ah ah ah, tension center and the pacific region as the us conducts, it's the largest ever military drills with the philippines. although they aren't getting universal support, they're the exercises come just a day after beijing and it's massive for games in nearby waters and investigation by the russian parliament claims to confirm the presence of you as the operated biological weapons labs in ukraine and aircraft giant, boeing purportedly plans to return to full production levels of its controversial 737 max jazz 4 years after doubling roches claim, the lives of nearly 350 people with

coming to live from the russian capital business r t international. i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories would be our welcome to the program. the pentagon claims that china is refusing to get in contact with senior us officials to explain recent large scale military drills, beijing held on its own territory. washington issued the statement just before the u. s. began, it's the largest ever wargames with its south east asian allied. the philippines lines between our military is particularly important and scenarios like this. and we colon bitching to engage us in this channel. and then the escalating tensions, the u, as in the philippines have launched in joint military exercises on an unprecedented scale involving more than 17000 soldiers. the drills are side to focus on deterring external threats. china's foreign ministry claims the increase

u. s. military presence in the region will further de stabilized the security situation. just before the u. s. drills the president of the philippines address china's concerns. we will not allow our military pieces to be used for any offensive action. it is only meant to help the philippines when the philippines is in need of help. not everyone in the philippines is happy about their country's strengthening military ties with the u. as while the opening ceremony for the war games was in progress, the people took to the streets in manila to protest against rising us influence in their nation. we heard from a local activists at the scene. i can think of you lie right now, is that you are just here to help us, i guess in china, and that is all over the magic. we will see you where watching for your own is the you. it is pretty for school, an agenda. it was not after philippi in law bring the or philippine national vendor . number 2 that is on the left will help the if the modern nice never been having,

having us exercise just before 30 years now they've been having r u. s. b 1947, and i think it was well that, that was important agreement and i did, i think i'm going to press all these and we very exercise. there's all b, b, and c l i'm a new s, hyphen capital, have been being able to be under development. so we have not modernized by any means. we have to remain dependent on the u. s. so it's not, it's not true that they're here to help us to develop some of your here to keep us defend them in the american. the dates in the american military international relations expert, joseph gregory mahoney, believes that the u. s. is using china's military drills to justify its own large scale exercises with the philippines. i am inclined to see these exercises between us and, and the philippines as fortuitously timed by the u. s. i perhaps even in collusion

between the, by the ministration and the speaker of house of the house of kevin mccarthy, who was recently meeting with to taiwan his leader in california was set by him and which predictably invited the response. we've seen the u. s. prove vote the chinese response over taiwan and then provocatively went ahead with the exercises with the philippines and concurrently as fall to china for not communicating. now, this is a well born tactic from us playbook at this point. do something nasty, then try to act reasonable and blame the other side when they don't play along. the fact that china hasn't responded is also har for the course. by now as well. we saw the same thing happen after pelosi visit last year. ties are still deteriorating, this is the trend, and there's no sign. this will change any time soon. and investigation by the russian parliament claims that u. s. officials had been operating biological weapons labs in ukraine, the head of russia's biological defense for says, outline the fine maze. what

a brute is for solo in a garage during the course of the special military operation. the defense ministry has analyzed more than 2000 documents, confirming the implementation of military biological projects in ukraine, and identified officials who participated in organizing military biological research in the united states. and ukraine is fascinating story, murat, and of course, a bit of by way of background, you know, moscow started to raise concerns about a very, very complex, sprawling where essentially of, of laboratories in ukraine. and you know, very soon after the beginning of the special military operation last year, and they've since them in publishing troves of documents outlining in great detail the complex work that these, the parties were doing, who was funding them and who was involved. and also russia took this issue by the way to the un last october, seeking a, a, an international pro,

but very interestingly that was blocked where the united states of france and the u . k. interestingly, and of course, they haven't directly challenged any of the issues that russia has raised around these laboratories, what they were doing, what they were making. why were they in ukraine? and we can actually listen to the commander of russia's nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops. igor, kiri, love, now you know, telling us a little bit about more about their failure to do that much of a deal, but manage. it should be noted that the u. s. has not denied any of these facts presented by the defense ministry. no one including western countries, had any doubts about the authenticity of the published documents. i was at last, very interesting and we've heard a lot about these sort of things. but has the west show is the how do we say the wes? i'm in the u. s. u. k. france, those have they react to didn't anyway? well, they've reacted in a predictable way. predictably saying that they're not funding by

