a him with with the classified pentagon documents reveal washington's years long policy of trying to influence kids. decision making free at inter on may students start investing in each other's economy according to saudi arabia's finance minister as the golf neighbors to complete a historical approach meant. and we continue our special coverage of the grim legacy left by the disastrous us. what border rad? 20 years since then, us president george w bush, his ultimatums to saddam hussein, give us power or face,

or from a good morning for martine or national studios in moscow. and welcome to the hours most vital stories across the world. i'm fear allies about ukraine's focus should be on the battle ground rather than peace talks with russia. that's according to u. s. state secretary anthony blanket, who claims the u. s. goal is to bring peace, but recent declassified documents from the pentagon reveal washington's longstanding policy of trying to influence kev's decision making. our tea correspondence donald quarter has the story. what does the key of regime have in common with nicaraguan drug traffickers and afghan islamic fundamentalists, american money and expertise have converted all of them into proxies at one point or another. take these declassified 2019 job ads for us state department employees looking to advise ukraine's defense minister training includes advisor and mentor

skills capacity building operational readiness. the advisors, primary focus is support for ukraine's restructuring of defense budget management systems towards nato, and support of the ministry of defense. his goals towards nato interoperability. the president of ukraine has signaled his desire for the defense establishment to move toward euro atlantic integration. the senior strategic policy advisor will consult with the deputy prime minister for european and euro, atlantic integration and their national security team on furthering governments of ukraine wide relations with the north atlantic treaty organization. when it comes to american string pulling and key of these documents are just the tip of the iceberg. up until february last year, the u. s. had hundreds of so called military advisors in the country. they took a direct role in training neo nazi battalions like as of on how to effectively use weapons supplied by washington for the ukrainian military. there are the open

admissions that the u. s. helped coordinate last year's counter offensive in the hark of region and is planning to do the same in the spring of this year. this current group has made it clear that we will support ukraine's fight for freedom or the long haul and help ukraine hold in advance during the spring counter offensive . it's no wonder why vladimir putin, although he has repeatedly called for negotiations in the ukraine conflict, doesn't see much sense in speaking with zelinski himself. most of the chips. no, sir, zelinski was the point of meeting with landscape to give away his country to complete foreign control of music issues of life and ukraine of the site is not in cute in washington shows and partly invalid and harrison is, is, or does this talk about and key with all that military assistance, training and coordination though the u. s. government could potentially be complicit in a legit ukrainian war crimes. after all,

russia has documented over 2600 such cases since 2014, many of the perpetrators being current members of key ebs political and military leadership. meanwhile, ukraine continues to target civilian areas and don boss with a number of documented attacks rising by the day. according to the office of the ombudsman of the don, it's people's republic between january 1st and december, 28th, 2020 to 1090. 1 civilians were killed in the region and another 3500. 33 people wound it, human rights abuses, mounting civilian casualties, and a blank check for military assistance, all in the name of having ukrainian proxies die for nato's war with the us taxpayer forwarding the bill. read says that it's ready to invest in the iranian economy, falling the chinese brokered agreement to restore diplomatic relations between saudi arabia. enter on how quickly in your mind,

do you think we're going to see saudi arabia making significant investments and vice versa? so i would say very quickly, iran is a neighbor and have been and would continue to be for hundreds of years. so i don't see any sch oh, that would prevent normalization of that original. sure. across investments successful, the turning point in the state of affairs of the region was followed by a saudi state met on the oil market. riyadh said it won't trade with those who impose any sort of price caps or restrictions on commodities. the statement came as u. s. legislatures introduced a bill that would allow suing oil companies from opec plus countries according to the saudi kingdoms, energy minister, the practice would damage the market, creating and tolerable consequence with opec was looking to counter the bill.

