my shell stay mainstream because i'm probably gonna make you uncomfortable. my show is called direct impact. but again, you probably don't wanna watch it because it might just change and the way mm thing ah, the headlines for this. our own oxy there is right there. the u. s. president joe biden, making a surprise visit to kia and meeting with the president as of next week. it's coming exactly 9 years after the deadliest day in the my dad protests which was unfortunately glossed over by the american president. africa must not be left in china's had got the message coming out of the munich security conference at e. u leaders, coal for a stronger presence on the continent. something they see as crucial for europe's future with the you trade union. a confederation chief is declared persona non

grata and forced to leave to nicea, which accuses her of interfering in the nations affairs by taking part and not local demonstrate with it, we are setting the record straight and pushing back all the mainstream narratives life from moscow. this is nancy international. so u. s. president joe biden making a surprise visit to kia. that's where he met with the ukranian president nearly a year off to the start of the conflict. after his photo up, the u. s. president sat down and reaffirmed washington's unwavering support to ukraine, pledging to send even more money and weapons. the new package worth $500000000.00 is said to include high mas ammunition, anti tank systems and radar charles was now jo biden's visit comes as ukraine mocked 9 years since the deadliest day of the, my dad protesting he f,

which left it dozens killed and more than a $150.00 wounded, essentially, that was a precursor to where we are today. i strongly encourage you to have a look at this report from ortiz marina casa forever. it's enlightening the facts, however, i destiny. this is how it was portrayed in mainstream media, unarmed, protested dumb down in the streets by the right police who were retreating from gifts made and square. i turned it lines of security forces, a short distance away. standing beyond the range of rocks and bottles, testers have home me shields and numbers. the police have water cannon and stung grenades, but this is what it looked like in reality. ah. at the 3 months of confrontational, key of main square,

the situation reached the boyland points, and the 20th of february, 2014 became the bloodiest they of them. i don lee been 49 dead and a 157 people wounded. this was the turning point. the protest could have died down, but they didn't. they got more violence. and the claim was that the violence was coming from the governments. a great way to force ukraine's president to succumb to protesters the mans, 9 years on. and there are still no proof that government forces were shooting at protesters only evidence to the contrary. the snipers firing were from buildings controlled by pro european protesters and based on forensic evidence, many of those who were killed and wounded were shot in the back or from significant vertical angles. whereas the police were right in front of them, or on the same level, at least one of the top to bottom direction of his wounds,

his position in the video and findings from forensic medical examination about the location of entry, wounds in his right side and back indicate gunshots from that hotel and not from the bare crude ukrainian special forces. front of him, several other eye witnesses including other my don protesters, a medic, and a german journalist also said he was killed by a sniper from the hotel ukraine. in particular, from the 7th floor, there is more, the bullets came from hunting rifles. well guess what? government forces didn't use haunting rifles, but do you know who did? that's right. the protesters, something that was even documented on mainstream media conservancy built several 100 meters away. who's firmly in the hands of the protest erection, just after 8 o'clock that morning, a news photographer managed to get into the building with his camera. when i come inside, i will so the guys one come after me with hunter gun

hunting rush. i so not exactly a clear picture, is it incredible, considering it's been 9 years, but what's more, incredible is the evidence that has magically disappeared. we must realize that the way the investigation was conducted unfortunately, did not gives a saw the answers to key questions. we have huge questions about the quality of the investigation. some material simply disappeared, while in other points the investigation was sabotaged. this is the man who was adamant that the government controlled the slippers and not my don leaders like himself. so where is the proof? nowhere to be found, apparently the shields and helmets of those who were killed and injured. where are they gone? extract the bullets disappeared. recordings of live streams cctv from hotel krajina a raised. isn't that weird? even e u official started wondering what was going on as we later found out from this