a weapons labs or bio labs your crime there, but they don't deny. and they do actually acknowledge that they're spending hundreds of millions of dollars that we know about to fund le le bar to which they say are there to counter the spread of bio weapons. you know, we've seen through the information release by russia, dozens of scientists, big name corporations like 5 or for example have been involved in these innumerable laboratories in ukraine. and they've never given assurances about the safety of these, the parties, how the pathogens and the work being done there is, is protect the ukrainian people. and you know, and they are also saying that this is down to the ukrainians now because they only fund the research and not really though you know, so there's a familiar face as well involved here and victoria newland, the under secretary of state for the united states who's will be well known to ukraine and russia, watchers if you like. and she had something to say also that the funding of these,

the bar to see if we can have a listen to that. now ukraine has her biological research facilities. we are working with the ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of russian forces, should they approach, why did that ukraine was chosen for these bio labs? well, that's the interesting question. i mean, you know, obviously ukraine had a lot of difficulties long before the russian military intervention, a lot of corruption, lack of regulation in certain areas. and it was probably seen as a bit of a mark for you off the radar development of these type of activities. if you like, of course depleted uranium shelves now seem it's okay to use them in, in ukraine and things that would be unacceptable in the west that would come out of far more significant scrutiny or from western authorities as seem to go on detected

in ukraine. i mean, significant caution insolence as well. morality comes with this research, hundreds of millions of dollars in a country that had its issues with corruption. so you have to take all of that issues, isn't it? why one of the most corrupt countries? so we talked about last stage, remember yeah, just corruption, corruption, corruption, and hailey have suddenly that corruption. yeah. yeah. and we're talking huge sums of money. and these are the sums of money that we know about from these very complex and very detailed air documents which, which the russian authorities have released and persistently releasing. and of course, as i said, the un doesn't seem to want this investigated. so, you know, sadly ukraine has become a testing ground on the battlefield for, you know, highly complex western weapon systems which have never been tested in a combined arms operations before. so the skeptics would say that the war is being perpetuated and prolonged in order to test these weapon systems. and of course, it seems now that ukraine has also become a laboratory or

a testing run for very dangerous pathogens and research into things that could be very harmful to the ukrainian population. if there was to be an action it's been exactly 4 years since when the war julian assange was detained in acworth and missing in the u. k. on the anniversary, australian and peace have written an open letter to the u. s. attorney general and protest ever sanchez, pending extradition to america. if the extradition request is approved, australians will witness the deportation of one of our citizens from an oak us partner to another. our close, a strategic ally was mister assange facing the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison. this would set a dangerous precedent for all global citizens, journalists, publishers, media organizations, and the freedom of the press. it would also be needlessly damaging for the us as a world leader on freedom of expression and the rule of law. 35 australian

parliamentarians have signed the letter calling for a song to be freed. politicians and activist argue that the continued persecution of the week, you weeks, co founder such a dangerous precedent for freedom of speech. moreover, his supporters highlight that he is an australian citizen, and that australia is one of washington's closest allies. if extradited, assange faces 175 years in prison. julianna's haunch is currently being held in the maximum security bel marsh prison in the u. k. he's been held there indefinitely. after serving a 50 week sentence for breaching bell in 2012. he is now awaiting extradition to the united states. in april 2019, a song was forcibly removed by british police from the ecuadorian embassy in london . after his 7 year asylum there was terminated, the u. s. has indicted him on 17 counts of spying. and one i've conspiracy to hack

a government computer. and observer ida sanchez extradition hearing told our teeth that she believes the case is all about silencing the truth. the idea behind persecuting sargje and making an example of him is not just to silence the sounds. of course, he is a phenomenal publisher and journalist, but it's also about sending a very, very strong message to other journalists, them to whistle blowers to say if you were to reveal it american war crimes. this is what will happen to you. you will not be allowed to feel family for over a decade. he's been in confinement for over a decade. he's been psychologically tortured, even when international body, such as the un working group, an arbitrary detention the un special drop will turn on torture. have publicly found multiple times that he's been tortured. the united states and the u. k. have

ignored those findings as the sweden, which is known for its upholding of human rights. so all this only happens in order to protect those who are committing more crimes. so the bushes and blair's of this world who when can ran and a leader warning, a dock who ran poking millions of people in afghanistan and elsewhere, who am engaged in torture. guantanamo, all of this is about not just about assange, it's about covering up those crimes and saying that anyone who says anything about those crimes will be tortured. so this is about silencing the troops ah, aircraft giant, boeing reportedly plans to restore full production of its controversial $737.00 max jazz. it's been 4 years since 2 deadly crashes left more than 300 people dad, and saw the aircraft grounded the world over and the company's reputation severely

