nationally, a with a u. k as a now it's not only the supply of tanks to ukraine, but also shells with depleted uranium. it seems that the west has really decided to fight russia to the last ukranian. moscow warms that the u. k. will be violating international law if and data goes ahead with its promise to send toxic depleted uranium ammunition to ukraine. gigi paying wraps up his 3 day visit to moscow. say the china and russia leading the changes the world hasn't seen in a 100 years. palestinians, coal, if a mass demonstrations and hunger strikes, to protest against persistent abuses by israeli authorities, as they call it,

the holy month of ramadan gets under way with get off at 3 pm local time here in the russian capital. this is our t international from the rural re sushi and the entire news team. it's great to have you with us. so moscow has expressed a scathing criticism of western powers, accusing them of trying to dominate the world at all costs, including violating international law. those remarks were made in response to the u . k. announcement that it would supply ukraine with toxic uranium, laid an ammunition known for turning former combat zones into an inhospitable wastelands. the russian president raised the issue at a news conference alongside his chinese counterpart blow even east itself, but the u. k. has announced not only the supply of tanks to crane, but also shells with depleted uranium. it seems that the west has really decided to

fight russia to the last ukrainian. we nodded words, but in reality, great, if all of this happens, russia will have to react accordingly. based on the fact that the collective west is beginning to use weapons with a new killer component of a depleted uranium artillery rounds have previously been used by western military is to essentially pierce opponents, ahmed weaponry, especially tanks. so that is despite what our grave environmental concerns, rushes foreign minister has warned about the devastating impact of using such ammunition food cheaply meaning it shall was depleted uranium to store no only coloring generations, but also future ones. these weapons have already been used in recent history, they inflict and comparable damage and contrast with conventional weapons, but they also have a direct impact on human health. the targets of the munitions will suffer as those currently residing in the affected area, as well as future generations. in addition to killing people,

this munitions also destroy the land. they affect the soil and the ground water for many years, the conversation further, not without the steve to any. joining us for this broadcast from moscow. good to see you again. the story is just, it's just atrocious. really, we're getting some strong reaction now from the russian ministry of foreign affairs, that was marie, has a heart of a, bring us up to speed. steve, what, what do we need to know? well, we have incredibly strong words that highlighting the potential low long term impact on ukraine of the use of depleted uranium in terms of this increase levels of radioactivity and all the problems that are associated with that. now she said that the use of depleted uranium could cause a genocide for the population there. now the foreign ministry spokesman expressed her concern that the ukrainians just didn't p o being made aware of the potential impact of the use of depleted uranium on that territory. they're only told, of course, that the west is helping that country, that it's going to be bringing prosperity to ukraine. and she said that this was

part of a propaganda machine operating in the country. and of course, it's remember that there is only one news channel there. now there's been, many of them were close. i'm some before friday, the 24th. but many, all others actually were closed down by presidential decree after the beginning of the special minutes you operate. and that's what she said about. i mean you, when you my, you craniums are being told have the west is advocating billions in foreign currency to become a prosperous state. what billions, if they're ready to use depleted uranium on the you know, the potent began to support for solo from deer as the nazi troops during the 2nd world war. do you understand why you were in such a hurry? because after the use of shells depleted, uranium the crop if any living poison. can you paint us a clear picture here? stay for a moment. i mean, do we need to know essentially long term consequences of using ambo like this,

walking to us? yes. for the use of depleted uranium is highly controversial. it remains a gray area in international law law and other u. s. use depleted uranium perhaps most famously in the iraqi town of lou 2 and it led to a rise of birth defects of miscarriages of different types of cancers. in fact, a 2010 study showed a 38 fold increase in leukemia. now to put that into perspective, that was higher than the level was seen in survivors of the whole rossimer nuclear bomb attacked by the united states in 1945. now i spoke to medics on the ground. that last week i was in felicia, and they told me that there was, undeniably a causal link between the use of depleted uranium. and these are birth effects and abnormalities. but what they also said was that they've been placed on the extreme pressure by the united states not to speak out about it. now. the study the i refer to this 2010 study by a leading health journal was barely covered in the west impress,