leaked phone call. it's really disturbing that now with the new new coalition that they don't want to investigate what exactly happened so that there is a stronger and stronger understanding that behind my purse they were, it was not gonna go which, but it was somebody from the new coalition. it all ready discredit dates from very beginning goes to this new college. well, it's really disturbing. bob, let's continue supporting them. anyway. after all, the west had been egging them on for so long. victoria newland flew in 3 times and was literally speeding pro european protesters. us senator john mccain joined the party, encourage and protesters to keep going, agreeing with them, but their future is in europe no matter what their democratically elected president wants or has decided to do to people to know that the united states stand with you in your search or just for human dignity, you got

a curity or he can on account. and for the european future that you have chosen the people your moment. this is about, you know, why no one else really. then why was the was la, truly in ukraine's business discussing and planning. who should ron was? we've all heard the leaks conversations where the west insisted on that. then you get a new so become ukraine's new leader. and sure enough, there guy was installed and traveled to washington right away. so the crowds in the key of and the folks in washington got what they wanted. a pro western governments would know twice to russia. a scary prospect for those who craniums,

who aligned with russia linguistically, historically and culturally so they took to the streets, often meets in a brutal consequence. like the massacre and the were almost 50 of them were trapped in the building. that was such a blaze burn and i'm alive. this of course cemented clearly the hatred between the 2 sides realized that he had decided our fate without african out from us. they said that they wanted to be with europe and didn't need the ration customs union in russia and the things that were going on and keep disturbed that hugely the will know what happened after that crimea detached and joined russia. the civil war and on boss started a need so began arming the key of regime with civilians terrorized for years. now let's take

a moment to remember john mccain's words and key if once again here. sure you want for your country. this is just a future uses this or what is this, what he had in mind? surely the wife didn't expect rossa to allow a puppet regime to terrorize it. civilians and arm up along its borders with hopes and dreams of being part of nato. every action has a reaction, and that was actions point to the fact that my dawn was a gateway. so a war was russia as the ratification process for sweden and finland to ascend into nato, drags on the scanner. navy and countries are pushing to be accepted together. however, nato's secretary general has stated the to do not come as a package deal. the main issue is not that they ratified together. the main issue is that they ratify just full members as soon as possible. while finland prime minister, hope the to stay together and the bid it so defense minister says that hell think

he would be willing to join the block in dependently. this comes as he refuses to ratify stock owners application. so i think the countries refusal to deport refugees that ankara has labeled as terrorists. just weeks ago, he summoned the swedish baset a following a demonstration in stockholm. the sor journalists burn the koran outside anchorage, and you will learn more now discussing this with george w. l e a senior research fellow with a global policy institute of london joining us live on archie. it's a national georgia. great pleasure to see you very well. welcome to the program. so just to get it straight off the bat here, both sweden and finland. they've claimed that security well, certain security issues might prevent the countries from joining nato separately. what, what kind of security concerns george could they have in mind? well, of course they didn't have any security concerns. there was never any reason for

sweden and finland to join nato. in the 1st place, they managed to survive very nicely during the cold war outside of nature, even though both very closely aligned with the united states, western europe and nature. but nonetheless, they weren't for many members. suddenly they decided that they would rush forward into nato membership. even though it was clearly a very serious security issue for russia and that russia could not indefinitely of ignore the security threat that dispose of finland has a role, an 800 mile border with russia and both sweden and finland. you know, they, they go way up to the north with a white see. and then, you know, all sorts of security issues are involved. they pushed forward with this. they never consulted their publics. they flatly refused holding referendums and stolen. but wanted to get this out of the way, months and months ago,

but unfortunately, they haven't done that. but the problem is that of course, russia poses no threat to sweden and finland. you know, there's no reason for the post the threat. however, sweden and finland inside nater does indeed pose a threat to russia and scold him. but those this very well, george, you mentioned that sweden and finland didn't hold any referendum with the public on whether or not they wanted to join nate. so why do you think to be entire populace was just shoved to the side? well, need to once do expand indefinitely. you know, they want to scoop up everybody. i mean, once they get sweden and finland is next up will be bosnia, herzegovina, and serbia. within europe, and then they also want mold over which is the crisis and mold over right now. and then of course, moving on into central asia with georgia and you know,

