ah, a a pentagon job advert for an advertiser to you. praise defense ministry shows the long time u. s. policy of controlling ukraine's affairs with washington now pushing cavil away from peace talks with russia. i didn't see any issue that would prevent a vision of the relationship across investments. successful saudi arabia confirms it could very quickly start investing in iran following a break through operate chinese program agreement of restoring diplomatic relations between the states. and we continue our special coverage of the grim legacy left by

the disastrous us blood borne iraq, 20 years since then. us president george w bush's ultimatum to saddam hussein, to give up power or face for with good morning for martine, are national studios in moscow, and welcome to the hour's top stories across the globe. i'm pure ela is about you, prince focus should be on the battle ground rather than p stocks with russia. that's according to u. s. secretary of state anthony blinking, who claims that washington's goal is to bring peace. however, documents from the pentagon, dating several years back, reveal the u. s. longstanding policy of trying to influence key decision making article responded donald quarter has the story. what does the key of regime have in common with nicaraguan drug traffickers, in afghan islamic fundamentalists,

american money and expertise have converted all of them into proxies at one point or another. take these 2019 job ads for us state department employees looking to advise ukraine's defense ministry 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. t 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 contact 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 and speaking with zelinski himself was close to each other. no, sir, silliest. was the point of meeting with the landscape. he give away his country to complete foreign control, the key issues of life and ukraine of the cited note in cuba in washington, and partly in berlin and paris. so what is the to talk about 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 halves, 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 done at people's republic between january 1st and december, 28th, 2020 t 1091 civilians were killed in the region and another 3500. 33 people will wound it, human rights of uses 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 footing the bill. rehab says it's ready to invest in their iranian economy,

falling the chinese broken agreement to restore diplomatic relations between saudi arabia and turan. how quickly in your mind, do you think we're going to see saudi arabia making significant investments and vice versa? oh, 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 sh oh, that would prevent normalization of that original. sure. across investments successful the turning point in the regions state of affairs was followed by saudi statement on the oil market, stating the country won't trade with those who impose any sort of price caps or restrictions on commodities. if a price kept were to be imposed and saudi oil experts will not sell oil to an encounter that impose a surprise capron,

our supply will reduce oral production and i would not be surprised if others do the same. the statement came as us legislators 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 plus, looking to counter the bill earlier, we discussed the perspectives of further cooperation between a rod and saudi arabia, which journalist entered or martin j. iranian political analysts and academic professor said, mohammed mirandi and geopolitical analysts, a med, i'll a 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 tensions, to create divisions. definitely time has changed for iran, it's a different iraq today, maybe and target are more willing to understand the dynamics feel free on what's happening in the past decades of negotiation. now remember, there is one of the agreement that we're going to have 2 months period or basically seeing how she says 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. so definitely, iran is a neva, it's an untapped market. we expect they have 2 trillion dollars worth of goods and

investment and infrastructure and different things are going to be. it's going to have a stake and iran need some of the neighboring countries contribute to contribute them back. and this is definitely aligned with vision 2030 a lot of ground manufacturer capabilities. and they are very advanced and definitely they can contribute to the iran in rebuilding. let's put it this way. and by looking iran, we are looking a lot of the neighboring countries and that's iraq, syria, lebanon, and yemen. and this is going to play a very big economic value within the region. there's a couple of months ahead of us where we will watch was was where kathy they have had in historically these, these, these, these periods of cooling off and then things worse. and again, but i think now the signal, the, the signal is there, the both sides really want to work for peace because peace actually pays awful lot more than war. i mean, the was the saudi got involved in which i've been stopped by the americans. we must

say of cost them enough sleep fortune a certain point. the war was costing a $1000000000.00 a week. the diplomatic fail, as we know, was mediated by age and completely bypassing the us, which is always like to see them at least as its own kind of spirit when it comes fear when it comes to influence. so that's if they can listen to what the chinese foreign minister ministry had to say about this. some in the u. s. style their country as the beacon of democracy. but how surely democratic is the u. s. it is redoubled its efforts to tout its democracy and interfered in other countries as internal affairs and even instigated wars 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 to using washington should be about such developments and rhetoric with the worried now really is the role that america plays. i completely agree with professor maroney,

