[000:00:00;00] a a, there is really a special kind of cynicism in this incident because this is affecting a school. it's affecting children, crashes ambassador to poland, condemns, arrayed by local authorities that saw them seizing a building, being used as a school by the russian embassy around president brands u. s. military interventions in the middle east. as detrimental to the region that says, he holds a historic summit with the leader of iraq with a huge inferno. a loyal depot in crimea with local authority is blaming a drawer tack on the facility. and at north korea says washington plans to dock

a nuclear arm submarine in south korea are escalating regional 10000 take to the streets and see all to protest. i think this is a hasty decision. i also think that we should not possess nuclear weapons. i think it's humiliating. one sided diplomacy with coming to you live for in the russian capital. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories of the our welcome to the program. authorities in poland have seized a building, being used as a school by the russian embassy in warsaw. the ambassador claims the move is a violation of international law wish stamps to nicolas michael brown. they do not have the right to do this. the territory of a diplomatic mission cannot be invaded or seized under any circumstances. such property issues can only be resolved by an international agreement, not through

a court decision. there is really a special kind of cynicism in this incident because this is affecting a school. it's affecting children, higgerson, and the school was being used by the children of diplomats there, which is why it's quite shocking that this happened, especially the way it happened. because we can see in the video footage that there is city officials as was police answer. and the premises were the crowbar there they are, are trying to force their way in. and after they did that, they apparently been locked the gates just to make sure that there weren't any diplomats trying to take out any frequency from there. apparently, all of this, of course, in violation of the vienna convention, as we heard from on the russian ambassador there wires is happy. now, is this a history here? because some background that's why isn't it? yes, it's shocking because it has to do with a school. but it's not surprising because we've seen poland really go and added against russia for quite some time now,

but i'll take it back to after the special military operation began. so i, in february 2022. poland seized and below the accounts of the russian embassy and russia's trade mission. then in march 2022, they expelled 45 russian diplomats from the country. and now just this past wednesday, they seized the funds from the account that they blocked and transfer that to the prosecutor's office again. and something were to shock in an unheard of. and we're getting no comments from the polish side or from e u officials, or western officials that have nothing to say about this. but this is what the russian bathroom has to say about this whole story. i. amelia was virginia. they opened a criminal and use that as the basis to cease our financial assets. but polish journalists have uncovered some suspicious circumstances in this matter. it turns out there is a supreme court ruling that

a suspects funds cannot be kept frozen without presenting an official charge against them for more than a year. it has been over a year since our funds were frozen, only no one has been charged or at least no announcements were made to our employees formally. but the money still has not been returned. so the attitude of our polish counterparts to the requirements of both international law and their own country's law is very peculiar to put it mildly, horrors, hulu, and the amount they seized this quite significant apparently. so it remains to be seen what they will do that with that money if it will then be returned at some point. but again, this is going back to poland, really being a cheerleader for ukraine, really. and it's getting a lot of support from the west just because it's doing that precisely. maybe is the plan for poland. why? because poland has always been really the e u. so poor relative you can say, so it's always been at odds with

a use of regional domestic policies and the relationship between poland and the wasn't very good until it started really a pushing ah void stance and ukraine really supporting the western narrative. what we saw and not only have they, they sent their own, what was a battle tanks now they've committed to sending war planes as well. and their plan and to we've seen this in latest reports that they want to have the biggest army in europe. and that of course is getting a lot of support ah, from a, they're a western allies. so they have more plans. it seems. and there were also revelations recently that they're planning to annexed certain parts of a western ukraine that they've been discussing this. so where the officials from a parrot. so there's a lot going on behind scenes. and i'm sure that this is just the beginning. once again, for them to show the world how they are against ross and they're willing to do anything to cement their friendship with the wife at any cost. and it doesn't

matter if we're talking about kids or high school in this case, to political expert, george saying, well, a believe poland is trying to provoke russia. bothered parcel of the poland trying to provoke russia as much as possible. so there's something unusual in trying to pick on diplomatic property. i mean, you know, they've already froze the russian embassies bank accounts a year ago. now they've transfer the funds from the bank accounts to the prosecutor's office. so again, unheard of to do something like that. and then they will also, again, year ago, they didn't provide proper police protection for the embassy and embassy personnel knowing that there was likely to be threats of violence. so, you know, this is a provocative steps. clearly,

i think the polish authorities are hoping that russia overreact and having that as part of its, its strange kind of diplomacy, american overreacts, maybe some point, you know, the, the conflict with nato gets more directly, you know, more threatening will dangerous or wrong leader has called out us military interventions in the middle east saying they've had a hugely negative impact on the region. his words came out, a historic summit with the president of neighboring iraq born is unclear as much as we consider negotiations between regional countries, helpful resolving regional issues that we don't be in the presence of foreign countries and forces in the region useful at all. and you are, we view the presence of americans in the region is harmful to the security of the region. one more solid and a rod less focus on selling aside past differences and strengthening ties between the 2 former rivals with all the details. here's our

