in word belief systems, ology are removed, it was very impactful. when someone finally came along with no fear, no judgement, you heard my story didn't nothing too challenging with our with my food didn't say as well. so we'll deploy nuclear weapons and neighboring bella roost, quote, and get a similar move to what the us dealt with some of its nato allies. you will not hand over the weapons to belch just as the u. s. doesn't to its allies. we are simply doing what they have been doing for decades. if i did, administration blew up the north stream pipelines to rain in western europe, which would light on cheap russian gas the latest claim from renown investigative journalist c mopar pipeline that shows control full of gas and

windows coming up. now he was gonna open up the pipeline and make it do its job is to transfer even is gonna make the people warm make the businesses happy. and so we didn't give me that option. us vice president, canada harris has to africa concerns in washington. no, but a growing collection and chinese influence on the continent with very welcome. this is all the international with the latest world news out date is good to have you with this now. now russia will station it's tactical, nuclear weapons in neighboring, but in response to the deployments of american nicks in europe as well. president vladimir putin a set in his latest interview to the russian media with us, me say something. bush breath and present. lucas ankle is right when he says, the bellows is our closest ally. as americans placed their tactical nuclear weapons

on their l asked territory and train crews and pilots to use them if necessary. we have decided to do the same without violation. i want to stress that we continue to meet our obligations in terms of non proliferation of nuclear weapons. we have already assisted our bell russian colleagues to re equip their planes. 10 planes are prepared to utilize such weapons. we have already sent are well known and efficient iskander systems that can also carry such weapons. beginning on the 3rd of april, we will start to train crews. and on the 1st of july, we will finish the construction of a storage facility, specifically for tactical nuclear weapons on beller russian territory. we will not hand over the weapons to bellows, just as the u. s. doesn't to its allies. we're simply doing what they have been doing for decades. so it's interesting to mentioned that he didn't actually suggest that the deployment of weapons was a transfer control of nuclear weapons. it was essentially that they're gonna be based in belarus,

but not under the control of the bell. russia forces that russia would remain in control of them as well. this is not a new development that we've heard before, that russia's going to increase its cooperation of belarus, had a station, an untrained fellowship forces on the standard bliss. our systems are also in an aircraft inter capable of delivering those systems. they've been training the, the pollution military, but it's interesting timing, given the western announcement from the british ministry defense that they're going to deploy a depleted uranium shelves at ukraine. so i think the, the timing of this announcement is definitely an interesting, let's say that he referred to the prowess of the russian military. that and you know, essentially, that the russian military has yet to deploy at the main force of its powers into ukraine. and that the russian economy is q to a, you know, a re, a war economy on the production of shelves and other armaments. and so it was really about that sort of re, a formation that russia, you know, still has

a lot to commit to ukraine. if necessary, and that, you know, this escalation isn't particularly an escalation, this was on the books quite a while and at the weapons that are deployed would remain on the control of moscow . another topic that came, that was the no extreme that pipeline full name. yeah. what did the, what it did not santa, will he reaffirm russia's position that this attack was, was basically carried up by the united states. he refer it again to seymour hersh is sort of landmark air investigation piece. where he at line very clearly at the, the mechanism by which this attack was carried out. he mentioned the us special forces as well, which was, which was quite interesting. he also referred to gas from, at recovering a piece of equipment or a device from the pipeline. and that they had mentioned this to the danish government. and the danish government had basically a brush this off as, as, as an irrelevance. which is very interesting. also a, you know, he, he also reaffirmed that russia would tell the truth about what's happened with the

north, the stream pipeline. and that they would, they would push as hard as they could to become involved in the relevant investigations. and here's a little more about what he actually had to say, and he can schedule lily's co world renowned us journalist conducted an in depth investigation and has concluded that the pipeline glass were organized by us special forces. i fully concur with his findings. the recent events evolving gas prompts inquiry upon receiving permission from danesh authorities. investigators from the company went further along the pipe and approximately 30 kilometers from the site of the blast came upon a place where chiefs intersected, which is the most vulnerable part. the explosion happened on the same conjunction, 30 kilometers down the pipe, and they discovered some sort of device you was photographed and shown to our specialists. they believe it could have been an antenna receiving signals from either air space to set up an explosive device. this way, we have the highly anticipated meeting between china sea dream paying peace in moscow. so did he have anything said about that?

