for lunch russians have been exonerated. now just the last word here, the new york times has the sorry, i've seen it, they've written it. where will they put it? well, they might put it on their front page, but i doubt it. it will probably be buried on page $817.00 and again, most americans will be left with the impression that the russia has actually read a lot of our diplomats, in spite schick and cuba, moscow invasion, wherever it is. they did it well. this is a news ticket. you don't cover lots of interesting stories that will be back to me . ah, hello, i'm manila chan. you are tuned into modus operandi. a devastating natural disaster is known to mobilize the international community to put a pause on politics and help our fellow man. so when multiple major earthquakes

nearly 8.0 on the richter scale, hit southern turkey and northwest syria, only one of those countries saw immediate help from abroad. this week will examine the politics of humanitarian aid. when disaster strikes, who got it and who was left to die? alright, let's get into the ammo. the me, the images are horrible, entire city blocks crumbling as the cameras roll on innocent civilians, babies to great grandmothers, all trapped under debris as hold buildings are reduced to rubble when pre dawn earthquakes measuring nearly 8 point on the richter scale hit parts of southern turkey and northwest regions of syria. this cross border crisis killing nearly 50000 people so far with that death toll expected to continue to climb in turkey,

the response from the international community was swift. this long time nato partner saw the benefits of membership swing in the action just hours after the ground stop shaking. life saving equipment began clearing. what was once homes, western allies, such as the us, that you immediately deploying everything from manpower to food, blankets to temporary shelter to aid survivors, as the temperatures dipped below freezing. massive rescue effort continued for over a week. meanwhile, just a few miles away on the other side of the border in a leopard, syria, similar scenes of destruction, but with one market difference. western aid was absent. adding insult to injury the us state department refusing to lift broad sanctions on syria that would allow nations and n g o's from delivering life saving measures to help this war. torn province,

president bashar al assad, and the 1st lady of syria made a trip to visit the devastation firsthand. listen to what he had to say. the west has reportedly prioritized politics over the humanitarian situation. but this is not true because in order to prioritize one case over another, both of them must exist. the political situation is there, unlike the humanitarian case, it is therefore normal politicize the situation. in terms of human sentiment, it exists neither now nor in the past, nor during, nor after modern colonialism. 600 years ago, colonialism was founded on the murder theft and plunder of people. babies, children, families trapped under rubble, punishments for the crime of being borne, therion. now stephen, the honey is the chief editor at mid east discourse due to the quick and limited electricity in theory, just 10 minutes

a day that fall out from the us sanctions. stephen was able to actually send us a brief video from the ground in the taca, syria, 1st of all, northwest syria, and the city of live suburb of education, nor, nor philip bo. it's not under the hands of rebel, it's under the control of the radical. slavic tears groups to hurl sha, used to be called on the star, and they are the branch of okay, the, the spirits use radical fleming. blood thirsty theatre with her are funded, supported and trained by the america, by, by the united states since day one. and they were brought into syria through turkey . the stairs with also are half of them are not even syrian they're from chechnya. they're the weavers there from manor staff project and others. and the same data soon,

the ceiling government and the u. e. and the united nations on several occasions through the earthquake, they wanted to send a to the, to, to live those radical islamic terrace. the refuse those trucks to come in. and they wanted money for the trucks and, and then they started fighting on who's going to $3.00. it was going to steve that 8. that's number one. number 2. do you know, did the united states have sanctions on see it for the last 12 years? and this, and they are number one cause of this war and the last 12 years. so that's why syria has a lack of shortage of gasoline shortage of fuel, shortage of electricity. as everyone know, no one can live with 10 minutes of electricity and we're doing or again, we're living through that because of the american sanctions. and because of the illegal appearance of the united states in the use of celia and then stealing our oil and gas in the sub syria, what individuals can do the individuals has to,

from all over the world, journalist and activists. and even normally people to pressure the united nation pressure, the united states. and there are congressmen and the parliament numbers on list being complete sanctions of syria because lifting the sanctions of syria for $180.00 days, only an aide is called a joke. no one can rebuild a rebuild houses, 4 or 5500000 people are homeless because of this earthquake in a 180 days. what's the suffering we're going through today? and before the squeak, it's all caused by the united states and caused by the sanctions that they know that states. but the sooner people are suffering because of these sanctions, and that is what individual people can do to help. but i assure your congressmen, your parliament's number on lifting sanctions off of syria, that is millions of families suffering in syria. and for more on the crisis

in syria, the quake aftermath and the sanctions will turn to veteran war correspondent, in hot spots around the world like the balkans, syria, iran, iraq, you name it. he has covered it, elijah maggie is joining us. so a larger, a lot of calls from around the world for the us to immediately lift sanctions on syria. so in our international aid and money can get through initially after the quakes hits state department spokesman net price said no, the u. s. is unwilling to do that because sharla sod would be exploiting that i'm of course, paraphrasing here, but that's the essence of what he said. now, the u. s. has eased some of those sanctions, at least for relief efforts. this is only for $180.00 days. why do you think the u . s. temporarily shows this path, but 1st of all, we have to be extremely careful about what the. busy us as nice and