earlier we discussed the perspectives of further cooperation between iran and saudi arabia, which journalist, an editor, martin j, iranian political analyst and academic professor side mohammed mirandi and geopolitical analyst, a med, i'll, i'll bro, brain. the world is changing very fast. and the united states and the europeans do not have the cloud that they had before. and they've also shown that they're not reliable allies are reliable partners. they've shown that enough on new administration in iran. it's policy is to strengthen, ties with neighbors, and also pursue asian and your asian integration. those who do not want this to happen in the coming days and weeks will constantly try to use the western media to create engines to create divisions. definitely time

has changed for iran is a different iraq today, maybe and target are more willing to understand the dynamics feel free on what's happened in the past decade or negotiation. remember, there is one of the agreement that we're going to have 2 months period or basically seeing how serious is iran coming to the deal. so it's going to, it's going to have too much of observation of what that right. it's going to come and what they are going to do now is a couple of months ahead of us where we will watch both sides very carefully. they have, in, historically, these are these, these are these periods of cooling off and then things wilson again, but i think now the signal that the signal is that the both sides really want to work for peace because peace actually pays awful lot more than war. i mean, the was that saudi has got involved in which i've been stopped by the americans. we must say of custom enough sleep fortune a certain point. the human will was costing a $1000000000.00

a week. the diplomatic deal is when i was mediated by aging completely by passing the u. s, which is always like to see the middle east as its own kind of spare when it comes fear when it comes to influence. so let's just take a listen to what the chinese foreign minister ministry had to say about this. some in the us style, their country is the beacon of democracy. see, but how surely democratic is the u. s. it is redoubled its efforts to tout its democracy and interfered in other countries in internal affairs and even instigated awards in the name of promoting democracy. facts have repeatedly proven that the drama for democracy orchestrated by the u. s. is never a boon, but a bane for the world. so my question to you is just how worried do you think washington should be about such developments and rhetoric with the worried now really is the role that america plays. i completely agree with professor moroni, when you said the world has changed, she's too polite. spell it out in crude terms, but basically, america's normal calling the shots, you know, we commentators sort of wondering how much longer we use the term u. s. a gemini,

when we, when we come on talk, shows like, like yours. i mean, i really, this is the last nail in the coffin now of us leadership around the world. the fact that the chinese stepped up to the mark and broke this deal was pretty amazing. so i think lots of playful, very exciting to complete the, unprecedented, i didn't ever think i'd be on the torture, talking about some g iranian piece after iran and saudi arabia agreed to restore diplomatic ties. last week, efforts to mediate a piece still in yemen game. pay, according to the wall street journal, toronto agreed to stop the line weapons to the who, the movement in the war torn country 5 or iran has denied all allegations. it has that weapons there. to get more details on the story and the latest updates on other headlines visit our website on r t dot com. washington has announced $150000000.00 in aid to africa,

the whole region to fight local militants as the us secretary of state. and this 4 day trip to ethiopia and niger, our tees africa correspondent grovel, is hotline takes a look at whether the u. s. fear of losing influence in africa may actually be fueling. it's, we're surgeon, u. s. secretary of state anthony blinkin is back again on the african continent, kicking off his visit in africa, 2nd most populous nation. if you appeal wasting little time blinking hell talks with senior officials of the ethiopian federal government and the te gray regions lead us. but blinking his next stop proved a bit peculiar. he became the 1st u. s. secretary of state to visit the j. a country in the for hell region, which has been played by muslim extremists and other tara groups. despite their best efforts, various western lead missions in the hell have failed dismally to quell the

sensations. i'm your any yoga and then on to year to reaffirm a pledge to prison by made of your separate leader summit late last year. that means the analysis is committed to deep, responsive, and genuine partnerships on the continent. because we believe we can help you solve, share challenges and deliver on the fundamental aspirations work people. if we worked together, but the us maybe making it's african return already on the back foot of it's geopolitical adversaries, china and russia, the yanks were militarily present in this a hell. while the extremist and terror groups grew in confidence and even successes leading niche is neighbors, molly, end keena fossil to cancel all military cooperation with western countries in favor of corporation with russia. and while the united states was losing the battle against hara elsewhere in the world,

