it is an indian gone, said colonel richard dogs, a veteran of the bloody and vicious indian wars cynically the indigenous population was simply exterminated us army general phillips sheridan express the evidence of this policy in the infamous words, the only good india is that dead. indeed. the genocide of native americans of north america lead to a demographic catastrophe. the exact number of deaths is still unknown, but the number of victims is in millions. having been a majority on the continent before the indigenous people make up less than 3 percent of the us population today, the, the process president confirms moscow has struck a ukrainian military intelligence headquarters adding that russia will consider further retaliatory measures on pm's thrown attack on last out the patient

gives washington the cold shoulder as china is minister of national defense denies of pentagons request for a closed door meet the west supports of genocide. that's the start statement process. foreign minister has made on the web role in the ukraine conflict as a tour of africa continues with storage, visit to the east african nation of borough, the just after 7 pm here in the russian, russian capital. and you're watching r t international by your host donald quarter. welcome to the approach. we start with our top story. russia has struck a ukrainian military intelligence headquarters in kia for, according to the russian president vladimir put of the russian armed forces, striking the territory of your brain even with high precision, long range weapons,

specifically at military infrastructure facilities. and we have already talked about the possibility of striking headquarters where decisions are made, of course, which of these categories really includes the headquarters of the military intelligence of the brain to us head 2 or 3 days ago, which the president of today stated that this conflict has actually started a very long time ago in gun boss and that russia has been nothing but come to aid. those people that have long been discriminated against by the ukrainian regime. he has also touched upon the lives of nato, expanding eastwards, as well as a lion to stay true to a peaceful resolution. he talked about ukraine being a neutral state for a very long time now, but gradually, a line with nato becoming a lead by the west. and choosing a path of flies and terrorism. and here's more of what he had to say on that you've received, has chosen and fast attempting to intimidate russia,

intimidates russian citizens with attacks on residential buildings. this is a clear sign of terrorist activity. i am concerned about attempts to provoke retaliatory measures from russia. they provoke us to cheapen seats for tat response . we'll consider what to do about it. he has also touched briefly on the 2014 quote at that. and however, since then, anybody though was trying to normalize relations with russia was simply eliminated . now the situation has escalated to drone attacks. and while russia targets military infrastructure in ukraine cube is targeting residential buildings in the russian and capital, which is a provocation to have russia react the similar way. now the president has also talked about russia, voicing concerns over the misuse of that burrows you a nuclear power plant. but the only thing russia has received in return is blame.

now, earlier, one of the ukrainian presidents advisors said that you have had no direct involvement in the attack on moscow. but it was happy to watch and predicts an increase in attacks. it appears that drones were disabled by electronic weapons before going off course. and heading to apartment blocks and moscow. emergency services are working at the effected sites that have partly evacuated, at least one of the buildings that were hit. your area has been cordoned off by police as well. and according to moscow's mayor, no casualties had been reported. we spoke with a local at the site premier smith of like who and usually the school. so many people, it is an expected, as they believe that most goes well protected. people like me, we understand that this might happen. we were ready, but it caused find it, can you? i'm a journalist myself. i also people and they said that everything is normal and they don't panic, but that's what i don't understand how not to because for me it's terrifying. everything that's happening is terrifying. you pretty much, of course,

you go with the text this morning on, must go with a drones equipped with explosive warheads demonstrate the disregard that has been shown now by keywords in this serious escalation of its attacks on moscow. these where is your average domestic drone that a child or a finally, with flying to park these kite significant warheads and locally, were shut down and destroyed by the russian army? of course, nobody was impacted by this attack today, luckily, but as you can see behind me, this building was hit by debris we believe from one of the drones which was destroyed up the very base so that you can see there's a child's playground. and this morning, as these attacks took place, it was ordinary families who were potentially going to be the victims of this indiscriminate and desperate terrorist attack on moscow. i mean, while maintenance workers have been examining the damage near the top of a high rise building hit by a new avi,

we spoke about the attacks with sonya of on demand. she's an independent dutch journalist who says, she doesn't want to take responsibility for its own action. grade is always denying any attack last time when there was in the tank on the kremlin ukrainian defense ministry alexia basically call. so the drug, that's it all the kremlin, that they know for sure not a tech to go see surgery. you know, let's try for normal relations with russia, so they don't need russian lands. he said this, he said in an interview in the germany to come india, but yeah, yeah, they haven't been attacking now the kremlin and they are attacking a residential area. so i mean, they are moving themselves to terrorism. of course they will not blame their own country down those years that they do this because when i do that then a i was actually in

a states and aggression where we can say and now they are saying no, we didn't do it. so it's just terry's, maybe they will come up later on with the explanation. who knows? i don't know, it could be that those groups who are at the border which they call that number for you mentioned sort of, they want to learn right. question and decided consist of, of russians, maybe they, this is an explanation that they gave, of course, because when they say we did it, well, what i say it's an advantage. the question is, uh, yeah, actually you can say to the x a war ukrainian president vladimir, is the lensky is to be investigated for treason after a court in kia have reportedly ordered a pre trial pro that's according to a member of the ukrainian parliament. so let me remind you that the ukraine state bureau of investigation refused to investigate zalinski trees. and when he had pointed f, s p ages to key positions. and the ukranian secret service is about as we've

