a a, a hungry from the attack on the north stream pipelines, a terrorist act called for an official view and investigation. stressing, now such an incident can never be repeated. france will be made a scapegoat for africa as problems or drawn into a tug of war for influence. that's according to president micron of it's for nation 2 of the continents coming. i made much recent opposition to paris. his presence with hearing child politicizing that corona virus, progeny, beijing's response to u. s. media, i'm politicians,

recent russia of accusation against the country for a broad cow thing from moscow. this is our t good, the hub, your company, this our, let's get to our top story on the terror that can never be allowed to happen again. not how hungry prime minister has described the blast on the north stream pipelines which tore through the russian under water infrastructure in september. a ben, the north stream explosion was simply a terrorist act by whoever committed it if it was made that the northern direction just of europe wouldn't receive gas from russia. that it can also be done in the south. together with serbia, we made it clear that if this ever happens, it won't be possible to get away with it so easily to sweep it under the rug. like it's currently being done with the north stream detonation. will earlier the

hungarian foreign minister call for a united nations investigation into the pipeline at tag rush is also demanding a full international inquiry. wherever the un saint count decide on mount until the results of the current probe is complete, which is being carried i solely by european countries. one of them, germany, which last year suspended certification of north stream 2 is now reportedly planning to buy on use pipes from the project to transport liquefied natural gas. while all those statements follow recent revelations by the pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour hearse, whose extensive investigation concluded the pipelines were mine by u. s. navy divers last year. and he said, washington used nato drilled as cover for the operation with assistance from norway . according to his report,

president biden took the final decision and blowing up the infrastructure after 9 months of consultations with his security advisors. the claims, by the way, have been denied by both washington on the eve with officials. this missing hearse is findings as quote, speculation, and even fiction with global affairs analyst george zamarelli notes that certain states which has been fighting terrorism for decades suddenly aren't keen on having this incident investigate under is once again a breaking ranks. and of course, it's calling a spade a spade, and what else is it bought the terrorist attack? and what is particularly striking is that the countries that spend the better part of 2 decades waging a so called global war on terror seem remarkably uninterested in what actually happens. so we have the debate at the un security council last week at russia's

behalf, which russia and russia demanding that of an international investigation be initiated . and the united states and united kingdom bronsels or no, no need to forward. we'll just let the competent national authorities investigate both close these competent national authorities, audio authorities of germany, denmark, and sweden, so to nato members, and one aspiring nato member. so there is no question was how objective this investigation. and these 3 countries all said, well, we really don't know anything. this investigation is ongoing and don't expect any results any time in the near future. so it's extraordinary that the united states is showing such amazing patients about finding out the truth. not usually that patient to another of our headline stories a manual michael said par as isn't for being drawn into a competition for access to africa. the french president's words come ahead all his

upcoming trip across the continent, which could be an eventful one. after much recent opposition to francis presence there, here's to take a 40 contributor, rachel marci. let's face it now, cause big new french strategy in africa. speech was always going to be about how paris was going to maintain a foothold in africa after being booted out of its traditional stomping grounds. so that's a hell region where it's stability and security and counter terrorism operations lead to coups in places like molly and she had us running around with about as much discipline as french kids on a school greg talk about terrorists. so african countries are increasingly opting for deeper cooperation with russia and china as a result of basically france. and wes fiascos are increasing fiascos and not mixed harris and the west in general, really nervous. so now michael has just announced that he suddenly does not believe

in military contests between countries, i guess because france is losing on that footing in africa. so he's just going to change the rules. now. i mean, kind of like we did in preschool and we are playing games. we didn't like that. we were losing, he basically said that africa should not be reduced to grounds for a military measuring contest. so he's declaring a quote, end of a cycle for france in africa. francis military footing has been used by others. he says to say that france only had a security agenda. so what is michael's big idea now? well, there was a clue that was going to be about money when he made a positive reference in his speech, frances financial community of africa's fokker. so it was the currency that existed in france before the euro. he referred to it as one of france as big contributions to the continent. but here's what italian prime minister jersey maloney said about the sea of april in 2018 where so monday, you know, this is a child who acts in

