the american economy, so there's your boomerang. so the the us lives, they want to do everything in their power to preserve their privilege position and the world's pressures deputy ambassador to the united nations telling asi after friday, security council meeting. but the western powers have an insatiable drive to maintain a global headstrom on your credit and clamping down on the freedom of the press as a new law empowers the state to shut down news outlets which are beam unacceptable . and india, the 5 ship airline in 5th, it will continue flight over russian ass base despite pressure from certain western parts the so going to be to share your stock today with us here at asi,

international headquarters in moscow with where we are live now. it just after 4 pm local time rushes deputy ambassador to the united nation is essentially he's pushing back. he says western powers are hypocritical to lash out at moscow as proposal to station nuclear arms on the territory of its allied bella roost. he added that america has long station to its nuclear weapons in nato countries close to russia's borders. the west is trying to act within the concepts of rules based international order where it's all, it's all. ready and sets the rules and 6 that the others should implement these rules. they want to do everything in their power to preserve their privileged position in the world to preserve the well being of the so called golden helium by any brice. they are not hesitate to act in a very much colonial neo colonial logic in deploying nuclear weapons in the western countries for many years for decades already. and then when the russia analysis

similar lance simply analysis, they already stop. she's julia many developing countries, especially weak or developing countries there of course, aware of possible consequences of the criticism of washington economic consequences, political consequences, financial consequences. so it was during a un security council meeting on friday that russia's top envoy to the organization bustling a benzene. he demanded that america withdraw all of its nuclear weapons from other foreign countries. it had moscow just can't stand idly by, as nato countries are conducting drills for the use of nuclear weapons. she is, this should do it. so do. last rushing in the ninety's took all measures to withdraw nuclear weapons from the territory of the former usaa. we urged americans to do the same to abandon the thinking of the cold war period to return all of us

nuclear weapons to the territory of the united states. us weapons are deployed in the netherlands, germany, or turkey and other nato countries. recall that poland also agreed to participate in joint nuclear exercises. this is exactly the area that the measures taken by the president of russia are aimed at the 15 member body that leads the united nations, assembled to discuss the issue of tactical nuclear weapons being deployed by russia in bel roofs. and bella ruth, agreeing to host those tactical nuclear weapons. now, many us aligned countries used this meeting as an opportunity to simply attack russia to blame russia for the conflict in ukraine through a huge russia of various things that we've seen throughout western media over the past. months, however, when russia took to the floor, they pointed out something that many countries have failed to acknowledge in western media has worked to just simply not mention which is that the united states

has been withdrawing and getting rid of nuclear agreements. and he went over in detail all the withdrawals of nuclear agreements that we've seen from the united states. from there, the went on to highlight how you asked policy as been aimed at trying to dictate and control other countries and escalate tensions around the world. is up at least one of the key western countries are simply trying to impose their own rules on the rest of the world. beneficial only to them in order to then demand this strict compliance from other states. they themselves, of course, do not consider themselves bound by any obligations. such inherently neo colonial attitudes are aimed at ensuring the prosperity of the so called golden 1000000000 at any cost. neither we know our colleagues from developing countries can be misled,

and he more the apparent hypocrisy of the united states in demanding that russia not be able to deploy tactical nuclear weapons to bel roost. while the united states and its allies have nuclear weapons, that was made clear by the remarks bind to ben z a before the council overall meeting highlighted very big differences between major countries represented on the council when it comes to their interpretation of world advance. russia made clear that the united states is acting in a way that is provoking conflict rather than seeking resolution. and not really enforcing any of this rhetoric we hear about a rules based global order. went back to roger's un deputy ambassador dmitri polanski, who added that western partners have will quite drastically depleted that military resources as they continue to pump weapons into ukraine for the conflict against russia ross, she's strong enough. we will,

