practical objections, so validation of creating a kind of city on the hill on a ah, china blames the west for escalating the crane complex as, as washington is pursuing its own. geo political agenda was undermining beijing's proposed peace plan. ukrainian crisis has come to a critical juncture. we need to choose either to stop hostilities, restoring peace or to fuel the fire and expand the crisis. letting the situation get out of control conflicts, sanctions and pressure cannot solve the problem. a polar state run oil company wants to see russia for halting oil deliveries, both on the tiniest lee admitting that it wanted to break the contract with moscow is sold but was afraid of finds the world bank halts talks with tunisia

over its western back presidents races for remarks about african migrants in the country, local slammed the leader for his hateful speech, accusing him of abusing his power. to day, we are accused of being too numerous in their countries. yet they themselves knew that this would happen. the tunisia residence permit is given to every one, but there is disorder because people have no papers and there is an abuse of power with coming to you live from the russian capital. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories of the our welcome to the program. and we begin with the latest from china's to sessions event where beijing is foreign minister said he hopes the you will embrace strategic independence from the u. s. after the end of the conflict in ukraine,

adding that the west is currently escalating the conflict and pursuing its own agenda while undermining china's proposed piece plan. brooklyn, the ukrainian crisis has come to a critical juncture when we didn't choose either to stop hostilities, restoring peace or to fuel the fire and expand the crisis. letting the situation get out of control, conflicts, or sanctions, and pressure cannot solve the problem. regrettably efforts for peace talks have been repeated, the undermined there seems to be an invisible hand pushing the pro traction. an escalation of the conflict using the ukraine crisis to serve a certain geo political agenda shed that she all the while the u. s. fully supports ukraine, china's foreign ministers, as washington simultaneously disrespect chinese sovereignty sentence intensified last august. when then how speaker nancy pelosi ignored all warnings and paid an official visit to taiwan, sparking or sharper swamps from beijing and prompting large scale military rolls around the island. ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. the minister made

a comparison saying that on one hand, they knew as respects the territorial integrity of ukraine. but on the other hand, it disregards the fact that taiwan is an undeniable part of china. to marmie or chandler, the chinese people have every right to ask, why does the us talk about respecting sovereignty and territorial integrity on ukraine, while disrespecting, china's sovereignty and territorial integrity on the taiwan question. why does the u. s asked china not to provide weapons to russia while keeps selling arms to taiwan in violation of the august 17th communique. why does the u. s. keep on professing the maintenance of regional ties and stability while cowardly? formulating a plan for the destruction of taiwan? when the minister intensified his rhetoric, opposing the interference by outside forces on activities relate to taiwan independence. and i, he reiterated that taiwan in china's 1st right line that united states must not

cross. i'm, it's a, he said that the resolution of that tie one issue is a matter for the chinese people and no other country in this plan on this planet has the right to interfere. he also re eatery that china retains the option to take all necessary measures to achieve the so called great unification with taiwan. ah, and he also blame the you as for the right intentions between washington and aging and said that if the u. s. does not change his path. there gonna be some conflict and confrontation may were that the of argent, the u. s. talks a lot about following rules. imagine to athletes competing in an olympic race. if one athlete instead of focusing on giving one's best, always tries to trick or even injure the other, that's not a fair competition, but malicious confrontation and a fowl. when you, it's so called establishing guardrails and not seeking conflict,

simply means that china should not respond in words or actions when slandered or attacked. that's just impossible. if the united states does not hit the breaks, but continues to go down the wrong path, no amounts of ga, rails could prevent the railing and there will surely be conflict and confrontation . shingle says that he is very much against using competition to character, characterize the realm, relationship with the united states, and has attacked the so called 0 sum game narratives or the so called a cold war attitude. a he also added that the b gene would not remain silent if the u. s. slender or attack china, and that's the pride in china will not make america great again. or stop is rejuvenation, independent china specialist. andrew says that the u. s. is trying to provoke china and to create another ukraine like situation in taiwan. a lot of spaces for the

