the the, the west african eco was blocked orders the deployment of a stand by military force moving a potential intervention in these there one step closer. india passes a bill in parliament for appealing controversial submission laws stating back to colonial times. and senators, in america called for a cut to existing military aid to each of siding human rights concerns will stimulate, turning a blind eye to crimes taking place in ukraine. also has all the hopes and dreams of a whole community riding on this vast machine. as it actually takes up a spike near machine power up towards the cause. most russia head to the moon for the 1st time and almost half

a century as part of this and vicious lunar program for the coming years. the live from moscow, i'm rachel ruble, and this is our t international. our top story, this our, the west african block of echo was, has given the order to activate and deployed standby forces to deal with the unfolding situation in these air. in his area, military is that to respond to the move. the statement comes so the summit of the west african blocks leaders wrapped up in a bush a thursday, 2 weeks after the 2 in naomi. we spoke to local journalists to send a little on who says the echo was, announcement is being perceived by people in the chair as an empty threat. the committee of the chief of defense stuff to activate the aqua stand by force, with all its elements immediately order the deployment. one of the echo was done by

force to restore constitutional order in the republic of new jersey. the ned, but also new jersey, a new way to get into 5 pieces that are one blow one side uh which ease uh, which content is there continue like, uh, could be, would obviously need done. which part of the invasion for them to request troops and, and other say do we have countries and they combined the book, you know, for us so, and they gave me uh which uh the height and the agent. and then you jump, uh they or the lady telling me she had any, i mean to bring the desktop, but from the new or 32 of them use it from what we see yesterday, even in and even though it's 2 days this morning, people i'm not going something about the new she's in of uh, the request because they have way to be once you've done that, since we left the with nothing be paid me at the, from the it was to,

they said the most of them are saying that it's just a kind of intimidation, is it costs and we cannot, cannot to more insight as a country or to come by year's best with the new getting some, just a month has of that i'd be just to for that's the mean. it's already good news area and constitutional expert main, a car table car says the possible echo was intervention risk, triggering a crisis for the country and a wider african continent of the military intervention will lead to real chaos and provoke a catastrophe. we feel that each glass is under pressure now because of the interest of the african people, the people who represents eco, us are not in war, but in development. but the military intervention of around $50000.00 people risk is causing the kind of chaos that we have already seen in libya, a real or a complete disorder in west africa,

which will seriously hinder development. the armies of molly and burkina faso will not act as a mere observer. they made it clear that any intervention against any user would be considered an intervention against these 2 countries. other africans also hinted about their readiness to come to the aid of nature, is equal us sends its soldiers equal us risks, triggering a crisis and losing control over it. and their fears that other foreign forces in particular, france and the united states will take over. then these are in particular and this the whole region as a whole will come under fire, which will damage the development of africa. the whole continent is hostile to potential military intervention against the forest people in the world. in these year, we see this intervention as an attempt to so k us make this a hell ungovernable and create the conditions for exploitation of the regions of vast natural resources. in particular uranium. which is very important for the

french economy in energy, as well as oil and many other minerals that have not been discovered, but which we believe are available in this part of africa. and which may be important in the future. a quick recap of the rapidly evolving events and these, there 2 weeks ago, a who saw the military to pose the country's leader, stating it was descending into chaos under the former president who has been replaced by the commander of the presidential guards units and a new prime minister was also appointed since the uprising the nation has been hit with a slew of harsh measures from the u. s. u and some of its neighbors. but now former heads of state have appealed to echo, was to lift the restriction, stating they could have catastrophic consequences for the news area. and people were heard from locals, who said the country is driving for independence. this is liberty done by this situation. forces us to be energy autonomous. we want to move towards energy autonomy only struggle can liberate us and have a know me that's as well trained,

well grounded and disciplined. we, the people of needs here are not leaving. an echo was to the west african economic and monetary union were ready to us. you more responsibilities, ready to suffer? the consequences of what will happen is that we have to adapt as we are an independent people and we aspire to totally independence. this is the moment to make a sacrifice, even if it affects our lives, to adapt to the situation. friends benefited from new year. if we refer to history for bulbs, out of 5 in front, are produced with uranium from each year. we have the support of bradley countries such as molly book and i'll do you and also russia, which will support us on see if i need you by the case on if it can not saying that the sanctions do not affect the lives of new rents, but your cottage, especially since molly working to foster and genie, i'll reverse it to limit the weights our people. meanwhile,

