the in the gives it in the stories that shape the week. we recall the terror attacked in st. petersburg which killed prominent russian war journalist, lovelyn, sitarski, and wounded at least 40 other people. also a head on the program, this, our protest against judicial reform spread across the israel. i made soaring tensions in the region following a state of recent deadly terrorism. the victims were women, the elderly and children as young as one who was shot multiple times at close range r t marks the 20th anniversary of the us invasion of our rock. recalling

a massacre in the tunnel deep for 24 civilians were gunned down by american chris and the with the top stories from the past 7 days. and right up to the moment developments as well. welcome to the weekly on our team an extreme, this group which calls itself the national republican army has claimed responsibility for the south, the nation of russian journalists, blood lin, to tar ski. he was killed in a blast of a st. petersburg cafe last sunday, which left at least 40 other people winded. the main suspect in the case story, a trap of officially been placed under arrest by a moscow court and charged with committing an act of terrorism. a statue edge with the device hidden inside exploded in the venue during an event. now the so named national republican army phased out a acted independently in the cafe bombing without any foreign help. the radical

group was funded with the state of the name of overthrowing the kremlin. back in august, the same group said it had carried out the killing of another russian journalist story. a duke and i tried moscow. russian officials. busy however, se ukraine was directly responsible for both murders a charge key of has denied. well, this is for the, from inside the cafe film, just before the deadly blast. it's shows the suspect presenting mr. it's a tar sky with the statuette, and even being invited to sit next to him. it's not clear if she knew the object contained an explosive device. according to the late journalist, friends doria trap had been acquainted with the victim of warning. you may find the following footage disturbing usually gives it right here. what we're seeing here are survivors of the attack picture outside the building. many of them covered in blood the pastors by tried to assist those who

have been wounded. the main suspect was spotted leaving the scene just moments after the last man killed. lovelyn to tar sky was hugely influential in the online community of war. time bloggers. the 4 year old real name was maxine from mean he was originally from don bass on 4th in the early stages of the complex there in the gowns people's militia dot experience legend becoming one of the most followed war journalists before his death. amassing an audience of over half a 1000000 people on the telegram platform, ortiz dollar quarter breaks down. now the hub, last weekends events on for that. on a sunday evening like any other russian war correspondent, blood lend to tar ski was hosting an event centered around war zone journalism. here at this cafe, it was opened admission. anyone could have attended. and starsky told his audience of his stories of war around 6 15 pm, his life came to

a sudden end after an explosion reduce the cafes interior to rubble. mm. me. believe she just took her to the foot usa to a terrorist attack has just happened. while vlad lend to tar ski was speaking. there was an explosion in the bar. it seems that our speaker from got up, according to eye witnesses, the explosion came from a small statue that a woman brought to the events a gift, apparently intended for to tar steep rushes. investigative committee said it was looking into this incident as a murder and the police were on a manhunt to find the woman in question. media reports began to suggest that the

main suspect in the case was a woman by the name of daria trap of a, someone who had been arrested before at anti government demonstrations. and had transferred money to an extremist organization called the anti corruption foundation. around 700 police officers were deployed across the city in search of trap of the police showed up at her door with automatic weapons and even rated the residence of her mother and sister. for the time being though she was nowhere to be found. the next day, the authorities found daria trap of a at a 4 rent apartment where the russian investigative committee later confirmed her detention. not long after that, the interior ministry released a video confession in which doria trip of a admits to bringing an explosive statuette to tar skis event. do you understand why you have been detained? i am detained, full being at the scene of flatland petoskey, killing. what have you done? i brought sachi, they exploded those who gave it to you. good. can i tell you later?

russia's anti terrorism committee has determined that this was a terrorist attack organized by kiev with the help of agents from the aforementioned extremist organization. the anti corruption foundation here for its part has denied any involvement in this attack. as it did a year ago, when there was overwhelming evidence to suggest that key of agents had killed another high profile russian journalist. daria do gonna, with these civilian assassinations piling up and the west, turning a blind eye to key halves roland them. it looks like the people who risked their lives to show the world. the truth are going to have to sleep with one eye open until this conflict is over. donald quarter r t st. petersburg will. the funeral of mister tar sky was held yesterday. saturday. mourners gathered at the cemetery in the capital for the last farewell to the reporter who has posthumously awarded the order of courage for his bravery. one

of russia's. tom honors o. tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of israel on saturday for the 14th week in a controversial judicial over whole. it comes from it rising security concerns after 2 recent deadly terror attacks in the country in the last number of days. in fact, the demonstrations kicked off months ago after the government proposed changes that would give parliament the power to overturn court decisions, appoint judges on restrict the reasons for which the prime minister could be removed from office. critics, i have said the reforms would take away vital checks and balances on an undermined democracy in this room. earlier, the nation's leader benjamin netanyahu rule to postpone the changes. but the protest movement say's the on rest will continue until the plan is buried completely alone. this is happening against the backdrop of other attacks in the

