on colonial uniform, which push the world into the chasm of the 2nd world war a ah. a new era for russian chinese relations as it's confirmed she, jim pings 1st trip after re election will be to moscow next week. opening pandora's box, china denounces the strengthening of nuclear cooperation between australia, the u. s. and the u. k, saying it could threaten global security and we continue our special coverage of the grim legacy left by the disastrous us led war in iraq. 20 years

since then. us president george w bush's ultimatum to saddam hussein. to give up power or face with very welcome. this is on the international with the latest world news update. it's great to have you with us this hour. so it's a facial stadium bank is set to visit moscow next week to meet vladimir putin plenty to discuss from the russian chinese strategic partnership to pressing global issues. a finding of bilateral agreements has also been announced with more details to follow the chinese foreign ministry spokes person one. when has emphasized that this coalition is a win win partnership and is not aimed at any 3rd party. should you meet with you. barnwell johnson, you president sheen pink state visit to russia will be a journey of peace practice. true multilateralism based on the principles of non

ally, non confrontation, and non targeting of 3rd parties promote the democratization of international relations. build a multi polar world pattern, improved global governance, and contribution to world development. china will uphold an objective and impartial position on the ukraine crisis and play a constructive role in persuading and promoting peace talks. the development of strategic cooperative partnerships between china and russia. benefits both the people of the 2 countries and the world. this differs from the practice of some countries holding the cold war mindset, forming cliques everywhere, engaging in confrontation, building small circles and camps, and had gemini and bullying everywhere. 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 ground 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. and we spoke with nelson, one device chairman of shank eye center for win pack and international studies. he says ukraine is likely to be top of the agenda of all the topics that the 2 country leaders between mr. she and president booking. i think the topic of the

ongoing conflict in ukraine is certainly going to be on top of the agenda and that's going to be discussed for jewel. but very mind that china has recently published its position on supporting peace and cease fire of the conflict. so i believe this is certainly going to be discussed. i think this is also a clear message that has been sent out with regard to the, the upcoming visitor president t to moscow. now, china's independence in its foreign policy and his handling of international relations is not going to be influenced or even manipulated, or you've been deterred by and a 3rd party from monday to wednesday. next week will be bringing you the special coverage of chinese, the, the shooting, paying a visit to moscow on that,

and on line say to join us for that. the news opening pandora's box. that's how the chinese foreign ministry, his label be increase in nuclear cooperation between australia, the u. k. the us calling it us through it to global peace, unsecure c. menu, all caught up with us. and britain and australia are engaged in an anglo saxon cabal. establishing a so called trilateral security partnership and promoting cooperation on nuclear submarines and other sophisticated military technology. this is

a typical case of cold war mentality and it's like opening upon doors box. it will have serious impacts on regional and global peace and security. the reaction comes off, the washington agreed to sell up to $220.00 tomahawk cruise missiles to australia, making that country only the 2nd american ally, also britain to gain access to the advance us weapons. according to the 2021 deal cambra pledge to buy 3 nuclear submarines from washington. the vessels could be used to transform the launch the long range tomahawk missiles which china seas as a threat. while debate south sparks have a weapon store the radioactive waste that will be produced by australia as future submarines with the victorian and west australian premier. making a clear that is not welcome in the states and to bring some clarity to the mention . still be all because contract is a mo pete decade past between australia,

the u. k. and the us, under the agreement, australian sailors will be sent to other men, the countries the training on using nuclear subs of the for years, washington and london move based submarines in western australia and cambra must buy 3 us model subs in the early 20 thirty's with the option to purchase 2 more and by 24 people astray, the navy will receive custom sub designs with a combination of us and u. k. defense technology. nuclear free advocates and analysts, dave sweeney, safely punks poses a serious environmental threat and provoke symbolists. erica escalation. there is a lot of surprise, stunned surprise, really about the extent of the announcement made this week about the rapidity all the deployment about the fact that stray will be hosting high level radioactive waste. a lot of shock and anger about the cost,

the current crisis tag is $368000000000.00 astray and. busy dollars, and that is at a time when a stria, like many other country, is facing economic difficulty, rising cost of living prices and the costs that are associated with increasing climate impacts. and people are saying, why wouldn't we are made the decision? and. busy surely there a way that we can cut a large amount of money. the single largest buy farm phrases bought capital expenditure in defense in australia. history. surely, there are ways that we can spend the meet pressing human and environmental names far more importantly and far more effectively than the acquisition of nuclear submarines. there's a lot of concern that these locks astray into war fighting plants