leading to accusations, understandably that the scandal of flu jury is being covered out a covered up. let's listen to what some of those on the ground i've been saying. did it a bad mother lover? we didn't expect our 1st child to be born deformed before the us invasion. children were rarely born with deformity, said, fellow j. maybe one or 2 cases out of a 1000 births. a year later, we decided to have another baby, but the 2nd baby was also born dividend. american, on the fellow dell there was thick smoke in a strange smell when the us for storm felicia. we inhaled it and immediately went to wash up 18 months later. my baby was born in the 8th month of pregnancy, but died 10 minutes after he was born because he had lim, deficiency, and congenital malformations were very sad to try to cope with it. the doctor said it's not uncommon in advisors to have another baby, but our 2nd and 3rd children were different till as when my father was diagnosed

with pancreatic cancer in 2021. if they told us that he is sick and feeling poorly . and the reason is that felicia was a battle ground from 2005 to 2013, especially in the district. we are living in a month. now, of course, it's not just the united states, nato has previously admitted to dropping. $31000.00 bonds during it's a bombing campaign of yugoslavia in 1999. and of course there were hundreds of italian soldiers that died as a result of exposure to those munitions that covered, involved in a court case against the military alliance. one serbian law baker, who was involved in investigations or after the war there, said that the use of depleted uranium cause serious damage to the country's natural environment. it polluted air, polluted water and soil. now, some experts have said that the use of depleted uranium is a major global threat is worth quoting. one academic study which describes the

right depleted uranium as the trojan horse of nuclear war. now it said the use of depleted uranium weaponry, defying all international treaties. who slowly annihilate all species on earth, including the human species, and that yet the united states continues to do so with full knowledge of its destructive potential. okay, steve, now all i say, so what is london then saying about me, i guess london has to be justifying the sending depleted uranium ammunition to ukraine. well, what, what do we, what are we hearing from london? well perhaps on surprisingly, britain, along with the united states and france have been among those leading opposition to cause for a band and even a moratorium on the use of depleted uranium on the pass. will fail not previously claimed that the shell some depleted uranium do not have higher levels of radioactivity than ordinary household appliances. we can assume things like microwave ovens, the united states has denied this cause link between depleted uranium and the

counselors and other health abnormalities that we've heard about. now, the defense ministry, again, has come out defending its use of depleted uranium. it's a key, russia of spreading this information that says that the impact on personal health on the environment is low, of course, to meet otherwise would leave them open to potential war crimes charges. but the world health organization has been among those to raise its concerns over the use of depleted uranium listen insoluble, inhaled uranium particles, one to 10 micro meters in size tend to be retained in the lung and may lead to radiation damage of the lung. and even the lung cancer, if a high enough dose occurs over a prolonged period. now some experts have said that the world health organization itself was also put up the pressure into suppressing evidence about the effects of depleted uranium. adding fuel to these claims of a cover up. now,

russia again has previously said that it considers the use of depleted uranium. a dirty ball have a rhonda if kiana supplied with such shells for nato heavy military equipment, we will consider this as the use of dirty nuclear bombs against russia, with all the ensuing consequences. now it's worth a remind a reminder that this announcement about sending depleted uranium to ukraine came at a time when chinese president gigi ping was in moscow. and he was talking about the piece plan to try and bring a resolution to the conflict and ukraine. something which president putin said he would be open to and russia remains open to negotiations, but it's clear that the west continues the violations of international law. an nobody is held accountable for its actions or the west continues to act with impunity. well, i can, i can, i can say that. i mean i,

i was following one of these informative channels and telegram, according to the pentagon, the u. s. is not planning to follow the u. k. in transferring depleted uranium ammunition to ukraine. that's according to the pentagon. we have to confirm that detail here at r t, but it would, that would almost seem to show that america is we know this is bad stuff. we are not going to send it to you, craig, but let the u. k. do it for us, that kind of thing, by the way, just quickly, we just had a press conference here with our teachers for the past hour, rushes foreign ministers ok law for off in soft g meeting is at a tray and counterpart and they were both talking about this issue of a u. k, sending depleted uranium shells to ukraine, both of them osman salo mohammed, the editor, and foreign minister. and of course mister laughter off. both of them essentially pulled horrified and shocked that what they call an escalation like this could be put to such a level of danger for humanity. and this is the key why this is why this story and a horrifying story is not going away anytime soon. steve sweeney. thank you.