blue sanders and the boat hall. and it's saying one thing but doing another apart from 2 recalls. ready integrity, a sovereignty, for example, is the so called international order. and then when it suits the united states, they will. ready the united states with long term would throw the order all the window, for example, the latest and iraq and afghanistan. and, you know, even without the approval. ready of the international community in the united nations and, and they took that they've taken unilateral actions to impose the will and on all other countries as far as taiwan is concerned. and i think the editorials realize that there is a risk and that the united states is trying to provoked china into taking premature action and creating another. ready ukraine situation over taiwan. so i think that the and, and also internationally, more and more countries are a lot by this kind of elect rule and kind of the who talk about the united states.

so that been all in a hand. china will take whatever action is necessary when the time is right. trimming. t, as has reportedly doubled down on its efforts to get american made cluster bombs. now asking for a variant capable of being used by ukrainian drones. but western officials and media have remained all but silent. i key as your class while la lake, condemning russia for reportedly using the same munitions. these weapons rockets are missiles that deploy a large number of small explosives are banned by more than 100 countries. that's indicative of cluster munitions. there are a bunch of things that are exploding in the same time when cluster munitions are one of those things that have been a huge problem here in this war, we've seen videos of russian forces moving exception only lethal weapon tree into ukraine, which has no place on the battlefield,

that includes cluster munitions and vacuum bombs, which are a band under the geneva convention. russia is not a party to the conventional cluster, munitions international treaty that bands these weapons. but russia's cost tradition attacks have been unlawful because they involve inherently indiscriminate weapons. they cannot distinguish between combatants and civilians. ukraine's how many cluster bomb called the church can you, is constantly being used on civilian areas in western russia, according to officials and moscow. but western media and officials have widely turned a blind eye. here's one example of such attacks in which dozens of done us civilian citizens were killed. war just a warning, the following images may be disturbing for some viewers. ah, i

i to go further and i've done this, let's cross, i have now to crystal neon and author journalist and founder of don bass insider. who is it from the mentioned city of done that crystal. it's great to have you on the program today. now, what do you make of the west condemnation of russia alleged use of cluster bombs while remaining silent on atrocities? no, that's the best proof of the double standard, which is already can we say as usual in the west? i mean, i was myself and there are such a shilling. last year it was not the school, it was what our gun and grads, which were also clustered, and which were shield on civilian areas on the residential areas. and

they knew that they were shooting residential areas. it was ukraine army doing that . and i've seen no condemnation about that. and the idea that they can provide such weapons to, to ukraine, he is just absolutely shameful. yeah, and that double standard is certainly found their time and time again. now, given everything that the u. s. has given to grain so far and given how many times they've looked the other way, do you believe that the us will ultimately given to you? cranium demands, as we've seen time and time again. unfortunately, i think yes, i mean we have seen they asked for lot of the munition they obtain, they asked for cannons that they obtained. they asked for tanks, they obtained i think the next step would be these kind of weapons and then to have the airplanes. so they know that to ukraine is using these weapons to show

civilians to kill civilians, but they provide it to, to ukraine again. and again, i mean, right, and, you know, speaking of what they have provided to crane and the ways in which the u. s. has looked the other way. we heard from western media and talk to us officials, they've called such weapons. speaking of the culture, munitions unlawful, but washington itself has used thousands of cluster explosives in iraq. for example . how are such blatant double standards? not widely reported on do you think? no, because they have an agenda in the worst. with turn media, all the western media, they have guidelines to follow in terms of near 18 and the stick to it. so of course everything which is not fitting to this narrative. they put it aside. and so the fact that the us are them to producing and using these kind of forbidden are all low for weapon the they should the most about that like the fact that for

example, the us has not destroyed it's all chemical whipping are slow on the country of russia, for example, which has destroyed everything. so the everything which is not convenient for the narrative, the visionary, they just should them up. that's all right. and now we know that the timing is also notable here because we've seen a number of ukrainian link terrorist attacks on russia and bella. ruth, so is it likely that those weapons could also fall into the wrong hands if the u. s . gives into the latest demands from ukraine. of course, of course, a lot of weapons which are provided by the with ukraine are re sold on the black market on the darknet. we have already find some of these weapons in the end of touristy nafrica. so these weapons can be used in