country. on friday night car plugged into a crowd of a c side park until a be killing and then tell you man and wounding it further. 5 tourists, no doubt occurred our is really settlement in the west. prime minister. netanyahu denotes the incidence of terror attacks and called off the military and police reserve forces to bolster security. let me bring you some more. busy from the region, the is really pm, how to choose come us of being responsible for thursday's rocket attack that originated from lebanese territory. in response to that, israel's war plain stroke, lebanon, and syrian territory too, as it blames the neighboring country for supporting the militant group, or strikes head targets and gals, as well. ah,

its southern lebanon during the early hours of friday, after its really planes flew by in response to the near $100.00 rockets that were fired from the area of israel. while a barb of garza was unleashed just minutes after a statement from mister netanyahu, in which he said, the nation's enemies will pay for the regression. now the reports are coming in to us on the program that hundreds of people have barricaded themselves inside the access mosque in east jerusalem. it follows is really police cracking down on the site this week. removing people during prayers that wall of islam sonia violent flushes inside the mos provoke, sharp condemnation from the r a world. the 1st raid on alexa oper on wednesday morning when it's really forces storm the building using tear gas beating, palestinian worshippers is really police alleged. the dozens of young men carrying rocks and firecrackers had tried to borrow,

keep themselves inside during hours and were off limits to doesn't totally aside. temperament is also located inside at the company. a former minister for palestinian prisoners told us the news is truly government policies. how fuel this link is coming? i think these are a leak amount of land exhaust who very external atmosphere. and these get ation, this thought, been good, is there any procedures? and i last saw mosque and jones that m and b. i was banking especially by approval occasions from the israeli on. so what happened in the intent of the the this the evening once i was out of this. busy or a student that must be in, that is my only policy a live to see,

i think, live without having what is to categorize them without having breakthrough and then a piece process without. busy that that is what i and a commitment to lee, and i'm a commitment to 2 states, so you'll, shan least, would it be the the state of mind of the honda asian where the, the athenians of these i'm is alive. we are in that situation. them been know what is the cannot i've gone no hope for bees the for a bit between the younger generations and between the anesthesia and public. because of that we can see more and more the scan ation and violence within the 2 size. ben ross is really quite tough, extended the detention of palestinian prisoner a little y day for a further 8 months now. the man was initially detained. andre contentious law,

which allows the arrest of palestinians on the basis of on disclosed evidence that's without charger trial r t spoke with mr. i want a family who call that a hopeless situation. and i had, i'm a, i'm the father of the prisoner. he was arrested because of a post. he wrote on facebook, the core to quit at him. yet instead of being released, the intelligence services detained him administratively. so he went on a hunger strike. a deal was worked out to release him, but it fell through. now he's been sentenced to 16 months in prison for a felony which hidden, my husband needs treatment that the authorities are few stick to hunger strike to protest is half a year later, his releases starvation campaign. but not really, authorities have walked back on that agreement. sentencing him 2 additional time for allegedly trying to smuggle a mobile phone into jail. how little family say his story is symbolic of the

palestinian fights. and now will it like gun hello was arrested for the 1st time in 2002. since then, he has spent 15 years in prison because of these. he couldn't complete his education. just before his latest arrest, kelly was supposed to discuss his graduation project. even if there was nothing left for him, but more to jim, he considered his hunger strike and never back down. nobody in the world has gone on a 170 to day hunger strike and survive and nobody but him at the one in the strike is considered the longest in a movement for palestinian prisoners writes, yet it is the only weapon with which these people can obtain freedom, colors strike was of the harshest kind no food or salt. we were shocked when we realised the authorities were starving him to death. instead of trying to negotiate a solution. at the same time, the strike made a huge splash in the media and had an impact and palestinian society in our town.

there has never been such swell of support for a prisoner more than one and a half 1000. people regularly stand in solidarity with colleen. despite risking losing their job national america, it will no longer be a great power, and the biden administration is to blame. that's the message from former us president donald trump delivered just hours after he pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges which could london in jail for 130 years. if convicted. it would have been in our favor that my favor, our favor, because our country is going to hell. it's an insult to our country as the world is already laughing at us for so many other reasons, like our open borders are incompetent withdrawal from afghanistan, the most embarrassing time. in our country's history, in my opinion, economy that has been crippled by the biggest inflation we have seen in more than