yeah, he said, the west that attempted to derail these, you know, headline talks, this was the only game in town. really geopolitically and all eyes were on moscow for this real, very important meeting. but the west to try to derail the the meeting and distract from it by sending announcements a bit more weapons into ukraine. he mentioned, i suppose you refer to his warm relationship, what she's paying, you talked about them sitting for periods beside the far and just chatting about politics and, and what's going on in the world. and you know, judging from their body language between the 2 men, the calling of those dear friend, etc, at least i saw that myself, when i was when they saw the 2 together. it seems to be that there's a genuine warm relationship there which they cultivated on the sidelines of the actual business meetings. he called present, she a very smart, well informed and interesting interlocutor as well, which i think was quite pleasant. so that's good life now to form a pentagon senior security policy analyst micro maloof many thanks for joining us

on a program levy to see you as so what do you make of russians the decision to deploy a nuclear weapons in bella routes? well, it's actually not surprising. i think that the russian feels that it needs to bring up some comparability. after all, it did away with the warsaw pact at the end of the cold war. but nato actually expanded and nato does have nuclear weapons on it. so under us control, but nonetheless, nuclear weapons are, are available like it insulate airfield over in turkey, for example, and just talk of bringing them back into to germany. so there's one of the things that i am a little bothered by as the confluence with the depleted uranium shells. it's not a nuclear weapon as such it's it's, it's, it's

a problem. but all of a sudden it's been conflated with nuclear, with nuclear weapons expansion. and that's, that's not necessarily the case the, it's unfortunate that the brits have made that decision to go ahead with depleted uranium if, if they in fact decide to do that. however, it, there are, there is some uranium poisoning that does occur and it's not just uranium, but it's also chemical poisoning over a long period of time, especially with the hawks of the destroyed equipment. and the tests are being done on what happened in iraq, for example, and they're beginning to show that people are affected. and that is something that needs to be taken into account. happily the pentagon so far has announced that it does not intend to deploy these d u shells and depleted uranium shells. and, and that's a good thing,

but they should just stop our mean ukraine altogether, frankly. but that said to go back to bella. ruth, i think just the deployment response is a response and kind to appeals by, by putting repeatedly to de escalate. and all he's doing is bringing parity some semblance of parity and indivisibility. if you will, because under the visibility which was heavily violated by the west, you don't arm the, the west at the expense of the east, but they, they've done that. so i'm in visiting that, that bella ruth and the other members of the collective security treaty organization could become at the new wars all packed, if you will. in response to the existence of an expanded nato. and i see that evolving quite clearly now with the,

with the movement of nic nuclear facilities into bella roost. and that could be extended to the other members of the c s t o. they have an article for which is equivalent to nato's article 5, which is more tech on one of the attack on all. so this is a very interesting development. but we like you were saying you south and flooding a pitch and also stress that this is to simply respond to what the us has been doing in europe for decades. but still this could be seen by some as an escalation . so was thought of, do you think we can expect from western countries now? well, it is an escalation and, and there were warnings on both sides, especially by mister, that if, if the, if the united states kept, and nato kept expanding, that is an escalation. and they have introduced and are thinking of introducing more nuclear weapons into europe. and you hear this from stoughton burg, you hear?

star burg. must expand nato into the arctic and into the endo endo pacific. it's like they've gotten a new lease on life all of a sudden. and it's all meant to contain both russia and ultimately china and, and our actions over the years has actually pushed those 2 countries together into a greater alliance. it's the old, proverbial self fulfilling prophecy. and, and this is now now occurred in with the emergence of this new multi polar world order, which is real. i think that the united states is free and even more what would you call it if they're feeling more isolated in one sense, but also threatened. and i think that you're going to see

a reaction probably by moving in more forces into, into nato, and boosting nato. and that's for what purpose have, and it's just, it's just going to, it's going to be ethical, a tori. and what with the new start, the all, all actions on any kind of trying to re negotiate the start treaty is basically dead. now it's like we're back to where we were right during the cold war and it's the room. and it's even more threatening because all the time at all times have been loosened as a consequence. and a lot of that was done at the behest of the trump administration because they did not like these kinds of treaties and doubt. and since those treaties, wherever created the 1st place during the reagan administration, you have other countries now like china, like india, pakistan, north korea,