a very criminal manner by itself. i mean, i remind that did not so far ago we have discovered that ukrainian drawn fumed and corrected the artillery shilling, which led to the death over 4 ambulance stuff in doing yet. and so the easiest kind of drawn can be equipped with these kind of cluster bombs. i just cannot imagine the massacre it will do in amongst the civilians of the, of the d, p r and the p r o in russia. and of course, you can any, the ends of terrorists, i mean, the keep regime has link with the terrorist in the interior in libya, we have seen some of the terrorist fight now for you. so if they can have access to these weapons, we have new certainty that these weapons we not and into the hand of high seas or

other terrorist group. and if we can be really a repeat, yeah, certainly a lot of bay care and we'll continue to follow to see if and when the u. s. gets into those latest demands from ukraine. crystal on the on author, journalists, and founder of don rus insider. thank you so much for your time in analysis. you're welcome. moscow and he app have carried out yet another military prisoner swamp deal. russia says its service men are under moral danger while in captivity. 130 ukrainian p o w were exchange for 90 russians, who are now being transported to moscow for a medical evaluation in treatment. last month to similar swaps were conducted between russia and ukraine, with one of them mediated by the united arab emirates. a polish state own company is planning to do russia in order to receive compensation

for the halt of supplies on a major pipeline that transports oil to eastern europe, caused by the absence of an agreed upon export payment. after president joe biden's visit, the russians stopped pumping oil to poland. we will now take legal action and assert claims. let me get this straight. poland is up said that russia won't take poland money any more. poland has been going out of its way to act as ukraine's teacher's pack within the ear, going around publicly bullying its fellow european allies for doing business with russia. just a few days ago. the polish defense minister said on state tv quote, there is no doubt it was germany's policy that help routine to get money, which he used to strengthen his army, nor extreme is an example. although we were called russia phobic, we warned against it. we're talking billions that poland has sent to russia for energy as the german ambassador to the country has pointed out. now poland even

promised to end all russian oil imports by the end of last year. so you think that they would welcome this development? but now the same c, e o of poland state energy from orland, is complaining that the evil russian oil has stopped flowing into poland, which was the largest importer of russian oil to the whole of e u in january, consisting of about 10 percent of its supply and when confronted with that fact, the same c, e o's defense was basically that he just didn't know how to shut off the top. there were 2 contracts, one contract expired in january, the other expires in 2024. it is difficult to break a contract without sanctions. we would expose ourselves to large fines and that money would go to putin anyway. we would pay for the oil that we didn't even receive. so he said that he really, really liked to shut off that russian oil to poland,

but that he couldn't do that without getting fined for breaking a business contract with russia. so it be better to just keep paying for the russian or well then to have to pay a massive fine for stopping it. close buddy, looks like your problem is, are all saw because it sounds like moscow is basically now stopped and he won't have to pay the fine. so what's the problem? unless of course, he really didn't want to break poland, long term relationship with russian oil and was just telling everyone that they were only dating casually, you know, until something or someone better came along and offered some other supply. speaking of dating on the down, low german economy minister, robert havoc also said this week that berlin doesn't have a formal relationship with russian gas after someone mysteriously blew it up along with the north stream pipelines regime. cynthia, mom and we are not dependent on russian guest supplies at the moment. ok,

so it may be that through the elegy, terminals of neighboring countries through which gas quantities come rushing molecules or the gas makes it out so that can neither be controlled nor excluded. but german companies did not buy elegy gas from russian companies or russia, whatever he makes a sound like rushing yas, his imposing itself on germany like some kind of a crazy acts like, well, we try to get it off our line, but it just wouldn't leave us alone, so they're acting like it's not really their fault if they're still playing some kind of light foot see under the table with russian fuel, the american c. e o of chevron. mike worth recently pointed out that indeed europe is still getting russian fuel that it's just taking the long way around from russia going through unsanctioned countries. and obviously that's going to mean that it's more expensive and also introduces more potential risks in a much larger supply chain. which conveniently makes us natural gas

