what's happened in dumbass this whole time? this is, these aren't objects, these are people. and so that's why i do what i do. that's why i'm here with can do to make it as americans place their tactical nuclear weapons. well, there was territory and trained crews and pilots to use them if necessary. we have decided to do the same without violation. lot of mere opponent out says russia will to ploy tactical nuclear weapons to bela roost. he says, muffle were retained control of the army. the central american nation of all new routes, establishes, ties with china after breaking off decades long relations with taiwan. and the west is fully aware of the negative consequences that depleted uranium ammunition causes to human health and the environment that's according to moscow who slammed

the u. k plan to supply care with radioactive shelves, with good morning from martina national studios in moscow. this is a weekly with the hour and week stop stories worldwide. i'm fiorella isabel, great to have you with us to our top story. russia will station, tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring bella, ruse in response to the deployment of american news in europe. that's the announcement from president white, amir putting in his latest interview for the smithsonian english press. president lucas shank, who was right when he says that bell roost is our closest ally. as americans placed their tactical nuclear weapons on their allies, territory, and trained crews and pilots to use them if necessary. we have decided to do the same without violating our obligations that we continue to meet in terms of non proliferation of nuclear weapons. we have already a sister, bella,

russian colleagues in refitting their planes. 10 planes are ready to carry, such weapons. we have already sent are well known and efficient iskander systems which can 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. and bell russian territory. we will not hand over the weapons to bella bruce, just as the u. s. doesn't due to its allies. we're simply doing what they have been doing for decades. vladimir putin also discussed, the nurturing, sabotaged. he pointed to statements from russian experts that a device found near the pipelines could have been used to transmit a signal to set off the exposure. the russian leader also spoke on political matters recorded. this recent meeting was shaking ping and moscow as a productive and pleasant affair. earlier we spoke to former pentagon security policy analyst, michael maloof,

who discuss what the president said in the interview. i think the just, the deployment response is in a response unkind 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 way, you don't arm the, the west at the expense of the east. but they, they've done that. so i'm envisioning that, that bella ruth and the other members of the collective security treaty organization could become at the new warsaw pact 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 new nuclear facilities into bella

roost. and that could be extending it 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 natasha on one of the attack on all. so this is a very interesting development. stringy interview president poon added that western powers tried to disrupt negotiations with its chinese counterpart. that reaction came in response to reports that a 1000000 artillery shells have been sent to ukraine by western partners. that information was revealed the same day. he met with the chinese leader, where the pair discussed beijing's piece plan for the ukranian conflict. during the meeting, the 2 sides sat, their relations don't represent a military alliance aimed at other countries in the leaders also express concern over u. s. military and biological activities that she's calling for washington to explain itself into the ticket. basically not at all calamity. the chinese russian ties have gone far beyond bilateral relations over the last 10 years,

and are crucial and vital importance for today's world order. a relationship is built on contributing to the progress of mankind were guided by the principles in the un charter and a day to an unbiased view were always ready for peace and dialogue. we firmly stand on the right side of history western efforts to isolate and to contain busha of economically and politically hit a wall to day. as the chinese leader came out and said that, not only was china happy about the record trade, that in our joys with russia at a 190000000000 turnover year, it'll increase that trade to a much greater figure by 2030. that is the plan voiced by vladimir putin and she jumping of china booth came out and loaded where relations are right now. they're at a historic height. they said the best they've been in centuries more than that. vladimir putin and she jumping listed the various areas where they would work together,

build on those relations, and they're pretty much everything, their culture, their trade business, financial services, as well as technology energy and much, much more, both countries optimistic about the future. the chinese also brought with them a plan, a plan for peace, a game still, amelia is full as we believe that many of the points of china's piece plan are similar to our views and can be taken in action for the peaceful settlement. when the western key of are ready to accept these, however, so far we see no willingness on their park. that may imprudent also during the press conference, told the audience that the various dignitaries, the delegations was the press that while he and she jumping, talked, vladimir putin was, was brief that the great britain and officials had announced that they would now supply depleted uranium rounds to the ukrainian military,

the same depleted uranium that has been linked to countless deaths and birth defects, cancer in areas such as a rock where it has been used. louis ministered for but the u. k, as announced 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. we are not in 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. all an old grand ambitious plans voiced by, by china. and by russia, the leaders of both, both saying that they stood for a multi polar world than that they would work to develop that world. and the various systems and bodies that govern it. a world based on,

on rules and laws, in which china and russia will remain good friends earlier, my colleague worry, so shade, discuss a range of topics and loving the chinese president's visit with a panel of guests from the west is clinging onto a unipolar world to whether or not be james proposed piece plan for ukraine will become a reality. the world is, it is changing. it's had enough of the, let's call it from what it is, western arrogance. and it will start to form their own alliances in response to the deployment of western alliances, such as made of the existence of which still defies any logic. because the better lines are supposed to fight communism and protect the west from the ideological spread a and military spread and was countered by the war,

