because i'm probably going to make you uncomfortable. my show is called direct impact, but again, you probably don't want to watch it because it might just change the way you think a weaponry to attack about killing and wounding and number overlook with a hill, the permanent russian war, journalist, and wounded at least 2 other people delegation from saudi arabia mon arrive in the m in a renewed effort to end the decade long the victim women, the elderly, and children, the youngest one,

who was shot multiple times to close, right? continuing the 20th anniversary of the us invasion of iraq. we remember a matter the town of had, like 20 full civilian gun down my american troops with get a and this is a live from. this is a will look at the week top stories as well as the latest headline. welcome to the weekly kids. the military has, once again used nato weaponry to show civilian areas in the dentist republic. the attack inflicted a number of casualties among the residence, but town near the regional capital. i'll take for us for the quarter of reports from the scene. 2 civilians were killed and 14 were wounded as the result of

ukrainian strike in the city of guests in nevada. now at least 12 house, as private houses like this one were destroyed according to officials, ukrainian nationalists used to multiple launch rockets systems, as well as 155 millimeter caliber, nato made weapons. and this is the scene that sir, who had been witnessing absolutely ever were in use in nevada. as of the sound had been under constant ukrainian shelling lately. oh, why don't we shoot cooper. they just shell the residential area. a young fellow decided to fry pancakes for his grand dead. so luckily we had driven back to my place right after that 2 minutes later, it has all been shelton. his grandmother and grandfather were hit and wounded in their legs. we went to the hospital and saw 12 people there, and then we brought them to mchale. fca for god saved the grandson. it's rewarding

sometimes to fry pancakes for your grandfather, firing indiscriminately against a peaceful civilians has become somewhat of a trademark of ukrainian nationalists now. ah, this crater is set right in the middle of a kindergarten se play ground all around me. are people's houses, apartment buildings right next door to the kindergarten is, has school. as you can see, the kindergarten here, all the when those have been blown out. thankfully, there were no victims here has all the kids at the moment or on distance learning. syrians could have been with you who were standing next to the sports ground. i was on the phone and then a sudden blast occurred. i got twisted and fell down after that i saw my arm was just hanging brother and 3 other people were there with me. one of them was very near me and i'm sorry he died and i lost my arm. it's

a civilian arianne. even despite that, it is already been shelled 3 or 4 times. they might have been targeting the hospitals. it's located close to the site where the shells fell. sergei is just one of 14 civilians who were wounded as a result of ukrainian artillery. shelley here in the nevada has i haven't spoken with him. it looks like he is full of confidence that he is going to pull through. however, he said that at least one person was killed. the person that was standing right next to him, all and all on saturday, 2 people were killed and 15 wounded as the result of ukrainian artillery strikes from uncooperative r t. s republican, an extremist group which folders so the national republican army has claimed responsibility for the fascination all a russian jones of latin petoskey. he was killed in explosion. the st. petersburg

cafe. last sunday was left at least 40 other people wounded. the main south vents, in the case daria took over, has officially been placed under arrest by a moscow court and charged with committing an acts of terrorism. the so named national republican army says it acts it independently in the cafe bombing without any foreign help. a statue it with a device hidden in fire, exploded in the venue during an event. the radical group was founded with the stated aim of overthrowing the kremlin. back in august of the same group said it had carried out the killing of another russian journalist, dairy digna outside moscow. russian officials, however, se ukraine was directly responsible for both murders and charged chief have denied . now this is a footage from inside the cafe film just before the dead. the bloss,

it shows mr. tusky being handed the statute with the suspect even being invited to sit close to him. it's not clear if she knew the object contained an explosive device. according to the late journalist's friends, the victim had been acquainted with daria trip over a wanting. he might find the following footage, disturbing a visit we're seeing here, survivors. all the exact pictures outside the building, many of them covered in blood as possible. i try to assist those who have been wounded. am i, the main suspect was wanted leaving the scene just moments after the blas, the man who was killed of atlanta ascii was hugely influential in the online community of was fine blow this. the 4th year olds,

real name was maxime from mean. he was originally from don, bus and fort in the early stages of the conflict there in the loo, gas, people's militia. that experience led to him becoming one of the most followed wall journalist before his death, a mass in audience, over half a 1000000 people. on the telegraph platform, ortiz donald holds. it breaks down how the events unfolded on a sunday evening like any other russian war correspondent, blood lend to tar sky was hosting an event centered around war zone journalism. here at this cafe, it was opened admission. any one could have attended. and starsky told his audience of his stories of war around 615 p. m. his life came to a sudden end after an explosion reduce the cafes interior to rubble. ah,

she just took her to the foot usa today. terrorist attack has just happened yet. while vlad lend to tar ski was speaking, there was an explosion in the bar. it seems that our speaker sions got. according to eye witnesses, the explosion came from a small statue that a woman brought to the event a gift, apparently intended for to tarkey. russia's 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 pause sachi, they explode at us. well, who gave it to you? can i tell you later, rushes anti terrorism committee has determined that this was a terrorist attack organized by key f 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 kias 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. the funeral of visitors us. he was hailed this weekend, mourners gathered at a cemetery in the capital for the loft. farewell. the reporter who was for services, the awarded the order of courage for bravery. one of russia's top honors on its story for his prison. mac. one hath express concerns about the ear being overly reliant on its thighs. with the u. s. he made those comments while on a 3 day visit to china, he said, you have

