and the breaking news from zimbabwe as the country expels the usaid mission and supporting the us state department, the palos and more sanctions. the us post on the country is that government officials at least 5 people dead in gaza. city the result of care shoot, drops of humanitarian aid, a move made necessary by the as fairly blockade of border crossing all to a head. one thing was quite clear though. president fighting hasn't. he's touched us. republican lawmakers slammed joe biden. the state of the union address, which he kicked off by focusing on ukraine, instead of burning issues on the home from the

rachel ruble live in moscow. you're watching artsy international, zimbabwe and authorities have expelled admission of the us agency for international development from the country. the us department of state confirmed the news washington recently impose sanctions on the country's government officials for a moving a number of restrictions from an extensive list imposed over the past 2 decades. are to correspond to another who you can get has more. we understand that the united states has sensors and buffers. vision gimme some non gaap wash. it's 1st lady, and as a government official, the need is within the government and that side for the later, it involves meeting corruption and human rights abuses a non golf. while the president is accused of protecting gold and a diamond mattress who operate is above which direct to government official to facilitate the sale of golden dime is in enlisted markets and taking bribes and exchange for she's um, services among other offenses. and among other things,

and all of that has no need to be present off the united states to sign and executive board of the team. and then bob was national emergency and we both as involved with specific sanctions. and right now we've just got a hold of a statement issued by the united states, stating that the last 2 months as involved with the change and deported officials from the united states who were in the country to conduct an assessment of governance and democratic reforms that be not, could stay save. this was unjustified and unacceptable, but also the, please. the office has had his homes to respond to these allegations. and this is what they had to say. and bob way takes great exception to gratuitous slander and defamatory remarks by officials of the bite and administration against the sanctions. and bob weigh leadership and it's nationals. what adds to the outrage is that these bald and damaging accusations are not backed by any type of evidence we

condemn. these militia statements has completely uncalled for as defamatory, provocative and as a continuation of one to in hostilities against him. by way, by the us government, the statement states as well that the government offices and bible has said that it wants to pursue international re engagement and democratic reforms that it's a x is undermine those claims. however, according to the united states, it was supposed to be important is that the census the which will block in the u. s . based property and block any i'm official to travel to the united states. if you place a border to decade or census program against them, but we have what is also very much astounding. is that a, be all of this, the disturbing facts that wisdom countries for all the political brilliance have yet to come to terms with the fact that there will be no reversal of the land reform? and we said to him in program, which is of course, this falls off of this whole predicament and results of the imposition of these i'm

sense, is that because if you talking about u as in bob, i enter a sanction movement found over 10 months in your r a says the recent restrictions imposed by washington are an attempt to make an example out of this. and by the way, the sections of a foot find a prison called like needs key actually and a c c that was started in russia. of those we just put to say, face the americans did look want to look like they are being forced by a small little country to remove the sanctions. those sanctions can be challenged in court because the nation and for those 1011 individuals, we couch those be individuals, people with forced to try. so i believe that they'll send you the put the american to save face so that they don't look like a single hour. that is be forced to remove attention by a 3rd world small country where some countries never used to consider the applicants is equal flatness. they never even considered the applicant as human beings. as the united states could impose sanctions on civilians and collectively

published yes, the international, you know, and the human rights know that they, the americans and europeans created even before i took a look into spending, stated the collective punishment. people by persecution, of united healthcare education or sanctioning institutions that provide service to human beings was always a crime against humanity. at least 5 palestinians were killed during a failed humanitarian. a drop in the north of the enclave. footage. it shows the aid being distributed by air as people flee the scene. failing power shoots are believed to be behind the accidents or drops that become widespread in gaza. and it is rarely a blockade at border crossings, blocking trucks with humanitarian deliveries. we spoke on the phone, the journalists are criminal, satari, and ross of who told us more during the government and they just didn't argue to