we will compare it to the whole of the western world and now or when the west has mobilized almost all its resources. so he was the man again, and they are not able to, to, to win over russia. ukraine. i think now they are be concerns because of what are the steps they could do. you speak about washington and so then of course, they proceed from the, from the concept of american exceptionalism. that united states has the right to do whatever he wants of the international arena. now, the view, russia and china as a threat, they try to mobilize 2 crowns of these, these threats and they want everybody else to be silent. not to fear on the side of russia and china, and i think that's the only probation of their foreign policy, right? mobile x like people leaving him on the separate the planets having the right to do what that what they want in the country to, to the others. ukraine has passed

a law giving president the landscape government director authority to shut down media outlets it deems unacceptable, ultimately, bypassing any need for a court to rule on it. and the law takes the power of the ukrainian council on tv and radio broadcasting to a whole new level, making it the only regulator of mass media. the ability to well impose find restrictions are completely bad news agencies that cannot do so without even involving the countries judicial system. this comes off to the ukrainian government also bought a number of political opposition parties, which were accused of being sympathetic to russia. if one of those factions received 2000000 boats in recent elections, now this new media lore, so prohibits views on russia that contradict key of narrative. now, any reporting in a ukrainian news output about russia must at least have the approval of domestic

authorities. legislation has spot deep concerns about the freedom of the press in that country. the international federation of journalists joins its ukrainian affiliates, the national union of journalists, of ukraine, an independent media trade union of ukraine, and calling on the government to revise the new legislation. and to start abroad, inclusive dialogue with journalist unions and the media sector. so we got reactions from journalists, jason, michael and the voice of alan about this new ukranian law, but also comparisons with similar actions taken by some other things. this is a conflict situation and in every conflict situation, especially one of this magnitude is this is indeed a proxy conflict between russia and the united states. then the stakes are very high and press freedoms. the very idea of press as an instrument of

control and propaganda is instrumental to public opinion gaining public support, you know, manufacturing consent for the giving of arms. and, you know, the use of taxpayers money to fight a war in sight of the united states outside of western europe. so a great deal of consent is required and in order to manufacture by consent than the all the instruments of the, the state than all gra, for media media the, you know, the, the government aligned media in the west and in the united states will fall into line and gives the support. i don't think anybody should expect the west to condemn this for all of their public commitments to democracy and free speech. we could in fact argue that the ukrainian model is being implemented at home. and given that they've already declared landscape the next best thing to a st, and that in there, i see can do no wrong guess he's already banned old. you know,

all the opposition parties. he's already nationalized the media. it's just one of those. if i run it because it, this decision comes the day after the western journalists are shrieking about the rest of that wall street journal reporter who was reportedly caught red handed, trying to spy on russia. and that's obviously in their eyes. the hack on freedom of the press, but this is not because it doesn't matter what you do. it's only always who you are that's, that's all there is to it. well, meantime the international monetary fund has approved a $15000000.00 financial aid package for ukraine. this brings the total international support to about a $115000000000.00, including a debt, right? office grants and loans to key. now the new funding will be released over 48 month . it's the biggest loan ukraine has ever received. certainly since the thought of the conflict, also the 1st time the i m f is given help to a country that is currently engaged in a military conflict. a $2700000000.00 is set to be an immediate disbursement.

however, the money does come with conditions which will require to undertake some big financial reforms. ukraine's economy contracted by the 3rd last year. the government seeking at least $38000000000.00 from foreign donors to bridge the gap around $28000000000.00 in loans and grounds has also been pledged from the united states and the e. u. well, a bit earlier my colleague, you know, neil was speaking with an expert in strategic leadership with a focus on crisis management in emerging markets. specialist saying the i m. s. loan will certainly increase ukraine's dependence on certain western partners. boring from the i. m f is not cheap. indeed because you have the base rate $3.00 for every pay out. that's a surcharge. and then if you take out a lot of money, it gets even more expensive because there should've been kind of an incentive not to take out so much money. ukraine suffers damage to it. infrastructure, you know,