when he said the world has changed. he's too polite to spell it out in crude terms, but basically, america's none of calling the shots. you know, we, commentators, such as myself, are wondering how much longer we use the term usaa 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 play for very exciting and completely unprecedented. i didn't ever think i'd be on a torture. talking about sound g iranian piece after ron and saudi arabia agreed to restore diplomatic ties. last efforts to mediate if he's still in yemen, gain pace. according to the wall street journal, toronto agreed to stop supplying weapons to the who, the movement in the war torn country. however, iran has denied all allegations it has sent weapons there. to get more details on the story and the latest updates on other headlines visit our website at

r t dot com. washington has announced $150000000.00 in aid to africa, the whole region to fight local militants as the u. s. secretary of state, and since 4 day trip to ethiopia and niger, archie is africa correspondent, corolla taught. le examines whether the u. s. fear of losing influence in africa may actually be fueling its resurgence. u. s. secretary of state anthony blinkin is back again on the african continent, taking off his visit in africa's 2nd most populous nation. if you'll be 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 us 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 for hell have failed dismally to quell the sensations. i'm your any yoga and then on to year to reaffirm a pledge to present vibe made with yourself a leader summit late last year. but me soon as this 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 of our people. if we work together, but the us maybe making if african return already on the back foot of his deal political 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 with unify. so to cancel all military cooperation with western countries in favor of co operation with russia. and while the united states was losing the

battle on game terra elsewhere in the world, it was china that led investments 20 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. it even confuses senior american politicians in the senate. i didn't know there was a 1000 troops in the year. this is an endless war without boundaries and no limitation on time. on geography. we don't know exactly where we're route in 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. like if the 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 one, no 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 way, china's and russia as president,

cheesy ping and vladimir put it will also be on african routes gotta militia for out of. he transferred the israeli prime minister, has rejected an offer of compromise from the countries president who warned of the dangers 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. crowds once again took to the streets to protest against that judicial reforms limiting the power of the supreme court. demonstrators warned the countries democracy is under threat. a group of renown writers and nobel prize winner signed a petition sent to the german and british ambassadors to cancel netanyahu's visit to berlin and london. we spoke with oscar nominated director year a marble who also signed the petition and warranties are a will become

a dark state if the prime ministers reform still had commission. 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 of the 2nd and 3rd, readings of laws or some of the laws of be been, antonia has regime pass. israel will become in dark state, will 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 in my opinion of the most dangerous a full these are religious scientism led by smart, rich and odds. me who do lead by it m r been clear. 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 that is neither jewish nor a democratic, and the fault is entirely beaver's. he cannot leave with the legal system that post

him on trial. and maybe it will judge against him, and in the sense their power to days far beyond their electoral power. and this is our great danger, and this great distress, this anxiety takes us out into distress. we have no other choice. we must fight for this place. must fight for the society we want to be. were never perfect. i have no illusions about that. the situation in the territories is getting worse, the restock of her 3rd into father. i don't know if it is about to break out or not, but there is no doubt that philistines societies facing a defining moment in their history. because with this government, i don't know what they have left to do. russian foreign ministry spokeswoman maria to hire of are responded to copenhagen's refusal to allow moscow to join the investigation into the north stream explosions describing it as complete fraud and scam. but the machine not said thought absolute not this is such a fraud,

a total scam, he did not even a con, but a 3 penny game, which in my opinion, no one has bought for very long time. and this is what they are playing this for themselves. here that the story with nordstrom will not end the same way as many other stories, things breed are covered. for the simple reason you thought that there's a lot of money, it stays back up to the right, but go to partner, prostate virginia, denmark, sweden, and germany will have rule of law and one can have confidence in our investigations . we have told the russians that we will investigate this thoroughly. and when we have done that, we will announce the results of that investigation. american investigative journalist seymour hersh earlier published a report, alleging an attack on the north string pipeline by specially trained american navy divers. nato ball tops drills were allegedly used as cover for planning the bomb under the pipeline in agreement with a norwegian government biden's decision to blow up the pipelines came after more

than 9 months of secret discussions about how to carry out the mission and who would be held responsible, however, hirsch's arguments were dismissed by europe in washington. with the report branded a complete fiction. the leader of the french patriots parties said the north stream pipeline could have become a key hub between europe and russia, and therefore became an inconvenience for the u. s. even before the theory put forward by hirsch who is a very credible journalist, it was obvious that the americans were behind the explosion. after all, even before the war in ukraine, the u. s. had been fighting the north stream pipeline for years. it had become a permanent part of their policy and in early february 2022 widen publicly stated that the americans were capable of making the pipeline disappear. and so it happened, after all, it was in the interests of the americans. no way is russia's gas competitor,