a nation's that must avoid following the lead of the us into potential confrontation with beijing over taiwan. the paradox would be that overcome with panic, we believe we're just america's followers. the question you were being asked me to answer is it in our interest to accelerate on taiwan? no. the worst think would be to think that we, you repeat inst must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the u. s . agenda and the chinese overreaction. recently the chairman of the us house foreign affairs committee said that if the american people, once a war with china, congress will grant their wish. michael, who made those remarks went off about how far washington would go to defend its interests in taiwan. speaker mccarthy yourself have said that multiple times now that we need to arms high one now before there is any sort of invasion. what about

u. s. troops? i think, you know, then you're talking about am an authorized use of military force. it will come out of my committee or a declaration of war, which we haven't you license war 2? would you support that? i think you're sure if the of china congress, china, invades tie one, i think that is, and certainly if the american people support this, the congress will follow the confrontational words were delivered in the island capital taipei, as a us delegation visited on thursday back in washington. on the other side of a foreign exchange house speaker, kevin mccarthy. whoa said taiwan is leader in the face of objection from china. why also has a bathing last 3 days of murphy drills around the territory. the chinese pharmacy also issued a statement that sought to clear up any confusion regarding the one china principle payment. he pushed i. one is an inseparable part of china. china sovereignty and

territorial integrity has never been divided, and divisions won't be allowed. some countries hype up the false narrative of democracy versus authoritarianism and used the pretext of democracy to support and connive with separatist forces and tie one for independence in order to contain china. this approach is extremely dangerous and will not succeed. calling as close alive mouth over. i'm political, alice nicholas markovich in paris. nicholas, thank you so much for joining us here at ots. that was an interesting subject. who had a both of on the line and macro on in china. now we've had mr. macro on saying that europe should resists u. s. pressure that could drag the you into a potential conflict with a low with the u. s. over taiwan. what do you make of those statements? well, this is typically manual mark when we, we know that she likes to tell people what they like to hear. so we like to see

a macro or by, by his own principles. if he's afraid of going to war with china by following what the u. s. is and policy is, why was he not afraid of following the u. s. policy and ukraine in going to war in directly with russia? i do think it is quite interesting, however, because in such a circumstance it does show that within the latest community, there are divisions. and the fact that emanuel macro opened the says to journalists that he does not want to follow everywhere. the u. s. policy is something quite interesting, i think also that china has identified emanuel macro as a weaker spot within the atlantis community. we're in the west and they've paid on that. we seen how exiting being has agreed emanuel macro in china with a lot of honors, a lot of important meetings and sidestepping ursula, vendor ne, in a clearly showing that china was getting more on macro than he was on the european

union. so this was quite interesting. however, we must always be cautious with what a manual macro is saying, because because of the fact that he likes to say what people like to hear me going, it's an interesting thing. you said they, you know, part with the well, with the lead that the us took with the ukraine. are you saying that my call now and say, well look, that didn't really work out? perhaps we should be, you know, looking at a study on our own 2 feet in a wants burnt, or i know twice shy, so to speak. i mean, is that the reason why they're looking to perhaps build ties with china will definitely look at the frances position in the war with in ukraine has, has backfired. we've seen that france has positioned itself clearly a 100 percent on washington. and when you're after this, we've seen that for the store still going on for france. a car economy minister

vowed to destroy the russian economy that has backfired. and now the french economy is actually going very, very bad. so at the same time, the u. s. is launching the inflation reduction act, which is who's, which is who's aim is to greet your pin companies in the u. s. and this is scaring a manual macro. this is caring for the people within the european union. scary people in france and so may be now at this precision of precise time. and then on that line has government saying, well, following the u. s. is maybe not the the right the right way. the problem is, i think we've been holding this, we've known this in france for a long time now, but nobody's been has dared so far to say to the u. s. that it would stand up and that it would not follow washington indies of foreign in its foreign policy. so will a man rule mark won't be that european statesman, which is going to have the courage to say no to washington. and to build this sovereign, you have that would be your manual. the macro often speaks about, which is yet to see. this is something which could be a game changer. again,

let us take this position of mineral macro or something which has been said or after 3 per from bending over for fantastic days in china for him, if from a foreign policy point of view. but it could be interesting. we do know that are different voices within the french government. have said that a following, the u. s. is counterproductive. the french opposition has been saying this a for, for several months, a since the war and ukraine. the fact that men womack when we think that this is maybe not wise decision could be something interesting because some great point to serve before i let you go, i wonder, is it sort of sick look at the flip side of this? if how i mean, how would the, the us like me to react to what my court has said regarding, you know, you know, you know, this very statement. i mean, it looks at my coin and as of on the way now trying to build ties with china are

