for residence to return to their homes. are locals are still trying to get answers about what was happening and find out how badly their health may have been compromised. i got hopeful that i was going to get it, but i feel like i need it. it was just a big run around. i feel like a lot of the questions that were asked were people's rantings. and just speaking in

circles, the answers that were given were things that we've already been told we all just want answers. i think that's what everybody here wants is just answers. i honestly feel that the policy in the police department, the fire department, all the 1st responders, they don't have the answers to give us because i don't think they know they're not getting the street answers either. jeff or young candidate for governor of pen psyche. say it's washington's arm supplies actually hom ukrainians by extending the western proxy war against russia. we are harming ukraine through actually waging a proxy war against russia using ukraine as the battlefield. i was shocked to hear the local officials saying it's safe to go home. if i had been a resident and i had gotten out of there, i would not be returning home. it all derives from corporate profits,

short term projects being put ahead of safety procedures and reliable procedures that would, that would have prevented this. in other developments most go say 101 russian military prisoners have returned from ukrainian captivity. and the latest we'll deal with kids was just defense ministry said that service men had faith, mortal danger, and 70 ukraine. go back the exact same number of its people. there were least russian soldiers and now being taken from moscow, whether with the medical and psychological evaluation under the necessary treatments. it's the 2nd such prisoners what this month. the previous one was mediated by the united arab emirates. meanwhile, officials in russia's crimea, a local defense systems have shut down to ukrainian drones over the sea,

close to the port city of 7 stucco, but being no information on any damage or casualties. it comes with ukrainian authorities, they have confirmed multiple as strikes that hit several of the countries regions, at least one attack on energy infrastructure facility took place in the western city of levels. meanwhile, a video is paid online, allegedly showing schools of dead ukrainian soldiers being prepared to be sent back to the crate. inside. a warning for you, the following images are disturbing. as you can see, the soldiers lying and wooden coffins filling the building. there's no information on where when this video was recorded. however, it comes as the situation for the ukrainian army continues to deteriorate. the city of buck, multiple poll, se ukrainian forces preparing to retreat from the region as fighters from the russian volcanic rapids lands in the area. the head of lock and the you can for goes in say the city could be surrounded in the coming months.

the namibian genocide, descendants are calling on germany to pay reparations for the crimes berlin. committed in the country do and gets colonial era. african say, an agreement previously reached between the 2 nations is not legally sounds according to a new law suits the namibian government had no right to accept the deal which offers no direct compensation to the descendants of the victims. berlin, however, said it has already taken accountability for its history and admits to the horrific events. in 2021. germany pledge to invest and develop the country, which would be paid on a voluntary basis. the sum the may be in local se that's simply not enough. ah.

a former namibian deputy minister of lands told us that germany's atrocities on african soil must not be for golden and berlin. it must be legal accountability by providing direct compensation. jeremy's, this sales udall dead. now. he's giving military 82325, russia. germany must constantly be reminded of the atrocities that the desk commented on the african slate. and specifically, did a full form. a soft was african home review. and that must take the legal

responsibility into it and recognize and compensate. a community's dec must very clear. gemini, must constantly reminded of a speed test. the government will enfold as the sentence, i believe it was never really so in us us to to, to, to pipe and demand from the gym. gracious hundreds of serbians have rallied in bel grades to express their outrage over recent clashes, targeting ethnic serbs in kosovo as comes on the eve of the 15th anniversary of christina's declaration of independence. from belgrade with white support. from the

west, serbia is still refusing to recognize the move which it cause a violation of international law, a view backs by un security council members like russia and china. let's now discuss this with serbian historian and writer, a boy shared mileage many thanks for joining us on the program this evening. now in the boy said, 15 years on how can you, what can you tell us about how far cosmo in serbia have come and are they still as united as belgrade would like them to be oh, it's an interesting framing of the situation. i mean, serbia hasn't given up its claim to kosovo officially, informally in practice, especially after the 2013 agreement that back stabbed the kosovo serbs that were that had set up roadblocks and protest. in in practice, belgrade seems to have conceded that there was a separate entity, but he's trying not to formally recognize it unless forced. unfortunately,