both france and the us have expressed to their full support for the west african blocks decisions on the new share issue with us secretary of state. and to me, blinking saying, washington will hold the military responsible for the safety of the detained to government officials. we echoed the echo us condemnation of the illegal detention of president mohammed presume his family and members of the government as well as the unacceptable conditions under which they are being held and call for their immediate release. like aca was the united states will hold the council for the safe guard of the homeland accountable for the safety and security of president, resumed his family and detained members of the government. the west seems very concerned about these arrows to post the president mohammed by zoom, who was taken into custody by his very own presidential guard. the un secretary general is very concerned over the deplorable living conditions that new jersey and president presume and his family are reported to be living under as they continue to be arbitrarily detained by members of the presidential guard in these year. the

secretary general reiterates is concerned over the health and safety of the president in his family and once again calls for his immediate unconditional release and his reinstatement is head of state with respect to present. but soon we are greatly worried about his health and his personal safety and the personal safety of his family makes you wonder how bad those conditions really are though, considering by whom was able to ask the west for help. despite all this alleged abuse. nevertheless, the west's crocodile tears continued to flow as do their sanctions on the people of new share. the european union is working on its 1st package of sanctions as we speak, while the eco last block of western backed african nations was quick to launch its own. all with a rubber stamp from brussels. the risk is that we start running out of assistance materials to be able to help out people. i'm talking about simple things that are so life saving. some people will soon be feeling the pinch of this more than the 4300000 people we had planned on supporting through emergency humanitarian

assistance. we might see that number growing and growing fast. we're only seeing the tip of the sanctions iceberg. and yet the new jerry and people are already feeling the consequences. millions are dealing with black outs for hours at a time while the threats of foreign military intervention and terrorist attacks hang over the country. like a dark cloud on top of that, the flow of humanitarian aid into these areas. under serious threats, as the new military administration was forced to close the country's borders in preparation for a for an attack. but you would be in union reach rates. it's very clear calls for the full restoration without the late of the constitutional order and fully associates itself, with the declarations of echoes and its african and international partners. in this regard incarnation with the presence of the european council, i will continue this weekend. the many contacts already underway in order to achieve this result. we stand ready to support echo us upcoming decisions, including the adoption of sanctions, sanctions, and threats of an invasion

a playbook the west has used so many times. you think by now western leaders would know that it's not governments, but ordinary people that suffer the most under these policies. but maybe they do know that. and this was the plan all along with an estimated 8 trillion dollars lost in post $911.00 wars and the global south. and the latest episode of going underground option response the quizzes, former ca, advisory board member, michael hamlin, on washington's misplaced priorities catch the full episode live tomorrow. in the meantime, here's a preview. the problem is you may agree with me, but at brown university estimate was 2 trillion dollars for the war. the last 4 and have can, has gone 8 trillion dollars of us public money that could have gone to save those americans that will be dying this year. because of poverty link disease, and you didn't want bite and to leave afghanistan,

you didn't want to obama to laser rack. you want to more money spend, but on these was way, really the americans would all welcome. as you talk 1st of all about the global south and i agree with your focus on that area. but as you know, that's a catch all term for many different regions. you're sitting in a region which as you know, better than i has been disheartened by american dis engagement for a period or perceived as i'm not sure about that either. the saturday embassy just opened into ron in the past. you know, a few days i'm, well i'm happy about that myself. so i don't see this all in narrow, you know, pro us pro china pro, sorry pro ron terms. i think that relationship should improved for the betterment of the region. but a lot of, most of the middle east experts scholars and diplomats that i interact with have regretted the rapid american disengagement from the broader middle east in afghanistan in 2021. we only had about 5000 u. s. military personnel on the ground that was not what was producing

a trillion dollar price tags. those were the price tags associated with the big difference of yesteryear of so yes, in afghanistan discussion is certainly worth having. and i understand the other point of view, but i did favor trying to preserve what modest amount of hopefulness there was still in afghanistan. and there wasn't a lot who certainly was more than other than that. so, i mean, clearly the americans were but what's for her? i mean, i guess why is it then? then when the americans leave, as you say, get more disengaged. the starts breaking out with syria, with the run. with the b starts breaking out in between the 0 period. every tray, a piece starts breaking out in latin america. wherever the united states just engages from peaceful is as you cranes and counter offensive fails to meet expectations, russia has launched one of its own. in the northern part of the front, las coast troops have advanced in the car have region to are the local stronghold,

city of coupons, and proving the tactical situation over the past 24 hours. could you be able to use an events coming up during hostilities and then could be honest with direction are small groups captured to strong holds 5 observation posts and defeated an infantry platoon. in addition, during one day, the enemy carried out 5 counter attacks which were successfully repelled crews of attack. helicopters ensued 25 jet aircraft from the western battalion, carried out 11 air strikes against accumulations of manpower and fire power of the 25th separate airborne brigade 14th separate mechanize to brigade and territorial defense units. so meanwhile, mandatory evacuations were declared in the city of cope beyond scanned the surrounding suburbs on tuesday after ukrainian forces lost 165 soldiers in the region, as well as a number of western supplied armored vehicles and artillery that's according to the

russian defense ministry. in the neighbouring at don bass region at 12 ukrainian attacks were also forwarded. and that's not all the hotel which was being utilized by care of as a temporary deployment point for foreign mercenaries was struck near the city of separation. and this footage, you can see the missile. for the past 20 for hours alone, ukraine's armed forces have been struck a total of $139.00 times. honestly, the white house has asked congress to approve $21000000000.00 of additional aid for ukraine. the majority of which is earmarked for the nation's failing town or offensive. all right, let's get more on this from r t contributor rachel marsden, who joins me now live. rachel, what can you tell us? what prompted this new request for aid?