media as it by john nate. it was just an inexorable expansion machine. but the one thing they don't ever want is to hold referendums because they don't really do very well in referendums. they absolutely refused to hold a referendum in montenegro because they knew they would lose it. and then in macedonia, they held a referendum, but obviously not enough. people showed up that referendum should have been cancelled. but he said they said ok, that's fine. that's good enough for us. so master the donia was rename northern macedonia and was co opted into later george. what about that? ok, let's just i mean that was very interesting. by the way, let's get back to fin and sweeten for a moment. finland's prime minister is still holding onto the hope that both scandinavian countries can join nato to gather, but it seems the defense minister. well, might be ready to go. it alone when push comes to shove,

what do you think the decision is going to be for finland? and sweden, i think finland were joined separately because president air the guy isn't going to change his position on swim sweden. so they're not before the election. and need to really com. just hold this, you know, in this issue in the bay and month after month, it's already looked very stupid because it was going to rush this through last summer. it didn't happen because of took is issues the turkey has res. so it's been, you know, dragging on and they can't really let this drag on much longer. so they going to get finland then, and then say, this is a wonderful, great moment. you know, nato expansion continues and we hope that sweden will go in down the road. and that's what we hope that once we get through the election, then changes positional sweden, all the nato is hoping. above all,

everyone will be defeated in the next election. and then wherever succeeds him will basically toss aside the objection to sweden's membership, but i think they're going to join separately. george, i'm running low on time here. any time for one more question, please forgive me, please. are we seeing any cracks in the whole european unit? see your cracks in the nato alliance. and right now you've got countries gutting weapons inventories, while the average everyday european is paying through the teeth for energy bills and coping with historic inflation. i mean, george, if i was an e u. politician right now, i'd be running for the hills. no, i think that's right. yes. thrown in everything on behalf of ukraine to the point in which then they have nothing in their own armories. i mean, they got nothing, literally nothing in that. we have bar is johnson. the only u. k prime minister wants to send the entire royal air force to ukraine's,

and i was basically that the u. k. will be left without an air force. so this is what the european political leaders are demanding. the public is not on board and, and, but unfortunately the leaders are not listening to the public that too much bought other lead club. the only one who is articulating the views. i think most europeans is hungry by minister victor or by the says, this policy of nato makes absolutely no sense. we are the ones we're suffering. ah, you know, the, we've been heard by the sanctions bomb or than russia has. and we're being dragged into world war 3 against our will. george, i mean, really a senior research fellow with the global policy institute of london. i always appreciate the chance to pick your brain. thank you very much for joining us. thank you very much. ah, quote, africa is crucial for the future of europe. i cannot be left in china's hands. that's the message coming from italy's foreign minister,

the munich security conference, in a discussion regarding the need for a stronger european presence on the african continent. unity is crucial. if we want to pay the way for his throne, go to europe among nato, and in europe, a more present in africa. look at african to look at africa is crucial for the future. to leave africa in chinese and is a big mistake for everybody here. europe has been looking at africa as he says in the same way that really desperate guys look at girls and nightclubs. europe has been in africa forever. usually under the guise of counterterrorism missions are humanitarianism. apparently, europe is mostly interested in coming to the rescue of countries that just happened to have natural resources to exploit. and just like some girls night club do africa