the ukrainian government has given an ultimatum to christian clergyman at a prominent orthodox monastery in p. f. now the monks must either align with the state supported patriarch or be banished from the premises. i'm convinced the situation will drastically change when the citizens leave the monastery. i believe the collaborative work specialists and law enforcement officers will motivate that decision. process. express support for the among accept the key of monastery after attention was drawn to the issue by moscow. is patriarch curial, or the pope said that the fighting between ukrainian or russian forces should not impact wholly relics. i think about the orthodox mom saw that keith more necessary. i asked the politics involved in the conflict, respect to religious sites, where your grand already is repeatedly

a rated the monastery on allegations that it's clergy members have pro russia sympathies. however, the religious community has refused to cut historical ties with the orthodox patriarch in moscow. your french president lensky, has approve the crackdown saying the country needs to have a spiritual independence from russia or moscow has said that the actions are a matter of criminal intent. well, let's get and get the conversation further on our international right now. of course, like you've led him, it'll go to a chairman of the department for the church or society and mass media relations of the russian orthodox church. a very warm welcome to today. so thank you very much for joining us here. when i see international via the russian orthodox church is essentially being persecuted in ukraine, who benefits from this? if anybody hello, thank you for inviting me. i don't think that any one or anybody would benefit from

what's going on in ukraine today. you create an authorities might think that they benefit by prosecute in ukraine and orthodox church, but in long terms it'll bring careless and terrible things in the ukraine. that's why i don't think that it is beneficial whatsoever. there is a possibility that the ukranian orthodox church will be deprived of the opportunity to hold prayer services in the key at the church collaborative. how do you assess such actions? well, how can one that says such a terrible thing? it is a tragedy. it is a tragedy of ukrainian people. it is a tragedy of ukraine and authorities, and i think it's a big political mistake doing by making by ukrainian authorities. well, ukraine is also considering the possibility of dining the moscow patriarch. it should this kind of action attract the attention of the international community.

i'm not sure to ask you this. is this a violation of religious or human rights? do you think you're absolutely right. it should definitely should bring attention of international organisations, but it doesn't for some reason. or for those reasons that we can think about. it doesn't bring any attention of any international organizations and political organizations or human rights organizations. despite the fact that the russian orthodox church addressed those organizations, many times pets are curious, addressed political leaders, international organization leaders. she has addressed them recently about the situation with a kiva key on lava. but there was no result and no response, practically, no response. and that's, that's the reality in ukraine today. and what was the 2nd question? well, i was actually going to move on to my next question if i may,

because you've actually let me in to this other question. if i may just, i wanted to ask you, is we understand as we understand clergy of being arrested for books i newspapers, there are considered pro russian. do you have any confirmation of that and, and could you expect any type of reaction out of moscow? yes we do have we do know that it is effect isn't very unfortunate fact. and it is absurd because people are arrested because of having like congratulations levers from a russian hire rights. it's nothing but it is considered to be a crime in contemporary democratic ukraine. it is a very sad and terrible fact, and it is a violation of human rights definitely. and absolutely, when the, when the conflict kicked off in ukraine, the pope in rome, he came out at least twice and called it

a provocation. he said that russia has been provoked into the conflict in ukraine. he's been fairly quiet ever since. do you think the pope himself found himself stuck between a rock and a hard place? the pope you said that was the that's right. that's right. and that's right. so the pope has come out in the past year, 2 times saying, saying that russia was provoked into this conflict in ukraine. he's been quite quiet. ever since. do you think the pope finds himself in a very difficult position these days? ah, well i know the press secretary for the pope. fortunately. so i think her, you, i'd rather you ask her. she is percept. sorry about this. i will let him hillagada . we really appreciate you having having you on the program here. chairman of the department for the church is a society, a mass media relations of the russian orthodox church. quite a long title. really appreciate your time. thank you for joining us there on the program. thank you. thank you.