leave a statement stating that they will not the ones who are in charge of that. i'm the, i'm not just went to them for the, for those jobs to turn to the lead time. there must be probably on the or some story behind that. and they should also be held accountable for doing that. i think organizing the entry of the players and to the patient. and the space is much more complicated than just allowing the correct answer from the whole. but it just seems to be continuing whatever it's doing. and the measurement community seems to be very late to hold them accountable for the 3, but i think that's it multiple. thank you. pay me to commit them to accept one regular and safe way to deliver the food and the water and the like 30 to apply to the people to products. so the international community is coming up with different grants and different approaches. and yet they are treated by the patient, but there's lots of sundays, all called working for any of the initiatives. besides that, i'm still going to have to be temporary and who's suffering is exaggerated by that

is a need to jump single thing atlanta to try and go get people. i mean tall g, a palestinian pediatrician says a to milly waiting for both palestinians and the us to be choosing to air drop aid, instead of forcing israel to open existing ground. the core doors. if you look at the border crossings, you will have hundreds of trucks seen with humanitarian aids, awaiting the admission of the biggest in the army to get through. and people are really dying from hung up and got so we have no explanation. and city there might have states it's, it's a suggesting to drop the humanitarian aid from these guys from the plains, which is very humiliating. not only for the palestinians, it's very illuminating for the us. the president might then be unable to,

to make, to get at, at a reasonable, so use and simply by asking, is there any dog in the bought that crossings and left even many that in a which has been binding up at the board about it for, for the for a few months now, it is a shame ax, ready for the civilized countries to allow such situation. to happen. to as israel blocks humanitarian deliveries via the roof of crossing and the bars, the besieged enclave. the children's death toll has surpassed 12000 with the most vulnerable newborns and especially premature babies. most at risk. many have to share incubators and extreme shortages of equipment and medicines. and does children of the enclave have also started to die from now. nutrition was mothers

frequently given birth to underway babies. this we don't want to, as we've noticed that since december there might be these over normal weight. most of them are from $2.00 to $2.00 and a half kilograms. we have stop seeing babies waiting 3 kilogram since october, as there is no nutrition for mothers. no me milk eggs, fruit or vegetables that beautiful and um, so that and the mom who lost her son due to mel nutrition due to the circumstances were going through in gaza. we live in a school inside of 3 meet or 10 right in front of the toilet. what are you expecting for a sick child living in such conditions? how can he get better carpeted? meanwhile, a new maritime route for 8 deliveries to palestine has been announced by the european commission in partnership with the us and u, a. e. the new court or will links the island of cyprus and does it. but has been criticized as an attempt to divert attention from israel's consistent blocking of assistance to the starved enclave. we know the difficulties faced at the land borders in ga,

that'd be it through the roof of border crossing all through the jordan road. how are you doing? and that is why 2 days the republic of cyprus, the european commission, the united arab emirates, and the united states, of course, supported by other critical partners, announced our intent to open the maritime, carried on to deliver much needed additional amounts of humanitarian assistance. bye. see, the cypress is the closest you member state the guys that was ships able to reach palestinian soil from the islands in around 10 hours. the pilot operation was launched on friday with the you expecting the court or to be fully open by sunday. the us initiated project intends to build a temporary port in gaza, president by them promise the plan will not involve any american boots on the ground. tonight, i'm directing us military to lead and merge the mission to establish

a temporary peer and the mediterranean on the coast of gaza. i can receive large shipments, trying to water medicine, a temporary shelven. no us boots will be on the ground, a temporary peer to enable a massive increase the amount of mandatory assistance. getting you guys every day. israel has officially welcome to the western maritime rid initiative and as foreign ministry spokesman says it will boost humanitarian aid deliveries. but he added that it will be implemented only after a close a security check, according to is rarely standards. and the british foreign secretary underlined that it can take months to fully set up the plans. the court or protocol analysts will lead, say, um, says the chances are high, the new maritime rule will be, will aggravate the state of palestinians rather than improve it. and that's uh, the $1000000.00 question. how can such caught it or avoid what has been happening before? and there are 7 crossings that is it,