so by dint asking for billions more in defense, a does what seems to be an endless mass of wealth transferring to the pockets of the u. s. military. industrial complex all for ukraine. of course. wait, wait. it might seem like a lot of cash to be spending, but what kind of horrible person would dare for the price on freedom and democracy? reminds me of a girl i knew in college, you had a boyfriend who insisted on driving them everywhere in his car, but he always made her pay for gas because he said, hey, i'm driving and you can't put a price on safety. who would do that? kind of like only a plan that hater would object to climate change spending, even though it's clearly pretty much useless in a recent interview with the washington post, the polish president's try to frame all of us spending on ukraine as a total bargain for the west. right now, russian imperialism can be stopped cheaply because american soldiers are not dying . but if we don't put a whole to russian aggression now, there will be heavy price to be paid. so yeah, such

a great deal that the west is getting right now. being able to use ukrainians is pretty much cannon fodder instead of americans. he's basically echoing what us secretary of state hillary clinton said last december, the u. s. h e u grant is a quote, really good investment for the united states. they're not asking it to be there to us to be there to fight there. were they freighting it themselves? she said, the former secretary of state that is for you. yes and senator lindsey graham also called the quote, best money we've ever spent referring to the agent that's given under the pretext of helping you train to the military industrial complex. you said that earlier this year set well russians a guy can do better than that. yeah, well ukrainians are 2 and it's not like it's some kind of a video game where you craniums art shooting at russians from behind the safety of a screen with lindsey graham by clinton and graham do know that if they had to send

americans to fight russians in ukraine, aside from the handful of volunteers who have answers always give call to go play up the rambles, fantasies over there on your own. well then the political cost would be just absolutely astronomical for them and they just might end up regime changing themselves right out of power because already americans, patients are starting to wear presents 55 percent of them. don't want congress to green light more weapons funding for your brain that's according to a new cnn, paul, and even poland. she is biggest cheerleader in the west and mets to seeing the writing on the wall with the current stalled state of the printing counter offensive. but they also frame it as a great opportunity to keep the western tax, their cash flowing into weapons. those ukraine has enough weapons to change the balance of the war and get the upper hand. the answer is probably no, they probably do not have enough weapons. and we know this is by the fact that they're not currently able to carry out

a very decisive control offensive against the russian military to make a long story short, they need more assistance that they need more assistance pulling. have a really good thing going there with this weapons funding rockets. they've been able to load themselves up with western weapons by crying about the big, scary russian monster like a kid. if he's running into his parents bedroom at night, demanding more protection hits been able to score abrams type, a battle demand system for patriot missiles, apache attack helicopters, find mobility, artillery, walk in systems and f 35 fighter. just not a bad deal. it's prime minister, pollings prime minister said back in april that they even wanted to set themselves up as uncle sam's basically their service garage in europe and produced toxic, depleted uranium for washington's abrams tanks. yeah, that sounds like it was a really great for the environment at the time when the you is even tracking down on towels for fear that they are killing the earth with their lots and lands and

waste worth of defense minister said back in june. the poland land army will be the strongest in europe in 2 years. i'll continue. so poland and washington both obviously have a deep interest in keeping this all sorted spending party over ukraine. going tossing gaps in cash. it's a wednesday, well, dances around on the world stage and distracts from the very sad reality behind this spectacle. right. are to contribute are rachel marston. thank you. and while washington and gives away tons of cash to ukraine, a group of us democrat, congress members, has joined an initiative to partially block military aid to egypt over human rights concerns. we are strongly concerned by reports from both the state department, as well as numerous credible human rights and civil society organizations about the persistent and considered systematic violations of human rights. in egypt,

we calling you to withhold the full $320000000.00 of fiscal year 2022 for and military financing. and to egypt, as human rights record significantly improves in light and july. a similar pushed by another group of us. lawmakers claimed that the adoption government made little progress and meeting numerous human rights related criteria. human rights advocates echoed such concerns and choosing the local authorities of dealing disciplines and suppressing media and the political freedoms. so they disagree that the solution is cutting the funding. the idea of reducing 8 over what seen as abuses has been on washington's radar for years as a annually allocates $1300000000.00 in military aid to egypt. under the current legislation about 300000000 of the so i'm is subject to certification. but the end of september being the deadline for making a decision on the budgets that dependent on his reportable if planning.