a gold mine in booking our foster. it's one of the poorest nations in the world, france prince colonial money for the kena faso, which has gold in return. they moaned at 60 percent of everson, burkina, faso, exports and jump in the coffee of the french treasury, the gold. these charles goes down the channel to extract mostly ends up in the coffin of the french state. so the solution is not to take the africans and bring them to europe. the solution is to free africa from satel europeans who exploit it and allow these people to leave off what they have. so now michael wants to build on that when he considers a wonderful symbol of french african cooperation, which is quite controversial for a lot of africans, especially with respect to sovereignty over their own currency. to focus on investments in health care, education, digital technology, sports culture, small business. it seems the macro has literally just discovered soft power. so

instead of going into african countries under the pretext of helping with security and sticking around long after the situation gets even worse in hope of eventually scoring some natural resources. so basically, the american model knock hall is now proposing to go in with footballs, french style, philosophical debates, maybe some johnny holiday cds with the hope that all of this might ultimately help to shake loose some sweet, sweet african resources. presumably, he said that france is going to defend its interests, but also do a respectfully of africans. not sure how admitting that you're taking a different approach to manipulating them as being respectful. but okay, looks like washington is also trying to see if it can be self serving lee influential by using sweetness in handy instead of bombs. literally, that is what you asked 1st lady joe biden did recently in the media by giving out candy eminem's to kids. of course,

all these investments that mark hold talks about will ultimately benefit french firms in africa. that's always been the case with us in western investments on the continent, but it seems like they're trying really hard create this kind of p, r friendly, good guy, image of candy and rainbows, all white washing their militaristic, well, failed, militaristic, and background and militarism, all kind of trying to portray russia and china as the bad guys. none the story. we also heard from political and economic analyst on africa, lawrence freeman, who's on the viewed the u. s. attitude towards the continent is all about influence . the united states in europe is stuck in all your power, so they can see i'm actually working with russia and especially with

china economically to develop help raising stand living with the death rate. you eliminate poverty in africa. the you, as we have to maintain control geopolitical control and the see themselves losing a large portion of african nations did not support the resolution attacking russia and is many in africa including you see china is more favorable light in the united states. and that's because china is, believe united states is illogically blind to actually billy and helping the nation go infrastructure. they will not do. instead of having this stupid the geo politics. we should be looking for ways to work with

and work with other countries and collaborating with african countries to actually develop their can stop smearing china and politicizing their corona virus tragedy. those were the words earlier from the chinese foreign ministry spokesman. in response to recent us, claims that the pandemic was likely china's fault. the u. s. energy department has concluded that the coven pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak. according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the white house and key members of congress. the energy department made its judgment with low confidence accordance to people who have read the classified report. she and she see a lovely is extremely unlikely. this is an authoritative scientific conclusion that experts from china and the world health organization reached after visiting the relevant laboratory in blue hand and holding in debt exchanges with relevant

researchers. the relevant party should start playing on the lot league theory, stop smearing china and stop politicizing the issue of origin tracing the report sites, only 2 officials from the u. s. department of energy and they say they have low confidence that this comes from a lab that it was a who on lab league, but that hasn't stopped all the major u. s. mainstream media outlets from running with this story. now the report also says it's based on new intelligence, but none of the articles presented have any new evidence decides. and it seems like this is being used currently. republicans are bringing this up and using it to call out the, by the administration and demand more hostility to china. the chinese communist party is not only a menace, but the nature of these regimes as the lights of the world. and we need to make that clear to people. the chinese communist party is evil. it's forest killed, millions and see will stop at nothing to destroy the u. s. it's time to hold this

evil regime accountable. i'm glad the department of energy recognizes this reality . it's past time to make the chinese communist party pay. it is critical. the administration also begin to work immediately with our partners and allies around the world to hold the chinese communist party. accountable iming is of course, very suspect. we see prominent c, i a and us intelligence officials stepping forward and calling out china for the possibility of china giving weapons to russia. we see a wide spread demonization of china. and now we have this story about leaks, you know, getting into the media and certainly interesting timing. and it fits in with a full court all on anti china hysteria from u. s. officials track that they're going to meet next week chairman, she important to discuss this on holy winds that they have to put weapons in the ukraine to me is very disturbing because well,