t is use of jal ali. it's the local freshman is 1st official visit to iran after he took office back in october last year. he was officially welcomed by his iranian counterpart. the 2 sides trust the need to expand their ties in all areas and at all levels, from security to politics, trade, transport, and politics. so i've been freshly congratulated iran in saudi arabia for the restoration of diplomatic ties. of course, iraq played a key role in making that happen. iraq hosted several rounds of talks between one and we ought to try to pay that way and broker a piece. the oath, of course, it was later on, it was made happened by china ultimately, but iraq contributed to making that happen. the iraqi president, thank iran for its major role in dismantling dodge terrorists back in 2017 when iran helped fight off dodge terrorists. of course, it,

one is opposed to the presence of extra regional military forces in the middle east . iraq also shares this stance. brian bracy today said that the presence of the americans in the middle east is very destabilizing. as the americans do not think about, i do not care about the security of the regional countries, such as iran and iraq, of course. iraq's parliament back in 2020, also share this stance. the rocky parliament's back in 2020 voted unanimously in favor of the ouster and the expulsion of the american forces for from their country . amid the us says, fiasco enough can stand the 2 sides also discussed areas of cooperation when it comes to economy, politics and, and power power supply. so the iraqi president is in iran for one day. he's going to leave the country afterwards and his expect it to also meet with iran supreme

leader i to law how many later on today the syrian press claims, those countries not just walked in the physical conflict with the west, but an economic one to and that's where he believes is increasingly necessary to discard the us dollar and transactions. bashar assad statement came after he welcome to damascus, a special envoy of the chinese government in the middle east. the syrian president also underlined the important role. the bricks, countries can play and breaking away from the dollar, as well as the option of adopting the chinese you on for trade transactions between countries. also praise the recent mediation by beijing, between saudi arabia and iran, which is that would have a positive impact on the stability of the entire middle east region. to go further in depth on this. let's cross live now to economic clinton, consultant. i mean, i, you, i mean it's great to have you on the program today. so what do you make of the latest statement from the syrian president?

do you agree with his claim that the u. s. is using the dollar as an economic tool? well, the u. s. dollar was actually being used as a, as a currency of reserves. 1944 and the bill or is ation bowlers. ation that the laura's ation was actually a subject of discussion back in the seventy's also. and now the discussion of those ation are not using the dollar anymore as a trade the currency. actually it's been happening all the conflicts that are happening over the world and how countries are feeling that the u. s. is actually controlling them economically. and the president bashar, actually it's for his own good and for his people is good to actually find new partners and not being controlled by the wis, economically and politically. and that's why he's envoy, and they can see that so many central banks will affect their to continue to be

that move away from the u. s. dollar. and towards having a number of currencies that become popular in the countries can use to trade with one another. really think this is, this is a tremendous happening, but it's not going to be in the short term. this is going to happen some time. and things are changing, you can see that india is actually with their, with economy partners in africa is using the indian therapy and also iran. he's actually getting to the same thing with his african, the trade partners. so this is, this is going to happen at some point, but it's going to take some but some, some time. and countries are actually trying to find new or there's not being controlled by, oh yeah, by you, by a specific country. right. and now when it comes to that move to push away from the dollar, just how hard is that you mentioned, it's likely going to take time. but what does that really mean for that push away

from the dollar? is the world reserve currency? well, as a worker, as i said earlier, it's this has been happening since $944.00 and economic systems. and as you know, the swift system actually is based in us dollars reserves and things like that. so this is the whole economic system. world walk is based on your daughters. so countries who are actually interested in new workers, countries with conflicts or actually being pushed away from the economic, their world trade, economic system such as iran, syria, and things like that. may find new economic workers who are actually willing to, and this is actually going to help find new currencies or use different currencies in one side of the world. yeah, it's definitely a domino effect that has to happen for it to really catch on. now going back to the syrian presidents comments,

i thought also praise china's new mediation role. do you think that beijing can become a world mediator and do you think that more countries will turn to them for help on a diplomatic side moving forward? well, the chinese mediation between syria and iran was there was a shock to many countries because this is what this was not expecting. the 2 countries were being in conflict. and also there were actually fighting, or they were fighting who were in yemen, indirectly. and this actually was a, was a good thing in the china actually play the a great tool for, to bring peace into the region. and probably this is, this is going to be happening regionally by china in the long term, in many other conflicts. maybe even though even with the syrian conflict that when