a lot more attractive. so it's hardly surprises. for example, that shell oils c e o is now saying that stability of the u. s. energy market makes it more attractive for the company's investments. then, for example, the u. k. or europe and european customers and industry are absolutely the ones bearing the brunt of all these. adding costs to buy energy and to, to re route it through half the world. now, europe has been saying that it wants to ramp up it's military industrial production . but here in france, they're even struggling to keep making baguettes do the energy cost. so good luck with that guys. meanwhile, the blocks fearless leaders keep saying that they're strong and independent and don't need russian fuel even as they keep importing it on the sly. that is until, as we've just seen with poland, russian fuel dumped them at least 6 palestinians

have been killed and 16 more wounded during an idea of operation in the occupied westbank city of janine, among the dead, allegedly, is a terrorist accused of murdering to israeli settlers? in the palestinian town of who are up last week as early military forces reportedly entered the janine area on tuesday as part of a counter terrorist operation. when the clashes between the i d. f and palestinians broke out. and his reli, apache helicopter, reportedly struck a building where an alleged terrorist is said to have been hiding. the id f, confirm that its troops were in fact operating in the area, but declined to disclose any further details. the palestinian authority health ministry has so far reported one death. the israeli military has been conducting raids to quote, says they put it can ducked counterterrorism in the west bank since april of last

year, leading to at least $220.00 for palestinian does. and in theory a israel has reportedly bond aleppo airport. this marks the 4th alleged israeli attack on syrian territory since the start of the year. televi has not yet commented on this latest claim from syrian media. syria says the airport is currently shut down as it has suffered material damage. officials have been forced to temporarily route flights, carrying much needed humanitarian aid. this comes so the left cope's with the aftermath of devastating earthquakes which hit the country last month. and meanwhile, our top u. s. military commander has made a surprise visit to the kurdish controlled oil rich part of syria's ne. it came without any permission from the government of syria. damascus has branded the visit as a legal calling it

a flagrant violation of serious sovereignty and territorial integrity. chairman of the u. s. joint chiefs of staff mark, milly travelled there to allegedly deep as walmack state terrorist and check and prevent the groups reemergence. however, washington previously claimed that isis has already been defeated. now, some american lawmakers are asking what exactly the country's military is still doing in syria legislation to end the u. s. presence there is set to be put to a vote this week in the u. s. congress, damascus. the ultimate goal of the u. s. military is to support radical islamist the u. s. chairman of the chief of staff made in the legal visit, turn the legal us military base in ne, syria, and claimed that the reason for this visit was to assess the effectiveness of the war against the islamic state. however, the international community knows very well that the islamic state is an illegitimate offspring of us intelligence. this comes as mainstream media and some

western thing techs have started to question, humanitarian aid flow to syria, aimed at helping those affected by the earthquakes. they say that easing sanctions pressure on the country could play into the hands of syrian president bashar al assad, whom washington has been trying to alst by supporting anti government forces. american investigative journalist, macs blumenthal highlight, highlighted the bias, saying how the new york times article, in particular, cited several washington based quote unquote, experts on syria. the 2nd syrian dissident quoted by the new york times works for nato's atlantic. council and heads, the state department controlled shell of the syrian american council. funny how the syrian supporters of starving syrians tend to be in the west and on washington or london's peril. the united nation says the death toll from the disaster and syria has risen to more than 6000 with nearly 11000000 others affect it. although some of

the sanctions on syria were lifted by washington, the country civilian infrastructure has been hampered by the us back insurgency, as well as economic pressure imposed by washington since 2011. this month marks 12 years since the turmoil in the country began. so to go further in depth on the latest. 2 developments, let's bring in independent investigative journalist, vanessa bailey, who joins us from damascus. vanessa is great to have you on the program today. now, some critics say the u. s. in its allies are exploiting the aftermath of the earthquake disaster to put it lightly to further their own interest in the region. what do you make of that claim? yeah, absolutely. i mean, that's been a claim i've been making since about 48 hours or after the 2 great fit on them shortly after the 6th of february. and the clear signs thanks, the upgrade or something to attacked by israel and 3 attacks why i was

