think they would be to do with a number of locals and they're gonna republic are killed and wounded as the area. once again comes under ukrainian shelling with the stories that shape the week. we look at the timeline of the bomb attack and st. petersburg, which kills a high profile, russian war journalist and wounded around for the other people in a renewed effort to and a deck and your decade long, complex key delegations arrive in that for piece. talk the big thing with women, the elderly on children as young as was who was shot multiple times close right. continuing our special coverage jug, the 20th anniversary of the us invasion of iraq. we look back at the defect. nasa,

kurt, i town we're 24 civilians were gunned down by american troops with coming to you live from the russian capital. this is the weekly on our t international. i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories of this week. and today. welcome to the program. civilian areas and then on escrow public have once again come under showing from ukrainian forces. a town near the regional capital was hit, leaving a number of local dead and wounded ortiz roman. closer of sent us. this report. 2 civilians were killed and 14 were wounded. as the result of ukrainian strike in the city of yes, 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 shalt. his grandmother and grandfather were hit and wounded in their legs. we went to the hospital and saw 12 people there, then we brought them to mchale fca, where god saved the grandson. it's rewarding sometimes to fry pancakes for your grandfather. firing indiscriminately against the 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 go to bully him, 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 area. and even despite that, it has 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 houston, nevada, has a having 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 in old. on saturday, 2 people were killed and 15 wounded as the result of ukrainian artillery strikes from one cos room. archie, the next republican, an extremist group, which calls itself the national republican army, has claimed responsibility for the assassination of the high profile russian war journalist, blah glen, to tar. steve. he was killed in an explosion and a st. petersburg cafe. last sunday, which left at least 40 other people wound it. the means aspect in the case has been charged with committing an act of terrorism. the national republican army claims that it was hoping without foreign health, they are bust with

a bomb. hidden inside exploded in the new during an event. the radical group was found it with the stated aim of overthrowing the kremlin. back in august, the same group said it had carried out the killing of another russian journalist, diarrhea, duke anna, outside moscow. however, russian officials claimed that ukraine was directly responsible for both murders, a charge that kiev denies. this is footage from inside the cafe. it shows mr. char skate being handed the bus with the suspect even being invited to sit close to him . it's not clear if she knew the object contained a bomb and a warning you may find the following footage, disturbing or seeing hair survivors from the attack outside in the street as passers by. try to help them means us back responded leaving the scene, moments after the blast, the man who was killed. robin tar tusky was influential. war walker,

the 40 year old real name was maxime from mean. he was originally from don bass and fought in the early stages of the conflict in 2014 as part of the lugens people's militia. that experience led to him later filming reports from the area and posting online, or donald quarter breaks down how the events unfolded. 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. i believe

feature focus the switches 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 gut up, according to eye witnesses, the explosion came from a small statue that a woman brought to the event a gift, apparently intended for to tar ski rushes. investigative committee said it was looking into this incident as a murder and the police were on a man hunt 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 trip 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 and when story a trip of a admits to bringing an explosive statuette to tar ski's 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 that exploded 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 of 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 risk 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 mister tish harsh kate was held on saturday. mourners gathered out a cemetery in the russian capital. he was posthumously awarded the order of courage for bravery. one of russia's top honors the e, you lay the overly reliant on its ties with the you ass. that's a concern that's been expressed by the french president during a trip this week to china. i manual micron said that europe must avoid falling washington's lead and to have potential confrontation with beijing over taiwan. the paradox would be that overcome with fennic,

we believe we're just america followers. the question you were being asked me to answer is it in our interest to accelerate on taiwan? no. the worst thing would be to think that we, you are p and must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the u. s. agenda and the chinese overreaction. recently, the chairman of the u. s. house foreign affairs committee said there would only be a conflict with china if it had the support of the american people. michael mccaul had been asked, how far washington would go to defend its interest in taiwan. your mccarthy and yourself have said that multiple times now that we need to arm taiwan. 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, or we 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 for, if you have china commerce, china invades tie one,

i think that is certainly if the american people support this, the congress will follow the words were delivered as a u. s. delegation visited taiwan on thursday. back in washington house bigger. kevin mccarthy hosted the islands leader despite objections from china. on saturday, beijing launched 3 days of military drills or on the territory. the chinese foreign ministry also issued a statement that sought to clear up any confusion regarding the one china principal highland 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 to false narrative of democracy versus authoritarianism, and use 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. philosopher science professor,

