isn't 1st to accent, the growing russian china strategic partnership. and 2nd, to demonstrate what both countries publicly advocated the transition to a multi polar world beyond american hegemony. ah, moscow says the u. k. is escalating the conflict by promising to spend depleted uranium ammunition to frame russia highlighted the devastating health consequences are civilians and military after they've been you by the west. and you will saw the and you frame in iraq with on his trip to russia. eric periods, foreign minister says western partners are hitting faith against each other and that's a conflict. and you pray and tensions in taiwan are here example. let me take this opportunity to read it just pretty much reposition the ukraine. critics have critics that have set the executive price grade and need

a price quote, full to part of the screen. good. i come from gratian or one journalist the more her shares new details of the north stream pipeline, sabotaged it. germany is helping america hi. good. through with coming to you live or the russian capital. this is our t international. i'm rachel blah. here with the top stories a, be our welcome to the program. moscow has condemned the u. k. move to supply ukraine with talks it depleted uranium ammunition, as a serious step towards escalating the conflict. the russian foreign minister or not the devastating long term health effects on civilians and military from the use of those weapons in iraq and yugoslavia. it, sir, this is a step towards

a serious build up of escalation city statements by western colleagues that it's okay, nothing is forbidden. we don't violate any conventions, but we all remember what consequences the use of depleted uranium supplies lead to in yugoslavia, iraq were tens of thousands of civilians and military personnel suffered from the use of this ammunition. young, the modem, depleted uranium rounds, had been previously used by western militaries against armored vehicles and tanks, fastest by grave environmental and health concerns. russia's foreign ministry warned of the impacts of using the ammunition through cheaply meaning shall, was depleted uranium, destroying only current generations, but also future once these weapons have already been used in recent history, dain flaking in comparable damage in contrast with conventional weapons, but they also have a direct impact on human health. the targets of the munitions will suffer as well. those currently residing in the affected area as well as future generations. in

addition to killing people, these munitions also destroy the land. they affect the soil and the ground water for many years. they are glad it was incredibly strong words, a highlighting the potential long term impact on the use of depleted uranium in ukraine in talking about the increased levels of radioactivity in all the problems associated with that. now she said that depleted uranium could cause a genocide for the population there, but she expressed concern that ukrainians not really fully aware of the potential impact of the use of such munitions on their territory. they are only being told da sir. the west is there to help them and is to bring prosperity to ukraine, but she described a propaganda operation. of course, there's only one news channel in ukraine. the rest was shut down by presidential decree following the special military operation on february 24th. let's listen to what she said. i mean, you bring you my, you craniums are being told,

have the west is advocating billions in foreign currency to become a prosperous state. what billions they're ready to use. depleted uranium on the do you know, the poland began to export, fertile soil 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 was depleted, uranium the crop, if any, will only be poison. washington keeps on saying, save that. this conflict in ukraine is about a battle for ukraine's future democracy. one might fear there's not much of a future if the whole line is going to be irradiated by the use of these are depleted uranium tips ammunition shells. one of the long term consequences, steve, of using something like this will of course, the use of depleted uranium on the battlefield remains a kind of a legal gray area, but it's still incredibly controversial. now, the united states use depleted uranium perhaps most famously in the iraqi town or

felicia, and that led to arise of birth defects arising, miscarriages arise in council. now, in 2010, you study by leading medical journal found a 38 fold increase in leukemia. now to put that into perspective, that's higher than the figures that were found in survivors of the rossimer nuclear bomb attack, of course, drop by the united states at the end of the 2nd world war. now i was there last week i was in flu. i spoke to medics on the ground and they said it was undeniable that there was a cause, a link between depleted uranium on the defects and abnormalities that we've heard about. but what they also said was that they were placed on the extreme pressure by the united states not to speak out now. the 2010 report i just referred to, of course, bailey created a murmur in the, in the mainstream pricing. the western press meaning that the scandal of lou just being subjected to a cover up. but let's listen to what some of those people on the ground is about. what happened to them? did it about my, their lover?