it comes to i saw the statement, do you think that it's another prime example that the world is moving towards a more multi polar world? and is there anything that the united states can do to stop it at this point? well, countries are actually, are not just countries in the middle east, even though even in north africa and africa countries, one the actually push back countries, or the colonizers would've been controlling them for many years now. and this is, this has been happening for the last decade. countries want to take control of their own economics of their own people's education, and they want to be the one actually what's on their own. so i think this is, this is something that's going to be happening in the future. yes, certainly a lot of moving parts here, economic consulting, i mean i,

you thank you so much for your time. and inside ukraine has taken a swipe at neighboring poland and the you in general for not resolving ongoing issue around it's green exports. now legal grounds, full day immediate resumption of the exports of ukrainian agricultural goods to poland, romania, hungary, slovakia, and bulgaria, as well as for the continuation of unimpeded exports to all that you member states, and in general, the unimpeded transit of whole ukrainian products to all the countries both within and outside, you bored us, poland and hungary have banned ukrainian grain in order to protect the local markets and their own farmers. therapy and commission at 1st condemned to poland for the ban, but quickly gave in to warsaw demands on wednesday. poland announced they would maintain its fan until at least next year. romania also imposed restrictions. ukrainian grant is part of

a deal to get food donations most in need. but sources say only a fraction of what was intended has reached africa. with almost half going to europe. we heard from an expert at the africa village initiative, who says nations on the continent are in dire need of wheat. you don't but such as no understanding that they are on the dock this time with the wheat from the u. k. and remember, this amount of the wheat dropped into the eastern europe for that matter. europe was this terms of prices and local production, largely in eastern europe. and that is a whole sense of having the south of the world whereby indirectly the arctic cultural sector is going to be largely lot in the damage. and then of course, be very much dependent on the supply from united states. if you follow up that top of the logic,

you're going to stand why the week is not any. got enough to stick to the object is di needs, you know, the prices are not good. they want to, they don't want to supply africa bits, not the primary target. primary target is to make the people dependent on the ultimate production from the united states. the climate change is obviously heavily impeding on africa. central insulting africa. and obviously, i think it's going to say no to the supply, but obviously under certain terms and conditions, we're not going to ask such, we're not going to go into the slavery because of this week. again, this is a very sensitive issue for africa as well. russia claims is conducted at precision attack, to take out ukrainian command personnel and the hearse on region this, but it released by the russian defense ministry shows the missile launch from worship. the ministry also claims up to 800 ukrainian soldiers have been killed in

recent, fighting with a number of artillery units destroyed. meanwhile, authorities in crimea, they are drawn a chat cause a massive blaze at an oil depot. video showed the inferno lining up the night sky, with thick black smoke billowing out of the facility in the city of service stobel on the black sea coast. the blaze has since been extinguished local officials, so there were no casualties. with sanchez rising on the front lines and ukraine, promising an eminent counter offensive. archie's moran garcia breaks down how high expectations in the west may not match the realities on the ground on a front line. that remains all but static ukraine. this week has suffered a series of painful blows in his own region, russian kamikaze drones were especially successful as 300 anti m miss r launches radars and other assets were struck all vital and irreplaceable.

a german supplied gepford anti air system whose job it is to keep you avi's away was also hit by a kamikaze drone. and there's been a tough week for ukraine. why? this is blackwood? everything is burning. this is hell. it's just hell here that still holds only about 10 percent of the ravaged city of back north the western suburbs and at tremendous cost. the logic was that the city had to be defended until kiev could launch its counter offensive. yet even ukrainian leaders have begun to down play, how successful that could be. the counter offensive should not be considered a decisive battle. a decisive battle is one that will lead to the complete liberation of ukrainian territories. this conclusion should be drawn at the end of the battle,

not at the beginning. this is in sharp contrast to what authorities claimed. just a month ago, the head of ukraine's military intelligence boosted that his country's troops would break through into russia's crimea by the end of spring, western media and politicians, even believe them. but behind the scenes nato generals, the teams hold few such illusions. in a rare admission, the polish chief of general staff essentially said and ye does have a mistake in view of the war. like as tucker, the perspective of the threat assessment is still a shocking surprise for many not because they do not understand it, but we have the awareness of the internal situation. we don't have enough ammo. the industry's not ready to send armaments to ukraine, and it's not ready to produce them enough. either. officials in kiev claim that preparations for the counter offensive,

or all but complete. the ukrainian military is waiting for the order to launch an attack. that fewer and fewer believe can live up to expectations for ad yes, the of our tea from la ganske region operations when launched in italy, calling for the country to hong weapons supplies to ukraine. the person behind and the finance says the ultimate goal is you get a rougher and not held on the issue to give people a chance to express their well something he claims they aren't able to do at present. but it all started with the observation that contrary to the wishes of the majority of italians, that is, according to all the poles, more than half of italians are against sending weapons to ukraine. while our government, the whole parliament in the opposition, are in favor of weapons deliveries. so now there is a rift between the people's will and what our representatives have decided. according to our constitution,