and have direct control of for 6 of them. if we want to exclude that of both, which is directly connected with kind of thing as an addictions alone. so it would be more, it would be more easy and more feasible to make sure that this a breach is causing this. but well, throughout most 6 crossings the the ground and it could be done with, is it a aly supervision? i see it must think of the them if i've listed this done done to improve and enhance, basically publish the image of the americans that europeans can days, the eighty's as one. and it is unlikely to be faxed because on the ground. because even if somebody cent credit is established, that's the easiest part. the difficult part would be once the age reaches the soil or the shore, how would the distribution be conducted? and who is going to be responsible for that. and there is a kind of thing in the field from such a matter of time, according to that, it could be used eventually as it out to task,

but it's kind of stands into cypress would buy uh that is it a alia goals that has been, uh, numerous, it has, it has been because normally the science of uh, getting creative cousins displacing to them for the is at 80. so the substance casa ahead of the us presidents annual state of the union address. on thursday evening several 100 protesters blocked jo biden's motorcade as it made his way from the white house to congress. demonstrators are demanding hands off gaza. the footage shows protestors unfurling a massive palestinian flag near the capital. demonstrators lined the street from the white house to the capital building, holding signs depicting biden's face and reading genocide jo and waving banners. same to face. 1 in the fight and like a sea is set aside, capital police forces surrounded the peaceful, proud to uphold for

a cease fire and an end to the as really occupation of gaza. in the speech itself, president biden was expected to focus on domestic issues like inflation and the border crisis, as well as the war in the middle east. but he unexpectedly kicked off his address with a nod to ukraine. the more i go home, the

if we stay with ukraine and provide the, the freight is asking, the

must be honest. the threat to democracy must be defended. the by this message has been praised by his allies, the former house speaker, nancy pelosi says the speech was a master's law. the president joe biden state of the union address was a master class, vigorously presenting his bold vision of progress and possibilities for all of america's families. if you look at it objectively, it seems that you know, the big concern here is joe, by his cognitive capability. this is always going to be about, you know, how he said things and how you perform much more than what he actually said. it seems that this was deployed, you know,

a choreographed attempt to my job. i'm look fresh as sharp as a pin. that he was bouncing through the crowd high fiving people like some and then a flight or a pop star. there was a little bit of cringed with. a more interesting is how the pro joe media feel like reported on this incredible performance. he's almost a teenager. the guy is, you know, fresh as a daisy, the presence delivered him. he delivered huge tonight. i mean, the just me energy, the vision. he was fired up, he was shouting, he was angry. and anger sometimes has a way of looking energetic. any really leaned into that, everybody knows if this was a great space, jo, by them delivered what has been described in the past so far as, as the price, the fiery heated supreme crunch rep, i'm sorry. so you can see, you know, you'd be forgiven for thinking that this message was sort of, you know, let's, let's make sure everyone thinks on this is great. joe isn't 81 years old. it doesn't have any problems. remembering things and never confuse the egyptians. and

he is rarely seen those. what date is he knows what we can just making. you know, it's confusing, it's an image of disbelieving what you're actually seeing and thinking yourself. and so how do you see this media coverage? is it an attempt to convince people that biden's fits a says yeah, well it seems that i'm particularly again, as i say in the pro jo media, there's a lot of correlation in the messaging here. we had people like at tucker carlson at watching this following it in great detail the minute by minute in a live sort of recount. and we've also had americans taking to social media up to the on to twitter to suggest this car is completely out of touch with reality for ordinary americans. there's a lot of problems in the united states. 40000000 people living in poverty, families are struggling to get their bills paid. people are struggling to pay their rent as well. so let's have a look at poker carlson's response and you got to say she holds a dozen whole back and gives them both barrels in this. and it's quite quite a tool for sponsoring took across if that was possibly the darkest. most american