we'll edit player is seeking deeper ties with russia. that's the message coming from the country's foreign minister as he's just met with his russia counterpart in the southern russian city of saw chief. he added that the west is pitying states against each other. citing the complet a new crane and tensions in taiwan as examples. let me take this opportunity to re offend me and just put in st position on the ukraine. pretext a pretext that has set the sacrifices ukraine and needs people for the deposit, quote quote, for the deposit of destroying their a ham foundation. just as if they one issue is being foisted as a pretext to bring to a halt. genius, peaceful place by any means necessary, including violent conflict. these ed response were policies ad in then getting

humanity. at latch, it is no wonder they ad meetings shift for edison from pupils and nations throughout the world, including in the united states. and you get more of us right now, of course, live to ortiz or donald caught a di donald. you are, you are following the whole press conference there and certainly so are we here at the headquarters in moscow? a lot of comments being said by both the russian foreign minister and his at a try and counterpart of some of the highlights. perhaps donald either ari well, the meeting between the retreat and russian foreign minister as well as the subsequent press conference have just come to a close and they focused really on the mutual struggle. both countries are having against western una polarity, and that's what sir gay love rav meant when he said that bilateral relations between these countries were developing under modern conditions. now of course, defense co operation is essential to achieving that,

as well as to protect regional stability and contradiction to the west's attempts to keep this region and chaos. now i was also able to ask a question to the richer and foreign minister about a recent comments made by u. s. secretary of state antony blinking, who claimed that the richer in government had committed war crimes. in response, he said that that was an outright lie a secretary of state. and his judgment is always in he is not acceptable because it depends on their own interests. for their own sake, forget on in finish the of course they blame editor. that is good way, how to do things with them. how do business with them? and will always say that we say we tell them we don't accept the and we don't

accept it because it is a lie. and we need to tell them like a lever of also accused the west of attempting to use the issue of human rights to interfere in the domestic affairs of various different countries. and so he also said that russia will continue to stand with a retro for the enforcement of the un charter, something that laugh, rob said the west violated when it disregarded the minsk protocols that were supposed to establish a ceasefire in the don boss conflict before russia launched its special military operation, but sergey lab. we've also said that this is just one of many acts that the west has taken in a long trend of basically breaking international rules. eyes has seized, led by an attorney general, who is a citizen of an anglo saxon country. i would put it this way and we all can see that he's just fulfilling the orders from his bath. friends who forbid forbade

this body to investigate and to the crimes by un nato nations natal members. and they may, came to probe into some non existent, even faxed to promote the so called collective west's agenda. now there was also talk about a number of other areas of cooperation and both leaders talked or both foreign ministers rather talked about deepening cooperation in the sphere of the economy as well as in the sphere of education. for example, russia is planning to increase the quota of scholarships for a retreat and students that are looking to study and russia yearly. so that's basically a rundown of the general topics that were covered here at the press conference and at the meeting that preceded it. oh, i don't, he's dakota, appreciate that. thank you. russian forces have been advancing into the last remaining ukrainian held areas in the loo, ganske region. ortiz eager,

donald sent us this report from just outside the town of bella, got the russian forces. they've critically closed in the town of villa gore. of course, the only natural barrier between them and the enemy is this river little bit down that way? so obviously the next task is to gain a foothold on the other bank with blue