it was china that led investments to new j as part of its belt and roads in africa initiative. china has made significant investments in the day. so does the american government one to be in the j already having failed the sa hell region and security or investments? the mission is clear as mud even confuses senior american politicians in the senate . i didn't know there was a 1000 troops in next year. this is an endless war without boundaries and no limitation on time and geography. we don't know exactly where we're route and the world militarily and what we're doing. but perhaps the american resurgence is not led by what's image here, but rather what's under it. leg of neighbors does a, how country is blessed with mineral resources, and it's too significant. uranium mines provide nearly 5 percent of the world's output from africa's highest all of uranium. what we know for certain is that

americans are led by fear of losing grounds to their adversaries. and that is fueling the resurgence and is rebranding on the continent before the month of march ends. the by it in administration, is that bring up the african agenda. and if activities, there are 4 important toys in the month. and another military exercise vice president carmella harris will touch down on the continent before the month ends as well. and the big crescendo will be president, jo biden's visit to the continent later on this year. the question is, will it be before or after august when south africa hose, the brick summit in the port city of durban, where china's n rush, as president seizing ping and vladimir put it will also be on african routes.

got a lot of tea chinese we spoke with a journalist and like chad in the whole region analyst who said the visit as an example of western official seeking to dictate policy to african leaders while securing resources. so this is believed in africa in the area that the time that we have now, it's another form of what fell into the african out to do and what to do. they don't care about the climate change and any other things for them is one of the important and wanted to get it by force because will accept or not when they left it under the region to become more we kind of look at because of the position of the building to the leaders of the region on how to behave. so that is what is pushing africa that young the perspective of the day,

the population in africa, secretary the west, if you must, well, and then we have africa, but not another country. there's outreach on the streets of france once again as protesters clashed with police following the introduction of a widely unpopular pension reform. oh, easier gas, water, cannons, and baton to push back protesters as furious crowds vented their anger at president microns. government media reported that almost 500000 people went on strike against pension reform on thursday, explosions and fireworks for heard throughout the country. with fires also visible, the fresh flashes follow the price of french prime minister decision to raise the

retirement age from $62.00 to $64.00 without parliamentary approval and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has rejected an offer of compromise from the countries president. his statement came during the visit to berlin to meet german chancellor, all of shots on wednesday. president isaac hurts off warned of the dangerous israel faces and offered his plan for an agreement between the conflicting sides on judicial reform. find the refusal of compromise from the prime minister crowd once again took to the streets to protest against the judicial reforms limiting the power of the supreme court. demonstrators more in the countries democracy is under threat. a group of renowned writers and nobel prize winner signed a petition sent to the german in british ambassadors to cancel netanyahu's visits to berlin in london. we spoke with oscar nominated director rebar best, who also signed the petition. and ward, israel will become

a dark state if the prime ministers reform, so i had one with the machine. these demonstrations are motivated by the fatal feeling that we're facing and crush fishing of fall into the abyss. in other words, at the end of this month, the 2nd and 3rd readings of laws or some of the laws would be benita. nea has regime pass. israel will become dark state, become a racist messianic state, govern in a certain sense. paralegic laws controlled in a certain way by a group of people whose love of power and greed rounds their lives. there are 2 parties in the current coalition that my opinion of the most dangerous of all these are alicia zionism, led by small traits and outs. my who did lead by a to mar, been and we're the world view of these 2 part is, is anti democratic, extremely nationalist. in other words, they are going to change the existential situation of israel and turn it from a jewish and democratic state. interested, it does need a jewish, nor a democratic,

