ah ah ah, a new era for russian chinese relations as it's confirmed, she doing things 1st trip up to re election with moscow late for this month, also on the program. and i didn't see any issue with normalization relationship. close investment. saudi arabia confirms it could very quickly start invest in iran, holding a break through after chinese broken agreements of restoring diplomatic ties between the 2 states. and we continue our special coverage of the grim legacy left by the dust us led war in iraq, 20 years since then, us president george

w bush's ultimatum to saddam hussein. to give up power po, faced with moscow to the world. this is our see international, my name is peter scotts and these the top stores at 2 pm. moscow time, thanks for joining us. official, she's in ping is set to visit to moscow. next week to meet for the mayor. putin will be plenty to discuss from the russian chinese strategic partnerships you pressing global issues. the signing of bilateral agreements is already being announced with more details to follow our tea correspondent done a quarter as well. was we said earlier in the program, this high level upcoming meeting is going to be the 1st trip abroad that teaching ping will makes sense. he was re elected president. and this is also connected to more than a few paul foreign policy spheres for both russia and china. not only are both

leaders going to be signing off on some very important bilateral agreements, but china's foreign ministry also said that this is going to be a meeting a piece. that's because beijing is ready to play a constructive role in regulating the ukraine conflict. and we also heard from that foreign ministry of china that there, that beijing is also looking to basically grounds these talks and the principles of non confrontation with 3rd parties. so that's all among other topics on the agenda, including questions of international and regional importance as well. as strengthening the strategic cooperative partnership between these 2 countries. now it's also important to understand that these talks are, have just been announced on the backdrop of the marine security belt joint naval exercises which are between china, russia and iran. and these have been taking place in the gulf of all mon since march 15th. so it represents another frontier of developing cooperation between these 2 countries. in this situation,

specifically naval and military cooperation. nobody use riyadh says it's ready to invest in the iranian economy. that's falling, the chinese broken agreement to restore diplomatic relations between saudi arabia and sarah, how quickly in your mind do you think we're going to see saudi arabia making significant investments and vice versa? i would say very quickly. so a neighbor and have been and would continue to be 400 years. so i don't see any issue that would prevent normalization of the relationship close investments. successful lieutenant points in the region state of affairs was followed by a saudi statements on the oil market, stating that the country won't trade with, with those who impose any sorts of price cops or restrictions on commodities. if a price kept were to be imposed in saudi oil,

experts will not sell oil to an encounter that imposes surprise capture and our supply will reduce all 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 intolerable consequences with opec boss. looking to counter the bill. malaria, we discussed the perspectives of further corporation between iran and saudi arabia with journalist notice martin j. iranian political analyst and academic, profess to say it, mohammed mirandi on geopolitical on list on and i'll abraham, the world is changing very fast. and the united states and the europeans do not have the cloud that they have before. and they've also shown that they're not reliable allies are reliable partners. they've shown that in, on a 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 division. 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 top in the past decade of negotiation. 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 neighbor. it's an untapped market. we expect they have 2 trillion dollars worth

of goods, an investment and infrastructure. and definitely it's going to have a stick and, 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. they are very advanced and definitely they can contribute to the iranian and 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 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 that 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 had been stopped by

the americans. we must say of custom enough suit. fortunate a certain point. the human war was costing a $1000000000.00 a week. the diplomatic tale, as we know, was mediated by a completely bypassing the us, which is always like to see them at least as his own kind of spirit when it comes fear when it comes to influencing. that's just take a 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 rewards 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 that how worried to using washington should be about such developments and rhetoric 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 normal calling. the shots 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'm, you know, 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 and completely unprecedented. i didn't ever think i'd be on torture, talking about sound g. iranian peace. after a run on saudi arabia agreed to restore diplomatic ties, the sweet f as to mediate a p stealing yemen, getting paid according to the wall street journal, around agreed to stop supplying weapons to the future movement in the war phone country rhonda has publicly denied all of the cases, it's even sent weapons are in the 1st place. more details on the story and all the latest updates on other headlines do because it's all websites off the dot com

the washington has announced a $150000000.00 in a to africa. so hell region to fight local militants as us section of states ends. his 4 day trip to ethiopia, anesha sees africa correspondence corolla. cutler examines whether the u. s. losing influence in africa may actually be fueling its insurgents. u. s. secretary of state anthony blinkin is back again on the african continent, taking 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 south hell regent 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 here in ethiopia, and then on to year to reaffirm a pledge to prison by made of us africa leader summit late last year. that means the analysis is committed to deep responses 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 may be making its african return already on the back foot of its 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 with 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 tara elsewhere in the world, it was china that lead investments to new j as part of its belt and roads in africa initiative. china has made significant investments in the j. 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 and monsieur, 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, leg of neighbors that i 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 bed is fueling the resurgence and is rebranding one. no confident before the month of march ends, the biden administration is stepping 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 host the brick summit in the port city of durban?