the you are slightly to react to that sort of statement. well they, they more like it would be us going to try to see if this is just macro flexing of it as muscles. is there any sincerity behind this or is this just the politics? definitely, we do see that the west is not united us is trying, washington is trying to build a net nap if it communities behind nato, behind the us speaking with one voice. and we see that this does not exist. there are a lot of freaks, even though new countries like a sweden area maybe and phil and typically are entering. they don't. we do see that different countries within the western community. disavow with the u. s. is doing, they don't support it to see it's not working. let's not forget that european is going to have quite a big economic crisis and a big identity crisis then following the u. s. is hurting it's damaging the western european countries today. so do us, i think they're going to try to see if this is just a lot of a bogus coming out of

a mental macro is just a, some the political stuff to try to from a manual background trying to make believe that he is some sort of representative of a strong european alternative to the west and maybe to the east or, or here is the reason. see, i mean, i think your manual background has boulevard in front of him to try to build a sovereign europe. i think a lot of people in western europe and to maybe not the governments with the people definitely would enjoy this, that you repeat, you can that and then your opinion and defend its own. i would say sovereignty or the sovereignties of its countries. but as resist you said that today still today, your opinion is un american protectorate in the u. s. will not let western european go. the only reason, i mean, the only way western european countries could become free from, from washington would be by strong european politicians. maybe like macros, who can say, well this and it sits over. we're finishing the that where we're at,

we're over with us at madison with us policy, with nato. and we're going to try to build a new become part of this. the polar world. i don't think we're there yet. definitely, but we do see cracks in the west and this is something quite interesting. i think that i would have to, we'd have to follow up in the, in the weeks and months to come. and the, the very interesting did that does seem to be a change in the winds. thank you so much for joining me here today on archie. but it's alyssa, thanks again for your time. thank you. have anything by delegations from a saudi arabia and i'm on have arrived in the m and conduct p. so with the c, insurgency. now the revive push for a permanent si, fi has come off as a rec installation of saudi arabia, and that countries, former regional rival, iran that deal broken by china. now this is part of renewed efforts and the nitty deciding lead forces have been 5 pm and the ports controlled by efforts to

rebuild the country. between the parties have already been made 13 who these were returned to yemen from captivity in, in saudi arabia. in exchange for saudi prisoners who these released, the war began as we know in 2014, with uprising of who the rebels toppling the government in a qu, it escalated into a broader conflict between a saudi that coalition supported an internationally recognized government and iran politically backing the who thes who want to establish a religious state. now, china, diplomatic, ever in the region have brought together saudi arabia and iran to restore that diplomatic relations. this has revitalized hopes that a resolution to the yet many conflict is on the horizon. more than 23000000 people are believed to be in need of humanitarian assistance in yemen due to the blockade

which has prevented essential goods from reaching the country. we spoke with jealous use of murray, who says that saudi arabia has been changing his political course upon releasing that. the role of western powers in the region is declining. we have to recognize that saudi arabia is taken this initiative to come to yemen, something which they have never done. i think saudi arabia is starting to see the downward trajectory that the u. s. and western powers are heading. and i think that the, you know, they're sort of on the, you know, this cross pat where they are being forced to jump off the sinking western hedge a monic ship that they have relied on. we have to keep in mind that are mind saudi arabia the way e, they all have r u. s. and western military bases in their own nations. they are in a part of the western forest to implement western policy in the entire region. you

know, this initiative that they're taken is geared at establishing better partnerships, not just in yemen, but throughout the region with also iran. you know, thanks to the, a china brokers agreement that they assigned a call, you know, 3 weeks ago. right. i think saudi arabia is on a credit or other precipice where they are forced to jump off the ship of western. come all ye of them. they say monks, 20 years since the rocky capital baghdad fell to us forces and then evasion that left behind a trail of destruction including up to a 1000000 civilians, killed and countless more despised were come to a continuing official coverage of the monetary action that through the oil rich country and to chaos, and d stabilize the regional fee is to come. ah,

i mean the grim anniversary, the us based analytics center gallup, has a really simple which founded that a majority of muslim nations do not see the us as a democracy building power in iraq and to give one for one example, 72 percent of responders do not believe quotes the u. s. is serious about encouraging the establishment of democratic systems in muslim countries. exactly 20 years ago, a large statue of iraqi leader, saddam hussein was toppled in baghdad. the monument seen as a symbol of his rule in the country, was wrote down by iraqis with the help of us marines the event to receive wide coverage in western media, which headlines the day as an end to the same error.

but your sources will not done in the country. 2 years after the invasion of iraq began, american ships, gun down 20 full civilians, women and children. among them. in the town of odessa, one of the 8 marines in bo pleaded guilty to the negligence. however, all the other charges, including involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault, were dismissed. artie correspondence the sweeney traveled to the country to hear firsthand about the heinous incident and the legacy. u. s. military adventurers them left behind. i d thur 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 was shot multiple times at close range . kara, they killed my brother, my uncle, to heat my uncle for sheed. 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 on their left and the completely sealed off the entire city for months. 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 haven 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. that time it was different. the screens continued and the sounds of shots fired by the american military continued terrifying the residents 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 ai, it al gray, airy 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 for.