against civilian targets, east of hong massacring. i think in the region of 150000000, from taking hostage a number more 1000000 are literally pouring in under the guise of humanitarian aid or into the northwest. which is known to be an even been admitted to be by us officials under the control of my direct line. if i have been since 911 and millions in circles, humanitarian, i is being pledged to that area particularly to and that were effectively set up by the c i n m. i 62 work alongside the terrorists groups dominated by isis. and namely, among those are the white how much you have received or have been pledged over $300000000.00 by the us,

the u. k. and various other private donation companies that are connected to the complex that it has been funding the war against the syrian government. how in theory is truly been through so much just in the last 12 years. and yet the response that we've seen from the u. s. government was that at 1st they weren't going to provide any relief then they are trying to make it look as if they're providing some relief. but as you mentioned, there, the groups that they are allowing that a to go to have been extremely problematic and have had extreme of links of their own. so is there any case where the u. s. is doing anything to actually help theory or right now it's trying to publicly claim that it is. absolutely not. absolutely not. and i wrote about this quite recently that effectively the u. s. crowd town one syrians, that when i talk about syrians, i'm talking about the wrong syrians for the us, the syrians that refused to agree to the removal of their government and their

president. and who have resisted the terrorist invasion that has been masterminded by the us. the u. k. b e are in their partners in the gulf states and israel for the last 12 years. and so therefore, now what i see is a cynical exploitation of a humanitarian tragedy in the upgrade by the west. to take advantage of that and to effectively advance militarily. there have been a series of attacks from the northwest by the groups dominated by ok. you're including more than $100.00 drawings by suicide, drugs and surveillance. drones being brought down by syria in our troops. as i mentioned, the ice this attacks when there was some retaliation for, for the ice us attacks. basically we were told that the u. s. are cool, then is ready as strikes on civilian targets in damascus. and in the south, in sweden, there was another isis attack, and in fact,

after the visit of general, many to the north east, where he did visit headquarters of one of the ices camps. there. funnily enough, there were riots in that camp or the day off. we don't know yet if there were any breakouts in inverted commas. and then that, of course, one day later was followed by the latest is ready, aggression which targeted the lifeline for quite victims in a lab. and has run to the airport out of use at the moment, so i'm not humanitarian. i can enter for the people of the lab into the airport and it's being diverted now to damascus. and we know, of course, the israel has regularly also targeted damascus and international airport by these efforts and civilian efforts. wow, it is just, it's tragic when you think of what is being done to the civilians. there what the u . s. and its allies have done for over a decade. now. do you expect to be seeing more outrage on an international scale at

this point given everything these people have gone through? that is manmade. that is done by the u. s. and is all i've let alone when they're dealing with the aftermath of severe earthquakes and then having to deal with that ongoing tragedy as well as continued attacks and bombings by israel. do you expect to see more outrage on a global scale right now? you know, we're seeing actually i'm in the movement and the c h has literally started off to the right to try and get the sanction lifted. we then of course, have the vote in the senate where 414 voted to keep the see. the sanctions which were brought under the administration some of the most for me, some of the my statistic sanctions i've ever seen unprecedented where they will target any country that comes to the age of syria. so not only are they sanctioning syria and the syrian people and the sanctions are unilateral,

corrosive measures. they effectively destroy syrian society and they are slowly killing the syrian people in what i call syria central, which is under the protection of the syrian government. obviously the us is still occupying fuel resources, food resources, agricultural resources in the northeast. it's forming the army crossing between iraq and syria, which is bringing a central humanitarian aid food and even oil also to learn that crossing has been regularly bombed by the us and by israel. and really the public outrage is being prevented by western media because western media is only talking when they mentioned syria, even in that new york times article where they're talking about keeping the sanctions on an effectively how i see these are people who are calling for functions to be maintained.