as they would like to take their independence because they are part this thing against the lo, we'd sure me to the euro pen or french people sitting and you get it done. you have to vote in the next referendum concerning independence of and you probably don't you. but i think as a french citizen, i think they have a lot of help from problems and even the theme that the independence will be easy or official way that this thing that, that they will not, china will not try not to control them. i'm trying not, it's not the same story them phones. but this is just a my, my point of view on the inside describes is very d. i'm as you can see what state prison, my cro regarding the dissolution of the national that somebody you said that in the

case of the winning multi stream problems who go in to see the war on inside. but the guy just pointed out what the, what the independence and activists are, are standing there, not just stating that we want to be our own nation or own country. but economically, they've been hard hard because france has been subsidizing a lot of the, of the nickel industry. they're an indian visa is starting to dom and they have thought, meaning that it's not, you know, there's not a lot of economic benefit for funds to do so. but don't they have a necessity or right to, to help their overseas territory get through that? well, if i of the problem of the industry, it's not finished and actual issue. and of course, they need, they need some help on the they need the re bone of economy. but lots of being spent investment. what was dawn?

can you kind of turn up at the fridge states anyway? if you do you like, oh, you don't like uh, image or my boss present up. we from strive to develop a lot to new kind of doing. yeah. but in fact, um it's, it's a civilization war you'll have to can i swear the there for many years community centers and the phones will come just in the 19th century. could be c, like a call when you notice the power back inside the font size, always open their hands to the kind of arts. i'm know it's, it's starting, it's starting like a um its the floor which is not the, which is not the, which is not what i have to explain to you one where we're actually just the height of time. we're right up to the edge here for like, but we'll continue the conversation just to offer with a small moines a points to make to at. but for now, i live french attorney felipe dival from parse. thank you. thank you very much. now,

after working all here, those 2 weeks in the summer, leasing on the beach with many, many months. and the last thing you think about was some building are members of your family being killed. but that's what exactly happened to holiday makers will try me a last weekend when americans supplied ukrainian messiahs ring. don dots recap next and direct impact sticklers the the, everybody on bins one in for rick sanchez. there are just some of the stories we're talking about today a day like no other ukrainian forces strikes civilian areas of crimea with the power of american weaponry. so what does it mean?

we'll break it down for you. this is direct impact. the and we begin today in southern russia where ukraine launch strikes, sunday, targeting the city of stuff is still full. at least 4 people were killed, including 2 children over a $150.00 people were left injured. eye witnesses managed to record the moment when this showing for us to place many people simply enjoying the end of their weekend. you can listen as neighbor count the moments of the attack of the highest on the bottom. i was relaxing at a result when i had an explosion that a 2nd explosion understood something, flew into the building from the sky. i went out onto the balcony to see what was going on. everything was covered in smoke. people was screaming, i saw something full into the building. it was about the size of a bed. people were shouting your fire,

your fire from all the neighboring buildings from the residential complex. people around with everything they could to put out the flames to go into the we were at a hotel, we heard a siren and immediately began to gather. we ran for cover into a room. we had to run a long way. we heard a rumbles and then ran under a beam for protection. there is a part of this story that's so important to us as americans, because russian defense officials say those strikes were carried out using american attack in most missiles. it can only be operated by us, experts are reportedly all the flight coordinates need to be input by american specialists using american intelligence. let's bring them and have a chance to discuss this with us. manila, thanks for being here. so 1st of all, what's your take on this american missiles used over the weekend in crimea, as we mentioned before, multiple deaths over a 150 injuries to children. dad. where is the outrage from us media here? yeah, ben. what can you say except what a horrible tragic incident, right?