way, china's and rush as president, cheesy ping and vladimir put it will also be on african routes. got apologized for oddity transferred. earlier we discussed the current political influence of the us, russia, and china in africa with our guests from ethiopia. now we are moving and as you know of us age, we're into the plan. now we are transferring to the men people and i wanted it isn't so they didn't have time to change the wanted into this new american see took us strategy country. so they need to have a mentor political entity which can run that for the pickup. and we know the american couple of people left in special ed in the fighting and article pushing pressure on the content government and try to achieve better board. so

i think i believe i will be out of element should have a policy which can benefit our country now a citizen and beyond that, african and russia is also a claim that given take approach. when we approach with scrubs that relationship with africa got chinese also want the same from africa. they want to give something and learn something. so they are both focused on the we know, in my opinion, when we approach they don't want to influence to intervene into politics. or not, when it comes to russia and china. on the contrary, when you see to the wisdom to them, because they try to influence your politics as the same time they've tailored to which country you should be involved in a new relationship. and they want every african country to condemn and russia when it comes to the war between russia and ukraine. but some countries say,

no, this is, we have our own stand in, we have our own of the derivation and we can not blindly couldn't damage russia. yes, the russian foreign ministry spokesman maria's has responded to copenhagen's refusal to allow moscow to join the investigation into the north stream explosions describing it as a complete fraud and a scam. but the me cannot say, thought absolute not this is such a fraud. total stamp, not even a con, but a 3 penny game, which in my opinion, no one has bought for very long time and they are playing this for themselves. but the story with nordstrom will not end the same way as many other stories they burried or covered. for the simple reason that there's a lot of money at stake up to the red button. the rest of the junior 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 an investigation alleging an attack on the north stream pipeline by specially trained american navy divers need. so bold tops drills were allegedly used as cover for punching the bomb under the pipeline. in an agreement with the norwegian government by didn't allegedly decided to blow the pipelines after more than 9 months. the secret discussions about how to carry out the mission and who would be held responsible for the hash is arguments were dismissed by europe on washington, with the report brundage complete fiction. where we discuss this with political scientist and professor at the university of a se in norway, glen decent, who says that there has been a slew of deception evolving around the north stream, sabotaged by can only speculate on their intentions, but they will either be because of the current tensions over the conflict in

ukraine, or it's because they, they might have something to hide and not happy about what the possible findings will be. again, i, i can't know the reasons why they don't want to share this much. it's, it's very suspicious. i would say, and it, it will be, it runs contrary to the process of developing trust. certainly if this situation was reversed to us, russia who was investigating and refusing any access to today's investigators. certainly this will be criticized the argument. so, you know, they have a rule of law and so for this reason they want to trust them. there's some weakness by this because this whole process has been very dubious from day one. keep in mind when the pipeline was attacked, all this european and american and america argued that, you know,

all evidence pointed to russia, but no one wanted to release what this evidence was that was pointing to russia. and then we're told that the intelligence agencies knew that he was actually you ukrainian, the pro ukrainian group who done it, but they didn't say anything because to how to protect the ukrainians. so obviously there's all already been plenty of lying efforts of framing, russia, i, i don't know what the opposing argument would be. how can you, on one hand, say, from day one, it must have been russia and then say, i know we were actually hiding it. and because one is a protective crane, is it? it doesn't make any sense. so. so given that this whole investigation been there murky from day one, i think trust building certainly would require giving russia access to this investigation, if not direct participation. what's the phone line in the war in ukraine now,

