sense of independence, but when you consider the french president using this term, then we are forced to wonder if he is a serious person. after all, europe is no longer strategic or autonomy ah, sliding raisers for a 5th day ensued dance as rival factions bring the north east african country to the break. other humanitarian crisis. divide and conquer bass, the tactic china is using it. so was at least according to the chief, but her comment scott, less than 2 weeks after she made a high profile visit to be shank washington, try to increase pressure on her ron's growing program by imposing new sanctions on all company accused of giving to ron a helping hand with

coming to you live from the russian capital. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins, here with the top stories of the our welcome to the program. heavy fighting is continuing to rage in sudan between rival military factions. that's after a cease fire quickly collapse with both sides training blame. there were a lot explosions from heavy artillery fire in the capital. fighting was reported at the sudanese army headquarters as well as the cities international airport or large plumes of smoke could be seen billowing into the sky, but it has a merge of a badly damaged hospital. in cartoon, there are numerous reports of a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation, according to a doctors without borders representative on the ground. the circumstances are dire and getting worse with hospitals unable to treat people due to power outages and

a lack of equipment. a local journalist took us to the latest. there are denied. most of those are not our service. i'm not pleased with our house. exactly. there are millions who are stuck right now on the bike. now it's possible inside the office if they were out of their houses, they cannot reach your house except we cannot provide for them sold on a part of your mentor and cannot wait for the citizens right now before there are a lot of classes going to sweep junk know, the citizens cannot go to buy their own for to this next or not go to the hospital . as i said earlier, this isn't, this isn't for not leave your house to buy everything they need to support pharmacists are not going to change. so you want to take off their uniform and we

actually cannot get out and well, the crisis ensued in continues. countries are making efforts to bring their citizens home from there. but in india, a regional opposition leader has been making headlines after he accused the government of inaction, saying that the foreign minister angrily something was the foreign minister angrily rejected. simply appalled at your tweet, their lives at stake. don't do politics since the fighting started on april 14th, the embassy of india in her tomb has been continuously in touch with most indian nationals and pianos and sudan. political bickering and india is on all ward the indians trapped in saddam and opposition as early as ends, pressing the government to take action. but the fact the matter is that the indian government already took action. now india, the indian government is in touch with the country is in gulf as well as its

western thought nell. so you a saudi arabia yuki, as well as the u. k. in fact, it of an essay shankar who's a foreign affairs minister to india, he is in touch with his county falls in your e as well as saudi arabia. now what's happening is that as, as in fighting as well as on wrist in saddam, as the army fights we'd eat, saw right. world battle military group at the indian, our stock. and it is a 10 situation because one indian already has lost their lives or 100 people in the overall fighting have lost their life according to report. so, but also important to underline here is that the indian embassy in car thorn has set up a control room to ensure safety of indians and asper at the embassy there. there are around $2800.00 indians that are stuck inside on the government. constantly in

touch, trying to ensure safety or 8 citizens the head of the european commission has accused china of engaging and policies meant to divide the you. but our comments notably, follow a recent trip to beijing. a strong european china policy relies on strong coordination between member states and you institutions and on the willingness to avoid a divide and conquer tactics that we know we may face. we have already in the recent days and weeks seen those tactics in action solely because of china that european countries have different needs and interests and are standing up for those interests. i want to have french president, a man you're in, michael, feels about when ursula here suggesting that he's been manipulated by china when

he's really not doing anything more than just evoking that totally rational and common sense need for france and also for other european countries to cargo their own path in their own best interest, independent of both washington and beijing. just a quick reminder of what michael said recently that has an elected european bureaucrats like vandalized, so bothered and had european diplomats running to complain anonymously to the western press. is it in our interest to accelerate a crisis from taiwan? no, the worst thing would be to thing that we, europeans must become followers on this topic and take our queue from the u. s. agenda and a chinese overreaction. and also remember that european council president and former belgian prime minister shami shell, also confirm that in the back rooms at the e. u. leaders are quietly increasingly agreeing with michael's position of strategic autonomy. but her, i'm elected you bureaucrats, late vander, line. it's always just about keeping up appearances of uncompromising unity at all

costs. even if countries have to be bullied back into line, like poland was recently overt wanting to protect its own farmers from a glass of ukrainian grain by fanny and along with hungry in slovakia, who are experiencing the same issues. but it wasn't long before poland, even the big cheerleader for ukraine in the us, threatened with being labeled pro russian by some e u. heavy weights to pressure war saw back into the unity at all cost lane. so european countries have disagreed on everything from weapons for ukraine to anti russian sanctions. and it's not because some foreign po, he man was pulling their strays. but really just because some of them actually might want to get re elected. or hey, you know, they might even feel some sense of responsibility or accountability towards their own citizens. what it concept one that i elected you bureaucrats probably really don't give down about. and if i can't tell the difference between unelected versus

