[000:00:00;00] a ah, sliding radius for a 5th day, and so damn as rival fashion, bring the ne african country to the humanitarian crisis. divide and conquer that. the tactic china is using against the web. at least according to that you cheap, but her comment become less than 2 weeks after she made a high profile visit to beijing. washington try to increase pressure on the wrong and growing program by imposing new thing on all companies accused it giving pay ra, a helping hand with

coming to your life from the russian capital. this is the r t international. i merge of love it here with the top stories of the hour. welcome to the program. heavy fighting is continuing to rage and sudan between rival military factions that after a cease fire quickly collapse with both sides. training blame. ah . new explosions and gunfire have been heard on the streets of the capital of cartoon. this that it shows and on shows an armed man walking along the streets, apparently firing. you can also see like smoke rising into the sky in the background. there were loud 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 billing into the sky and a warning. the following footage may be disturbing. video has emerged of a badly damage, hospital and 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. and while the crisis continues, other countries are making efforts to bring their citizens home from sudan. although in india, the foreign minister has firmly rejected claims by a regional opposition leader that the country, it's not been doing enough. 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 in pianos and sudan. political bickering and india ease on all ward, the indians trapped in saddam and opposition as early as ends, pressing the government to take action. but the fact of the matter is that the indian government already took action. now india, the indian government is in touch with the country as in golf as well as its western thought, nelson u. 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 counterpart in your b 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. well pamela tree group at the indians are stuck and it is

a 10 situation because one indian already has lost their lives, or 100 people in the old fighting or have lost their life according to report. so, but also important to underline here is a dash, the indian embassy in car thorn has set up a control room to ensure safety of indians. and as far as the embassy there, they are wrong. 2800 indians that are stuck in said 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 u. her 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 for unelected, 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 wholly 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 u. s. 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 bogeyman was calling 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. why? because that one that i'm elected you bureaucrats probably really don't give down about. and it bottom line 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 ploughs 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. ok then, how would everyone just uniting in europe, in adhering to mac whole 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 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. washington has strengthened its grip on to ron drawn program, imposing new sanctions on iran and its allies. that includes chinese, hong kong and malaysian companies who will now be blacklisted from the us market and have their assets frozen. archie correspondent, usa farley brings us the details. was they did, he was treasury department and slapped a fresh round of sanctions against these mclaughlin. this time, the sanctions target the iranian drone industry, based on a statement released by the us treasury department as advanced targets and procurement network that contributes to the development of hawaiian you way. he's that procurement. there were comprises suppliers of key electronics equipment, and some france companies acting on behalf of iranian electronics companies to try

to find the need of technology. and i am sending the needed technology to want to try to. i develop it saw drones here in the country. so that's are based in china, malaysia. as for israel departments, new round of san mars, americans from interacting with those people and those individuals on their view as anxious. so if you said yours, we see that it one has made remarkable advances in the drone industry and the production of a range of reconnaissance combat and surveillance us. he's, oh no, we are in even just yesterday we saw during the army parade, celebrating the establishment, the anniversary of the establishment of their wants army. during that parade, we saw the use of a range of recognizance combat and surveillance drones all claim to be produced domestically inside iran. forshaw yvonne stepped into the realm of developing go drones a little bit more than a decade ago by reverse engineering. america's

r q $170.00 at that time to rhonda hampton. are you want so many in its borders on its borders with afghanistan and pakistan? it brought it down using guys own experts and reverse engineered that or he wants 70 and on veiled its own version of our q wants 70. and that said the start of 4 rounds drone program. and today we see that one is capable of producing the range of drones with different applications. and that prompted the united states to try to like pull the plug on the iranian drone industry and try to target the drone industry in iran by slapping those new fresh round of sanctions on these long group on which and they are wanting companies active in this field university of terror professor fell out as avi believes that us policies against iran,

or they are merely to satisfy washington's own sanctions addiction. seeing the yes government is running out of people to sanction in the darn, it ran the u. s. government put sanctions on these companies that actually violated international law because companies are supposed to be a city who the government, the company is logistic. so it, is it, chinese companies, you are a company militia or someplace that they should be, you al, sitting to the government of china. now militia, they're not to the us government. this has become something that happens a every other week, almost. it, it's meaningless. it's not really causing major difficulties for iran, and this is a very of her, you know, feeding the sanctions addiction that exists in washington. us government officials

addicted to sanctions, the like the sanction countries and daily basis. one, the easy route, one this china, one these russia and the quite effective in what they are doing. and the comes funny us that about, ah, nicaragua has van and even bassinger from entering the country after the blocks of recent criticism of the government's actions during protest. back in 2018, the nicaraguan foreign ministry slammed the e u for its policies in the region. we reiterate to the neo colonialists of the european union, our condemnation of folder historical genocide, and would demand justice and reparation for these crimes against humanity and the repair, yolande greedy and repression, looting of our own reaches and cultures in the circumstances. and then the face of the permanent siege of our people's right to national sovereignty, who will not receive your representative. the same met was released on the 5th anniversary of the protest in nicaragua,