i mean there, there's no outrage, i would say, because the crime in peninsula has been part of the russian federation for about 10 years now. so western media outlets lack of coverage on the strike, tells you a couple of things. one, i would say this is a tacit admission that crimea is in fact, russian territory for as much as the west does not want to recognize the succession vote some you know, a decade ago. the media silence on this tells you that, pardon me, a is russian number 2, they actually viewed crime in as ukrainians. this will create a moral dilemma for them in that ukraine is killing ukrainian citizens like they were doing and don death. so despite key of saying, you know, re taking every inch of ukrainian soil back to it's early to thousands borders are, are part of the broader goal. 40 of the fact that they are willing to kill innocent

civilians in crimea actually underscore the whole reason those cry me and wanted to succeed in the 1st place then. yeah, i, i hear you when you say that and there is a dichotomy here, right? because certainly when you're talking about the fact that as you said, what we've been hearing now since 2014 is that crime media was given legally annexed by russia. it's actually ukranian and the ukrainians are really want to go was all of a collection. and it was a fake referendum and they didn't really want to lead life ukraine. and yet, these weren't military targets that were shelby's work, military installations that were hit, these are people who were on a beach who are getting hit during the showing and then also to your point as well . if this is in fact still ukrainians and it's still ukraine, you showed your own people. and so that's why i guess nobody really wants to talk about this story at all. but shift over though for 2nd here to the other war that the raging of course is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu, right? he seems to be contradicted the white house every week. i, there's a different back and forth here, but talking to reporters on sunday,

netanyahu said that there was no in didn't site for the boring casa, and the wording here is interesting, until her moss is completely wiped out exactly what that means. we'll talk about that in a 2nd. is a surprise. oh, dividing administration officials in recent days they said that netanyahu and his aides had reiterated their support for a proposal, even a ceasefire agreement, possibly at some point. well, now that yahoo was wanting that 11 on war could be next. listen to this. oh, sure. i love, i've seen should. i mean, how much, how much would it be staying intensive phase of the war with most is about to and then i mean, after the end of the incentive phase, we will have the option of transferred part of the forces to the north. and we will do that 1st and foremost, for defensive purposes. secondly, to return our residents home. if we can, we will do this in a political way. if not, we'll do it in a different way, but there's no, i'm not going to stop to work in the from us tact. i am prepared to make a partial deal. so it will return to us some of the people. but we are committed to

continuing the war after a pause in order to complete the goal of eliminating months. i mean the, so a couple of things are, 1st of all, how do they eliminate come off? when you listen to what the israelis are saying, what netanyahu says they seem to refer to every adult age male in gaza as part of from us at least they do every time there is a bomb in right. when they give you death, tolls and death counts which rarely happen when they do, they always list every mail who was killed as being a militant or part of from us. so does ultimately wiping out from off. mean you wipe out every adult age male and gaza to god, what a horrific thing to imagine. then that bet you just automatically sweep up whole entire populations into this one narrative into this one descriptor. but of course, anybody that is a reasonable sound mind would know that that is just not the case, but not. i mean, for the same reason that you don't go to afghanistan and say every, you know, male,

that's age, 131415 years old. what they would call of military fighting age? is a taliban come back? right? but words the terrorist coming, they didn't do that, right? so those are the tactic as you know right now, right now it gives you the numbers out of afghanistan in the rack for years. every time any adult age male was killed, they would say they're an enemy combatant. that's how we refer to them. that's right. now is what caused them, how boss, right? but we just say they're in search of drawing and to be combat. and i feel like israel's actually learned this from us foreign policy. oh, well, absolutely. i mean, but, but, but let's, let's be clear. i don't think the us is actually in charge of what's happening right now in gaza. i mean, just this weekend you'll have go on showed up here in washington dc. so no, no fanfare out on the streets of course. but you'll have gone is not here to ask for anything bad. he's here to make demands and to notify us officials of

israel's plans. right. which i would say at this point seems to be that of expanding the conflict into southern 11 on which at that point, i guess you're going to say all lebanese males age 15 and over our enemy combatants as well. and there has bola, you know, but this expansion then, it can get very dicey. given that just this weekend. french officials have actually indicated that they will assist the lebanese armed forces, the l. a. f in defending the borders 11. not now. this is not to say that france will back his ball law rather sending troops in a to assist official government forces of lebanon and anonymous, french official, actually speaking to uh, breaking, defend, stop. com. this weekend said that the point government forces to the border could actually tap down the tensions there because they say neither israel nor has bowl. i want to trigger this wider conflict by killing government forces. now that was