then it gets a loan to rebuild. then they are rebuilding and then there's another attack and then you get to have it on. so in time so was, this is always difficult and we should not forget their huge legacy problems. now the scapegoat is russia, right? but the ukraine was in a, in a very bad economic situation because of all the gods and bet fiscal policy before the military operations started. i think it's extremely risky and you cannot use the standard. i'm as approach now, which is tough fiscal policy and so on. actually, you would need a tailored approach. it's hard to think that this is completely al touristic, what the i m f is doing. i don't think that this is very touristic in reality, and i think they are a couple of hidden agenda items which the western countries in particular

for you one is to make the make ukraine more dependent on the west. more dependent on ever increasing amounts of further loans just to repay the previous loans. the other thing is that it's actually a nice scheme for the western countries, which now deliver weapons actually took that money to get cash for the weapons. because otherwise it would be a gift or sometimes they give their older weapons in order to buy newer weather and gets the budget levels up in their home country. absolutely. so very nice scheme to return to rejuvenate the equipment to military equipment. so and afterwards, when they said that trapped that trip, there's a sense of urgency and that will be a lot of pressure to actually use the frozen foreign currency reserves of russia,

which is about 300000000000 dollars. maybe this money then will be used to repay this. i'm f, loan and or the other loans. the head of a prominent monastery and kia has been put under house arrest as ukrainian authorities are well strengthened from down on christian clergy. members who have well religious ties to russia, according to him keeps latest move is nothing more than a political persecution. i have done nothing of what they are accusing me. this is a political matter. i have never been on the side of aggression. i am against aggression now i am in ukraine. this is my land. i was on friday, a crowd cold for the eviction of the clergy at the monastery and shouting insults

and demanding the monks to vacate the premises. meanwhile, orthodox christians and kia have been seeking to prevent the police from entering the church and removing the clergy members. and the government has been trying to cut the centuries old ties between orthodox ukrainians and moscow. patriarchy one adviser who crunch president. lindsey said the church needs to be quote, physically cleaned out. unique chance when everything could be resolved very quickly and painlessly was during the 1st 3 to 6 months of the war. then it was possible to simply physically clean out many pro russians. today it is a little more difficult, but again, a little harder does not mean impossible. and today we must use legal and tough means to sweep them away. well, the monks said that the actions to a vig them are illegal and that they have every right to stay at the monastery. a recent report from the united nations is also a question. the validity of the authorities, measures. even pope france is getting involved, expressing concern about religions and then the freedoms being restricted in

ukraine. and a greek orthodox archbishop was cold on the global community to help stop the persecution. describing the crackdown as an attack on christianity could be on the horizon in the jerusalem church, which is one of the oldest christine orthodox churches in the world. we believe the systematic persecution suffered by the fraternal ukrainian orthodox church is an attack on all of us on all orthodox churches in the world, or old christian churches and on old, noble humanitarian, ethical and spiritual values, caves, rulers, and the west to trying to strike the ukrainian orthodox church, a raise it camps, government is working hard to do this. i don't think the west is just silent. it's an accomplice in this crime. if we say that the west is just silent, we will not reflect the whole reality. the western system and those who claim to be its rulers, whether in the u. s. or elsewhere, trying to undermine the authority of the orthodox church, not only in a crate but in the world. the orthodox church is under attack everywhere because it

has preserved and maintains faith, morality, and values, including family values. a group of ngos has accused of frances largest energy company of complicity in war crimes for allegedly helping russia to fuel its military chat. so let's get the take on this without a contributor. is rachel marston. when you think of the conflict in ukraine, does the idea of climate change immediately come to mind? well, leave it to green activists to find a way to use events in ukraine against one of their favorite targets, a big oil company, 2 and yos. the darwin climax, coalition based in france and ukraine's rosalyn. we stand our taking legal action in france against the countries oil giant total energy. they're accusing the multinational of war crimes complicity in ukraine, according to western press reports. the n g o is alleged that total operates a national gas field in russia,

who's resources were transformed into fuel kerosene. in this case for russian warplanes deployed in ukraine after the onset of the conflict on february 24th of last year. the company has expressed outrage at the accusations which qualifies as defamatory. what's have meaning and such. talk is unacceptable. these accusations against our company, which conducts that celebrations and strict compliance with european union policy and applicable european sanctions, measures a particularly serious out of funded in light of the explanations we have provided back in october of 2020 the same french and geo was part of a coalition that press charges against total for green washing in 2022 were targeting the company for eco side in another procedure with paris and new york getting involved the litigation. so they've now teed up with ukraine's resume. we stand which specifically targets exports of and investments end russian fossil fuel