if the will of the people for some reason is not supported by legislative decisions, there is an instrument of voting in a referendum and referendums can be held to repeal the law. thus, there is a group of lawyers who have been working since last summer, and the possibility of using this tool to stop the supply of weapons to ukraine in general to any warren country in its title. we referred the 11th article of the constitution, which states the italy rejects war as a means of resolving international conflicts. this group of jurists has finalized the demands that are now ready to present clearly to the will of the people. but 1st, we must collect a fairly large number of signatures in 3 months, we need 500000 signatures. this campaign began on april 22nd. we set ourselves such a goal because our motivation is to end the war level. some of those who back the british and say they don't see i'm supplies to ukraine as the best uses state money or the right foreign policy approach for the country. daniel. this all the he no

longer own the slap it has to be sent to ukraine. this money spent by italy under purchase weapons could be used for something else, such as sprint nuclear war. and as the reason he's urging at i and politicians to insist on peace talks lead there. the idea that an increase in the supply of weapons would end the war, turned out to be dramatic. tragic and erroneous. we just want to achieve negotiations. that is, that at some point there will be a cease fire in negotiations will begin. we are very concerned that by increasing the level of confrontation against a nuclear power, with the aim of defeating it in a war, we are moving towards a 3rd world war which cannot be imagined as a solution to the problem. the generation from the cold war, no very well that the 3rd world war will be nucular. obviously no one wants this. we want to stop this run into the abyss which it seems, is being done in every possible way. we never hear about the negotiations, forgetting they have a basis on which to work. there are the minsk agreements that were accepted by

every one. that is the basis that has been from the very 1st day of the conflict. it is obvious that the path of uncontested advancement of a military solution was chosen. and so there have been no agreements for more than a year that you need to somehow apply pressure to return to them. it is absolutely unbelievable that they are prohibited by law. every conflict must be directed towards a solution. through negotiations. again, the idea of winning a war is clearly unrealistic. this will lead to a catastrophe, not only for ukraine, but for the whole of europe, the whole world as a whole, asia and for at least the west. north korea has warned against escalating nuclear tangents in the region after the u. s. and south korea declared a tougher military stance, including positioning, a nuclear. i'm submarine near the peninsula. young ng says it will increase its own defenses. in response, joe biden with excessive self confidence,

showed irresponsible courage without any calculation. this incident, which reaffirmed the hostile nature of their rulers and bellicose maniacs of washington and sol towards our state, gave us a clear answer. what should we do in the future? what should we consistently prepare for? the more madly the enemies cling to nuclear military exercises and the transfer of nuclear strategic weapons to the korean peninsula, the more our will of our republics right to self defense increases. those remarks came in response to the south korean president, 6 day trip to the u. s the 1st time and a dozen years, a leader from c o has visited washington. during his time there, the president addressed a joint session of congress and had meetings with both joe biden and the u. s. secretary of defense. meanwhile, thousands of south koreans had protested against us, nuclear weapons potentially being stationed in their country. they claim the move

will escalate the already 10 situation. i before talking about the issue of sovereignty, since nuclear armament itself in size conflicts between countries. i think you shouldn't have nuclear interests. i think it is a problem to give the united states to bring nuclear weapons in any way. what have kristen cover? i think this is a hasty decision. i also think that we should not possess nuclear weapons. how to say, i think it's humiliating. one sided diplomacy. i am anxious. there is of course, a fear that the regular deployment of strategic nuclear weapons can really cause something big to happen on the korean peninsula. our taste, arnold quarter has more on the south korean leaders visit to the u. s. and it's wider impact. let's make us nukes, look more threatening and bring over a nuclear submarine while you're at it. the united states will further enhance the regular visibility of strategic assets to the korean peninsula, as evidenced by the upcoming visit of

a u. s. nuclear ballistic missile submarine to the republic of korea. all the while . washington says pyongyang, as acting like it runs a nuclear rogue state. that you, presidents announced the establishment of a new nuclear consultative group to manage the threat to the non proliferation regime posed by the democratic people's republic of korea. i. yes, the nuclear non proliferation treaty, which the dpr k joined back in 1985. so the u. s. would stop threatening pyongyang with nuclear annihilation from south korea. lo and behold, the west never did stop pointing its nukes at the north, leaving it with only one option to leave the treaty and build its own nuclear weapons for deterrence. and just for daring to assert itself as a sovereign nation, the dpr k earned its place and america's axis of evil. north korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. while starving as

citizens states like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil arming to threaten the peace of the world, it must have taken some serious mental gymnastics for the us to come up with this narrative about north korea. but it's not the 1st time america's actually accused others of doing exactly what washington's done to them. take russia, a country that the u. s. has accused of launching a full assault on media freedom. let's begin. the kremlin is engaged in a full assault on media, freedom, access, information, and truth. no mention of the west sweeping ban of