elected officials, which she seems to be, have some having some problems with. here's a bit of a hit, the elected head of state medical, in this case, got the state dinner in china, the elected bureaucrat underline, did it, and tried to grab dinner with some pals, and also had to go through normal airport security with the great unwashed masses on her trip to china with the french president, and now that she's back in europe while she really didn't waste any time in brewing up this speech about quote, the need for a coherent strategy for you china relations. okay, then how would everyone just uniting in europe, in adhering to mac holes strategy of not jumping aboard, the u. s. anti china bandwagon and just dealing with china like a deals with any other country. wagner line reiterated europe longstanding one china policy. ok, so from that point, what's the problem?

you're not going to be in lock step with every single one of your trade partners on absolutely everything, whether it's china or the u. s. at when, by the way, there's been no big public proclamations or speeches from bonder line about the need for unity against us pressure tactics on the you over russia or over china or anything else. so what's the deal with all this public posturing over china? how about just dropping the control freak act for once and just chilly out? you know, maybe she can start with her hair. do their ease up a bit on the hair spray and just see how it goes from there. meanwhile, the in use been called out by the turkish interior minister, who claim that brussels is now essentially doing whatever washington says, there is no such thing as europe. don't exaggerate it in your minds. this is america. europe is just a train in america's convoy. there was nothing special about it. now,

turkey is changing history. these elections will show a lot. that is why america and europe are increasing the pressure. you remembered that the mr. put in has been emphasized his situation in the moody conference. it is impossible, the united states be the dominant, although the ward and if you refuse, need, ah, the american dominant in the work, if he has any, the, sorry, the words that after this point, the changing velocity, power, multi father situation to research. so it's dealing like this same issue. why? when a looking in today to buy than a demonstration, right? emphasizing the u. s. supremacy. even though after the rushing a queen who are fear and then i don't understand what is the meaning of the mantel, the, the cow, the ration from the the pentagon side. mr. sorry to hear this is this for important points. what is the u. s. in the western countries as being raining down west and

brutal capitalism on the whole war, that is very critical then secondly, america interferes in the democracy of utopian, even though example of, of writing in other countries, sometimes in germany, in the aftermath of the war in a crane when a europe last is economic, political independence, and the leadership as a trained car of the american train comb or after the recent link of classified pentagon documents, which allegedly revealed that washington has been spying on its allies. it's other neighbor has responded, mexico's message, your agents and operatives are not welcome. here are t shave outs, breaks it down for us, mexico's president lopez abra door has been pulling no punches. as he warns the u. s. that mexico won't tolerate any repeat of their historical interference in his country's internal affairs. that as recent media revelations about how the us spies

on its enemies and friends alike, a highlighting increasing tensions with its closest neighbor. in ship winning acts of spine cannot be used to find out what our security institutions are doing. and furthermore, with the arrogance of leaking the information to the washington post auburn door was referring to a league u. s. intel report that suggest increasing tensions within different branches of the mexican army hubbard or later met with the u. s. and pastor can salazer, where he made it clear that mexico will not accept american agents operating on mexican soil, not putting, i think, cannot be foreign agents in our country. no, we can share information, but its members of the mexican army, navy, and national guard. who can intervene? this all comes as the u. s. drug enforcement agency claims. they've recently infiltrated one of mexico's biggest drugs, gangs with 28 members of the infamous in a lower cartel facing charges for smuggling fentanyl into the us. of course,

the united states has form when it comes to covert operations, and mexico recently declassified documents even suggesting that back in the seventy's and eighty's former president joe say, portillo was essentially a cia asset. the mill service knows that mexico will soon have a new president and man house have control of liaison for a number of years. the memo was focused on j. f. k. assassination. and how lee harvey oswald had visited mexico prior to the dallas assassination. this led to a vast ca, surveillance operation with a ca tapped phones and spine on senior mexican politicians. unsurprisingly, portillo is not the only mexican president alleged to have worked for the cia with numerous mexican presidents being implicated as c. i a operatives from the 1950s right up to the 1980s, but it seems the current mexican president is in no mood to play ball with the cia