. busy as a source of revenue for moscow, but they really seem to both be obsessing over this french company in particular, even though russian fuel is being sold all of the world to countries that haven't sanctioned russia before be ex forwarded by other oil companies back into the west, after having it's russian identity sufficiently launch for the west and europe in particular to avoid being seen as blatantly hypocritical. so last year the very same to and yos, tried to get a french anti terrorist prosecutor to investigate total, accusing the company of war crimes. but that case was dismissed earlier this here, here's what the company lawyers had to say about that particular case. justice should not be blind when faced with indirect, but essential support multinational as the war effort and the considerable profits that they continue to enjoy after an invasion of ukraine. france cannot in the same

breath, condemn the invasion, and remain inactive in the face of behaviors propping it up. so it sounds a lot like the kind of power play that the u. s. government made against french cement company, la vows, when it used its own courts to extract a windfall, fine of almost $800000000.00 for the us treasury after washington accused it a wheeling and dealing with g hottest and syria, where the company was trying to operate it's certainly not unheard of then for washington to use a whole range of tools at its disposal, including proxies of various kinds of hoody and cios and cleaner a court system to do it's bidding against competitors, foreign competitors, specifically. last year, the british angio global witness also drew attention to totals business activities and russia. so no doubt, it's just a total coincidence at so many western and yos are seeing the exact same lines and versus about total, and it's linked to russia. speaking of which the company's former ceo stoughton

actually was described by russian president vladimir protean in 2014 as a quote, true friend of our country. unfortunately, those remarks were made after denali perished in a freak accident when his private jet crashed into a snowplow at moscow's renewable airport. a french state media report 2 years later in 2016, noted that the old maritime france around the former total ceos, mysterious death, and paris is seeming lack of interest in the incident. even after moscow sent over its own for volume investigation to france, was rather striking and it brought up the death in 1962 of italian oil giant, a nice c e o, and ready for my to. when his plane blew up during the landing in milan, and although it was attributed to bad weather at the time, 3 decades later, the sicilian mafia admitted to having blown the plane up. now in the high states

world of big oil, there are a lot of smoky mirrors and blows for sure. and things aren't always what they seem to be at 1st glance. but as we've also seen with a recent sabotage at the north stream pipelines, the closer the entity is to russia and to russian interests, the more incoming fire it seems to take these days. ah, measuring is said to host high level talks between japanese and excuse me, chinese dipped. i talked to them about this will be, as i understand the 1st face to face meeting in 3 years. now it all comes from intentions over japan's plans to well restrict semiconductor manufacturing equipment exports to china. ultimately, coping beijing's ability to make advanced chips. earlier, we discussed this with a c, g t, n reporter you and facia. well, the 2 countries are neighbors and so, so technically they're important to each other and that the bilateral relationship should start itself should serve the common interest. but japan has been really

taking top positions on certain issues towards china such as the south and east china sea analysts also say that there are many other issues such as the island and the tie. one question, as well as the situation ukraine could be discuss, it's kind of restrictions all the exports of 23 types of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. and this is really comes out one day before the foreign ministers, japanese for a minister's visit to china. so it's really not normal and certainly it's kind of a cold war mentality and the action of unilateralism and all the reason for that is just to find and reason an excuse to bolster its defense capacity capacity. and as you said, it's also the, the agenda from the west seeking alliance, which is the purpose of it is to contain china. ah, the head of india's flagship airline has insisted it will continue to conduct