who all have nukes, and they have missiles to deliver them. so the, the world is becoming more and more dangerous as a consequence. absolutely. it seems to me like a very dangerous game, a brickman ship and something's got to get to one's got to draw a line and say ok enough is enough, but it's not happening now. at bella, worries, of course it's watch close the board from ukraine. so yeah, this nuclear deployment, how significant is it going to be when it comes to what's happening in the conflicts out and do you think? well, hopefully they'll never have to use the nukes. but there would be no early warning, because it would be that fast, and it would be devastating. you don't want nuke. you don't want the introduction of nuclear weapons into europe simply because of the, the potential for an accident, for, for a miscalculation. and when you look at what the effects will be of radiation

throughout europe, and we saw it in your noble which was an accident, it was devastating to europe for years. we can't have that with the way the world needs to pull away from that kind of stuff. we talk about the use of nuclear weapons, very lively. like it's like you go down and get a pack of cigarettes or something. no, it, it is a very dangerous course of action and it's, it's, it's made people have got to take it seriously and get away from that kind of rhetoric. or we will be in a such a confrontation, as i said, as a self fulfilling prophecy. we've already created one's self filling prophecy. do we want to escalate that as well? with a, with a nuclear exchange? no. thank you so much for talking to us today is always great to speak to you get some more light on the situation. really appreciate your time on the pens can see

senior security policy analysts montgomery. thank you. now with the russian president, once again pointing to the investigation from seymour hersh on the nord stream bombing, the pulitzer prize winning journalist to shed more details of his findings and commented on the western media conspiracy theory about a mysterious pro ukrainian groups involvement. now you can watch the full interview with hersh in the latest episode of direct impacts her anata and also on our website. but here's a quick preview for you. why the united states seems to have, and i use this word and you tell me if it's over years dot, in this case, invented or planted this most recent story. why are they doing this? because they the united states, those who did it, they know the president did it. you can to another way of asking this question that no reporter is asking a press conference in the, the that we blow up, the paypal i'm and pipe and biden's. okay. i could tell you one thing about the cia

when it wants to do something down and dirty. they know how to keep it. they know how to keep it small. that you know what i'm saying. yeah. to people who know very small and the president wasn't really getting briefed. the director was the funnel point. yeah. the guys in the field and the less that the white house knows the better because it's a talkative white house. the difficulty of the emission and it was, by the way, what, what the intelligence community did. there was quite spectacular, even though that they, they didn't like the end. but they were given assignment, come up with an option. if you want to blow up the pipelines, you have to do it in such a way that we can't be blamed, right? that war is by september when, when biden said, let's do it and gave the order. the war was certainly sold out. and we put now a $121520000000000.00 into that war. and western europe was being asked to give more and more. and the concern was, they could see in western europe. and in germany,

what we want being told too much at this war was going nowhere so, so and so they were concerned if it blew up right after our ships or our military exercises that we were doing there happen. everybody would know we were not right. exactly. right about that they. so the idea was the wait, but why he picked 3 months and 3 and a half months to wait was the question, i wonder, why did he suddenly do in late september? because to get back to the point, the war wasn't going well, is he was afraid that europe was going to begin to walk away, particularly the germans, germans after world war 2 are not interested in a big military, but winter's coming up for europe. and then there was, he was going to open up the pipeline and make his do his job as chancellor. he was and make the people warm make the businesses happy. and so we didn't give him that option. western europe as it had re, gas and oil. we've always had western europe back aah!