to give you a plan. yet another military aid package of $200000000.00 health troops and what some call of failing and counter offensive. the money is earmarked for him mars patriot systems and munitions for how it, sir, is among the few. all this takes place against the backdrop of the bite and administration's latest request to congress for an additional $21000000000.00 in emergency funding for key f. we spoke to a professor of political science at one university maga. both try to explain why washington is fine with helping ukraine and not so much with egypt. the you cream is a to the u. s. to american tools to implement u. s. foreign policy. at to contain russia to find special to dream russia, so they don't care about the human rights violations in the dream while at the session. other countries that do not applied

to the terms of united states. so they don't have to exercise pressure on ukraine. why? because the ukraine is fighting with the last 2 premium shortages uh for the american close. the egypt is not clean. the new bill was introduced to the indian parliament to overall the country. is that controversial sedition laws? which date back to colonial times, the nation's home minister, i mean shaw, says the outdated legislation should be scrapped in its entirety. the prime minister has vowed to end the mindset of slavery. we will bring 3 new laws in their place to ensure the protection of rights. it will end to give justice, not punishment. what 7 bills, what table during this session of the following month, the monsoon sessions, the indian fall, the ones that the highlight to really be the indian government wanting to do we,

we 3 british era criminal laws. so the india and b know code, the code of coming all the seals and the indian evidence act. all 3 will be done away with all 3 will be replaced and this bill essentially was stabled by the indian minister ahmed shot. now in march 2020, the government had basically found the committee to look into some of the new polls and why and how they can be changed. and this could with the basically works on these laws and these amendments for round to all yours. and last year or in said 2022. in fact, the committee supplemented a detailed and there are libraries reports to the government to ring via and made suggestions and amendments indeed criminal laws. now a lot of these suggestions that were collected, they would take to know from people across the lens and the rest of the country.

now the new legal thing was, i'm a child, sees in to provide justice. i'm not on this t saying that the british federal law is committed laws, essentially war to strengthen and protect the british administration. so that needs to change. the focus of the law has to be justice. i'm not fondest. when does what i'm a child that sees also, it's a complete overhaul of the blue meal era criminal laws. so this is going to include maximum punishment for crimes related to women and children and states. so for example, down rates, rates of my notes, also rise against the states, all those the in fact with the most things you know the punishment. so for example, death for re poles, my nose, twin tls for gas rates. also the colonial little animals of a controversial solutions all will be done. we, we, the,

it will now be called ending drink xfinity. so that's um, that's also important. and the focus sweety of the been the see crime against women children. but also the states and the proposed law also sees that those, the reading a risk in fact can be tried in the course. now in the absence, which is on the heart of both in india. but any point out here at this stage is, is a bill that has been moved and let me on the line that to be was the last day of the month and session of the fireman's. for this bill to be chief of the law, the government needs to the parliament needs to fall off the bill. and that's not only happen in the next session, the following, which is going to be the winter session. somewhere in october on the window, the russia head to the moon for the 1st time in nearly half

a century with an unmanned exploration vehicle known as luna. 25 to search for water on the moons at south pole, which could later be used for studies of outer space and remote planets. our correspondence, they both saw the historic launch as of a starch in the customer. jerome, in russia, as far east. a. it's a historic moment, so you're in la starchy and rushes, far east. it's 7000 kilometers east of moscow. and the whole community of scientists, engineers, and workers are waiting with a mixture of excitement and trepidations for the launch to begin of this vast. so used to rock it behind me. this machine weighs over 300 tons fully fueled as it is now. and it's carrying a payload of about $615.00 key to drums with the lander. of course, this is russia's a latest emission to the moon and the last one was in the 1976,

all the hopes and dreams of a whole community writing on this vast machine. as, as, as it actually takes up behind to say, re level, look, now this magnificent machine, power you up towards the cost cost. so or it's actually moving, it gets you to machine, re sent to space again as many, many hopes and dreams, years of technological expertise and work on it to this on a successful launch for russia. magnificent, the magnificent, the, i think the witness it's, it's really hard to find the words the roots of the currently in our mission date back the soviet times when the ussr was a world leader in that space. exploration. let's take a look at the predecessors of the latest russian learning mission,

marketing and the revival of the countries that moon program the the, the russian as far as the appraisers, the show me, somebody says that the, the

trying to touch the imagination of the latest achievement drugs meetings at around 300000 miles to us is breathtaking in this field raja is 1st again the number one topic of conversation the machine to actually pull out the

i mean style a boot assuming that that will you will not share my beach. the movie you the thing when it pushes in the summer rushes allies like india have already congratulated.