flights of a russian space, despite pressure from certain western partners. the ceo of air india adamantly defended the company's decision ultimately saying it's simply a matter of economics. if that's the way the winds are blowing and it is most economical, if we prevent certain carriers from over flying certain places, it doesn't necessarily stop people moving. it just changes where they're moving through. potentially the chief off and india he defended the right of air india to fly through russian skies in this cells on the pool continue into view to the telegraph. the journalist with the telegraph, who interviewed mister wilson, he basically was giving him the logic that if you're flying or russia, then you're basically helping russia fund the war in ukraine to which sha, mr. wilson raised strongly, ah, have rubbish all those cleans. in fact,

i remember most of the west in a line, they have quoted flying through russia, ukraine, as well as bender, who was and ascension. what's that done is it has made the hours longer. it has made the dig, it's more expensive. needless to say, more feel well already there's a shortage of fuel was now interestingly, also us ever and line. they've approached western government saying that an airline which is flying through the russian sky should be prohibited for landing western soil. now when they seeing you that india and china, they companies have an unfair advantage. foreign airlines using russian air space on flights to and from the us are gaining a significant competitive advantage over us carriers in major markets, including china and india. this situation is directly to the benefit of foreign airlines and at the expense of the u. s. as a whole, with fewer connections to key markets,

fewer high paying airline jobs. so you're paying as far as a, a east to west, the road from east to west is concerned. the best possible way is flying through the giant territory of russia. what it does is it makes it shorter, it makes it cheaper. but as far as india and china are concerned, they've not signed up to the sanctions. so these 2 may be able to use this route. but interesting how in a sense of entitlement, they think that it's so key for eastern airlines to suffer as much as western airlines and why perhaps it's dying to think the other way you can see me. uganda, i should say, as announced, it's sending 5000 troops to the neighboring democratic republic of congo. this in an effort to restore peace near the everyone and border you got as president, has emphasized that the soldiers, main task will be to restore order and not to engage in fighting

a militant group. that the d. c insists is supported by ra, wonder we are going to be in the gun richer area, not in order to find the m 23, but to act as a neutral force, as the congo is used, the time to search out their political problems. unless we are attacked, we are not there to fight. fighting may come later if one of the non state groups doesn't accept based on what we all regard as reasonable conditions for you kind interest is of the east african community in which the 3 countries on member states . the withdrawal of the $23.00 militant group author, a recent peace accord, was actually signed well, local residents and you got us at the peacekeeping efforts will be costly, but a certainly necessary to restore peace in the region and ensure the safety of their own nation. it would for them to deploy the army there. then there was part of it. it expands in cutting on what on deploying their you pdf soley us.

so my opinion is i think it's a really great expense to your grand up to deploy a day, maybe helping to fight, you know, who also was we were gonna assist you again. i'm very careful about police. i mean, right now me as a bus and i think it's very good for them to jump them from them them from me here . i'm just going to run here. but i mean, time you're going to is leading international partner is china. these days of aging has a ton of contracts with uganda and african country that's just broken every record . by the way of the report. li, discovering a domestic gold. mine was 13 trillion dollars. that is 3 times the amount of us dollars in circulation around the

news . i'm action redundancy and welcome back to going underground, broadcasting all around the world from do buying the u. a nature so called mainstream medium, if forgotten about it, but the greatest eco terra atrocity of this century was september is blowing up the north stream pipeline supplying energy to europe. countless lives are lost from the resulting instability, new prices, and the cia with a terrorist to go to one of the greatest journalists in the world. sy hersh with julian assange, allegedly being tortured today in london. we will perhaps have to wait a while before new wiki leaks, cables you have the cia is at one with a strategy of 20, but it can state department seen as the leading leading on the war on russia through ukraine. dr. melvin goodman with c. i even decades, it is now professor of international relations at john hopkins university and

senior fellow at the center of international policy joins me from washington. d. c . melvin. thank you so much for coming on the show. you don't believe sy hersh a story that the north stream was blown up by by blank. and i knew linda solid archers pieces for the last few years that have been based on very little evidence whatsoever. which is why he has trouble getting published in washington. and london, and he had to write his recent piece on some stack and he writes without evidence. he says he has anonymous sources. he says can deal his sources. and the recent piece was typical. it was based on things that didn't happen. a joint press conference that didn't happen a joint statement that wasn't made. lack of media attention to show says.