60 years. our currency is crashing and will soon no longer be the world's standard, which will be our greatest defeat, frankly, in 200 years. there will be no defeat like that that will take us away from being even a great power. but our teeth kill, had not been filed this report on former president trump legal proceedings from near the manhattan court. well, a history was ne, near in new york city, at the manhattan criminal court, we saw for the 1st time american history, a former president was taken into court and charged with crimes. now donald trump was hit with $34.00 felony charges, all of them for falsifying business records. and this is related to a ledge. tosh. money being paid to pornographic films, star stormy daniels as well as a door man and the magazine that she was employed by. that's the allegation that was made. now donald trump and his dame say this is purely election interference.

this is about trying to prevent him from successfully winning the presidency in 2024. and donald trump's legal team called is a sad day. donald trump came to the court house and it was a special arrangement, the secret service arranged for donald trump to briefly go into the police custody appear before the judge enter. he is not guilty plea and then leave the court house and, and it was certainly not like any other criminal proceeding. ah, we didn't have a situation where the former president had a mug shot i was not fingerprinted. here's what donald trump had to say about the charges that had been brought against him and his arraignment and today's court proceedings. there's no case they attacked me with an onslaught of fraudulent investigations. russia, russia, russia, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine, impeachment hoax, number one, impeachment hoax number to the illegal and unconstitutional rate on maro

logo right here. so we shall just have to see how this proceeds. but this was a historic day for donald trump. our went for the judge, the 1st former president to ever face criminal charges radio host them political commentator, steve gill, says the case is a distraction by the, by the administration in order to shift the attention away from a series of domestic and foreign failures has been trumps the predictions are all based upon the, the, the voters that america allowing joe biden the by did ministration and the radical democrats to continue to remain in power. we're seeing the damage, the joe biden has done to america's status in the world to our economy. here at home, i think we're going to see that this will be a short term distraction to be american people. again, it will be covered by the media. you'll hear the democrats legally talk about trump being indicted, but this will not distract the long term from the fact that americans are feeling

pain in their pocket books. gas prices are still way too high, thanks to the by energy policies. inflation is still running out of control. thanks to the buying economic policy. our border is still wide open thanks to the buying policies that have millions of illegals flooding across our borders. our cities are still less safe than ever. more reaction, congressmen and high speaker kevin mccarthy, label the proceedings and act of political vengeance against donald trump. while other republican lawmakers and voice, their support for him to the by that ministration has distanced itself seeing itself focused on the case and had nothing to do with it. while the white house launched another attack on from claiming the country's former leader is to blame for the disastrous u. s. military retreat from gallus. while right on that very point, a review of the key arctic withdrawal from skeleton has been published by the white house national security council spokesperson john kirby a period before the media,

appraising me. current administrations, auctions while placing the blame on team trump for the issues witnessed in the wake of the departure, not hundreds of people were killed, including a number of us servicemen. then american troops also left behind more than $7000000000.00 worth of military gear. here's mr. kirby, as he remembers the time and remains proud of it. i remember going through all that ah, that's pretty remarkable. that airport was basically for all intents and purposes, american property a, i'm sorry, i just don't buy the whole argument of chaos with all this. talk

a chaos. i just didn't see a there was a lot that went right so yeah, there's a lot to be proud of. peter. meanwhile, the u. s. invasion of iraq, which left a trail of destruction to up to a 1000000 civilians killed and countless more displaced has passed its 20th anniversary. we're continuing our special coverage of the military action that through the oil rich country into chaos on the stabilize the region for years to come. ah, with while amid the grim anniversary, the u. s. on the let's take century gala pub released a poll,

which find that the majority of muslim nations do not see the u. s. us at the mark receive building power in iraq, particularly 72 percent of respondents do not believe quote, the u. s. is serious about encouraging the establishment of democratic systems and muslim country. on this day and day, 20 years ago, a large statue of iraqi leader saddam hussein was toppled by the monuments seen as a symbol of his ruling. the country was brought on by iraqis with the help of us marines. the events received wide coverage in western media which headline the day of an end to the same era. but u. s. forces were knocked down in the country. 2 years after the invasion of iraq began. american troops gone down 24 civilians in the heinous act that did not spur women and children. the turn of huntington, on of the 8th marines involved pleaded guilty negligence. all other charges,

including involuntary manslaughter, and aggravated assault words. this r t corresponded steve sweeney travel to the country to hear 1st sound about the deadly instant. and the legacy left behind. i isa was a town. the very few people outside of iraq knew before 2003, but it soon became known throughout the world. off to you as marines went on the rampage, massacring 24 people like fallujah. this was also a revenge attack. it followed the killing of a you, a soldier and a roadside bomb here. but the victims were women, the elderly and children as young as one who has shot multiple times at close range . kara, they killed my brother, my uncle, to heed, and my uncle rashid, my father, my mother and my grandmother, the amy survivors, while my brother up till my sister asha and me. yes, again, the military tried to cover up the truth, but was soon for so amid that marines might have deliberately targeted civilians