and the fault is entirely beaver's. he cannot leave with the legal system that puts him on trial, and maybe it will judge against him and in the sense their power. today's far beyond the electoral power. and this is our great danger, and this dread distress. this anxiety takes us out into distress. have no other choice who must fight with his place, must fight for the society who want to be were never perfect. i have no illusions about that. the situation and the territories is getting worse through stalk of her 3rd intifada. i don't know if it is about to break out or not. there's no doubt that philistine in societies facing a defining moment in the history. because with this government, i don't know what they have left to do. meanwhile, at least for palestinians, including a 16 year old boy, have been killed in an israeli raid on the occupied west bank city of janine artes middle east correspondent maria for notion of reports. the idea says that earlier on thursdays, special forces tracked and killed to one to demand who were believed to be involved

in significance, terrorist activity, and one of them introduced an explosive. it was due in yet another mill, through rate, in the city of jeanine, in the north, although through far west bank that is believed to be the heart of our colleagues couldn't resist. the idea of statement says that both men were neutralized while they were armed. apparently the 2 gunmen belonged to local branches all his lungs to harden hammers. milton groups the spokesmen of both of these organizations, reacted already calling this killing a crime and threatening with revenge. the idea of statement also mentions another victim. a young palestinian man was killed on the spot while apparently trying to attack these rally forces with a heavy hammer. the palestinian health ministry says that he was a 16 year old boy. there was also an exchange of fire between these railey forces on the ground, the tensions escalate to the old from the west bank and use rarely, government was sworn in late december. the most far right in the country's history

that chose a very hard line regarding the palestinian affairs. there was an increased number of arrests and healing send to mil to rage. all the israeli army intensify to ever seeing, according to reports more than a to palestinians have been killed by israeli forces since the beginning of this year. most of whom were identified by israel as terrorists, but they were also civilians among them, the situation escalated again. last week, dramatically half through these railey forces killed 6 palestinians again in june, including those israel claimed responsible for how while rush shooting the took the lives of 2 is railey brothers. as you remember that the tac provoke unprecedented pogroms all power and other palestinian villages and towns in the area by israeli settlers. then one palestinian man was killed and dozens of homes, cars were burned. these really authorities then did not announce any arrest the

prosecution of those responsible for these attacks between to raise it, but it is determined to pound to terry's the international community i have to say has been very much alarmed recently by a circle of violence on the ground calling on both sides to come down. and as we can see, the tensions have been only rising the disastrous warren or rock which left a trail of destruction and a 1000000 people dead passes its 20th anniversary. r. t continues its special coverage of the conflict that through the oil rich country into chaos and destabilize the region for years to come. ah, 20 years ago to the day george w bush made the decision to oust then iraqi leader saddam hussein by force saying he had to give up power and leave the country or face attack by thousands of us and

allied troops. saddam hussein and his sons must leave a rack within 48 hours. their refusal to do so will result in military conflict commenced at a time of our choosing. should saddam hussein choose confrontation? the american people can know that every measure has been taken to avoid war and every measure would be taken to win him. the u. s. invaded, arrived under the pretext of stopping danger from the countries a legit weapons of mass destruction saying peaceful attempts to disarm bagdad. had failed. that despite un inspectors reporting no evidence of weapons in iraq, george bush's ultimatum came hours after the u. s. u. k and spain signed a joint ref resolution seeking military action. but 2 days later, the u. s. and his allies attacked iraq without un approval. i will be with you

whatever. that's what former british prime minister wrote in a letter to america's president, month before un weapons inspectors completed their work. deciding to join us forces and toppling the iraqi government and unleashing chaos in the country. our teeth, marita casara, picks up the story. 20 years after the us led invasion of iraq and one question remains, could it have been prevented? well, the answer seems to be no because it was the plan all along. after $911.00, it was payback time for america, and the hunger for state sponsors of terrorism was on after afghanistan, iraq became the next target. and the british prime minister, tony blair, became george bush's accomplice. all that was missing was an excuse to invade. well, here in a d classified letter, we can see how blair tells bush that he's with him no matter what,