for the government, bill grade the you, nato, and the u. s. seemed determined to actually force this formal confession by any means necessary and have most recently proposed this patently ridiculous franco german plan to do just that and are basically demanding that serbia unconditionally recognized kristavia independence for a promise of maybe some day, possibly join the european union now this is all being done after the former french and german leaders publicly confessed that their whole negotiation tactic regarding ukraine in minsk was just the point to buy time and prepare ukraine for war. but russia for like 8 years and was just, well thought of president did possible declaration set for international law and politics in which countries do you think of a lot of right now. so by washington, kagan,

i was just asking you was sort of precedent did call suppose declaration set for international law and j politics. why? well, so according to, according to its sponsors, the americans and their nato allies, it didn't set any precedent at all. it was an isolated case. everything is fine, we say so. and they even went through the trouble of twisting the arms at the international court of justice. to literally rephrase the question that serbia had asked that the you went through the proper channels and declared it because sir, we had asked if, if the provisional government declaring independence was in compliance with the owners. lucian governing the provinces status and the i. c. j. rephrase the question and said, oh, a group of citizens declared independence and that's not strictly speaking, not legal. and one of the descending judges from africa called the legislative judicial slight of hand. and was a pull that the sort of twisting of definitions. but you know, it was rammed through anyway. and so you've had moscow for years and years and

years quoting, this is the president and saying, look what you're doing this. your rules based world order doesn't have any rules and it's not, in fact order. and you have washington saying, no, no, no, no, we have done nothing wrong. this is, everything is, is perfectly legal because we say, so why do you think that was so quick, the back cost of those break to a bit, but is flatly refused to recognize the aspirations. all russians who succeeded from ukraine and crimea, and anton bo 14 the point of the course for war had stated by it's architect at the time voice that to send a message to everybody in europe that only the the us dictated form of democratic transition was acceptable the day in the position where to where i put it in the 900 ninety's. unfortunately for everybody really that message absolutely backfired. and you know,

yeltsin was out of office within 6 months and rushed to completely changed course because he got the message from nicholas or just not the one the americans intended which was that the west cannot be trusted. i think i got a quick apology for our view. is that home for the technical difficulties? we have some, some difficulties with the sound, but we will persevere and continue to carry on nuclear with a several e. u and even nathan countries have refused to recognise cost of why do you think they've been so reluctant to play along with the u. s. stocks on this issue? where all of the countries in the u that have refused to recognize go so so far have their own border. territorial disputes, cypress obviously still partition with a portion of the country occupied by the turks. romania has ongoing the aspirations to perhaps one day in ex mall. dover. slovakia is also having territorial disputes . spain is dealing with catalonia, i mean those are just a couple of examples and i'm missing one. but the point is that, you know,

all of these countries are sort of keeping their cards close to that or vest because they don't want to establish precedence for themselves. meanwhile, but that hasn't stopped brussels from basically pushing this notion that coastal isn't in the independent state, not only on to its members, but on to serbia as well. when it comes to the ethics, living in kosovo, was their status and who's standing up for their rights? well, their position is absolutely appalling. there's. there's a handful of communities in the south of the province that basically live in ghetto, surrounded by barbed wire and are being attacked almost on a daily basis and harassed by ethnic i'll be in, you know, it's already a somewhat larger community lives in the north. it gets most of the attention by belgrade as well as everybody else, and their position is somewhat better, but they're also being subjected to routine harassment, property crimes of violence, crimes drive by shooting, stabbings, looting. and,

you know, meanwhile the government impression of the company and government is like, oh, we condemned every violence against every citizen of kosovo. well, but these are hate crimes and you're not connecting those, you're condoning them. and they, you know, after each, each of the hate crimes they go in and arrest them, serbs and accuse them of terrorism on completely bogus charges in the your law and order mission that's supposed to take your human rights and progress just doesn't care. so it's when we obvious to everybody that you know essentially service can do no. right. and the audience can do no wrong in the eyes of, of the west. and so, with each passing day, this communities position gets more precarious in belgrade tries to advocate for the rest, but they don't really have any sort of leverage the most they were able to do last fall during a conference, usually pretty nice to mobilize them. troops along the border and dom, what may be influence perimeter, security to back down. but even even then not only back down because the americans