john bergman is surprised that a european leader would be so explicit and saying that following washington's lead is not always the best option. just saying that he does not want to be a vessel of the united states. and this is the 1st time i heard you have seen that in the last 50 years or not, but he's, he's of the hoping union of maintenance of the united states. it's a gesture to us in the city which to leads to be is news for the kids. are you satisfied with the feeds to us as it is today? because my car is very changing, but you see how good somebody be so crazy. we have to worry about, they want to, we were both, gosh me had we worry about a situation where they were just homeless. that scan does he b, and which of the path of journey is my strength of china ready to go to 1962, 64 or even what he says and $64.00. so americans are legal as you can

do you guys didn't whole counties wiggling as you think, simply a few small countries. so, i mean, just the fact that this is a beth of china, or some more of my current comments as we gain plenty of traction to, with the crown line, picking up on the french president's condemnation of nuclear weapons being deployed on the territory of other countries. with moscow, claiming that effectively cause out the entire concept of u. s. foreign policy. of course, we've not heard such fris criticism from the french president towards us for a long time. my crown delivered his comments this week during his visit to china. he said russia plan to store nuclear weapons and neighboring belarus doesn't comply with international law. the french president was accompanied on his trip by the e. u. chief ursula vander alliance with the pair, trying to steer beijing away from moscow. i think in germany, rachel mars in gave us her take on their success. well,

he managed to get some dinners out of it with season paying and that was kind of like the one me treated president she to on the french riviera in 2019 except that his former teacher and wife. but he sheet, wasn't there this time, but global schoolyard monitor ursula underlined european commission president was there instead of looming over this entire visit. now the western press, like in the dynamic, too good cop bad cop with michael, being the charming good cop and vander line. being the schooled, some french commentators there wondering why france needed a chaperone at all. and why michael, couldn't just be diplomatic and play both roles. good caught and by cough like pretty much every other world leader and diplomat does. now president she's invite did give michael an opportunity to play statesman and scorsone p. r points at a time when he's not really scoring very much at home with the big news beaming around the world from france being images of authorities flashing with pension

reform protesters violently, in some cases. and the flooring tear gas as trash and buildings burned in the streets of cities around the whole country. but the photography that came out of this visit wasn't all good for macros. p. r, or vander lines. there was, for example, a shot of the 3 leaders sitting at a table that was so massive that it looked like mac. holland vander line, were even in the same postal code as the chinese leader or with each other. for that matter, like he had found a way for them to meet with him in china while not leaving their respective european countries. pretty glaring contrast from she's visit recently with the russian president vladimir putin. so mac hall demanded during this visit that china tell russia what to do in ukraine, which went about as well as one might expect. it was shipped. what conditions may know what can count on you to bring garage it to its census, and every one to the negotiating table. strong tincture,

she's full talk should be re and as soon as possible, the international community should work for a political settlement that accommodates all parties to solidify that security concerns. in accordance with the purposes and principles of the un charter and builds a balanced, effective, and sustainable security architecture in europe, count on china, he could have played that role himself as one of the guarantors of the minks kick words by insisting that ukraine respect the agreement or macro could have taken the same neutral position as china when the conflict went hot. he didn't. so now that caused trying to dump the whole mass in china's lap with a gallic shrug. michael also brought up the issue of nuclear weapons being deployed in allied countries. this was not dodge ranchers, the opinion, the nuclear weapons should be completely excluded from this conflict. that all international treaties on this issue should be respected. and that under no circumstances should nuclear weapons be deployed outside the territories of nuclear powers, especially in europe. if in this regard,

it is necessary to remind every one of their responsibilities in particular russia, which a few days ago announced its desire to blow such weapons to bellows, which does not comply with the obligations it has assumed to you and to us and to international law based on that. so a know for a new deployments in europe are the americans where of macros position because the u. s. has needs deployed pretty much in a whole lot of european countries and has for the past several years. the 2 leaders also talked about the need for global food security, underscoring the need to facilitate grain and fertilizer exports. no word though about what france is doing to stop the 44 percent of ukrainian grain that's getting out from going to europe as the turkish president pointed out earlier this year, where it's then being used to feed pigs in spain to beef up european pork exports on one hand, and to undercut the price of local farmers in poland, bulgaria, and romania, whom the