we didn't expect our 1st child to be born deformed before the us invasion. children were rarely born with deformities in fallujah may be 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, deformed as a whole, and my father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2021. they told us that he is sick and feeling poorly. the reason is that felicia was a battleground from 2005 to 2013, especially in the district. we are living in them. now of course, it's not just the united states, nato has admitted to dropping 31000 uranium bombs during its campaign in yugoslavia in 1999 now more, more than 300 italian soldiers were of died as a result of exposure to the munitions they were involved in a court case against military alliance, one serbian lawmaker who was involved in investigations of research her,

found that the country's natural environment was damage. that was pollution to the air, the land, the soil, and water. now, some experts have said that depleted uranium pose is a major global threat describing the use of depleted uranium as the trojan horse of nuclear war and saying that it could slowly wipe out humanity. perhaps, unsurprisingly, britain has been among those leading opposition to calls for a bond or even a moratorium. all the use of depleted uranium on the battlefield. britain has previously claimed that charles from depleted uranium i do not even have highly was levels of radioactivity than ordinary household goods. like microwave ovens for, for example, and the defense ministry has defended its use of depleted uranium. once more, it's accusing russia of deliberately spreading at this information, and it insists that the impact on personal health and the environment is low, but of course, to do otherwise. otherwise would leave them open to war crimes charges. the world

health organization has, however, expressed some concerns over the use of depleted uranium by experts. again have said that that body was also pressured into downplaying evidence into the effects and this is just simply adding fuel to those claims of a cover up. the west continues to violate international law acting with impunity, but it's the people and indeed the world continue to suffer the consequences. earlier we spoke with the head of the russian delegation on arms control in vienna, who says that one that downplaying the deadly consequences of the use of depleted uranium. ammunition is a reckless and profoundly disturbing position to take they can say able to sink, and you're not to hear that the black is white. and the white is black and it's normal, right? then the light is more, it's more reliable. it's nice because with

nobody on them, i'm in the system to discuss what the consequences that we had an intervention in the forum for security corporation here. mean to that, it's very dangerous it's. it's a dirty kind of duty moment who had already seen the consequences of using this in the u. s. m, and i was here in the and i and i was a witness. they used it. i haven't seen the consequence in that time, but the started night and i was here and it was in iraq, a logical. this is a lung cancer center increased specially children. i don't know why, but it's in their interest to say to say to pronounce against it, but i think it's just the bed frame, a government. so they don't want to make

a contradiction to it. took to go to the conflict to the, the position on lessons here and it's seen during the discussions, but the coolest. everybody understand it's necessary to do something. can they express position not openly, just not to damage their own diplomatic careers that they're afraid of this very simple london and has a long tradition of the do make programs for russia, you have 300 is history and the one of the great sir politician, 100 years ago or but it didn't feel uncomfortable when there is no, there are no conflicts in europe. it's easy to men and she the situation and there

is complex, a conflict in europe. ah, era trulia as seeking deeper ties with russia. that's the message coming from the countries foreign minister as he met with his russian counterpart on wednesday and the southern russian city of. so she, he added that the western partners are pending states against each other. citing the conflict in ukraine, antenna in taiwan as examples. let me take this opportunity to re a fit me and it just principally position on the ukraine. pretext a pretext that has said the sacrificing ukraine and niches people for the deposit quote quote, for the deposit of destroying the regime foundation. just as if they one issue is being foisted as a pretext to bring the co holt janice peaceful life by any means necessary including violent conflict. these irresponsible policies are in then getting

humanity. 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 richard 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 is not acceptable. because it depends on their own interests for their own

shake, for their own interests. they, of course, they blame etc. that is good way a 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 it and we don't accept it because it is a life. and the way daddy to tis them, sergey lavish, 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 if disregarded the minsk protocols there were supposed to establish a ceasefire in the don boss conflict before russia launched its special military operation, but sorry, 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 such us is little google illness. now the international criminal court is headed by a prosecutor who's a naturalized anglo saxon and who of course, fulfills the orders of his masters. which forbids this body to investigate needle member countries and incites to seek out far fetched pretexts, nonexistent facts in order to promote the agenda of the west. so he was so now there was also talk about a number of other areas of co operation 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 retrans 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 australian sen jordan scale, john has slammed,

can bear as recent nuclear submarine deal with the us and britain, the contract. he believes physicians australia as a slave to washington $368000000000.00 on the pud. you divide locally of powered submarines. the won't be delivered until i'm 60 all big deal for a long shot. thus to the united states of america removes the quantity in the minds of any of our regional neighbors as to whether when the united states says, jump, we answer how high and would you like a back flip. so his sharp response comes after the 3 countries unveiled the terms of the so called arcus packed, which supplies australia with at least 3 subs from the u. s. by 2030, as nuclear powered submarine fleet is aimed at countering what the allies claim to be. china's influence and the indo pacific region. beijing has strongly criticized