coding be to the un roughly on human standard relief, then release the document that the american relief is not complete and leaves a lot of space to ambiguity. first of all, the population interior. busy in duncan and we're here, we're talking about mainly syria because it is the country that has received the international support, particularly almost none from the way a because it speak about offering you any day and age the population affected by the way. now we have seen that the population effects the by the way, need support in the 4 to 7 days. to remove the debris. which mean that there are in need of teens of national games with dog,

with equipment that can see beyond the concrete and can monitor the heat of the population that are trapped under the degree. however. busy we have gone beyond that now what the population is in need of a water food and blanket, and they need pens and they need to reconstruct that. how now the, the us is not lifting the sanctions on the reconstruction. that's one to the us is leaving a big gap in, allowing the banks to deal with syria, allowing companies to be with syria. the central bank is then under sanctions. so all the company is going to send material to reconstruct or not. they can do that without being under section because there are many sub sanctions to the

initial caesar. so this m b m, big with the that by the us is really unfair for the population that have suffered the way. the other point is, why did you ask, shoot this past it because the u. s. as been under tremendous as social media and media pressure, can you call me of a country that i've been suffering from such a strong, adequate at this level of a magnitude? and then leave it on its own. busy with. busy under sentient, now it is important to do something. so what they have done, they have done something to feed the p r and say, well we have done that. and now we allow people to support the, the syrian who have suffered from the consequences of s way. nonetheless,

it is very ambiguous and syria is not getting the western support and through today . so bashar assad actually made a comment about the u. s. looting of the middle east of its oil, its treasure. does this relate to why there have been sanctions on syria since the 19 seventy's? well, i think any come through with the resources and having a very strategic geopolitical location. is it because today it's not a blessing? and because the israel in want of syria and one been good and height and it has already occupied their goal and hi, this is something that is against the american policy. and again the policy. this is why the americans over demonize those who are against them or who at least who do not submit to them because she has not been against the americans briefly

because. busy that she has collaborated and maintain a bank with relationship with the what in general, because there is no need to become the enemy of europe. all the united states. however. busy paying some kind of in dependency and maintain its. busy integrity by looking after its own interests, like every single nation, because of that, the americans don't want that in the middle east. and as we had general with the clubs saying a full style generally that the americans were planning to occupy several countries in 5 years. starting from, i've gotten this done, iraq and syria before going 11th, and iran, sudan, so mighty i could throw in libya. so syria was on the line of the united states to be occupied. and we talk in 2001. and just after the 911,

this is why tyria is part of the u. s. plan to be open by o to be submit. and coming out next. the white helmets once heralded by the wax. now speaking out against it, we'll discuss it when we return with elijah magna sit tight. ammo will be right back. ah ah ah, in the least come to the russian state. little never. i've side as i'm phoning most i'm seeing with within the 55 with okay. so 9 is to final speed anyone else with we will van in the european union, the kremlin. yup, machine. the state on russia for date and square

r t spoke neck. even our video agency, roughly all band to on youtube. with some nation may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities and other countries. the united states of america is different. wearable people long to be free, they will find a friend in the united states. ah, with a big old lady basie slowly sitting in p draw,

you look at the book they incentives of each cigarette, peel color revenue. this is one among several means to reach the goal of conquering foreign lands and bringing them on to the helm of usaa weston, economic interests. people been cited adding that needed to grow valley democracy during returning color. so no, we are saying loaded soft power america. and the final goal of these seem revolutions to ensure that there are no independent players in the world anymore. ah, walk back to the m o i manila chan. syrians are dying as we speak, but much of the west is trying to turn this natural disaster into the political

failure of bashar al assad. elijah manet is still with us to continue this conversation. so elijah, the collective west is criticizing syria and russia for only having one corridor for aid to come through russia, as we know as an ally of a sod and helped prevent an outright qu in the country. nearly a decade ago. the russians also helped the syrian government defeat isis and protect world heritage sites. but if the rambles control, the north west region and american troops are in the north east of syria, with all the oil wells, isn't it incumbent on the u. s. to negotiate safe travel routes in the north west since the rebels and the u. s. have the sort of the same objective of toppling assad. well, even if they have the same go today, they. busy negotiation or really restore between the us and the russian

president on the same ground in syria because there are some russian forces in the north east, but they don't have the upper hand and the americans. where's the now to make it clear that agreed and. busy informed the united nation that he is going to permit a treat, crossing from turkey into syria, and then they can use the crossing. now the reason why wash and china and syria was stopping other crossing because it is related to the sovereignty. if syria allowed so many crossing to go through and the americans are supporting the job is to talking about the guy that was talking about isis room and then we talking about you had to, are it live in know, west? yeah, it means that the americans would create the fact to kind of the small stay within

syria and take this part of syria and occupied forever. this is what the land of the americans to maintain supporting this just not a. busy big, however, there are around 4000000 people are living in it. and because of that, the russian and the chinese, according to the way of the us government, wanted to limit the actus to be under the control of the tack. and under the control of the united nations to allow to support and the feel of humanity k without. busy becoming a place where the west can transform and be based in that already they are based in the west and the north east, syria, there's one day, there has to be. so that's one area. second thing is there are other crossing that the government in damascus allowed and open from have side. it is. this is so rocket that lease to it. however. yeah, on the other side,