as in he'll support him in removing saddam hussein from power. i will be with you will. it's heather, getting rid of saddam is the right thing to do. he's a potential threat he could be contained in another secret memo were told that the pair were concocting a piano campaign on how to sell the iraq war. an entire year before the us invaded to pay him said we needed an accompanying payoff strategy that highlighted the risks of saddam's w m. d program. and his appalling human rights record, bush strongly agreed to pay him said this approach would be important in managing european public opinion. and in helping the president construct an international coalition, the p. m said no one could doubt the world would be a better place if there were a regime change in iraq. what's war? they had a strategy in case that saddam hussein actually gave you an weapons inspectors free reign to check on everything. the piano lay to come and say to me privately that

had spoken again to bush about the issue of un inspectors. bush and acknowledged that there was just the possibility that saddam would allow them in and go about their own business. if that happened, we would have to adjust our approach accordingly. so they didn't even want full transparency. that is pretended to wanted, hoping iraq's leader would say no. and that would be enough to topple him. well, september 2002, tony blair's end for this claim. the intelligence picture they paint is one accumulated over the last 4 years. it is extensive detail and authority. it concludes that iraq has chemical and biological weapons that saddam has continued to produce them. that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes. 45 minutes really sounds fake.

well, it turned out to be, which was confirmed by british weapons expert dr. kelly to a b. b, c, journalist, it was transformed in the week before it was published to make it 6 here. the classic example was the claim that weapons of mass destruction were ready for use within 45 minutes. that information was not in the original draft. it was included in the dorsey against our wishes, because it wasn't reliable. most of the things in the dossier were double sourced, but that was single sourced. and we believe that the source was wrong. this fiasco even made it to the parliamentary hearings, which is where dr. kelly's name was revealed as he was asked to give evidence on what he knew. 2 days later, the man who set the british government sec, stop iraq's w m. d. dosier was found dead. and 10 years after saddam hussein was hanged,

they rock inquiry known as a chill cut report revealed that the so called the rocky dictator posed no imminent threats at the time of the invasion. and that the war was fought on the basis of flawed intelligence. the spotlight was now put on george bush and tony blair, with some calling for the pair to be prosecuted and even take in their case to court. saddam hussein had no posed an immediate threat to the interest of the k. the intelligence regarding the weapons of mass destructions was presented with an warrenton certainty. the invasion was not necessary and the invasion had been undertaken without the authority of the one security council. what's the attempts made to prosecute mister blair failed as the u. k. court ruled that there exists no crime under english law, which the former prime minister could be charged with. and the international criminal court said that the decision he made to go to war in 2003 is beyond their

emits of investigations. and that's it. i apologize for the fact that the intelligence we received was, was wrong. the program in the form that we thought it was did not exist in the way that we thought over a 100000 civilian rockies, killed. many more displaced, british and american soldiers dead for no apparent reason. and this is what they get. oops, sorry about that. and what was the plan for the contract actor saddam hussein? well, they didn't care, as was revealed in a secret memo, ands of what that they care about, iraq's oil reserves, and they were discussing it before the war even began declassified documents states that the british government was encouraged to start preliminary work to ensure you take companies are well placed to pick up contracts in the aftermath of the war. by way of specific follow up, we should convene a meeting with b, p shell,

and other appropriate u. k. companies, whether together or separately to explore ideas and tap into the expertise, we would need to handle this carefully and assure it was confidential to avoid charges of oil motivations. so preliminary work to ensure you k companies will place to pick up contracts in the aftermath. this is all in the public domain. it's been 20 years and still no one has been held accountable. a country was destroyed, a president's was basically assassinated. and those who did it aren't behind bars. no, but lecturing, all those on war and peace. the bad guys got away, unbelievable. 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 great pain, who's

with food and sleep with awe. slowly but surely, legacy media support of the west warren russia is changing. ukraine is not winning in hardly likely to win in the in propaganda is at times powerful but hard. cold facts eventually trump fables written by the elite mediocre scribes.