told them. so do you feel like the authorities in cost? if i had gotten what they wanted to break away bid? oh absolutely not. they're incredibly disappointed. they were expecting man to fall from the sky and everybody everything would be wonderful once they were 3 foot in dependence and then now they're saying ok, fine. well maybe not, but it's your serbia blocking you in recognition and then tomorrow is going to be the next phase in there. the whole, i mean the current government is led by somebody who champions unification with albania. and that project envisions slicing off pieces of 3 or 4 other countries in the region from, from greece and north macedonia to montenegro, which is interesting because they're all nato members are aspiring new members. so that's going to be even more interesting. if they ever get around to trying like, you know, they're, they're always going to be aspiring to more and always finding more excuse. this is why the promise prosperity is never arrived at. it's always going to be everybody else's fault, but there's, unfortunately,

until there's some soul searching on the ethnic albanians and to try to figure out why these things are happening to them. rather than keep going, the serbs or somebody else, they're not really going to improve their position. many thanks for speaking to us . the same thing with speaking to serbian historian, andrew, i to no bush mileage. thank you. thanks for having me. now washington and he is refusing to investigate allegations that his navy bonds were his no extreme gas pipelines to germany. us officials say it's not the business to probe an incident that happened far away from american territory. that's in response to journalists, grilling the bite and administration and congress about the revelations published by journalist seymour hush. who said washington plans for explosives on the pipeline last june. it is pure just information that the united states was bind. what's transpired with nordstrom to these these

blast did not occur on us soil. i would leave it to our partners on whose territory, on whose soil as it were these plastic, or to speak to the appropriate investigate mechanisms. are you going to put a congressional proven to that? yes or no? oh, i want to be with a pipeline that transfers oil from europe, particularly germany. i'm sorry for russia to germany. so we don't have the authority to investigate the title. all right, come on now that i want you to actually do something about your conduct, that's a non and what are you doing? because if the united you are or you want to have a hold them and discuss these developments with our guest. rasmussen, executive vice president of the your ages and to think tank now many thanks for joining us on the program this evening evening. it's good to see you. so what do

you make of the old days revelation? the anonymous source is saying the us was responsible for bombing the pipeline for the well, i think when i come in, so i heard for, for the article in the details with it. i mean, if you want to look at the reputation, i don't think there's a journalist that has any just get even touched reputation. it also confirms with a lot of us kind of suspected already. i don't think there's any surprises on that, but it gives much more detail and gets it from a sort of i'll be at an unknown source which i can understand based on this and give them very, very detail of timeline so. so i'm yeah, it, it doesn't surprise me. i'm glad somebody actually spoke up. and it was also

interesting is the bass media just more or less, just kind of ignoring it. and how do you feel about washington's respond said, shying away from investigating the allegations itself and especially considering how the us, we've quick to intervene in foreign affairs usually. yeah. what's interesting is, well, one of the one thing is for thing is just information. i mean, we have an entire cell, it's organized in a state department for controlling information the and if you want to look at reputation of statement, you know, we can, i will compare a sy, hurts to, to our government any day of the week. we can go back almost any, any type of major incident in the most recent ones, obviously that we, everyone remembers as the weapons of mass destruction. we actually lied to the entire un. so it's, yeah, i, i, i really, i don't, i don't trust hardly any government you can really trust and definitely not in this

situation. i think it's just very, very unfortunate. the, the other thing is, is what's, you know, it's interesting and this is the europe complete part of europe being complicit. and i mean, we essentially have a terror attack. we have a declaration of war, essentially on a nato member. so i guess article 5 doesn't apply because they assume that someone outside of nato is going to attack another nato member. so, but in this case, we've got a terrorist attack against not just germany, but yet to think about this. this is the, this is against europe. in general, this is the major infrastructure, providing you know what upwards to 20 to 40 percent of the natural gas to, to europe. it's this is a terrorist, it's a state sponsored terrorist attack. and unfortunately, it, it definitely appears that the u. s. has got very heavy hand in it

somewhere. yeah. well, you know, some german politicians calling out the government, failing to come clean about the instant now, which that's a country of course without access to change russian gas or the massive impacts on people across germany. and the course europe, who do you think is seeking to benefit from this whole situation? well, the us is the benefit of such a beneficial situation. let's face that, the germans, definitely not. it's going to impact the germans economically and t and the rest of europe to some degree to the germs germans. the most may even lead to their and industrialization they would, their energy prices will go up to the point that they will not be. they will not be competitive on the open market. they and i'll see i can see factories closing. i could see them relocating and outside the countries where energy prices are cheaper