the you called on the government to return to the rule of law as well as to end repressions in the state. in response to the nicaraguan authority says such a statement only proved the use imperialists and colonialists positions in the region. as a reminder, the protest in nicaragua broke out in 2018 over new social security reform, which planned a sharp rise in taxes. they brought thousands to the streets and led to years of unrest. the un says a subsequent clamped out on the anti presidential protest, loved to 100 dead imprison or force into exile. for more on this, let's cross alive now 2 independent journalist benjamin norton ballots. gray tabs on the program today. so what do you make of this move by nicaragua to band the entry of an e u and baster over the blocks critical comments. are you surprised that they took this move? no, because the reality is that the european union and its ally,

the united states, have meddled in internal nicaraguan affairs for many years. going back to the u. s . military occupation of nicaragua on the 19th thirty's, and the installation of a military dictatorship and backed by the united states leading to the sandinista revolution in 1979. and then in the 1980s, the u. s. that you supported contreras, who are terrorist groups that carried out violence against the government. the war waged by the west against nicaragua has never ended. and this leads us to 2018. in 2018. there were protest, but it was part of a larger coup attempt. it was a very violent coup, attempt to try to overthrow the democratically elected sandinista government led by president and your vega, who by the way is one of the most popular presidents in latin america. pulling has consistently showed that he has between 60 and 70 percent support. and yet the u. s . and europe,

the european union continued to prop up unpopular unelected regimes like in peru right now, which has a 6 percent approval rating. and in the case of the 2018 qu, attempts, hundreds of people were killed. yes, but what's not mentioned by the western media is that many of the people who were killed were not protesters. they were actually a violent insurgents who were arms, who were burning down government buildings and radio stations and who were trying to violently overthrown elected government. in addition, there were also many, it's on the nice the supporters who were killed. there were many police officers who were killed, and there's a gruesome story that is well known here in nicaragua, of a police officer, a young man, a father named gabriella velo luis and he was kidnapped by the coo platters tortured and then his body was set on fire, so when the european union claims falsely that the nicaraguan government supposedly killed protesters and all of this,

what they're actually covering up is the role of brussels in washington. in supporting these very violent insurgents tried to overthrow the government like in syria. like in libya like in venezuela, in so many other places and it's context that is all too important to keep in mind when we look at that situation like this. okay, so we have the you claiming that the government in nicaragua, guilty of war crimes and crimes of aggression against the peoples, nicaragua, and still to this day since now has refused to acknowledge that court case in the international court of justice. and washington has refused to pay nicaragua, the billions of dollars. reparations that it. oh is the people, nicaragua? wow. and of course, that is an element to it that is not being talked about, especially when they come up with that rules based order that always seems to be changing. now in nicaragua was response to the statement was to say that this prove the european union's imperialist and colonialists approach to the region. would you say that that's accurate?

it's absolutely accurate. i mean, we've seen so many examples of the european union engaging in these kinds of neo colonial policies supporting wars around the world imposing illegal unilateral sanctions that violate international law. and in the case of latin america, the role of the european union is absolutely shameless. so in, in 2018, the european union supported a violent 2 attempt here. when which right wing extremist use terrorist tactics to try to overthrow the government. they failed in 2019, the european union supported another 2 attempts in venezuela. recognizing one why you though an unknown right wing opposition figure as the so called president of venezuela. he never participated in a single election. can be president. furthermore, that same year in 2019 the european union back a violent extremist right wing qu in bolivia as well that over through the elected president of bolivia, even what alice, who in addition to being left,

this was the 1st ever democratically elected indigenous president in a majority indigenous countries. so the reality is that the european union just in the past few years, has violated international law. frequently in latin america has supported cruise that over through democratically elected government and has backed violent extremist. all of this is an example of neo colonial is policies. and then if a government in the region which is popular and democratic, elected by the people decides to take independent actions that brussels doesn't like, or washington doesn't like the cues that government of being authoritarian and they impose sanctions on it. yeah. and they've used that blueprint time and time again, always claiming that it's what the people want. but then, i guess the question becomes, i mean, does the, you have any right to interfere in nicaragua, internal affairs, as well as to give such an assessment of what they think is going on in the country and how it should be run? well, no,

no country has the right of intervening in the internal affairs of any other country that's firmly established in the united nation is charter, which is exactly why the west has been trying to replace international law with the so called rules based order. because they, they don't agree with the un charter that opposes none. that poses interference. and that calls for non interference in other countries affairs, all the u. s. and the european union do on a regular basis is interfere in foreign countries affairs. that's why they have sanctions right now and more than one quarter of the global population. it's why the u. s. has 800 for military bases. it's why the european union also engages in many of these wars through nato, considering that you members are part of the same military alliance with the u. s. the rubber stamp every single us war of aggression. multiple european union member states participated in the legal invasion of iraq and the 20 year military occupation of afghanistan in the destruction of the state of libya in 2011, which was a nato operation, backed by numerous