a quote. so france could actually spoil israel's designs and expanding this war into 11 on. but then that puts the us in a sticky situation given, you know, france is america's oldest allied. but if we're gonna continue to apply the u. s. rules of who an enemy combatant is on the battlefield. well, this is a, i would say the start of world war 3 bad it's, it's, it does not bode well. it all, we're gonna talk country much more of what's happening with israel and gaza as well . uh and how much is it coming up in the next segment before you go with them? and then what i want to talk about this other story, cuz you and i work together now for 10 years, we're talking about this before the show started, right? there are few stories that are more up our alley than this one. us secretary said anthony, blinking is announcing a new state department partnership with youtube music. oh yes. according to a press release, it's all part of an effort to further the united states has elevated commitment to

use music to promote peace and democracy. again, you can make this stuff up promoting democracy through music. manila, as i said, we've talked about this kind of stuff for years. this is just clearly just a form or a form. it's just blatant propaganda, but it ties into this democracy if the music plays the fine. a. well 1st man i got to ask, is this music plan like a bunch of clips, a blinking playing guitar, maybe from his so called you know, in prompt to concert in tea of last month. just kidding. i hope i hope and pray to god about the i forgot that he is a, a would be one of the musician, but go ahead yet. maybe he's getting a contract then i mean, to be fair. condi rice. as we recall, the bush era secretary of state is a classical pianists and has also displayed her skills before the press pool. but, but seriously, this is another exercise in american soft power. the state department long before

tony blink and actually said, put in there actually had pre existing music diplomacy programs in place. harnessing american musicians from every genre to travel around the world, travel abroad, engaged directly with the locals. think of it as sort of a goodwill ambassador role, but with guitars on, on the surface level, i think this is a wonderful initiative because music really is the great unifier. it transcends language, borders, culture, culture is political ideology. but when it's examined in the current context of all the geopolitical hotspots around the world, this really serves as an attempt to repair america's ugly image overseas as the purveyor of war and destruction. and you can bet that youtube and its parent company, alphabet, who obviously owns google. sure. will aid the state department's efforts to advance this goal. but at the end of the way, if you ask if you have any random. yeah,

many ben or any right half down or any north korean if they prefer to have leading ga, ga, giving them a free concert or to have the us stop bombing them through proxies or have the us and sanctions against their countries which are driving their people the famine, yeah, i can guarantee you, they will always pick the ladder. i think you're much nicer about it than i would be. i see it much less about the kind of music that goes out much more about what's not allowed to go out. because as soon as a government entity, like the state department does a deal with youtube music, they're basically saying we're going to give you enough money to let you, let us control what's allowed on this plot. yeah, it happens all over the place, especially which i'm going to be asked me blinking answer if we can do that all year around the 247. but i bet you will be minimal and thanks for being here. appreciate it. you got it. all right, when we come back, we're going to talk to someone who has been on the ground covering the hers and gaza shifting back to that story. it's

a pretty incredible one. we're going to hear about her experience, and we're also going to get her take on the current tensions breaking out on the northern borders of israel right now. stay tune will be right back the the, and welcome back to direct impact. time been swan in for rick sanchez. we want to go back to the story we were talking about in the previous segment, talking about israel's more on garza and how it continues to spread across the region. so we do that, we're bringing in. got you, francis. she is

a lovely is journalist and a veteran war correspondent who was reported from cause syria, iraq, and human. she's currently the host of the west asia pop host of india is w i o in news and she joins us now. got you. thank you so much for being here. thank you for having me then a. so let's talk 1st of all about what's happening in the middle east right now. it's such a massive story and it's very complex, much more complex. i would argue that most people in the west and certainly in the united states think that it is. it's not just about garza but let's talk 1st of all about israel's northern border breakdown for us. what's been happening in the past week or so between israel and has bullock, could we see a wrap up the conflict? there may be even open war between those 2 parts as well and everything. now we are in month number 8 of this ongoing massacre and the besiege that has a strip of tightest time. now the way we are like and looking at the news and breaking news is very different. and had that warning from israel come in the