the contract and accused the western allies of setting back nuclear non proliferation efforts. german chancellor all off scholes has helped the u. s. government conceal the truth, the nord stream sabotaged. that's another revelation from award winning investigative journalist seymour hersh, who earlier said washington was behind the attacks on russia's gas pipelines. i was told by someone with access to diplomatic intelligence that there was a discussion of the pipeline expos, a. as a result, certain elements in the central intelligence agency were asked to prepare a cover story in collaboration with german intelligence that would provide the american and german press with an alternative version for the destruction of nordstrom to in the words of the intelligence community. the agency was to pulse the system in an effort to discount the claim that biden had ordered the pipelines destruction. now the united states had been trying to stop the nord stream to

pipeline from being completed had imposed sanctions and had threatened that if there was an escalation in ukraine that the nord stream to pipeline would be destroyed. and so now we have you as mainstream media going into overdrive trying to argue that actually the united states is somehow not responsible for the destruction of the pipeline. despite what has been revealed by hersh, new article published wednesday by pulitzer prize winning journalist says that biden met with the german chancellor. and that they had a meeting to discuss putting out their own version of a dance to distract from hirsch's bombshell revelations. basically, it appears the meeting took place in early march. it was an 80 minute meeting between biden and the german chancellor, and which they decided they would come up with a new version of the dance. here's what the article from seymour hersh had to say.

it was a total fabrication by american intelligence that was passed along to the germans and aimed at discredit. in your story, i was told by source within the american intelligence community, the disinformation professionals inside the cia understand that propaganda gambit can only work if those receiving it are desperate for a story that can diminish or displace an unwanted truth. now you as mainstream media has not given a lot of attention or coverage to hirsch's rabelais since they have kind of led their audiences to look elsewhere and not highlighted this. now hers argues that this is because mainstream it in the united states is taking the lead from the white house and following the administration and trying not to point to what has been revealed. the times reporters in washington were at the mercy of white house officials who had access to intelligence. but the information they received originated with a group of ca, experts in deception and propaganda whose mission was to feed the newspaper

a cover story and to protect a president who made an unwise decision and is now lying about it. now, julian barnes, who is the national security correspondent of the new york times, has been outspoken trying to make the case that indeed it was not the united states that is responsible for the destruction of the nordstrom to pipeline. he's been appearing on podcasts and going elsewhere, grasping at straws, trying to make the argument that despite what has been revealed, it was not direct action from the united states, a decision by the us government to destroy the pipeline. here's julian barnes. well, we started asking who might these savage tours b, or if we couldn't answer that, who might they be aligned with? right, could they be pro russian saboteurs? could they be other saboteurs? and the more we talk to officials who had access to

intelligence, the more we saw this theory gaining traction. who and my initial thought that this could be pro russian savage tours, turned out to be wrong. and we learned that it was most likely a pro ukrainian group so. so in other words, a group of people who did this on behalf of ukraine. what, what do you learn that makes you think that's what happened. my god, i should be very clear that we know who really very little right. this group remains mysterious and it remains the serious not just to us, but also to the u. s. government officials that we have spoken to you as mainstream media seems to be very desperately trying to make the case that somehow the united states is not responsible. that seymour hersh his mom shall revelations, cannot be taken seriously. one thing that was pointed out in hirsch's recent

article is that biden has not ordered any investigation and to the nord stream to attack and the destruction of the pipeline. hersch argues that this is because biden knows what happened. chairman of the german opposition grew for german sovereignty and constitution. ralph thomas niemeyer believes that the version version by western officials and media is clearly out of place. no one believes now the official version. i mean, everyone says no, it must have been the americans because mr. biden, earlier in february, and you 22 said we have to stop at the mentor stream to pipeline. well, it is, obviously, i call it rapids of mass distraction. let's pronounce it this way and, and it all makes sense because they don't want people to really question the legitimacy of our governments finding. i mean, the german government has done some investigation and they cannot share it. even with members of parliament. they can't, they say to ragged connection, they say we can't tell you what we found out because it's that damaging for

a partner nation. they don't mention which one that this could do serious harm for the national security interest of some other nation. so we can all get to it as the german people we want to gas from not stream to. we want to have good relationship with russia and we want to have peace, of course, and that is all about that. and mr. shots is not looking sovereign in his decision when he can be order to come to washington and get new artist. i know the $350000000.00 and weapons and equipment is heading from the u. s to ukraine, but it was confirmed by the state department and comes on top of a $400000000.00 package announced earlier this month. since the beginning of the war, the us has sent new crane more than 79000000000 dollars in a more than half of that has been military aid and good and weapons and equipment, rockets and ammunition, training personnel, intelligence sharing,