. heck, he may remember the 1st of those fatal crashes occurred in indonesia, back in october 2018. the jet plunge from the sky just 13 minutes after take off, killing all 189 people on board. just 5 months later, another of the plans came down and an almost identical circumstances in ethiopia, claiming the lives of 157 people. following a 2 year global grounding, the model was cleared to fly again after boeing overhauled as flight control systems. we spoke to an expert in the field who believes that big companies use their money to very bad news. i can see on numbers. it is simply not enough. you cannot at reagan, i laid off, i need and be at one wise and we were lost in a board viet crashes is really challenging for a family to go against this. got to put it culture and they simply by b,

b and families off in the process as well. ab ation is a hugely regulated industry. the draft acts investigate does have a lot of stakeholders in a theme out asked the members so that he ality high to come out right in the process we have seen boeing news, a lot off the repute and riches. one of the most challenging things to reagan after a couple of crashes beacon place and one of the highest dic it off on the scene of emotion. so we're looking our challenging times ahead. ah, lelyn riots have her up to it in the west bank. it comes after israeli forces killed a 15 year old boy and wounded 2 others and arrayed on a refugee camp,

claiming they were looking for a suspected terrorist. ah ah, and from what they were clashes and mohammed left home to take part in them. when the road was opened, mohammed went down to the street. and then i was told that there was a young man lying on the ground. then i went to see who it was and saw my son, what is the gold of the army today? they just come and kill. he was 15 years old. i want to understand what your dads with or what else. also the kids were on the 1st bullet, hit him in the shoulder, so it was not that bad. the 2nd hit, his head, and the 3rd his stomach. the blood was streaming from his mouth. i took him to the hospital and got have mercy on him. home it was just walking down the street. the

soldier doesn't differentiate between a young or old person and when they shoot and they don't differentiate either i felt i killed him in vain for not doing anything. he didn't cause problem. oh, he was a com. yup. madeline ah luggage for bought on the la la la la, but i wasn't home. i did not know anything. i did not know the military was in the camp. she called me, but i was sleeping late and my mother woke me up and told me that mohammed died. i did not believe her. i went to the hospital to make sure of the news. and when i saw him, i have been crying ever since. everything about mohammed was good. he has never made anyone sad. he had a good heart. ah,

for ah, yes. ah, with a brick summit plan to be hosted in south africa this summer will reportedly now be held on line. the reports come as members of south africa as political opposition had called for the rest of the russian president. if he attended the event in person demands for vladimir hooton's arrest. come after the i. c. c issued the warrant last month on war crimes, charges relating to the conflict in ukraine. it accuses pollutant of illegally deporting children to russian territory. moscow claims it was done for their own safety. the south african foreign minister confirmed that the russian president had

been invited to attend august brick summit, which was due to be held in the city of durban. the diplomat also question the icy seas arduous, objectivity. i have mentioned the problem of double standards and global affairs. there are many other countries that have been involved in was invasions of territories matters of people, an arrest of activists. but none of them have been called by the i c. c. it seems that if you are powerful and enjoy a particular status in the international community, you can get away. and this worries us because it obscures the objectivity of the i . c. c. as a fair arbitrator. south africa communist party has called to break all ties with the tribunal. back in 2016, the country officially informed the un of its desire to leave. then government claimed that the icy pursuit regime change in countries, instead of seeking justice. however,

the attempt was overturned by the countries high court, the communist party believes the global powers use the international court for their own good. one to disrupt a proper beginning of the bleak sons in this country. not much about prism putting the afternoon. what greeks is becoming an alternative of this new multi paula? well imagine i gave the uni unipolar world imposition by the united states. and it's, there are friends in europe are chase folk directly to the secretary general of the south african communist party, who outlined why he feels his country needs to sever ties with the i, c, c. the icpc has lost their intermission or could it be t? it's become biased, it's an instrument now that is true, sprayed in periods, is led by the us and either in countries, it's africa as a country to find their own statutes. and we had us what you to draw from this,

from statutes. but when they've been bare legality and long processes at 444, we'd throw out the pieces. that is why we're fed whatever it takes, the nation that a good people for government should be able to take a position that guarantees the convenience of breaks with different types of ration fit in for them to come without the chinese. because then she did, and therefore they realized that he was going to talk about the piece plan on the conflict in need of ranking to be discussed, the outcomes of a plan and they're going to be shown to the piece plan dad put in more military hardway is your create escalate to the work? so that is right in the context of africa which have taken a strong position not to take sites in. this was a powerful piece because they know if that africa pronounces the other way around