1st month, we would have been surprised or really attentive or worried and it actually did then. it does not the 1st time that israel warns or threatens that it would bump 11 on or it would slots and be route. we have seen these kinds of threats from all kinds of officials of his really official since day one. this the beginning of this started data to uh, from the club in on has opened or has block named it as such. so it is not new for us here. another non to listen to threats coming from the is read the side. and this is not where we actually get the news, the amount of returns that hezbollah has proven. whether it's in the past 8 months or in the past, decades in this war with the occupation with the is there a be occupational or southern doesn't on. and also on different occasions and the conflicts at 11, we don't really look at the threat that comes from is,

is reeves we know exactly to the parents, but the lebanese resilience and resistance has so okay, these are, these would love to floss enabled this was there a trip to us, 5040 years and even 50 years ago as loving these people. it does nothing you. what is new is that for the, for the change our people to day have the ability to say, if you strike us, we would strike you. if you strike over the airports, we have the ability of the capacity to reciprocate just equally as destructive is. let me ask you to is that, is that true? 101011. on strike back with the same kind of for all city that israel construct them. if we look back at the past 8 months, then it's actually very different and really unprecedented. and in terms of military exchange between hezbollah and the is reeves, the amount of is really supplements that have been blocked in the northern area is

new. the amount of is really settlers that have flipped there, so they're really good stuff. and this is new, the precision of the targets, the amount of technology and a i, and the actual a stay you'd of the item do. all these are unprecedented and that the war and then that's drunk. and also what's happened thought speak with has with which is new and the latest and it's making everybody ask once again about 11 on and the northern is really strong, is that there was strong, but it's released by as well as episode one. it's not on the everything and the strong for good showed they have a drone. that is the be capable of flying over that haifa locating targets very important and strategic targets and sitting and coming back safely without being intercepted. this shows on the question of the, the ability to strike and hezbollah and it's boss and, and it's this,

let's talk about this portfolio. yeah. it's, it's identity is it never does this kind of bluffing in, in war. that's right. a and on the contrary is really do it. so if i had the bed before everything is really said they will strike made with that'd be able to unit by now let me ask the question, the cause of entity. yeah. in terms of credibility but, but the northern border of israel isn't just a credibility issue with has bola, it also could also bring iran into this complex as well. correct? ok. well this is, this is one of the many points while we're all trying to analyze, okay, will it be a full blown or, or not run? we say it's not the 1st time that these really dressing us and there's nothing new in that to what can the is raise actually do? what can they actually when they couldn't even remember they'd come us in the besieged trip that they control even the amount of calorie intake boot capital? i'm talking about because the extent today says this moment 10 minutes ago there

was breaking news that the resistance is i because i was able to talk or to but it's on the 8th or to, to supplicate. and we're talking about hezbollah. hezbollah is in military, i think it says the strongest military group and the what and the west asia. this has been proven in the seed in war. this has been proven and the needs, the tenants and 2006, and that was decades ago. we are speaking about a very big capacity also because, and this is what you just mentioned then in your question, because hezbollah is not as drowned that as the people in because in terms of the alliance, when you are touching has been law, you are touching the rockies, you are touching the romans, you are searching the syrians. it's not going to be a, it's an open ended war. let's call it like that one that's it seems like it's a very different is what you're describing, a very different situation, right? door to door combat in gaza, going into gaza and bombing targets as has been the case for the last 8 months and,

and battling a mostly civilian population in gaza is very different. you're saying then taking on his bullet directly, especially if it was just those bullet. that's one story. but again, we're talking about the uranium is becoming involved. and that becomes a very different story because you're not talking anymore about just trying to flush out a small group like come off, we're talking about an actual nation state war, which again of a very different story. but let me ask you this. the us obviously is all over the map. it seems like they say that they're in support of israel. the us government says, you know where with israel no matter what, then yahoo still is supposed to be coming in. and speaking here before joint session of congress, they're still trying to get the details of all that worked out. when given, when that happens, at what point does the us start to walk this back and say, but we don't want to be dragged into another middle eastern war. you know, people throw around the term world war 3 an awful lot these days. the u. s. is obviously running a proxy war in ukraine right now. can they also be funding and operating the proxy war through israel in the middle east?