. busy to that guy, europe, to go take a hike. molly kicked france out last year after paris is resoundingly successful mission to stabilize the country resulted in a couple of qu, day ties in as many years french president, him under, in that cold, tried to dress up the dis as at strategic shift, which is like saying oh, you know, i really wasn't interested in her anyway, after camping out on her doorstep for years. and it's not like africa so desperate that it was forced to turn to the chinese because europe wasn't trying hard enough . as this italian for a minister suggests africa like someone else more. okay. it's that simple. maybe your behavior was creeping around africa, chose china as its largest trading partner in foreign direct investor. why is europe trying to drag africa into it? spat with china as well. they sound upset that the girl thereafter doesn't want to eat at their table in the school cafeteria. maybe she just likes to hang with different groups of people. okay. and what about american bases in 5 african

countries? does the italian foreign minister mind that uncle sam's hands are all over africa? or is that no problem? because that's his buddy. how many times have we heard the west concern trolling africa as in lookout? don't let china. and just because it's a deck trop, turns out that africa own owes 3 times more debt to western private lenders than it does to china. that's according to world bank data. and someone else was back on the scene. evoking is neil colonialists fantasies regarding africa again. chief, you diplomat, josefa i travel around the world and particularly in the countries of the south. i see how powerful is the russian narrative that was to reduce the war in ukraine to a conflict between the west and russia is powerful accusing us of double standard. we must debunk this narrative and explain how rush acts as an imperialist power.

president micron referred to a neo colonial power. yes, it is what it is. let's call it by its name. it is an imperial attitude from a powerful neighbour that wants to take control of some country that belongs to its political sphere. you might remember that morale mused to diplomatic students last year about how europe is the garden and the developing world as the jungle. he routinely implies that the only possible relationship between africa and its partners is one of exploitation. or maybe he's just annoying that nations representing 87 percent of the planet haven't sanctioned moscow. a big headline in the western press out of munich screen, quote, western please over ukraine failed to sway global south. maybe the west is not as attractive as they seem to think they are, or maybe they don't understand the mindset of those they're looking to seduce.

here's the uganda in an namibian foreign ministers with some tips for the west on why their charm offensive isn't working. we were colonized and forgave those who colonized us. now, the colonizers are asking us to be enemies of russia, who never colonized us. is that fair? not for us, their enemies are their enemies, our friends are our friends. the bottom line is that money used to buy weapons would be better used to promote development in ukraine, in africa, in asia, in the you itself, where many people are facing hardships. pretty sure that none of the self help books on making yourself attractive to others. say to tell them not to watch certain networks like r t to monitor or control who they hang out with, like russia and china, and to treat them like they don't really know how to handle their own affairs. so maybe the west should try getting some perspective away from their bodies. all

these group think driven safe spaces like the munich security conference across life to our senior research fellow from the center for africa. and china studies are kofi co aku joining us from johannesburg. west, just about 22 minutes past 6 pm. great to see you. thank you so much for coming on the program. what do you make? what do you make of the remarks we we heard of the munich security conference regarding africa. why is europe saying that africa is crucial for its future? oh, 1st of all, good evening. oh, good morning. wherever you are, the wireless. i think this is a really turning point. your hands are realizing that there are now falling off the cliff. they are just missing out on the enormous amount of change that taking place in the world, both physically but also in the mindset of africans. and there's still a climb, the old lens of the colon, the approach that forces them to think that they are saying that africa

is just gonna be committed to french, which means of close hunting grounds for the parents. and they've kept this for a very long time. he's been my friend so much, much younger. it still has been bred into this. and they still believe they can make africa. they can keep africa and they can decide the future of africa. what is happening is it's a great deal of change know, partnerships, naturally new partnership, but the partnerships with russia and china and others, that turkey and so for proposing different value proposition. but the european themselves are not proposing and their focus, the focus of the europeans, mainly on the war destruction. they're not building been constructed, infrastructure, roach. i mean, it's sad to see that upgrade up the up there. but a center of colonialism. if you do a clean audit of european colonial is nafrica,

there's no one african country that can be said. that's a huge indictment. and i think to, to, to, to talk about africa just again, i think there's a grow is on the wrong path. in fact is passive war. i've been muted conference, which is for me, it's like a gathering of warm numbers should be temperament. and in fact, these speech reminded me of a sort of one back european math war was a short german, long term with guns. and so forth, and it's just astonishing it's, it's astonishing and disturbing as well when you hear rhetoric like that. i mean, what will let me ask you this too, because we heard the remark that africa must not fall into the hands of china or african nations, not free to choose their own partners. what does that mean, mr. co op? well listen, it to grow, read, submit