are allowed to let the completely sealed off the entire city for a month. not allowing any one to enter and arresting any one who spoke about the incident. so the issue did not appear in television for a long time, but the ones who actually provoked the situation with the americans themselves. the pain is still felt by many hair and had ether, including mister colored, who lost 15 members of his family. in the massacre stubby had he on, on january 19th, 2005, a land mine exploded at a place where the u. s. military was located, we were used to the fact that after some kind of explosion, there would be screams for about half an hour, but then everything will be silent afterwards. bob, at that time, he was different. the screams continued, and the sounds of shots fired by the american military continued terrifying the residence of the city. it turned out that an american humvee was blown up. they broke into the house of abdul hassan and killed 7 of its residents. they also broke

into the house of my cousin and killed the aid of the people who were living there . they also stopped a taxi that was carrying students heading to baghdad to study the executed them in cold blood. after that, they broke into the house of i, it al gray, re and killed 4 people. it was a terrible day. it terrified the entire city, the american military, the militants and al qaeda. one might say we're playing a game of cat and mouse, and ordinary citizens were the only ones who really suffered from this. every day we heard shooting in the city, the result of which was always the cold blooded murder of civilians. hundreds of innocent people died in such incidence. he described drug cray soldiers who lost control as they went on a 3 hour killing spree la la foot and a 20 years after the americans invaded my country. iraqis still remember this with great pain and suffering because of the disasters the americans left behind. yes,

my country suffered from economic weakness due to the devastating war with iran, but life was safe in the cities and in the country as a whole. however, with the arrival of the americans, that security ended before the american invasion. there was a kind of social equality between different levels of society. but after the american invasion, a corrupt class emerged rising above society. previously, iraqis were kind sociable, they showed brotherly feelings towards each other and generosity. but after the americans came, drugs began to spread. families began to disintegrate. social degradation began increasingly we began to hear about things alien to our society that a son killed his father or his family and all of this because of drugs. it didn't come out of nowhere suited by the americans are gone, but traces of the u. s. still remain in my country. they manifest themselves in the economic and social spheres and their ugliest forms. the people of her,

these have been denied justice house of the 8 indicted sick. so the charges dropped altogether while one was found not guilty. the only soldier to face caught merely loss rank and how the salary reduced leaving the victims love runs angry. i remember they may have been women and there may have been children and there is a squad leader. your responsibility at that point is to say, cease fire. let's not take another step. we just killed some women and children here. my responsibilities a squad leader is to make sure that none of the rest of my guys died. so no, i don't believe so. and i took it, and i believe that the u. s. president at the time, george bush and the other leaders who supported him during the occupation of my country as well as their armies bear collective responsibility for every drop of innocent blood shed in my country. any rock, any international courts must work hard to bring those criminals to justice.

judicial decisions must be made to improve the transparency of fake western democracy. once again, washington has committed war crimes with impunity. on 20 years later, it is ordinary iraqis that has still paying the price on iraqi civilians are not the only victims of that say u. s. presence in iraq and al jazeera correspondent was killed as a result of a u. s. or a strike on the channel to media bureau and baghdad 20 years ago. so today, no one has been held accountable for the attack. a yummy at a bow during his stay in bagdad, he was there for 4 or 5 days. he made 3 reports, and for me each report was a reassurance of him being safe and sound ah, [000:00:00;00]

with blue. ah, ah, no dizzy kenneth off al jazeera, did send the coordinates of its baghdad bureau to the american troops to ensure the safety of the journalists while fulfilling their work, and to assert that they are not part of the war. there is a sense that the office was deliberately targeted because they already knew the court and edison, and joe will an, a levy before the fall of baghdad. on april 9th,

the general atmosphere was tense. everything had been prepared to promote the only narrative that of the american army, but they didn't want any other narrative to go. public. journalists in the iraqi capital were not biased. they were witnesses of the truth, but the u. s. didn't want those witnesses to tell their stories about what was happening and what would happen later on. and the whole gyla ah, according to commanders on the grounds, coalition forces came under significant enemy fire from the building where they al jazeera journalists were working and consistent with the insurance right of self defense coalition forces returned fire. sadly, al jazeera correspondence was killed in this exchange and the subtle ha hunter dismissal wasn't fired accidentally. it was intended to kill to reek and his colleagues in his unfair war on iraq. like many others,