reduces australia sovereignty and independence of positioning. an increased and great environmental threat should something go wrong with the sub environmental threat through high level white's and above all military threat. and military tension on russia has dismiss claims that it's been illegally reporting children from former parts of east in ukraine as moscow point to the need to evacuate mine as away from military combat learnings russia. children's wives commissioner has post. i saw kathy response to the hague, issuing of arrest warrants for her, and president putin on alleged war crimes charges. it's great that the international community appreciates the work to help the children of our country. the fact that we don't leave them in war zones that we evacuate them, create good conditions for them. surround them with loving and caring people, null and void that are rushes foreign ministry, his branded, the international criminal court arrest warns most who say that it has no legal

ramifications for the country as it is not a policy to be i. c, c, international statute. the hey claims the russian president on the children's wives commission are responsible for reporting ukrainian children allegations previously voice by key f i c. c. jurisdiction is not recognized by countries including russia, china, india, and the us. he's the reaction from russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman. decisions of the international criminal court have no significance fall country, including from legal standpoint. russia is not a participant of their own statute of the international criminal court and has no obligations under the statute. russia does not cooperate with this body and possible recipes for us from the i. c. c will be null and void to us. it's a political instrumental i, station of court. and that is anyway, facing lots of problems because it's, it has been completely opposed. mom suppressed in particular by the us government

over the last 2 decades. it's a double, it's a triple standard if you want. and as i mentioned before, and i mean we had ample evidence. also by not only julian assange will have done that while we can leaks, but let us all the records see more her. she was the 1st one to report on crimes perpetrated in us controlled prison camps such as other arrived in spring, 2004. not to speak of the destruction of cultural heritage shell. what happened to impact or to exactly 20 years ago. it started the invasion and there were many, many statements also by the late un secretary general coffee. and now about the violation of the un charter by those who invaded in iraq back in march,

2003. and yes, nothing has happened on that. i mean books were written in legal opinions were given, but the i c. c never ever became active. tremendous decree of instrumental, i'd say sion, this international crime court the disastrous war in iraq, which left a trailer destruction under reported 1000000 people. debt is coming up on his grim 20th anniversary. we're bringing q on special coverage of the conflicts through the oil rich country into chaos. and the stabilizer region figures to come ah, well, 20 years ago to the day george w bush made the decision to ouster, 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 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 when it, despite george bush's promise 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 its alleged weapons of mass destruction saying peaceful attempts to disarm baghdad. had failed despite un inspectors reporting no evidence of weapons in iraq. george bush's ultimatum came

out after the u. s. u. k, and spain signed a joint draft resolution seeking military action. but 2 days later, the us and its allies attacked iraq without un approval. the world is better off without saddam in 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 tease marina cars, whoever 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 $911.00, it was payback time for america. and the hunt 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 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 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 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 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 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 no posed an immediate threat to the interest of the u. 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 box. 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 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

take companies are well placed to pick up contracts in the aftermath of the war. by way of specific follow up, we should convene 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 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 others on war and peace. the bad guys got away, unbelievable as he continues his coverage of the legacy of the u. s. that left her

in and that left the u. s. left iraq law the after the unprovoked invasion later throughout the day. so they stay with us about thank you. 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. who's with food and sleep with the russian economy has not been directly affected by the banking crisis unfolding

in the west. that's the message from the head of russia's at central bank during her latest press conference. but some given us new cause in assassin the external conditions and cannot avoid commands and become and see to wish and the banking system of the us in european there is no direct impact on the russian financial system. but these new factor adds insults and see about the future trajectory of the global economy. and i would like to emphasize once again that the direct impact from what's happening in the west and financial markets has had an extremely limited effect on the russian financial system. the latest worth and financial crisis was triggered by last week's collapse of silicon valley bank. the former parent company of the failed bank has now also filed for bankruptcy phase. it is no longer affiliated with v b. as the bank has been taken over by the u. s. federal deposit insurance corporation, the silicon valley collapse also triggered the fall of