when you have african countries. indian and british officials have denied reports that india unilaterally suspended talk on a potential trade deal with the u. k. british media outlets have made those claim saying that india was retaliating in response to an attack on an indian diplomatic building in london. last month. the indian government has called the reports baseless, and the u. k. has also tried to dispel the rumors. both dui and india are committed to deliver ambitious and mutually beneficial. f t a and conclude the latest rounds of trade talks last month. the foreign secretary has condemned the recent act, violence at the end in high commission, and we are working with the metropolitan police to review security and make changes to ensure the safety of its stuff. let me give you a time line here. so the time publication in london reported the whole thing trade talk with the key because of the reason to pro carlos on the separatists

attack that we saw last month in london, separatists had staged porters outside the indian embassy. they normally sage the protests, but they are far seen. they remove the indian tri, follow flags from the embassy after which of course, india was extremely upset. it was angry. and india here in new delhi some month, the highest serving diplomat diplomat and basically all them question them as to what is going on. how could they allow such an incident to take place in their soil, india, old source that they want to see? action was coming back to the signs report on the pre talk, both the come please vote decides have come up with denial. and they've said that the f t talks are very much on now the f. c,

d live has proposed in june last year by the boy johnson government. but ever since that has been per picture with the d. lead out. fortunately, it was so much kale. it's happening in the government, so one off of the all the prime ministers dropping from the system. and of course, later then in the yard in around november. and in fact, it's a movie in the so for knock that in bali in november the v. she did a v creed talk, but of course important to on the line that the u. k. has been going through a tough time, a politically and economically economically more so also the conflict and you korean. and the sub sequence sampson that you can as ally, imposed on russia. now in this sort of situation, exploits point out that the f t at this point in time is more important for the u.

k than it is for india. and therefore perhaps it would be by if yuki stops setting him down. one of the biggest volcanoes in russia is far east, has burst into life like getting surrounding areas in ash and calling locals to seek shelter, huge plumes of smoke and ash of rhythms. i'm 20000 meters into the sky. that's according to russia's academy of sciences. incredible images and an awesome display of natural beauty, but authority, how born of the dangers, the russian emergency services recommended locals not to leave their homes and to shut all doors and windows local airspace has also been close to all aircraft. and that's all for now. be sure to check out our t v dot com for all the latest breaking news. and at days we'll see you right back here at the top of the hour. ah

ah, in 1935 fascist italy, led by dictator benito mussolini decided to expand its colonial empire in africa and take over ethiopia. by that time, ethiopia was the only fully independent state on the continent. back in 1896, it's inhabitants were able to defeat the italian colonists and defend their independence. since then, rome craved for revenge for the humiliating defeat. in the morning of october 3, 1935. without any announcement, the fascists attacked ethiopia and bombarded it most severely. ethiopian armed forces fought courageously,

but the brutality of the italians knew no bounds. they use not only massive bombing attacks on civilians, but also chemical weapons, toxic gases. this change the course of the war. as a result of the occupation of ethiopia by the fascist 760000 people were killed. the capture of the african state was committed with europe stafford approval. britain and france recognized the annexation, giving the green light to further fascist expansion in the world pen paving the way for the outbreak of world war 2. ah, ah, [000:00:00;00]

a believe it was that you wouldn't move forward. we just coming up. if we're like you had the wound and just getting a plan on it, why not a good deal on their own? citizens come from one plan jobs the system that is system that did not see any significant departure room, the actual ordinance in the system. it's

a case and is the most powerful weapon that you can use to change the world. so said, because iconic, new den, nelson mandela, but decades of colonial rule has left a continent broken from its history and generations on the struggle to be colonized education continue. welcome to the fleet african now shows. we're coming to you from the streets of the most capital pu toe. it makes sense to explore this week's topic, but the colonization of african education from here. because nearly half of this country's population, more than 8000000 people are illiterate, they cannot read, write, or do simple arithmetic. 52 years after independence from portugal, who is to blame for this poor state of affairs. i caught up with professor jose much more line of the pit. oh golly. co university makoto professor, thank you so much for joining us. what do you think the most and big education system should be changed in any way to reflect more than most and culture and

american beacon history and perhaps less of the portuguese colonial wasting perspective? right now i think that the most efficient system is, is still very,