and washington is set to appoint a special envoy in belarus to support the opposition leaders in the country. not according to the u. s. secretary of state. can you talk about what you're thinking with respect to a special envoy for bell roofs and when, when might we see that appointment happen? no. thank you very much center for raising that. and yes, a to things, as you know, they in day out we have the vilnius based of lithuania, base b, l, bruce affairs unit. that's an embedded in, in our embassy. and they're doing the day and day out contact. because so much as of you know, the democratic opposition is in is in lithuania, but a to your point. i were very actively looking at moving forward the special envoy. what i'm considering right now, looking at is dual, having a very senior official in our european affairs bureau to also serve as the invoice to be able to then go in and out engage senior levels with the, with the opposition, even as the dealers affairs unit. that's based in lithuania,

does the kind of day in doubt engagement well, wasn't an openly support the political opposition in ballard, he said, still accuses russia of meddling and us internal affairs from accusing former presidents, donald trump of siding with the kremlin to manipulate elections, to hopping up hysteria and mass media of his alleged ties with russian president vladimir putin. probe involves the media company's acceptance of $8000000.00 from a source with suspected russian tides about how our former president consistently sent signals that he was not on ukraine's side. he was on russia, states media backed the republican candidate, and donald trump, and known for his affinity towards russia. but according to l was nathan were tied us lieutenant colonel washington's plans for bella ruefully. guess another attempt at foreign meddling. something to us itself would never tolerate. we would go

absolutely crazy. we would probably sanction who knows, who knows who we probably would have joe biden on the phone with somebody or were at lincoln. it would not be, it is not accept, it would not be acceptable united pointing a formal representative to to interface and, and work with the opposition. i mean, it's clearly clearly, you know, it looks like they're going to once again go down the central regime team. so it just is the indicator of the arrogance within our foreign policy. and it kind of like almost like we feel that we're the ruler to the world and we can do as we were. so i think that it is just another symbolism i think that will further alienate other countries and make the very, very boxes on dealing with us,

vice president carmella harris has thought a week long trip to africa on sunday. this comes as the white house of express concern of china as well in the continent. well, it may seem, washington, even competition with beijing hopelessly we can ignore the common chaplain. take a moment. it's no secret. we are engaged in competition with china on which side very clearly we intend to out compete china in the long term with make very clear. we have real concerns about some of china's behavior in africa and around the world . but a true partnership with africa minster. we talk about and consult on elements of china's engage on the elements of china's engagement concern us include and in the technological economic, military and global governance domains were discussed. these types of issues with our partners all around the world and in vice. president's maintenance in africa will be no different. the vice president is to meet with the latest have gone tanzania and zambia with the white house siding, harris will address china's engagement in debt restructuring,

as well as other economic issues. and so the cooperation doing a tool where the vice president visits so follows a slew of others by top us officials with secretary of state anthony blank and on treasury secretary john his yellen. also having visited africa's as the year began . the trip comes as washington seeks to count to the rising influence of russia and china in africa with both moscow and beijing. recently, having made diplomatic tours to the continent, they had an international policy consult shed, how some africans have reacted to the upcoming us officials visit. the reaction has been that they feel as if it's not about them. and it's not theory. they feel like this being is just a way to counter china and is very open. and there is a feeling from the african people that if america really they need to send their president. because chinese presidents come rushing, presidents come, they say high level delegations, and every year, every couple of years, the russians and chinese are fighting africa has the state, the ration has been debt. what are you going to do for us,

besides trying to counter chinese is really about africa are just about trying to counter china and what, what type of economic packages are you going to offer for us? what type of relationship do you want to have? because america thinks in a lot of these countries, these changing their business that they stayed in the organization, they're thinking that, you know, they have a foreign policy that wants to sort of pacify this relationship and try to often turn to china. and those 2 things are, are not, are not, are not coherent. and it's sort of like a cognitive dissonance as occurring. because if you want to develop a relationship with these country, you have to offer them something. you have to offer a relationship and you want to counter china, offer them something that they don't get from china. but as of right now, what they're offering africa is just criticism condemnation sanctions. and those things in many african leaders have been turned off by that. nigeria and a president mohammed do bihari, has heard the citizens to share their food with those in need ahead of rama. down as the country suffers from sky rocketing prices. the leader went on to condemn

unscrupulous sellers who have vote to artificially inflated prices to make a profit during the islamic sacred month. i'm particularly aware of the activities of treatise, heard, officially increase the prices of their goods include in food at the beginning of every ramadan, according to the latency when report nigeria is in the midst of a major food crisis, with more than 4000000 people in need of nutritional assistance as a lack of funding and gasoline as well as growing instability is led to have 8000000 people in need of humanitarian aid is estimated more than a $1000000000.00 is needed to help the nation of 18 pins percent from last year. another major issue facing nigeria is that of terrorism from the bulk of her ra melissa group. since it emerged in 2009, the group's activities claims the lives of thousands on the space. millions of people mostly in the countries north, france has been a long time ally in combat things through experts of the years of supporting the