open no structure where x ices x in syria refuse to allow the goods to cross from one side to another because they think this way. busy and give a wake up, hold to the population that is in it, live and invite them unconscious. be to go and live in the regime controlled area because these people want to live in be and they have their own in other part. and they have a willingly selected to wolf to that side, thinking that the war will continue. however, the minute then in the part of preventing anyone from crushing on the government sites. this is why the government say, well, i give you the day and we share what we have and if you had to refuse,

now there is another crossing from the side and that the crossing from the. busy side at the put the condition that we should go to a frame, which is a province on the dentist for that very much affected by the way. and it is not so however, the minute and that control and the crossing from the, from west just from the eastern area to the west of syria, on the border between the 2 side and all from and 100 up through gate. and these are pro american them and they have confiscated all the convoy of 32 trucks that were crossing from the side in. busy to or in the area under the control of the car to a frame where the city and also some of them who did not leave there.

and there was a fight between the minute and no one's to steve the content of the trucks because they can see them at the end of this seeming blockade of relief. be it at the core doors or group, just afraid to cross the u. s. on these sanctions land mines, it's starting to draw even the higher of the controversial white helmets who have just now criticized the un for not stepping in in the way of aid. what do you make of that? what the, why 10 minutes have been trained by the research should they have been trained by the way and they have a good purpose during the war in this information and then putting up information. busy and that to the propaganda that the west was ready for it to. busy publish it, publish it, however, the up, the tie to stand against president said has gone because after 13 years,

12 years of war, the west did not manage to over troll credit than this. therefore the white tenants are no longer useful for the west and because they are no longer useful and the west deeds on base is of a we don't have friends, we have interest basis relationship. then the white element today are look at in a different way. so the waste has a lot of money to spend on the gray, 120000000000, but very little money to spend on supporting people who wants to survive. those who remain alive off of the for that new esteem. the british spending a few $1000000.00 only for the population when syria,

if we want to look only at yes, great and not of the consequences of the. busy war president, russia, you bet you can said the cost is $84000000000.00 in turkey. and i think if you dozens of billions in syria, because the providence of a level and project province of back where very much affected with over 4 and a half 1000000 people displays and without forgetting about the province of egypt and the one of the 3. therefore, sending really 4 to 6000000 or even 10 or 100 is not going to be sufficient to buy 10. for the displace people is all going to be sufficient to buy food for them. and rather than as the guy said, they need the year to reconstruct. and he has 98 nation supporting in syria

10 to 15 nation supporting without sending money because. busy content benny according to the us sanction that caesar act u. busy s and e youth action and we can imagine the countryway can help you the oil can not use the wheat and. busy is harvey surviving were the little edits to see and managing the country and want to reconstruct after the war that the expense that the cost reached between $500.00 to $800000000.00. and on top of that, now the government needs to be with a natural disaster. this is a lot for government or any government to deal with. this is why china, russia and the whole why to, with a little bit of sense toward humanity, regardless of the syrian or non syrian is inviting us to lift all

of the sanction. because there is no need for very long paper, explaining which article, which paragraph and what's where people can send or not to send to syria. the americans could have said we suspend. busy or the sanctions and can further notice and then everybody will go and support you for one reason. busy because everybody need to do some business and reconstruct interior is also. busy official, if we don't want to look at the many inside and supporting people in the i. yes. the henry kissinger rules for diplomacy. last thing here, elijah, you're in brussels home to the european union. h q. at this point, not one plane has come into damascus to help the syrians, although they have helped turkey. why not? they are so much closer to syria than say, venezuela. yet,

even the venezuelan have sense help. make me laugh because when it's, when it's not under the u. s. thumb and the we in brussels. unfortunately with all the european union gathering $28.00 nations under the us. and they do whatever the americans are doing. and they act according to the width of the american, and they have eyes, it and pockets own the whole war these days. so when we see a country live in its way, it's really shameful for the you, you to look at a country under the sanction. like when it's way that been suffering so much sending and they're playing. they could have done at least is small gesture with a population that lives in syria, particularly the area that serve the purpose of the americans and natal instead of

serving their focuses. and here i'm talking about it live that is affected. not even that area was supported. so when vince will attend to playing cell do or abs and the brains and said they will send more and they send the team to. busy it but this all these have money. however they, they charge go, they will don't want to trigger the angle the american then say when sending a lot. busy of support to syria. so even that you make it a country that is bullying the was including brussels, including the european here who are taking decisions against the interests of the european population. but against the interest of the humanity. not to go and support a population in need. after such a scale of as grades is really shameful. and once he is really ashamed to be

european, a larger man, a thank you so much for that analysis. you can find more of olaja work at olaja, j, m dot wordpress dot com. and that is going to do it for this week's episode at modus operandi the show that dig deep into foreign policy. i'm your host menella chan. thank you for tuning in. we'll see you again next time to figure out the amount ah what i knew crazy. yes. or took a look and i lost most of my friend. that did i was broken. i wasn't able to save anyone. i did nothing and i met

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