ordered by the court to enter information into the registry. and start a pre trial the investigation they must reveal who paid them and how much for these appointments. because it was these appointments that lead to the death of tens of thousands of ukrainians will not allow these trade just to escape responsibility. the grave crimes against the cranium people. apparently vladimir zalinski is not the only one facing criminal charges. similar investigations have reportedly been launched against his closest political allies, such as his chief of staff. just last year, the lensky himself launched his own political clean up campaign by firing the country's prosecutor general and the head of the security services. the may, the high number of cases of suspected the reset, the drum by law enforcement officials. but to get more on this story now we're going to cross live to human rights and labor rights lawyer, dan koala cruz. also the author of the plot to escape go russia. dan, it's always a pleasure having you on the program. the 1st question i want to ask you is

basically, what do you make of these claims coming from the ukranian politician that it's likely that the president could be pro for treason? well, it doesn't surprise me. you know, right now you crane is losing this war is just lost the key city about more. and what is happening is of the leaders ever turning on each other. it is the actual basis for the claims of treason, same bizarre to me. i don't really take them seriously, but the more important thing is it shows that there are leaders in the that of loss confidence. and so once he's leadership and they want to get rid of, i think that is the, the big take home here. what do you make of the timing of this investigation because it's certainly not the 1st time the problem of corruption has been highlighted in key of so why now? well again, i think because things are going very badly in the war. i do think it does coincide

with the defeat in baltimore and all so you know, they claim they were going to launch this counter offensive, which you know is not yet. com or if it has. com, it hasn't worked. so i think they're looking for someone to blame and now they're looking for their head zone. let's see, to blame and you know, these days possibly could be numbered in office there. well, what kind of consequences do you think a charge of state trees and what have for zalinski and ukraine as well as on his image in the west, where obviously he's often glorified as a fighter for democracy. i think you knew crane obviously could mean he's arrested and, and jailed maybe put a for a firing squad. i mean that app happens to people commit treason, especially during war time in the west. i don't think it changes anything at this point. um, you know, i think for a while his reputation in the west is probably pretty solid because they've built

a month for so long. though at some point i think it will wither here in the west as well. neighbor implants, our mind, we talked about some of the potential reasons for why is such a charge would be brought against a lensky, but zalinski himself also fired several top officials and key of because of again, suspicions of treason. what do you make of that? was that just a political move, or was there something more behind that? do you think? again, i do think it's a political move. i again it what it shows is there's a that the leadership is falling apart. the unity of the leadership is falling apart. they're turning on each other and this is what happens when you're losing, you know, um i, again, i think that's what's happening here. and i think it shows that this government may fall what we take its place. god only knows, but it looks like the government there, he's following the board. what, what's interesting is that this claim by the ukraine, by this ukrainian politician,

it hasn't raised much attention in the western media at least for now. why do you think that is to? well, because the west, there's a lot of, you know, pay attention to those sorts of things because obviously the west wants there. and when i say the west, i mean the governments of the west want their populations to continue funding the war. and in order to do that, they have to believe the words winnable. and if you know what the basis for that is at least for them to believe that the government and key of is unified and doing a good job. they do not want to focus on facts which may lead them to think while we're back in the wrong or here, you know, they're going to fall apart. so they're, they're going to ignore this as long as they can. all right, then come all like human rights and labor rights lawyer as well as the author of the plots escape gold rush. so thanks again for joining us on the program. always a pleasure. thank you very much. the access denied

beijing's ministry of defense has given the pentagram, the pentagon, the cold shoulder denying a request to hold a private meeting on the sidelines of an upcoming security for him in singapore. here's the statement given by the us defense department to the wall street journal . overnight the p r c informed us that they have declined. our early may invitation for secretary austin to meet with p r. c. administer of national defense, lee, shank, food and singapore. this week, the department believe strongly in the importance of maintaining open lines of military to military communication between washington and beaching, to assure the competition does not veer into conflict. now for a little background on base things, decision the by the administration last week upheld sanctions on the chinese defense minister himself lee shang full. these are sanctions that donald trump had initially put in place for the officials. role in china. purchasing russian missiles and fighter jets back in 2018. and this projection also

comes at a time when us lawmakers have published a controversial list of actions to be taken to prepare taiwan for so called peace by arming the nation. the u. s. congressional committee focused on the chinese communist party has released a list of 10, so called recommendations, aims to preserve peace and stability in the taiwan strait. number one is the manufacturing and supplying of more long range missiles to the endo pacific region . and this comes as us stinger missiles arrived in taiwan earlier in the week as part of an aide package promised by washington, chinese foreign ministry, spokes person, mountain and condemned the move as extremely wrong and dangerous make was shown the us provision of weapons to taiwan gravely. violates the free china us joint communiques, especially the august 17 communicate. so you can interferes in china's internal affairs harms china's sovereignty and security and trust and undermines peace and

stability across the street. this is extremely wrong and dangerous. china strongly deplores and firmly rejects this and has made serious day march has got to the us from how to we discuss the situation with i in our time getting. he's a senior fellow at the tie. he institute the think tank who agrees that washington is playing a dangerous game. this is political posturing um, in but the binding administration knew that they needed to remove that sanction that the sanction was actually meaningless. there was no reason to do that other than they did not want the meeting to occur. so it, it's clearly pastoring this trying to put this case forward that to us is somehow being reasonable and then it's china being unreasonable when it's the exact reverse . this is a common play by the us currently to accuse others of what they're doing themselves . you know, this is juncture, you know, there's not much china can do if they don't feel that there's any point to these

meetings or that the u. s. as in being sincere that, but that is a problem you have to nuclear nations at loggerheads and you know, this is adding to the uncertainty in the world. so at this juncture, i wish the white house was going for with some effort. instead of trying to cause more uncertainty to create more trust, you know, there's this effort to use proxies and obviously enticing a more or basing knowing that going into ukraine.