a signature bank which was closed just 2 days off the s v b. the shock waves of the us banking crisis spilled over across the pond into europe where credit suisse and bank stocks have tons by 20 percent this week. so consummate persistent inflation in the us and europe with the rates report that 6 and 8.5 percent respectively. banking and finance. professor richard van, i say the terms the curb inflation by injecting even more money is a recipe for disaster. they're saying that higher rates will give us the price stability. and by continuing to expand quantitative lee and in j more money, this upholding the financial system will really it's the other way around. i mean, they should, they should not raise interest rates, but tighten, then you don't have inflation. gomez will always say everything is fine. this is

going from grade to even greater. so we have to be very skeptical of that, particularly when governments impose policies on their economies that can only cripple the economy. and also europe imposing sanctions on russia. stopping the importation, both necessary energy cost effective energy from russia that russia, as always delivered. and soviet union been delivered reliably, 0, just suddenly stopping that. what were you going to get going to get? we get can only performance processions, supplies on problems. that's what we're seeing worldwide. and certainly the ticket in europe and also to the some extent in north america. and the don, yes, republic, russian shapes are now fighting for a key facility inside aust, him off schools i called about committee according to the regions had a bottle of attrition that has been waiting for months unless that officials are reportedly concerned that ukraine is burning fil,

ammunition faster than it can be replenished. glasses can pass for a spring counter offensive and a bit to turn the tide. with so much riding on a ukrainian country offensive, the united states and britain are preparing to ship thousands of nato and soviets artillery rounds and rockets to help shore up supplies for a common ukrainian offensive. but a senior american defense official described that as a last ditch effort, because ukraine's allies do not have enough ammunition to keep up with ukraine space. and there are stocks are critically low. concerns over emptying stockpiles comes as the current usage of ammunition vastly exceeds production by key of the allies for and since every month ukraine uses more than 4 times more. $155.00 millimeters shows that are produced in the entire us. for me, us marine corps intelligence officers scores where to says ukraine doesn't have enough resources for a successful offensive operation. you create has no chance to turn the tide. i mean,

this is an act of desperation on the part of ukraine's western supporters. it's a desperate attempt to alter, you know, the inevitable trajectory of this battlefield. ukraine does not have the resources to carry out an effective counter attack. they don't have the resources to sustain such a counter attack. the russians, on the other hand, have cumulated significant combat power and have a rated both in a defensive manner with defenses in depth in fully manned and offensive capabilities. russia out match as ukraine and every aspect of this war, you know, the best you crank it hope for is to prolong the conflict through effective defensive operations. but if you crane is going to try to carry out a counter attack, not only was counter tech fail, but it will eat up the critical reserves like you create needs,

if you wanted to continue this conflict. so rather than prolonging the conflict, ukrainian counter attack would actually shorten the car, tanzania and india are set to conduct trade using their own national currencies. the indian re p. anton's any instilling will now be the main currency used with both nations optimistic. the venue agreements will increase economic opportunities between 2 sides and neighbors in line with india's recent efforts to reduce its dependency on foreign currency, especially the us dollar. and in economist shadows, cody says the, the world is we're increasingly approaching an area of no dollar supremacy. i think it's a win win situation, and in fact, you know, at this point of time has done these arrangements with about 80 to do that. what are they are not, are israel you feeling a lot of other countries with i think this is yet increasingly heading to a dollar. no more would be

a supreme courtesy donor. we all know is 90 percent of greens on the wall is gotten you was dollars, you know, around 50 to 60 percent off with with the us dollar a. i think this is a very good more greater countries don't do not need to preserve dollars. i'll be just a moment, you start running all these points result, you start feeling degree. thought out in the piece of pakistan, we thought a lot of countries, it broke the dollars a will be getting more problem. the board is by for a lot of dollars by start picking up based friends protesters eventing their theory, the government's new pension reform for a 2nd night in a row in paris, local authority say more than 4000 people have rallied in this city. protest is built barricades and started finance outside the parliament. busy building burning cuts out of president mac wrong well calling on him to step down by

a police have made a number of arrest soft, some demonstrators through stones and glass subjects. if offices comes off to the french government, bypass the lower house of parliament and raised the retirement age from $62.00 to $64.00. without that, we can find more details on that story and everything else on our website r t dot com. thank you for choosing arte international will be back at the tone, please. ah, ah ah

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