so fact, which was promptly dismantled. and you know, chide china as has come to moscow with a potential piece proposal for the conflict in ukraine. a john kirby of the us national security council. formerly of the u. s. state department, john kirby saying washington is not interested about a possible seas foreign ukraine, particularly if it's mediated by china. alex, why would washington be against ending the conflict? we've seen the collapse of their financial system over the last couple of weeks here. that truly shows you the power that washington really has nowadays, which is not much they're used to ripping up agreements. they're in to that apparently, and they're up to really no good on the international world wide, i would say diplomacy levels while the u. s. is scrambling vocal china is now gain partners one by one with their belt road initiative and through the belt road initiative, investing in other countries. they are once again building a relationship. that is what the world is up against. and i think it's,

it's quite challenging for the u. s. he make a very good point, alex, which i'll take over to, to benjamin chow now, because how, how do you think, benjamin, that the members of the bricks group of nations and i also african state to how do you think they perceive the beijing proposed a piece plan now we are seeing opposite trends in it. well those, this portrayed cam and there is this can let by to lester the showing a key, a trend of the globalization which could tongue bad because equal seymour's as train an interest more segregated. and it worries becoming a more serious um, game ah, you know, people form cancer. we understand that, but it is quite unreasonable that the us now is open the, asking people to reject any piece plans on ukraine as you raised. right. that these are, you know, there are currently 20 african country meters here in moscow seeking collaboration . yet we se, and other camp food exclusive cups in the name of democracy prog. coarsely up with

standard china and on doris have established diplomatic ties after the central american nation and a decades long relations with taiwan, honduras is an important country in central america. the government of honduras chooses to stand with $100.00 and a $21.00 countries in the world recognise and undertake to adhere to the wan, china principal severe the so called diplomatic relations with taiwan, establish diplomatic relations with the people's republic of china, and undertake that had yours shall no longer develop an official relations or official exchanges with taiwan. this is the right choice, that is in line with the prevailing trend and supported by the people. china highly appreciate that. the suffering of ties came after the honduran, foreign minister visited beijing and enduring foreign ministry, stated that it recognized taiwan is an inseparable part of chinese territory. and china as the only legitimate government, the loss of relations with under as leaves taiwan with formal diplomatic ties with

just 13 states around the globe. taiwan in turn, accused the central american country of being lord by china, which is promising financial assistance by joan boyer single pitching dungy tie wants ministry of foreign affairs. would like to warn beijing that it's attempts to lure our diplomatic allies was false promises, in order to squeeze or diplomatic space has seriously harmed the feelings of the tie when his people and sped up the divergence of cross straight relationships and check out our website. our k dot com to find out more about washington's efforts to exert its influence on buddhist by pressuring the central american nation to opt out of establishing ties with china. waves of protests have hit france in the country. southwest police clashed with demonstrators who torture vehicles as they demanded, halting the construction of

a water reservoir. ah. the raleigh had started peacefully with some $25000.00 locals, taking part. however, a number of people were injured in some sequenced scuffles with police. local authorities say at least 2 people are now in critical condition. dis comes amid weeklong protests across the country over the government's new pension reformed bill, increasing the retirement age to $64.00 instead of $62.00 without a parliamentary vote. here some footage from the tumultuous streets of the french nation ah.

out of control, that's how french citizens described violent clashes with police. with some news outlets like being the chaos to award zone. over a 1000000 protesters have taken to the streets against the controversial pension reform, heavily armor police have used tear gas water cannon stung grenades and but pods against the protesters. however, frank president micron brushed aside concerns about the police tactics and called the protesters, voices illegitimate. in israel as well, hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets in the latest round are protests against the highly controversial judicial reform. police stepped in with force

using water cannon against crowds in tel aviv to protesters block traffic on a major highway demonstrations of grip. the country since january as the netanyahu government has sought to restrict the authority of the supreme court while giving more power to the parliament. protesters have demanded the prime minister and his cabinet resign over the move. israel's defense minister has urged netanyahu to walk the measures back warning that public unrest is threatening the nation's security disease and no agriculture. the russian defense ministry has said that the west is well aware of the irreparable harm that depleted uranium causes to civilians and the environment as well as to ukrainian service men, but still plans to send the ammunition to ukraine anyway. moscow calls the move the pinnacle of shamelessness. santos to bring you. thank you, barbara. the west is well aware of the negative consequences of the use of depleted