where drones and cutting edge technology continue to play a crucial role in helping secure the advance of russian forces on egotist done of takes a closer look. a focused guy with a controller, a silent audience, glued to the small screen of the remote. this isn't a scene you expect to observe at the frontline of a conflict, the claims hundreds of lives a day. but it's hard to find a stereotype of the war in the dumbass hasn't broken. these are rushes front most positions in the criminal forest. there's literally nothing between us and the ukrainian soldiers, but the no man's land, the so called gray zone. they're telling us that it's a war of drone, so it's better not to stand under the open sky for too long. this is there we're, we're right of the frontline, the enemies, just 200 meters away. the situation is bird difficult. the enemies showering us with strikes were firing back. in other words, were pulling our weight. it's a war of drones. we use tons of modern equipment from line without drones. it's

impossible to imagine these days. there's a plethora of variables, drones, spouses have to factor in the woodland narrows the radius, the signal can travel electronic warfare and jamming is a major issue too. so the have to get close to the enemy to be effective. ah. without them more tis how would says tanks are blind as if in a game of battle ships. and they cover the advance of strike teams here. when foot soldiers capture a trench there only half way through there. a gamble with death nor that japan just so that the deal our task is to hold out here for another 2 hours until the logan's

republic forces come in or the ukrainians know their trenches. we don't care because there is a whole army of us volunteers, regular soldiers, special forces, men here are from different divisions, each with their own chain of command. but the strike as one. they've learned the hard way that it doesn't matter how much you are of marks, man, if you don't operate as a single organ is with others. if you want to win, no matter what. i'm a guest on of reporting from the dumbass oxy. the disastrous war in iraq, which left to take a trail of destruction and a 1000000 people dead passes his 20th anniversary arts. he's continuing his special coverage of that conflicts the through the oil rich countries of chaos on

destabilize the entire region for years to come. ah, well 20 years ago to the day george w bush made the decision to oust than iraqi leader saddam hussein by force said he ought to give up power and leave the country all face attacked 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 shoes confrontation? the american people can know that every measure has been taken to avoid war. and every measure will be taken to win him will, despite george bush's promise to take every measure, to avoid war,

his ultimate decision to invade iraq through the country into wider on the wide region into chaos. displacing millions and killings, hundreds of thousands of civilians. though the years invaded iraq under the pretext of stopping the danger from it's a legit weapons of mass destruction say peaceful attempts to disarm by god had failed. let's just find you in this, but says reporting no evidence of weapons in iraq. george bushes ultimatum came hours after the u. s. u. k, and spain signed a joint draft resolution seeking military action. but 2 days later us on this allies attacked iraq without un approval or the world is better off without saddam in power. those are george bushes, words which were backed by the former british prime minister, tony blair, driven by desire for regime change. the u. k. decided to join us forces in helping the iraqi government and unleashing chaos in the country. ortiz, marina crossover of the story. 20 years after the us led invasion of iraq

and one question remains, could it have been prevented? while the answer seems to be no, because it was a plan all along after 911, it was payback time for america. and the hunt for state sponsors of terrorism was on after i've gone to stone, 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 still support him and removing saddam hussein from power. i will be with you . what'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 to pay him said this approach would be. ringback important in managing european public opinion and in helping the president constructs an international coalition, the p. m said no one could doubt the world would be a better place if there were 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 p. o late, a commented 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 to wanted, hoping iraq's leader would say no,

and that would be enough to topple him. well, september 2002, tony blair's infamous claim. the intelligence, the picture they paint is one accumulated over the last 4 years. it is extensive detail and authority. it concludes that a rock 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 sauced, but that was single sauced and we believe that the sauce was wrong. this fiasco even made it to the parliamentary hearings, which is where doctor 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, took courts. saddam hussein had now posed an immediate threat to the interest of

the u. k. the intelligence regarding weapons of mass destructions was presented with an warrenton sentence. he the invasion was not necessary and the invasion had been undertaken without the authority of the one security council. once the attempts made to prosecute, mister blair failed, as the u. k. court ruled that there exist 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 contract actor saddam hussein? well, they didn't care, as was revealed in a secret memo, ands 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 governments 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 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 well place to pick up contracts. in the aftermath. this is all in the public domain,

it's been swenson 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 others on war and peace. the bad guys got away. unbelievable. lottie continues is coverage of the legacy, the u. s. left in iraq after the unprovoked invasion later throughout the day. so do stay tuned. 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 danger.