and many countries have replaced russian gas with norwegian gas. so they too had an interest and in reached themselves at the expense of it. we heard from the foreign policy spokesperson for alternative for germany party. our men policy hampel, who says that the main suspect all of shoulds had prior knowledge of what the us was up to. now yahoo, as on the door, should look well then what should the germans report about? they themselves are not informed, and therefore you are unable to forward anything to moscow. germany was excluded for a long time. information was sparse if it was available at all. the german public has heard almost nothing for months. it emerged from the story of, for you as a journalist. he seems to have been the one who's part of the debate again in germany, one tries to give the discussion about it as quiet as possible. this already proves the current state of the german going to start today. this is the most important question for germans. during the last visit of the german chancellor,

all of shoulds to washington, when biden was asked how he wanted to stop nordstrom too. and he said we can stop at one suspected that all of shawls perhaps, already knew that americans were up to you had the findings of the u. s. services as well as the german intelligence, the german attorney general has confirmed that the german authorities said there was possible involvement of ukrainians grew. this is considered impossible among experts in germany, it is completely impossible for a small group of 6 to 7 people, even with 2 divers to dive into the baltic sea at 72, a to meet as depth and blow up a concrete encased pipe. that is simply impossible. thus it is a distraction from the actual facts. ah, there is outrage in the streets of france once again as protesters class with beliefs following the introduction of a widely unpopular pension reform. police use tear gas, water, cannons, and baton to push back against protesters as furious crowds vented their anger at

president microns government. the french capital saw crowds of people gather in the central square to vent anger at the raising of the retirement age. from 62 to 64 years, opposition and peace slammed the move as undemocratic and boot the prime minister as she made a speech implementing a constitutional article that allows the forcing through reforms without the approval of m. p. 's. ah, discontent spread throughout the country as media reported that almost 500000 people went on strike on thursday alone. explosions and fireworks were heard on the streets with fires also visible. the opposition is expected to put forward a vote of no confidence in the national assembly. french trade unions also opposed to reform, saying it is unfair and unnecessary. the disastrous

warner rock, which left a trail of destruction and a 1000000 people dead passes this 20th anniversary archie continued 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 austan rocky leader saddam hussein by force say he had to give up power and leave the country or face attract by thousands of us and allied troops. saddam hussein and his sons must leave iraq within 48 hours. their refusal to do so will result in military conflict commenced at a time of our choosing. should saddam hussein shoes confrontation,

the american people can know that every measure has been taken to avoid war. and every measure will be taken to win it. despite george bushes promised to take every measure to avoid war, his ultimate decision to invade iraq through the country and the wider region into chaos. displacing millions and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians. the u. s . invaded iraq under the pretext of stopping the danger from it's a legit weapons of mass destruction. same piece will attempt to disarm baghdad. had failed. that's 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 rough resolution seeking military action. but 2 days later, the u. s. and his allies attacked a rock without un approval. the world is better off without

saddam and power. george bush's words were backed by former british prime minister, tony blair, driven by desire for regime change. the u. k. decided to join us forces in toppling the iraqi government and unleashing chaos in the country. are tis marita across the river, picks up the story. once a 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, it was payback time for america. and the hans 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 p r 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. the p . m 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 un 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 a 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. so wanted, hoping iraq's leader would say no, and that would be enough to topple him. well, september 2002, tony blair's end for us claim. the intelligence picture they paint is one accumulated over the last 4 years. it is extensive, detail and authoritative. 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 ex, for a dr. telly 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 sauced, but that was single sauced 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 hang,

they rock inquiry known as a chill cut report revealed that the so called the rocky dictator posed no eminent 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 courts. saddam hussein had note posed an immediate threat to the interest of the u . k. the intelligence regarding the weapons of mass destructions was presented with an warrenton 70. the invasion was not necessary and the invasion had been undertaken without the authority of the one security council bots. 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 iraqis, 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 country after saddam hussein? well, they didn't care, as was revealed in a secret memo ads of war 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 k companies are well placed to pick up contracts in the aftermath of the war by way of specific.