a face sort of patronizing approach, telling people how they should be who they should eat with. i mean, if in fact african should be very careful, we should be eating lunch. what's your parents given that kind of historical legacy that we know about? so telling africans not to do business with china, russia that the russians are bad. it's just this sort of very, as i said again, patronizing approached that doesn't help africans. i've understood that, of course, africans have to find a way to get out of the european colonial. it's not that, but also the sort of got a new colonial economic choke hold in and step by step that coming up as there's a whole cycle, cross the quantity that with the russian help and then chinese. so they'll be a gradual sort of escape from this ciocca. mr. michael, i've got such little time left and i do apologize for that, but i would love to ask you this very, very quickly. of course you had the

e foreign affairs spokesman joseph burrell. he did a tour of africa. you've had the russian of 4 minutes. okay, laughed off. and then a couple of weeks ago, you had the us treasury secretary, janet yellen, essentially going around africa. not keratin. sticking. mostly just sticking. and telling african nations to it here to western sanctions and to cut ties with russia . i interviewed a guest who said to me, the u. s. coming to africa with suit cases of pass. it doesn't work any more. your comment? yes indeed, it's not working well as it used to be. so it's going to be back by threats, by a big, big or financial disruption. and i think janet, the secretary trip to africa was a sort of culture. she was really nice of course like. but she had this big financial stick and of course the government also was worn out where she was also that be careful. don't do business with this people. she's not saying it or public,

but i'm sure in private, she's making the case. but africans are not biting as much as they used to, but it certainly seems that way if things are changing in the world, coffee co, a senior research fellow from the center of africa and china studies joining us from jo book. thank you. well, any trade union leader has a right to stand with workers in africa. the european trade union chief attempting to explain herself after being expelled from 2 nicea for participating in a local protest. the message of solidarity, social justice and dialogue i gave at the demonstration is no different to the one i have given to workers in france and the u. k. this month, i'd say this rather than our crossing live to the africa correspondent catabolic tattler. joining us live on this program countable. take us through the background of the story if you will. what exactly caused this foster spiraling bass?

well, the feud is caused by a precedent who feels that the unions have a rather a powerful position, a vested interest in as government and is trying to very much care tail how much power they can wield the united workers of, of tunisia under the umbrella, the u g t t that tunisia united general union movement have really caused some headaches for president case saeed. and they have organized a lot of strikes and laura protests against the, the, the high cost of living. and as well as the lack of reforms in his government, and they've gone as far as to say that he is trying to claim down on union rates and union power. this, of course, following of arrest of a senior u g t t official. mr. i miss alcholay who was arrested on charges of

intimidating the authorities of tunisia during a organized protest on the 31st of january in intonation or this, this particular weekend here that led to the arrest of esther lynch was on saturday richer. and it happened in the city of specs and that if, if this to nicea 2nd, be a city and it happened to also be our own one of the biggest piece of the strikes the of the protest rather than was being held they. miss lynch spoke to to the thousands of people that were there who also held our bread as a sign of protest against the higher cost of living. and she told them that the 45000000 workers of europe, that she represents through how confederation stand with those workers. and that there is a sense of solidarity and internationalism within the union is movement. that

speech really roused up mister said, who later took to his own website to criticize the fish, calling it an interference with the internal order of tunisia. now she, she was a quote in a saying that this is and that mr. phase government has consistently, i take the unions and they're in a tank on the union is an a tag on people's voice. let's hear a little bit more from the government side as to what they found offensive about his speech. by order of the president of the republic, the tunisian authorities called on esther lynch, who participated in march organized by the tunisian general labor union and made statements that blatantly interfered with tunisian internal affairs. to leave tunisia within 24 hours of notifying her that she is persona non grata. this is peculiar considering that missed the iep himself on his.