maybe ukraine today as can be taiwan to morrow. note that at this same time, we have united states pumping weapons on to the island of taiwan into the philippines, up playing up the idea that china is a danger. certainly parallels a similar escalations that were done with ukraine. once we achieve the level of success we've achieved in ukraine, a big part of that has been because after russian aggression in 20142015, we honestly got off to preparing for future conflict training for the ukrainians. pre positioning of supplies, identification of sites from which we could operate, support, sustain operations. we call that setting the theater. and we're setting the fair to in japan, in the philippines, in other locations. now, chinese officials reject the reports, say that it's simply not accurate and that it fits in with a pattern demonizing, china from the united states and u. s. media. and it's fair to say that around the world, there's also a lot of skepticism. however,

this seems to be the latest escalation in you asked media's hostility toward china and whipping up the u. s. public to oppose jain to the middle east where palestinian authorities have condemned the rampage by is really settlers in the west bank ton of who flora saying the israeli government is fully responsible for the incident. at least one palestinian was killed and more than a 100, others turned it in the violence. dozens of cars, as you can see here, were burned during the attack as well, while multiple homes were also set ablaze and damaged by the settlers. locals alleged these really army was protecting the attackers and not the palestinians. one house was also reportedly torched over night, while a palestinian family was still inside. i felt that it would be the last day that i live in this world because their parents was scary. and for the 1st time they burned houses in our vicinity. because usually they would come and scream and go.

but this night was the most dangerous because they burnt houses and chorus for the price high. lou lou, lou not only by spoke with the officer in charge of the israeli army, i told him the settlers were burning the house in my house caught fire. i have children and women, she told me to enter the house or i will shoot. you just neighbors tried to help us, but the occupation army prevented them with the civil defense. came to extinguish the fire, but the army pushed them back. the occupation was directly supporting them, encouraging them to reach the stage. what the destruction and chaos came just hours after to julius is really brothers. were killed in a shooting by a palestinian in the same tone. the shooter we believe is still at large. volcanic scenes in response to the brother debts came despite appeals for cam from the israeli authorities. this by bay many se, humming also engaged in nationalists rhetoric. the country security minister called

on the israeli settlers to leave the punishment of the who vara, shooter, to the state. i mean, i want to say something about what happened in who warren, i understand the harsh images, but this is not the way we don't take the law into our own hands. it is the government, the muster to terrorists and fight. they're not citizen, i'm sure that the matthew always spoke to the former, a director general of israel's foreign ministry, al lawn lee l. allen's ha. does party connect that member or for a customer who both se power in the country is currently held by and i'll train nationalist coalition. think at this stage it was lost, the meanings. anything that is where the government says or the prime minister says, has to be checked on the ground in this such event wrinkled

and twisting things. it spinning it. the only thing that matters is what's going on on the grow. and on the ground from what we see around us, things are going on will settlements all that will issues. and the outcome is that the population, it was a growing on. and as you saw yesterday, my becoming more who is so i think it would judge is we're only the only words they are going to expand day man. i'm going to an outpost. so i'm stuck. she then said is i don't want to be a community. so that you can all go and, and you know, colonial,

it meant a cleaning against me and on the other talking about it, even if they just, you know, i don't know why i want them not to go to get them the only way. the only way to stop the stop the violence and we do one divided by leaving the occupation and allowing them to leave a space on their own, you know, over in dependency on the old. ok, a will get back in june. the rest of the top diplomat is expected to visit the indian capital for a meeting of g 20 foreign ministers on tuesday. and among those also in attendance will be us secretary of state anthony blank and the case james cleverly and china

is expected to send in foreign minister can gang our t correspondent room june sharma has been looking at what's expected from the upcoming high profile catherine the russian foreign minister will arrive in new delhi for a 3 day, was it to within the g 24 minutes to meet. now love rob's with india is extremely significant in the backdrop of growing bilateral dies between the 2 countries. as western sanctions against russia have meant that by default, corporation between the 2 countries has accelerated, our relationship with russia, i think, has been extraordinarily steady. it has been studied through all the tub, luncheon and global politics. so as i said, again, you know, the opposition, perhaps it's their job to criticize, it would be nice if they do it with a little bit more information and i could issue in the us, russian, all import search to