multinational joint cost for parents. apparently has little to show for it's the countries presidents, bahama, do. bihari recently opened they counterterrorism center to boost security in the region. we spoke to political analyst and human rights activists are met show who said nigeria now need further security support. i think the peculiarity designed in the program is usually a home grown problem button and julia need is now sophisticated kaufman support in terms of capacity to be military class and then on on the technology to be able to pay these. and then data is betty and all right. as a result of the election that really happens, the president elect to nibble and also he's vice presidential team out there must have the knowledge. i've been the bug out. i did the context of what this problem is. so if they can be able to put their houses in order and bring the big brand,

walk together, what ensuring that they can be able to holistically that is the problem i think will be. and off to me on a seconds to be able to 100 that thing. when you have these 2 people, combine their own airport and then expedia in handling such a tank. i think julia can be able to 100 these political crisis and you're a skeptic. romanian senator has been added to the notorious ukrainian, miro tvs, all right, so we're fine with critics call a kill list that's off the she call for bucharest to alex part of ukraine. here's how diana show responded to being added to the ukranian blacklist. do you understand how deeply a crane despises romania? does it officially allow itself to publish death threats to a romanian senator? this is the moment international opinion mustn't the stand that ukraine does not deserve this part. it is getting well a mirror to ver, it says a website,

the lists people. and sometimes the personal information of those who've been deemed a threat to ukraine. the senator was put on the kill list on to she denounced the romania ukraine agreement of 1997 and demand that the return of historically romanian territories, ukrainian foreign ministry spokesman o like a nickel and coast that on friday that his ministry strongly condemned the attempt call into question ukraine's territorial integrity. and this includes top russian officials and even people such as pink floyd's roger waters and former u. s. secretary of state, henry kissinger. when she political experts on presidents of euro constant, pierre and manuel, to man say faith, that despite the merits for rights website being very extreme, the west continues to support ukraine. romanian minorities are, are subject to were oh, to discrimination in ukraine. the sort of situation is getting worse, even worse of undoing usaa saw time under review craner becoming more and more

nationalist or romanian son whom guardian minorities are feeling the pressure of for you, credit and state. and this is why are many rumania so guardians actually will like more autonomy with you. quin this site is very extreme and the problem is, or because or the western member states shoe box ukraine that don't say anything about. but if russia order to merge such a site to make you huge, sure, criticized for partitions from governments of nate to member state from you of the shots from nato. fisher's, ah, a system of defact, a detention that's how researchers from the charity refugee action have described. the system of temporary accommodation for asylum seekers arriving in the u. k. neil is 5th to solve and people sick in asylum currently live in temporary or

contingency accommodation in hotels where they are held indefinitely and conditions that actively harm their physical and mental health. to live in an environment of fear of a textbook racist groups stuck by the racist language of politicians and sections of the media. this is a system of defacto detention investigation revealed that refugees arriving in the u. k. face malnutrition and the illness due to the poor quality of the food provided a quarter of those being housed have reported being banned from leaving their accommodations as well as being warned, not to film their living conditions. nearly one in 5 of those surveyed complained about unsanitary conditions causing outbreaks of infectious diseases. to make things even more dire, the british i'm secretary, has called for sending newly arriving refugees to bewanda. the local migration bill will cover the scenario where we want to, ah, be able to detain and remove people swiftly to a safe country like or wanda,

our laws are, will dramatically reduce the avenues for exploitation so that you won't be able to thwart our power to remove ah, if you come to the u. k, legally i on a small boat, if you're paying a people smuggler, if you're risking your life, if you're putting other people's lives at risk, you will not have the right to a life in the united kingdom. the u. k. claims as such, a measure will stop though seeking to make a, quote, a dangerous unnecessary and a legal journey to the u. k. however, critics say refugees will not be safest. there are many criminal paramilitary groups operating in the region where wanda is one of the most populous countries in africa, which is already been a factor in ethnic and political tensions in the nation, including a genocide in 1994. we spoke with everyone and politicians.