e was now having to bail out to the tune of 56300000 euros because of that fiasco. speaking of the e. u. it turns out that vander line didn't quite spend her trip, eating big macs and mcdonald's while macklin was swanning around in the state banquet. but it sounds like it was pretty close. shiny social media treated her like she was team america or world police's bad cop. she also didn't win over too many fans by waiting into the taiwan issue in china, saying that no one should change the status quo by force. and that tension should be resolved by dialogue. kind of rich coming from someone who constantly talks about the need for force and to up the military entry against russia and ukraine to the detriment of de escalation. she can bring, basically told her politely to but out the taiwan issue is at the core of china's interests, the chinese government and its people will never agree to any one making a fuss about the one china policy. anyone who expects china to compromise on the

taiwan issue is engaging and wishful thinking and will only shoot himself in the foot. mac hole did end up scoring some economic winds, which can only mean greater of a push mall with china at a time when washington wants anything. but that particularity when considering that france just made its very 1st sale of ellen, g imported from the united arab emirates to china in chinese, you on. and that just happened this week, which is bad news for the petro dollar and perhaps assigned that francis starting to perhaps see the writing on the wall in terms of how this new multi polar world is shaping up. do not punish are solidarity. that's the message from romanian farmers who gathered in mass in the streets of bucharest, their anger at brussels for allowing cheap ukrainian food products to swamp their market. farmers held protests in several cities across the country, demanding compensation from brussels. they claim their losses are the direct result

of u policies, which allowed the uncontrolled flow of agricultural imports from kiev. that undercut local products on home markets, leaving europe's agriculture sector and all those who worked in it in a vulnerable position. delegations from saudi arabia and o month have arrived in yemen for peace talks with who the rebels. it follows a reconciliation between saudi arabia and iran, and a deal brokered by china. this is part of renewed efforts to end the nearly decade long conflict in which sony led forces had been fighting against the hoot. the insurgency, which is supported by iran. it is assumed that the peace talks will focus on a potential ceasefire and an end to a saudi blockade, ibm, any ports controlled by the hu. these, there is also speculation that the negotiations will include the possible withdrawal of saudi lead forces from yemen and efforts to rebuild the country.

efforts to establish cooperation between the parties are already underway with a recent prisoner small conducted between the sides. the war wrapped it back in 2014. when an uprising by hoover rebels toppled the government. it escalated into a broader conflict between a silent coalition supporting the government and the wrong backing. the who these who want to establish a religious state, trying to diplomatic efforts which saudi arabia and iran reform ties have boosted hopes of a lasting resolution to the conflict in yemen. more than 23000000 people are estimated to need immediate humanitarian help. we got the take on developments from journalists use. if more we have to recognize that saudi arabia is taking 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, you know, they're sort of on this cross path 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 from on saudi arabia, the u. e. they all have us and western military bases in their own nations. they are part of the western forest to implement western policy in the entire region. 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 china brokered agreement that they assigned to, you know, 3 weeks ago. right. so i think saudi arabia is on a precipice where they are forced to jump off the ship of western colonialism today marks 20 years since the rocky capital of baghdad fell to us forces and a war of the trail. devastations wake. we're continuing our special coverage of the

event that through the oil rich country indicate off and do stabilize the region for years to come. the meanwhile, a new yollop survey has found a majority of muslim nations don't view america as a democracy. do us a serious about encouraging the establishment of democratic systems at the end of the hussein era. but it wasn't the end of involvement in the country for us forces . 2 years after the invasion began, american troops gone down $24.00 civilians, including women and children, and the town of had one of the marines involved, pleaded guilty negligence. all other charges, including involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault were dismissed. r t. c

sweeney. traveled to the country to investigate the incident and the legacy, the us war left behind. i, lisa 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 us soldier in 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 heed 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 aware that 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. bob, at that time, he was different. the screams 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 i, it al gray, airy and killed 4 people. it was a terrible day. it terrified the entire city that 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 incidents. he described drug cray soldiers who lost control as they went on a 3 hour killing spree ha, 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, but the americans are gone. but traces of the us still remain in my country. they manifest themselves in the economic and so she saw the charges dropped altogether, while one was found no guilty. the only soldier to face caught merely loss rank and

had a salary reduce, leaving the victims. love runs angry. i remember them, i have been women and 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. murder sponsibility as 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 taught 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 in iraq. 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. the war was called over the false claims that saddam having weapons of mass destruction, it lied. 2 decades of turmoil here on our team will continue to chronicle those deadly days and their aftermath and our special coverage. 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 medicine. and fleet with

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