speech ever given by an american president think it wasn't a speech. it was a rant, entirely lacking in decency or generosity to his fellow americans. button quickly explained that actually as top priority has nothing to do with america's top priority is sending billions more to ukraine, not ending the invasion of our own country by drug cartels not are degrading economy. you experience every day that are collapsing schools. there's no explanation of what the goal is here. there's a lie after lie to button doesn't care. there was no upside for you in any of the things that he said, this was the republican response to the address being like, well, it's been predictably, almost angry in its response. i mean, the republicans have suggested that light is a completely out of touch. mr. trump, of course, came out and said that this was the angriest, most bad humored state of the union address in history that may be the angriest,

least compassionate and worst state of the union speech ever made. was an embarrassment to our country. like so many families across america. my husband, wesley, and i just watch president biden state of the union address from our living room. and what we saw was the performance of a permanent politician who has actually been in office for longer than i've been alive. the one thing was quite clear though, president biden chess doesn't get it. he's out of touch quite cycling. this a smiling lady delivering the rebuttal of speech on usual. but suppose to take away nicky from a bite with speeches just as if the only good thing about the speech really was, i mean, he didn't mentioned you in ukraine in the speech 1st. the 1st thing you mentioned the speech with you kind of course, which is also telling about the volume administrations priorities when it comes to the united states. if you find comes 1st, if the only thing boy had to do is not fall off a stage,

not forget somebody's name, not make a catastrophic mistake as he's doing and many, many other forms of this. and pretty important american speech. if that was the only thing that it was, the real success here is that he didn't make a complete fool myself in many ways. at that says a lot about the state of us politics. us talk show host and commentators, steve malls berg told ortiz, you know, neil that joe biden didn't look or sound presidential during his, you know, speech. first of all, he started the speech about 18 minutes late, but he also did something else. at the beginning, he jumped the gun, usually the speaker of the house who sits behind him. during this speech with the vice president, the speaker of the house announce is officially ladies and gentlemen, the president the united states, and they apply it again and then he starts his speech. there was no announcement because the president didn't wait for him to be announced. yeah, ukraine was the, the opening at topic it is an election. your leaders tend to talk tough at doing

that on the ukraine war. i suppose it's good territory for that. what do you think americans were listening in and not stephen, just thinking of who is the only minute? is this the state of the union address in care of or in washington were shocked that he started basically with ukraine, with everything that's going on in the country. when you look at poll after poll after poll of what topics, what issues are most important to voters in all the states that have bought it in the primaries? you had it, right. it's immigration, it's inflation, it's the economy. and it starts with, with ukraine. it was definitely a campaign speech without a doubt, he was combative and, and you know, when he finally got to immigration, 40 minutes into the speech, 40 minutes, the number one issue in america right now, any way to 40 minutes to get to with the guts of 6 months out or so from the

election. no. will this speech willis have help to his re election at shawn says or by dent of, of donald trump at not being mentioned by the incumbent leader? can he just sit back and watch his numbers rise even even more? know the reference them 13 times or more from what i gather. but he never mentioned in by name book. the media is already saying, wow, funny. this shows he, his age is not an issue. he has the stamina. it was funny. did you tell he was combative. it could do it. wow. that's like, you know what? it's march the beginning of march. we got to go to november. a lot of stuff is going to happen to donald trump, to joe biden, to this country, to the world. and i don't think when push comes to shove, this is going to make that much of a difference. the julian massage has been made

a martyr to free speech despite not having stolen any state secrets as the opinion of eleanor. so it's a former harvard law school professor who has represented both assange and donald trump entire interview with option or time see and going on a ground errors on archie this saturday. here's a quick preview. it's hard to use the injustice department of trying to get julian assigned to the united states despite the opposition of all. uh, john lewis all around the world, the australian government, the german government, i understand that you defended daniel's bugs the late den. elizabeth is being on this program, i think is worse than the 1970s given what's happening to julian assigned his health as he was tortured in britain, according to the un, special are up to it is much worse. i was one of the lawyers on the pentagon papers case, and there at least people were treated with the degree of decency assigned has really been made a horrible martyr to free speech. and i'm honored to have been part of the is legal