national most were not a protectorate of the united states or a colony of united states. we're not going to allow any foreign governments to intervene in our territory, much less the armed forces of a foreign government. mexico is a free, independent sovereign country. we did not receive orders from any one. the people of mexico govern here. not getting on honor. they still have not abandoned the monroe doctrine. they do not want to change, so they believe they are the government of the world. they assumed themselves to be the government of the world. so, as mexico lays down the law to the white house, it seems unlikely that the u. s. will change its behavior with the unfortunate reality remaining. that whether you are a friend or a foe, it seems uncle sam is watching and listening to your every move. to go over there and at the less, less cross live now to bruce hobson with the mexico solidarity project versus great to have you on the program today. now media reports are saying that former mexican

president, jose lopez portillo, was working for the cia. what are your thoughts on those claims? well, my thoughts are many i'm actually quite familiar with. ready legacy of us intervention and spying and support for the violent repression. ready for example, the student movement in mexico going back to the. ready 1960 s. when i was, i'll just say when i was 19 years old, i happened to be in mexico city and witnessed myself 1st hand, some of that repression by the, by the military against students. much of that history has been quote, unquote, hidden x below it has been documented by many, many people. ready many writers and intellectuals colors monitored by ease,

polio, so read, got to see the former publisher process magazine here in mexico. and so it's actually a very, very well known secret of the history. now, these for mexican presidents and their connections and working with working directly. ready and almost taking orders to see that is fascinating. and now the former president, we mentioned step down 50 years ago, and the current president of mexico is publicly denouncing the u. s. for what he referred to as plans to intervene in mexico's affairs. how accurate would you say, are his claims? well, people should really understand that with the election of lopez, over and order in 2018 things began to change radically away from the neo liberal

policies of cell. everything of privatized medicine, the health system, and cetera in mexico. and that's just, that's just some of the most important things that, that have occurred under the theme of andres manuel. well, i mean, for example, we happen to know that millions of poor and working people in this country, mexico, where i live, have had their lives improved by by an array of important social programs that have been in effect shit by, by the government. well, i 11 can, one can say as, as the right, the oligarchy in this, in the, in this country. and what has been echoed by some of the mainstream media in the united states and including from europe, the lobe is open or the,

or is really just pulling people and getting people to believe that his programs are really having a positive effect. what i will say, and because we're really talking about this whole issue of, of fentanyl and degradation in other states that is blamed on the mexican president by the right wing in the united states. particularly most specifically, some people with a republican party. these people are, are just gunning to go after mexico. lindsey graham and others have said, let's go get the cartels. we need just, we need to invade and mexico and start bombing them without any kind of questioning by congress. so there's a whole array of different things that are going on in the country that are getting pretty crazy. ready and yes, i believe that that lobe is,

i want to go to the president. my call takes very seriously the question of sovereignty of, of this country and opposition to any. ringback form of intervention by the united states military, economic, whatever. and certainly the leaders in mexico are listening when you have politicians in the us talking about possibly bombing their country or having some sort of military conflict. now speaking of what low press over door has said, he's also so the quote, there's currently more democracy in mexico than in the united states. why do you think that he's taking such a hard line stance? is that in response to those right wing republicans who are coming out and trying to make comments of their own? well, i think it's partly because of that. yes, because i mean this, the offensive language that's coming from the right from the republican party in the united states, against mexico and against american self. really. he's,

he's not one to be taken off guard. that's for sure. but no, i don't think that he's taking this personally. i think he's taking a just very, very seriously that these kinds of threats coming from the united states. no country in the world would accept this kind of language against them. mexico is an easy target, but things have changed in this country. this country has been invaded, officially 14 times in history by the united states. and the president is not going to allow any kind of of intervention by the united states. yeah, there's certainly a lot of take care and we appreciate you joining us to break it all down. bruce hopson, that was the mexico solidarity project. thank you so much for your time and insight . absolutely, thank you very much. rachel washington has strengthened his grip on

a wrong the wrong program and losing new sanctions on iran and its allies. that includes chinese, hong kong and malaysian companies who will now be blacklisted from the u. s. market and have their assets frozen. r t correspondent use of drill all the brings us the details. washington once again targeted on these long ago this time it has targeted the one in drone industry, very key and sensitive industry which one has made a significant progress in lead and recent years. so this sanction is based on a statement released by the us treasury department targets a procurement network. this procurement network comprises, saw some up front companies acting on behalf of iranian electronics companies as some suppliers of key electronics equipment that those people sent the needed equipment for iran to try to develop its own. a local u, a v. so this, so the visa front companies are based in china,