if it turn for the americans, they will then be something called israel occupying palestine. they are then, it is an american war in our nation. it's the american war analogy didn't, has always been like that. we're talking about the american, the munitions. we're talking about, the american backing and details. we're talking about the american protection and the ice. you see what, what is left to do that the americans haven't done in order to protect them as they continue a certified genocide. how can this be more american of award? well, what can the americans do? they are providing the plays. they're providing the munitions, they're providing the coverage. i mean, well, and certainly these are for a lot of sense to send in marines to kill us while they actually been there have been reports that says there are american people on the down. so i mean, there's nothing to be done and the report done, the reports coming out of the, the hostages being free just last week or 2 weeks ago. those reports indicate that

it was american military that was on the ground for that it came from the, the gaza aide peer. right. which was supposed to be issue mandatory in a year. there's, there's video from the israeli side that shows that there was military there including us and as rarely, military, they loaded up humanitarian aid trucks and then drove them in and, and there were a lot of witnesses on the pallets and the inside and gaza, who said that these were americans, these were not, is really soldiers. these were americans who were part of the so i, i agree with your point that the us is much more involved then it's pretending it's pertaining it's not very involved is kind of taking out a stand offish position. that's certainly not the case. the question though is at what point is israel and we'll, we'll give a pause here guys, if you want to come back on camera as, as guide. you mentioned, she's 11 on internet. there's is typically spotty there. she has at what point does because will have to come to the table with some kind of negotiation because it seems as if a lot of of the international support for this, which was based upon the october 7th. the tax is waning at this point,

or is it not? well, then there's a lot to say about everything you just stated. first of all, when we speak a box spring, the hostages, the data, the, they feed the hostages, they can equally as much hostages. the way we are covering the news, the way the world is talking about and paraphrasing the news is really, sir that, that the stage, these really have killed more hostages than the ones they have. 3 in that operation that says correct. the way we to the end on that day and then let me is our, for our listeners, for our listeners who don't know they freed for hostages, they said, but the reports are they killed for hostages, including one who had american citizenship. but go ahead as well. exactly, so this when reinstating these facts, just to say that the american media, the mainstream media of the world that is always aligned with american foreign

policy, is just orchestra. i think this whole thing trying to find a way out that nothing now actually did something out of this bloody mess. it could ongoing genocide. ok. they feed for hostages, they connect for hostages as well, and just like just dated. so basically on the down, the way we are accepting the news and like parents are basing this news is not put anybody after that. if we want to see the story for, if you want to talk about the story is really, is actually can as the many reports today, many of the, the is really media cover that and now the building media are starting to get to the, the in life in lightning information that according to the 100 blocks on october 7th, is really skilled their own. okay, so as to the whole way, we are competing this war is not accurate. and the whole way that the americans are trying to find ways out in the politics and then the media for nothing else just

says ok, i delivered something i 3, some hostages. i was able to eliminate, come us know the operation is done. i think nobody knew nobody, even even the people who are throw palestine forever, 3 found a star. we did not even think or uh like, i know lives that there is this, this would go on for 8 months straight is such a destructive world. we are talking about tons of munitions being used as big as a new kid, a bomb and the has so, and then they are after each month being able to their, their hands made a massage, a being able to reach is really supplements and the cities. so i think these are, these are stuck, nathaniel is stuck and the americans for the, oh good for the for the is really good. they are trying to step back in a way with the, with the least possible kind of human, the ation for the is where use, okay. like there was 3 targets,

3 of the hostages illuminating how much and the like securing that has uh then as a strip the area not today they did not do anything of old out. they are still after 8 months they did not see older hostages. they did not eliminate come us and they did not secure, they did not to stop the danger. so they are trying to find a way out the americans to find a way out for the israel is nothing else. it certainly sounds like got a francis. we could talk about this all afternoon. unfortunately, we're out of time for today, but we will have to have you back. thank you so much. thank you. then. thank you. all right, that is our shell. remember to always look outside your own box because true to don't live in boxes and bins one. i'll see you next time the

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