and more efficient. i know there's some rules on that with germany for that penalties, but i think from, you know, companies may take the risk on that on that. and just from a long term perspective, unless they shut down, i understand the largest construction company is not building any new building this this year. because of the increased energy costs and inability, the additional resources and stuff. so it's the beneficiaries, the us, they, they meet a long standing goal. let's face with the planning on this started. we've heard, we've been against the north stream for quite a while. the planning for this this terrorist attack happened. started happening well before the special military operation. and in fact, even before the written demands that russia sent to native when the us, the,

this is been in the planning for quite a while and, and, and it has very high level people involved. and it's just so tragedy. definitely. you know, who knows if it's true but, but yeah, there's a lot sides put a lot of things out there and, and it definitely called for a special investigation. and this saying that, oh because it happened in europe that the u. s. shouldn't be investigating this. we don't have a problem, we don't have a problem getting involved with anybody else when it happens outside of our own territory. neither. so this is, we've got a hand in this, i mean, congress need to do a special investigation. they need to take a serious look at this and not whitewash it, like we do so many other times. but we've got we've got an issue here. we've got a law broken, international laws have been broken here. we've got our own constitution then and

internal national laws that have been broken. we've countered and we've basically, if it's true attack and a close and supportive ally, this is really, really damaging to the, to the us reputation and definitely investigation need to go on to uncover the facts on the, completely in the but it pass out on that night rasmussen, executive vice president of the origins sent a think tank many thanks for your time, really appreciate it. as always, thank you. big and thank you for joining us here. and i'll say we're back at the top down with the as for silver, so stored to live in them. thank you very much for sitting down with us. let's

start with general questions. russia is returning to africa, judging by its recent active engagement with african nations. do you think russia has serious intentions on this policy is going to be long term o roster? millette that hutton stood at 1st. it's not entirely correct to say that russia is returning to africa almost because it never really laugh at the low. the scale of its presence has changed over the course of the policy pivot towards the west. in the 19 ninety's made russia forget about its african friends and all that the ussr had done for them as life of their cost. and it did a lot. it help african nations achieve economic and financial dependence. it partnered with them built factory as an infrastructure is trained, staff, established scientific research center disorders. then russia, literally abandoned from all of it is something it didn't need to thump. in fact, we didn't get any financial political or moral benefits from our activities in

africa today. that was a big mistake. and now we're starting to realize it. it's a slow process we've. we've had our doubts and made a few stops along the way. and i think the special military operation has now given a new impetus to russia's return to africa with cisco, it tore away the disguises, revealing our true friends and foes for their pass african nations that are still rather weak and not truly independent actors in today's system. of international relations weren't afraid to speak up against the economic sanctions and stood firm in the face of immense pressure from the west. despite certain inconsistencies during the voting on some of the una anti russian resolutions, as well as their behavior was exemplary. as his former po, and why is that? as ye said, russia left africans behind in the 1990s, shifting its focus to the west. so why do they still have worn feelings for russia?

the zillow of stones, you see lucy, russia, left africa ending its presence on the continent, but everything it hadn't done. there remained in africa that the most, unlike colonizers who drained its resources, we actually helped create african economies of the soviet union built over 300 major industrial enterprises. more than a 1000 infrastructure facilities and trained over 500000 qualified staff in africa . this means a lot of african speak russian and understand our mentality and culture. they're grateful because they remember what the soviet union did to help them achieve both political and economic sovereignty of the bike and the current situation around the special military operations has shown them that the same methods of colonial oppression, once utilized against africa, are being used today. against russia, he, me at the north of him in those up of but at the same time, western media and politicians accuse russia of neo colonial policies and attempts

to extend its influence to africa. what can you say about that? yeah, we have simply, i'm not sure what you mean by russia's new colonial policy only, but in that case, it should be the other way around. i see, take the russian empire, for example, it, it was the only empire where the periphery developed was more dynamically than the center. those are some of the same was true for the soviet union, but i see russia as the center of the ussr invested heavily in central asia, ukraine, and the baltic region. as a result, the living standards in these republics were higher than in soviet russia injuries . you can talk all you want about new colonialism for. yes, you can attach labels. but you need to understand that new colonialism is all about looting and exerting political pressure on this. can you tell me what countries russia has looted or subjected to political pressure to w? has it robbed ukraine? you know, and of course african nations luck. i know.