uranium ammunition, despite the fact that the use of such munitions will cause irreparable harm to the health of ukrainian armed forces and the civilian population. however, nato countries and particular great britain expressed their readiness to supply these type of weapons to the key of regime militia. nato has actually become an accomplice to horrific crimes ukrainians for nato, as we all see are just expendable. no one cares about their fate. either in european capitals or across the ocean. the pinnacle of shamelessness was the recent reports about britain's readiness to supply the key of regime with depleted uranium ammunition. earlier british authorities announced that they intend to supply ukraine with depleted uranium projectiles, which work to pierce tanks and armored vehicles vladimir putin war and that russia would be forced to respond accordingly. john kirby national security council spokesperson diminished the severity of london's plans,

saying that the use of such arms is what he calls fairly commonplace. i mean, make no mistake in this is yet another straw man through which the russians are driving a stick. this kind of ammunition is a fairly commonplace been in use for, for decades. the west is use weapons containing depleted uranium in europe during the bombing of former yugoslavia. according to an admission of the former nato secretary general lord robertson himself more than 30000 rounds of ammunition with depleted uranium were dropped on belgrade, serene officials, who this week marked 24 years since the beginning of the nato bombing said, those numbers are actually higher use of depleted uranium in the balkans sparked numbers of lawsuits by those who participated in the operations, including soldiers from italy, france and the u. k. according to independent journalist, tucson, pro rock of ich and member of the serbian parliament milos, bonds,

or the consequences for those involved were terrible. i had no good consequence desire your j a think that the bonding was simply unjustified, and therefore the use of the plant de gloated uranium and plaster bombs. what example was also unjustified, that the consequences at a better model, although they have not yet been fully explored, especially when it comes to know you're a new m. as you imagine, certainly a's tansy with the continuous increase in the number oh, concepts in the number of malignant diseases. the research on that topic is being done, although it should we also said and undermine that. natalie. is this some of the aging them? some with asian dental early since cindy nuns, samuel serbia, today is the number one country in europe when it comes to the number of people

suffering from cancer. and this is the clear consequences of the bombings with depleted uranium for hundreds of years. it will remain present in our water, air, and soil, by giving ukraine such weapons. they will pollute the territory of ukraine on which many depend for food don't. i simply cannot believe when i heard the information that great britain is offering ukraine weapons with depleted uranium. russia is not serbia, russia can and will respond in a completely different manner. it is just simply unbelievable that the west is trying to drag every one into destruction when they conduct their aggression towards the former yugoslavia. they used, forbidden weapons, would be this week marks 2 decades for the iraqi people since us led forces embedded their country and impose regime change by force are to continue special coverage of the conflict that through the oil rich country into chaos and destabilize the region for years to come 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 gray. with food and sleep. with out in march, 2003, missiles rained down on baghdad. the ensuing invasion left behind a trail of destruction and an estimated 1000000 people dead. r t corresponded steve

sweeney takes an in depth look at the u. s. flood campaign that was unleashed on iraq. we're here in baghdad, which 20 years ago was inflamed as the us and britain unlist it shock and all bombing campaign. what we have seen on televisions though, is indeed the 1st phase of a day. the campaign called shock and awe. eye witnesses described what happened when missiles rained down on the iraqi capital, a march 2003. while the attack was anticipated, locals will have traumatized by the sheer scale of the destruction. it was very difficult for the country. and for all iraqis citizens on that day, a disaster struck my nephew was killed in the 1st strike on that god damn day bushes, a criminal. it was his fault. they are all criminals. they trampled on humanity.

they hate people. this was to be expected of them. they came to destroy the country, not to protect the citizens of iraq. it was a curse time for all. iraqis were still feeling the consequences of this. the world has promised the american soldiers would be welcomed with open arms. with flowers and with sweets, while a swift victory was guaranteed, we are in the square where the americans tore down the statue of saddam hussein. but what many people don't realize is that he was just yards away in the streets behind me watching events unfold. bus loads of people were brought in to create the impression that it was ordinary iraqis that tore down the statue. it was to create the narrative that the people who supported the us led invasion as the u. s. struggled with heavy losses private military contractors were brought in, but they too were involved in war crime to the atrocities against ordinary iraqis. civilian here in this whole square, one of the worst massacres took place at the hands of the notorious blackwater

private military company. as they escorted to a u. s. military convoy the mercenaries. oh, fire killing 17 and wounding 20. relocated either the word blackwater. for me as a journalist is associated with something terrifying. i saw people in complete disarray, for example. there was always arrested. any resident could be shot dead on the street. this incident took place in the al cough area. there was a turmoil, some passes by were killed by blackwater, p. m. c. we went to this place only after the blackwater left by then black war was something terrible for us. this incident was not particularly disgust at the meetings by the government then for blackwater personnel with charge in jail. but i would like to pardon by then you have president donald from black or to maintain his name, but not faculty under the name of how to me. it was allegedly involved in the fighting for my 4th is ahead of the conflict in ukraine. now as const, it has