blue if other than embankments mine fields and cranes soldiers is not enough to hold the ground. if they need more men, they get as many as they feel like and just throw them straight into the grind stones of war. the story of this ukrainian soldier captured outside bill of gore of car is one of thousands grizzly gabriella goro pico. they brought us near gallagher of car, into gully, where we unloaded school. they said to hide between the trees and wait for the command when we got there, there was no supply of no food, no water, no normal amount of ammunition. when the shalon began, the losses and wounded began. nothing got better and this obviously did not raise the moral of any one. they panicked as always,

everywhere. people are seriously young. they were not ready to perform such task. immediately upon the i vote, they began to disassemble them into assault groups and send them on missions for which they were absolutely. and already people are not considered at all when those of ours in the last batch were sent, who basically all had health problems. one of those who went with me, they had lung problems, he could not breathe, he was 57 or 58 years old and had a heart attack right in the middle of the road. then he was evacuated right before reaching the destination. the situation is galling for ukraine's troops here and on other parts of the front. even president zalinski, normally oblivious to cry, sees, has admitted to this. does resorts on us, would you do? sure. bully, very tough indeed. very plain for the warden is necessary to destroy the military power of my anger of the will destroy letter glory of k. normally in shall dave got

him back. morris, who did already come again when all other places were al future is now been decided were all future is fighting all the gradients. i thank each and every one who is now in the battle. over a no glitter, a small set of soviet era, apartment blocks just south side. the next key force is effected local residence. to turn the place into a citadel military experts have been a buzz over ukraine's plans, praying counter offensive. and indeed, key of troops have already begun to pro brushes defenses in the south, yet with mounting pressure of the russian army elsewhere, ukraine's capacity to attack is bleeding badly. i'm a gets done of reporting from the dumbass. c. spokesperson for afghanistan's government has urged the international criminal court to pursue those responsible for the destruction of that country before it attempts to get russian,

the russian president on trial. that's the off of the court in the hague. if you had an arrest warrant for mister putin full war cry, it's time for the international criminal court to wake up name, the real perpetrators, the perpetrators of a number of war crimes in afghanistan. or the court is accused the president putin, under, under russia's, a children's rights commissioner of the duck ting, ukrainian children from combat areas. russia says it's not abducting them, it's evacuating them. and while denying the allegations, moscow was emphasized that the court does not have jurisdiction here in russia will mean time. the u. s. president joe biden has praised the hague based court, saying it made a very strong point against roger's involvement in ukraine. but the court has avoided any legal process against the u. s. leadership for that countries was in recent decades. of the u. s. like russia also does not recognize the court as having domestic jurisdiction. previously,

a u. s. national security adviser said the us should not cooperate with the international criminal court. the international criminal court is fundamentally illegitimate. it's not something the united states should cooperate with lights is not in any way to excuse putin's conduct of the war. but there are jurisdictions that can try him ukraine in particular, and ultimately a free russia to try. that riff did appear a few years ago when a prosecutor requested permission to open an investigation into the war in afghanistan. and the courts are pre trial chamber, turned it down, it a d. prioritize the inquiry into alleged war crimes by america and its allies, not honest on, as washington imposed sanctions on that prosecutor. we heard from residents in afghanistan, who said the court should make u. s. officials take the stat of insulin and the homicide. my every, you knows it isn't fair. the u. s. is pushed every other country. why hasn't discord investigated? the u. s. president or american soldiers?

putin is only wage dis conflict for a year, but the u. s. has demonstrated its cruelty to other countries for decades. they do this to maintain dominance so that no other could take their place, prudence conflict as for his country, what u. s. wars are different. they came to afghanistan, which is very far from their own country before judging prudent. the court should 1st investigate the us. this international court works for the us, and the u. s. is going after prudent them off of including everybody knows that his court is not fair. the u. s. not only destroyed afghanistan, but it also destroyed iraq and syria as well. they drove ukraine into this conflict . why shouldn't america be punished instead of putin? because no one could have. yeah. and all his assets about all the situation and that of all children, the court should really inquire about the reality. sin of janice done. instead of trying to persecute cotton, they should 1st put the u. s. on trial. didn't joke more commentary on that story

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