hong kong and malaysia. and of course, iran, one of the companies, one of their want companies that has been hit by those sanctions, is pa, goes on. see them now, mod armanda's, the name of the company shortly known as pos. not the head of this company is also under those new sanctions for a sanctions evasion efforts. so this has been new development with regards to our a ron now the iran has, in recent years, made significant advancement. cindy and he drone technology, and it all started back here around a decade ago, back in 2011 when he was 1st brought down the american r q 170 on it saw border with afghanistan. and in the, in the kosh, marin county, when i want to, and engineers, a commandeered on that are key 170, and safely brought it down. and then they reverse engineer that american r. q 170 drone are released and unveiled are the iranian version of our key 170

that sent the stage for iran to try to step into the realm of the you a v technology and try to develop its own drones. and today we're just yesterday we saw a range of foot surveillance reconnaissance and combat drones paraded andy on the army a whenever nationwide parade was taking place around the country to mark the national army day and the country. so everyone now claims to be able to produce a range of drones with different applications and that crops in the united states to try to step in and pull the plug on the iranian drone industry and decide to impose those new sanctions on these one moment. the british government's decision to supply ukraine with depleted uranium shells has seen people protesting in london, people took to the streets, calling for the government to reverse this decision. the ammunition is designed to be used by the challenger tanks. the u. k. has also sent to the use of depleted

uranium has been linked to cancer. for more on this, let's cross live now to activists fear russell, who joined us from the protest in london. we appreciate your time today. now you are one of those protesting. so tell us, what is the current sentiment among the people there right now? okay, so we have a number back to this here who joined us because we, we've organized an emergency protest against sending depleted uranium sales to ukraine on speaking from right behind me. you can see down in the residence foreign minister. so the news that britain was sending the sales for the challenge of time was revealed by website post declassified. you pay on the 21st of march, and we decided to hold a merchant protest falling on the british government not to send these shells. if

they 40 be said to order that you've been bustle. now do you think that the government is aware of the opposition over the use of depleted uranium and when it comes to your calls for the situation to be reversed, you have hope that will be the case? well, we've done our best to, we think we got for 2014 ukraine, oscar to the british government to, to end what we regarded even, but then as an illegal regime, i don't want to go until they find that they've committed. but obviously they haven't taken any notice of us then in the last year, britain has given billions in an 8 minute create an economic a to train at a time where the energy prices have gone. sky high people are struggling. this is

a struggling and people are being told about the finance government is actually doing fits on people. right. and do you think that the people of the u. k are really aware of just how involved their government has been and how much money it has your brain. and as you noted the needs of the people, they're the energy prices there. i mean, do you think the public is aware of what their government is doing? well, surprisingly when you go on the talk to people, a lot of people are aware of the truth crane, which is quite amazing when you consider that the reporting here is totally an awfully one sided. they recycle the stories from american intelligence, british intelligence, ukrainian ritchie, lies. everything is blamed on russia. not a single rip. there has been

a single report in the media that i've come across showing people in place that the next city look at the next province's being ball and then shell going to talk. and a lot of people who died in the last year a lot. they've been dropping petrol, binds his own so. busy in terms of people, so when a. busy a what's actually going on if you, so it's rising when you go around the, the number of people who actually have alternative new sources actually know what's going on when you can fit when you thank you to account, but the misfortune has been, so we've never seen anything like this before and any, any previous war? one. so i did report to mass needed. yeah, that's a good point. and that's certainly shows that people are taking the time to seek

out other information. now, when it comes to the response from russia, moscow has condemned the u. k. decision to send those depleted uranium shells. do you think that at risk escalating this situation overall? was it was an escalation. yes. but i just wanted to talk a bit about the, the effects of depleted uranium. now britain, united states are not the only countries who have depleted uranium, not the nation, but there's no doubt whatsoever in iraq in the to was in iraq. you, flavio and also in syria, brittany us have use balmore if they did, you write any of that. all the other countries put together. and at the same time, they promised to go to those countries, especially iraq, where they use 300 tons help to clean up the environment. because if stuff goes

into the environment, the water table, the soil and it's. busy radioactive for $45000.00 is only one octave. if it gets into the lungs, can cause birth defects. griffith, birth defect, kind of mental illness and children, kidney diseases. on the one hand, they wish been met. medical organizations have enough evidence about these health effects. while on the other hand, they've been located the un britain, united states policies, the noise that bike is going to have been blocking requests from iraq, iraq, from the non line movement, which majority of the general assembly to for the un touch, you carry out research. but they, they said no missing from iraq itself and also from the serbian health mystery of

these health. and. ready we can't undo what's happened in, in, in iraq than the former yugoslavia, but we can try and still be used again yet. another wall. yeah, there certainly is a lot at stake here, activist the russell. thank you. so.