and also money for ukraine to buy new weapons, some european states, they're using their conflicts as an opportunity to update their military hardware for free reports claim they're being paid in new western equipment for sending their old kit to ukraine. poland, for instance, is said to be having yet it's old soviet tanks to see them replaced with the advance of british challenger to models. while so voc yet is reportedly giving away as old as 300 air defense systems for brand new us patriot missiles. the moon being seen as a way for countries to avoid the high cost of disposing of old equipment. so to discuss this further was cross live now to former pentagon official, michael maloof. mike is good to see you, great to have you on the program today. now the, you actually promised ukraine, huge amounts of weapons. so what reasoning are they using to decide what to send?

well, i think we have analysts in the pentagon who are trying to figure out what equipment they're going to absolutely need without ukraine. going ahead on its own and drawing the united states into a direct confrontation with moscow. that's a real slippery slope. that's why you see us fighting or resisting calls for aircraft at this point. but it, but with longer range equipment. and some of it has reached the outskirts of moscow already. i think that this poses a dilemma for the united states. i'm just how far the u. s. will go in, in providing the equipment and so far it's i would say that the ukrainians show the potential that if they have the equipment,

the more advanced equipment, they will certainly use it to their benefit. even if it beans drawing europe into a war, they would love nothing more than to do that from what i'm gathering from mr. zelinsky. he's absolutely delirious with, with trying to win this thing and, and right now the options don't look good for him and he wants to take back equipment that he could not be or take back territory that he couldn't possibly take back with with what he has on hand and given the slow logistical train on even limited number of tanks that he'll, he'll be receiving. there's no way he can use those and not have them. many of them knocked out in the meantime, and then having replenished in any short order, it's just not going to happen. so i think this thing is just going to probably just

peter out on ukrainian side at some point because they just don't have the equipment. the united states is actually backing up in terms of what of its own stockpiles and some of the equipment that ukraine would like to have in order to produce new equipment. it's going to take 3 to 5 years on some of those systems. so we hope that it doesn't last that long. yeah. just say that's why this thing is just not, not working up for blue sky when you, when you look at the logic. right. and we know that certainly as well as he is saying, a lot of opportunities to continue to call for more 8 and more weapons. but there are also other countries that seem to be seeing opportunities as well. so do you believe that countries like poland and for walkie are unloading their old equipment and hoping to have them replenished with much newer models by their nato allies?

oh, sure, but the question will be, how quickly can the united states gear up production in order to do that? their stockpiles are quickly running out and you're right about one thing in order to to offload the old. it's old stocks. it saves lots of money for demilitarize in and, and that's certainly something that would save a lot of money for us and the, and the europeans, but, but to replace it is something else unless your industry is going to fall wartime production. and that doesn't seem to be in the cards to, in order to support ukraine and, you know, given what is coming down the pike, with respect to the republicans, particularly in this, in this congress. there's going to be some serious questioning of how much more

money will be made available to purchase arms that can't even be accounted for. can even begin to be accounted for. i should say. yeah, it'll certainly be interesting to see what they decide and we'll have you back on to talk all about it from a pentagon official micro maloof. thanks so much for your time and insight. thank you. ok. meanwhile rushes defense minister has awarded state metals to service men for their efforts and the current conflicts among those honored were the su 27 pilots who prevented the u. s. and q 9 refurb drunk from crossing russia for the last week. the fighters did not come into contact with the drone, which later put it into the sea. after attempting sharp maneuvers refused to motivate. the russian forces are said to be advancing into the last remaining

ukrainian. how the areas of blue gulf region are cheesy, or should on often as this report from outside the town of bello grove crap. where key military forces are said to have deployed recently drafted troops alongside the regular army, to try to halt the offensive. these are the veins that carry the blood of the wall in the dorm bass. trenches have scarred far and wide. the once flourishing lands of the la guns republic here rushes reclaiming territories. that pledge of allegiance to moscow, the russian forces they've critically closed in on the town of bella, 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. the town of de la gore of car is just over a kilometer away. our crew filled there last summer,

but since then it fell under the control ukraine. now, key of troops are hastily digging themselves in as the russian army advances back on the town from the east and south with any sentiments is alien to ukrainian commanders, if earth and embankments mine fields and trained soldiers is not enough to hold the ground. if they.