defense team. and if he has extra guides from united states, i hope i can help him avoid prosecution. i think he has a strong case. remember he's off the one who stole any secrets like daniel ellsberg did. he's more like to new york times. he publish them and the new york times wasn't even prosecuted galesburg was, but eventually the case was one. but i don't think our son should be prosecuted for publishing material that other people provided to have. the real question is, will we be confined pending a resolution by the grand jury and he's been to find far too long. already i met him in england before he was confined and he seemed to be in far better health and spirits. then he was after he went into the x during the embassy and then confined, and he's likely to we can find in the united states. and that would be too bad. i mean, he comes as close to being a political prisoner as we have had in a long time in the united states. and so again,

i've represented many political prisoners in, in my life ranging from nelson mandela to not tundra, for ascii and ammonia, to continue to defend political prisoners of, of, of every stripe and background against the pressure of government persecution. the of your current in security services. have rated the house 7 orthodox christian cleric after he openly called kids notorious. as of for dade members, nazis authorities have accused metropolitan arched priest, forest bronski, of a spreading, quote, rushing propaganda. and the kremlin at narrative. russia has drawn attention to the case calling at the latest in a string of crackdowns by yeah, of and economical, ukrainian orthodox church. that does as a pre sub interested over the past 2 years, including the, including the leader of cubans, oldest monastery. that ukrainian problem is now preparing a built band, the traditional church and replaced it with

a sensibly politically backed organization known as the orthodox church of ukraine . my colleague, michael quietly got reaction from dublin bass. the journalist jason michael, who compared kids correct down on the church to the actions of an authority as 20th century regime in the whole, what does this say about the state of the country itself? it says that it's modeling model buttons and very similar to the process that we saw happen in the some device in germany, in the 19 se, an effort to buy the state, to suppress commandeer at corrupt, uncontrolled with church. as in an, as an independent voice of critique of the state. this we have seen happen again here in ukraine with an effort to fill classical roles and possessions in the church with right when extreme nationalist noises on. yes,

the evidence is there. i'm hoping there for a very long time that the, as all the in particular has demonstrated extreme right wing leanings on the is a duty. it's a model obligation of the church to speak truth and to condemn this as an extremely dangerous ideology. we are seeing very similar things happen in palestine at the moment. we see some of the most historic churches in the world being destroyed by our united states all lie in the middle east. i'm religion and religious institutions, particularly when the co opted by the state has become strategic and assets to west of the military power, which has shown itself to be quite aggressive, an expansionist it, and the actually part of the, the 21st century. i'll be back with much more news and about 30 minutes. stay with us here on our to international the

the, [000:00:00;00] the hello and welcome to cross talk. we're all things are considered. i'm peter live out. the by ministration has words and only words and contradictory words. at that when it comes to a cease fire, we are told a must interguards that at the same time arm slow into israel to hinder the same aid, the

cross talking palestine. i'm joined by my guess, lionel in new york. he is a legal in media analyst, and in london we have a real consent that he is the founder of a k consulting and a foreign affairs analyst, or a gentleman, cross talk rules and effect. that means he can jump any time you want, and i always appreciate line and let me go to you 1st. so you've been very kind to be my 1st chair for a many months now. that's how long this conflict has been going on. it's not really a conflict is really kind of one sided. it's a military against civilians, at least that's how i read it. the civilians, mostly women and children. my question to you a line or are you surprised that joe biden is accomplished with? no other presidents in american history has been able to achieve. he is basically essentially got the entire world to have loathing for the united states for its in action and action actions when it comes to gaza. your thoughts, my friend? well, a couple of things. first i, i told you that before that my,