e u. member states right now in libya, there are open air slave markets, thanks to the european union, the u. s. nato, and their so called rules based order. nicaragua saw what happened in libya. nicaragua doesn't want to be the next libya. venezuela doesn't want to be the next livia. no country wants to be the next, libya or a, and they're learning those lessons as they go along. now speaking of that interference, the government in nicaragua has also said that the e u is looting the state to riches and cultures. what is your take on that statement? yeah, well it's one a reference to the sanctions and the sanctions are not just targeted against individuals. this is frequently missed portrayed in western media. they claim that it's only targeted sanctions in reality. the u. s. and also european union have imposed illegal unilateral sanctions targeting multiple state institutions in nicaragua, including the military, including the police, including the judicial branch and the judges. including also by the way,

numerous state on mining companies and other state on companies. and what they're also referencing here is an attempt to prevent the nicaraguan government from using its own natural resources to benefit its population. for instance, there's gold mining that happens in nicaragua, and it was done by a state owned company and then that gold revenue was used to help fund social programs and fund the government. instead, the u. s. imposed sanctions and the u. imposed sanctions targeting the state on companies because what they want is their own companies to exploit the natural resources in the labor of nicaragua, and they're still are by the way, despite the sanctions there still are foreign corporations here in nicaragua that are exploiting nicaraguan labor. now, obviously, if they were to engage in nicaraguan national law and respect the rights of workers, they are welcome to invest in the country as they are in other countries. but they constantly prevent the government's attempts to protect the rights of its workers.

to prevent the foreign corporations from paying taxes. i mean, we mentioned at the beginning that the whole reason in 2018 that the coup attempt even begin is because the protests were launched by the chamber of commerce cassette, which opposed the government's attempt to raise taxes on foreign corporations to pay for social security. for poor people. so at every single stage, these foreign corporations and the representatives in western governments, as have said to nicaragua, we don't want to pay taxes. we don't want to provide any support to our workers. we don't want to respect there, right? we don't want to allow them to form new and if the government does anything to protect the right area and, and we're going to post things and certainly a lot of state care and a lot to be learned from this one and dependent journalists, benjamin norton. thank you so much for your time and insight. my pleasure, thanks for having me. the british government's decision to supply ukraine

with depleted uranium shells has seen people protesting in london demonstrators through the streets, calling for the government to reverse its decision. the ammunition, which has been linked to numerous health issues, is designed to be used by the challenger tanks. but linda has also been to key as an activist student part in the protest. feel. russel believes many people in the u . k. are aware of what's happening in ukraine. we've organized for the emergency protest, sending depleted uranium sales to ukraine. we've done our best to communicate our protests to white and older as possible, including newspapers like the daily telegraph. busy that daily mail, sunday to various other newspapers, the activists who had been protesting for 9 years, the 2014 new lawsuit to the british government to, to end support what we regarded. even then as an illegal regime,

britain has given billions in a minute, create an economic a to train at a time when energy prices have gone. sky high, people are struggling. a lot of people are aware of the truth is the price, which is quite amazing when you consider the reporting here, it's totally an awfully one. so i did say recycle the story from american intelligence, british intelligence, ukrainian ritchie lies. this is not the 1st time depleted. uranium has been used in combat zones, but the u. k and the u. s. have a history with a controversial munitions during the 1st go for the countries use hundreds of tons of the radioactive substance. and during the 2nd conflict in 2003 thousands of tons were employed. i know there vivid example in the nato bombing yugoslavia back in 1999, the consequences of which still impacts people even now. we heard from

a patient battling cancer, who claims that depleted uranium was the root cause of his illness. yet i love generally tolerate the therapy with difficulty. the therapy itself is difficult and lost quite a long time. as for my mental and physical condition, i'm very exhausted. i don't move much because i can't move because of the therapy. when i'm in the hospital, the therapy starts at 9 in the morning and ends at 8 in the evening. it's 10 hours of lying down a day, and it all depends on how well i tolerate the cycle. in the 2nd a cycle i enjoy heavy therapy. i had a high temperature and i fell into a coma. it's a temperature coma, but the doctors helped me and they told me that it must be so difficult because the therapy itself is difficult and the disease has spread. cancer has affected the lungs, lymph glands, and the main aorta. so i take a lot of medicine. i'm suspected that my illness is a consequence of the nato bombing. and when i came to belgrade, the doctor's confirmed it to me that the bombing was the main cause of my illness,

and that it was a consequence of the bombing, in particular, the depleted uranium ammunition that they use to attack us. here is the main reason why cancer appears in people. it is not clear was what it is that affects the body . but the doctor explained to me that these are the consequences that appear after a certain number of years. they told me that i am young, healthy and strong, and that's why i did not feel anything at the beginning. later, the body subsides, a lot has accumulates in the body or environment in which we live is polluted february of that up. that's all for now. the here to check out our t v dot com for all affiliate is breaking news and updates was seen right back here at the top of the hour.

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ah. 2 most people all around the world who follow the news. remember the events surrounding the revelations made by whistle blower, edward snowden, snowden, a former employee of the cia, and later a contractor for an essay, released hundreds of thousands of pages of information to weekly leaks that proved the american government was spying on its own citizens in violation of the law