a vested interest in liquid natural gas, which many phase the root cause was been described as nato for the war. confederates was bought $1000000000.00 by investment company apollo group in 2016. in september 2020, a polar group entered a 5 and a half 1000000000 real estate investment partnership with the abbey national oil company, one of the world's largest oil companies, and a major exporter of liquefied natural gas. in december 2021 at note was invited to enter a joint venture to create an oil and gas term, new in the ukrainian pulse of a desa for transportation to western countries. the announcement came a month off, the chief executive of the ukrainian state energy company nafta. guess you are if a trend co tote and abu dhabi energy conference, that he hopes to rush and nurturing to pipeline into europe, which bypasses ukraine would not be approved. he said that ukraine stood to lose $2000000000.00 per year, about 1.5 percent of its g d p. if the russian pipe was operational, claim that no string to is actually putting the whole continent and global security

at risk. one ex says, these organizations operate in a gray area, often outside to law, live to luca from the black border case has not been solved. i think the americans are investigating the case, but insignificant information about the investigation, procedure and compensation issues comes from different sources. i heard that some citizens received compensation while others did. not all this is caused by the weakness of the government in protecting its citizens. we now know that the war was based on a lie. there were no w m days and saddam had nothing to do with $911.00. but the legacy of the invasion, good. 20 is on the 1st miss all for fire artes folk within a rocky military veteran. he says us claims that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction in iraq were fabricated to justify the invasion

a subtler of love, so love role. i was wondering why they kept inspecting as people had forgotten everything. despite the plague of occupation, no one spoke about the issue of chemical weapons. moreover, all the results of those inspections you've heard of were placed in a closed box under type protection that could only be opened 60 years later, though international law permits the declassification of an event 20 years later. this demonstrates were a big, disgraceful, and immoral ally. it all was actually was a surprise, was it like all their inspections? they came at night and conducted a thorough, accurate inspection. and for the record, they realized there were no weapons. so when they inspected all paccar university, they knew it was useless because it only teaches economic strategy and other topics . they inspected all the research and private offices at our university, which has over 30 research courses, a national defense in high management leadership and authority. research that defines policies and participates in the governments formation. if it wasn't for these wars and the invasion which began in 1990 and the blockade with its effect

still lingering to the stay, iraq would have been in a much better state than to day. i wasn't an expert in that field, but i know that they inspected all the locations. it wasn't hidden, it was visible in the media. all the inspection committees had specific schedules, entailing thousands of visits. they entered the republican palace, the headquarters of the republican guard, the special guard, and the special security service, military department, everything. i'm certain and i can take responsibility for my words that they entered without any purpose because they knew that there was nothing to look for. what is alba car university have to do with weapons of mass destruction. the martyrs monument is a symbolic place, but they enjoy insulting the symbols of the people they invade. therefore, they inspected the monument, and a later turned it into the headquarters of a u. s. battalion even the commanders club, became the headquarters of u. s. battalion. back then you could see soldiers in uniform sitting proudly outside the club as if they were telling you we seized the club,

humiliating the army commanders and sought out hushing ahamed. abdul, i'll walk each shannon meant a victory for them. dignified honorable people are always their target in order to crush them and achieve their own interests. during the us invasion, numerous state sites were looted in thousands of historical artifacts were stolen. the ransacking of the iraqi national museum is considered one of the most devastating acts of cultural vandalism in modern times. who been submitted either be wrecked and national museum was subject to the largest loosen in modern history . a most significant cultural heritage in the most important home of civilizations has been stolen with lou ah,

in 2003, when the looting mostly took place, the national museum house, thousands of important archaeological lightens from ancient civilizations, such as these marian, babylonian, the katy and syria as well as slumming civilization, so large quantities of items have been looted, sabotaged ribbons, smashed especially sculptures and pottery. many of the taken items were found in antiquity, shops and auctions around the world and were sold to the highest bidders. ah, how could have been and what was stolen from the right. national museum is only

a small part of what has been looted from archaeological sites spread across iraq wide to the fragile security situations in many provinces, especially after the 2014 events and the emergence of terrace groups. those archaeological sites, which were not under government control, have been the legitimately excavated. thousands of archaeological items have been found and eventually smuggled abroad anew has left fear. this was a pre planned and systematic theft. the area in which the national museum was located is supposed to be a very restricted area, and the u. s. troops were stationed near the museum. yet they allowed the mob to break into the facility and lute the items that present human values. the systematic attempts to eradicate iraq antiquities have been amplified by the rice of iceland, especially around the city of mosul, where assyrian archaeological items were looted and sold international markets. and auction was for millions of.