a record in january in moscow ruins of talk oil supplier to new delhi, but it's not just energy. other sectors as well. for example, there's been a nearly 4. 2 100 percent jump in russian merchandise and boards. now the 2 countries also aimed to continue working on facilitating trade in local currencies. now what could be discussed in the need is also approaches and cooperation of existing institutions, such as the f, c, u, and bricks. this meeting is one of the biggest events ahead of the final g 20 summit in september this year. and for the more the government for this meeting, the focus really will be on multilateralism need for reform and food and a miller g security. now the challenge for india is that these very real issues could be overshadowed by the western demands for india to condemn russia. something

that we saw last week in the g 20 finance ministers needs in bank lou. it is our hope that india will use their influence with russia to support an end to this conflict. and as foreign minister j shankar has said and to the conflict according to the principles of the un charter. but in deal largely kept neutral down on the conflict, declining to be rochelle for way to remember, india been seeking a solution to dialogue and diplomacy. india also consistently abstained from you and was against more school diplomatic sources. say that india will continue to maintain a neutral stance or new queen d c. b chance. the procurement since the beginning of the development of the crane india has insisted on resolving this dispute through dialogue and diplomacy. and it's ready to contribute to any piece process. so india will have to walk in

a tight diplomatic rope so that under its presidency, the foreign minister of need does not go the same way that the g 20 finance minister meet there are say for example, the same outcome as the g 20 summit in bali in november, exposed, believe that in the role as to how you level will require a diplomatic balancing act like no. although for this week and for months to come, the 20 years ago, a rack agreed to destroy its long range ballistic missiles are required to do so. by the united nations, but the concessions prove fruitless with the u. s. and allies launching an invasion that left a trail of destruction in the country, killing hundreds of thousands of people who are naughty, where chronicling the u. s. war on terror in iraq to decades on

at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people. and to defend the world from gray. with food and medicine. and sleep with it took just over one month for the u. s. sun partners, shock and awe campaign to take control of baghdad. however, u. s. troops only officially withdrew in 2011. over the span of those years,

the lives of countless numbers of civilians were shattered. oh, i was a teenager in the tachi area, there was an army training camp and weapons depots, and the sites was subjected to heavy bombardment by merican forces. we would seen ages and we were playing football not caring about the shelling, the sometimes we would have to hide one date, there was a huge explosion. we don't know that a bomb had fallen on us. 3 children were lying dead, mammy. and i remember that the person who was holding the bull died instantly with those of people that i was injured in 2000 sakes. while i was playing, i her have a shooting. and then suddenly a more to landed near me. i was only a child of the time. i was injured in 2008 when i was just riding my bicycle when suddenly i was spinning. i landed on my back and could see my entire stomach hopin and intestines on the ground.

ah oh. the number of iraqi martyrs who were killed by american forces and car bombs is nearly 250000 the injured are more than 500000. what did they do to deserve this? what has been achieved by invading iraq under the pretext of having weapons of mass destruction. where are those weapons of mass destruction? ah, my life got worse. i left school i couldn't walk and my abdomen was cut open. life weiss, my life is over. as i can't even get a job, my life end and and my future was lost. this destroyed my mother and father especially badly. and after a while they died one after the other. after i lost my foot, the injury affected my life in

a major way. i told myself my life is over. i was just a teenager. i would i live like this. you would ever want to marry me. oh, oh. oh. oh. the murder and destruction of the iraqi people is a genocide perpetrated by us forces the entry of isis and the further killing of iraqi people. and the security forces are all because of americans. we have evidence and certified documents that prove the u. s. bond and iraqi police patrol simply for being in an area controlled by the u. s. o. with it on it. and you know, gets any compensation even though i submitted all the required documents, only receive social welfare payments, amounted to

a $170000.00 dino's which was completely useless. i. that's also presumably the rocky government. how to dr. required measure and compensate a wounded at least financially considering they haven't even made any moral apologies. oh, america did not compensate the iraqi people for even one dena, of its bombings, which destroyed and humiliated the people of iraq all injuries have been documented . and the united states knows this. unfortunately, the killing and blood shedding of iraqi people continues. there is no deterring me . that brings to a close, a busy news. our do check out r t dot com for more and all those stories. and if you're in the moods leave a comment or 2 there as well. always good to hear what you're thinking of. good bye . ah

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