may sometimes in the the more details are much on the las vegas solely but truck last because this will be the suspect emailed to retired officer exposing us army war crimes, enough gamma song. also leaving behind notes. explaining is that he says, fellow, service members, veterans, and all americans, time to wake up. we are being led by we can speak with leadership when we start to enrich themselves. and african states taking major steps towards to independence. we take a closer look at the saw how regions efforts to expel weston troops in 2024. the

welcome to the new zone here and on to international, to dig into this sound without correspondence. i guess thanks very much for joining it as well. we're going to start now with some updates coming through on the las vegas car explosion. this is as the local police have now confirmed that the us army servicemen who was found dead inside the vehicle was likely suffering from p t . s. d. this is matthew live, wells fargo who designated the rented test, flood truck outside trump international hotel on new year's day, but also left behind 2 notes that explained his actions. there were a couple of pieces of content we thought were important to share for now. one is in the note application, he seemed to have 2 letters, one letter in particular. as you can see here, this is an excerpt from that letter. he says, fellow, service members, veterans, and all americans time to wake up. if we are being led by, we can speak with leadership while we start to enrich themselves. he goes on to explain a variety of other grievances and issues, some political,

some personal variety of other things, which we will do our best to release very quickly here. but then there's a 2nd letter where there's some more excerpts. so this one seems to be dated after the fact in that notes application. and then there, you can read us a couple of the experts. we are the united states of america, the best country people to ever exist. right now we are terminally ill and headed towards class. this was not a terrace attack as a wake up call. americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. what better way to get my point across and it's done with fireworks and explosives? why did i personally do it now? i need to close my mind, the brothers i've lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives. i took investigative steps have discovered, and information of the army indicates that he might be suffered from p t s d. although this incident is more public and more sensation. busy than usual, it alternately appears to be a tragic case of suicide involving a heavily decorated combat veteran who's struggling with p t s. d and other issues, almost all of revelations with it because it's not only the notes that we just

heard referring to. but there was also an e mail that matthew levels burger sent to a very popular a blog or a retired us army officer himself. his name sam shumate, who then went on the sean roy and show another a former soldier, also popular blogger, and both of them are popular in the veteran community. and he showed that email vetted as an image, matthew levels for good claims that he's been followed by the f b i because he has inside information on us for crimes as well as a legal program that the he claims is a threat to us national security and by that, he means the recent pro sizes and he refers to them as related propulsion, systems powered aircraft. only china and the u. s. can operate, he claims that the us have been operating them out throughout its history, but now china is doing it on their soil. and he says that it's a grave danger to us national security because of their speed, self,

unlimited payload. and the fact that they can park them anywhere on the east coast, including on the white house. again, of course, we can verify any of this information. but what is peculiar is what he says about his time and of got a son and the war crimes that they us committed that you want to read them and if you the email. yep. so this email came in on december 31st at 10 42 am. i have knowledge of this program and also for crimes that were covered up during air strikes and numerous province afghanistan in 2019 by the admin d o d d e a n c i a i conducted targeting for the strikes of over 125 buildings, 65 were struck because of sim cast that civilian casualties that killed hundreds of civilians in a single day. us for a continued strikes after spotting civilians on initial i, sr. it was supposed to take 6 minutes and scramble all aircraft and send com. the u

. n. basically called these war crimes, but the administration made them disappear. i was started that cover up with use us for an agent redacted of the d. e. a redacted commander at the time redacted can validate this. you need to elevate this to the media. so we avoid a world war because this is a mutually assured destruction situation. we know that in 2019 the was a us, as for like in southwestern of gattis done in may. in particular they claimed at the time that they were targeting drug producing factories. but that resulted in thousands of civilian casualties. and they, you, when did look and said like even mentions and in that email and that they said that it resulted in 39 civilian casualties including 14 children and one woman. and again, just because there was a drug for the some factory does not mean that the west has the power and authority to bomb until civilians there. this is what he brings up and i presume the guilt,

he feels as a soldier taking part to not. and he wanted the world to know that the west then went onto to cover it up. so again, pete's he is the or not, it doesn't necessarily mean that what he's saying our lives are that these are the words. so my uncle imagined because some things can be verified. there is more and more concern in the united states over veterans and violence related crimes. and there was even a study to suggest that veterans these days, martin vera veterans have it worse than previous generations. why they claim that there are 3 times more likely to suffer from peachy as the for example, because they are fighting lang sir. lang. see your battles are fighting. also an active combat zones. also single team use was like in of gunnison and a rock and actually those who come back from us got a son in iraq, a more likely to commit those violent crimes than those who fought in other words. and like, we don't match, the levels fargo was deployed to of down to south 3 times. and the study also

suggests those with multiple deployments have it worse. veterans are also the high i a solicit population in the united states for a suicide. and again, we know that 3 out of the 10, definitely a smash shootings in the united states were at the hands of veterans and there were reese and the tags as early as 2023. and i will of course, be updated with 2025. so there is concern also another concern that one more veterans joining the mess the extremist organizations. so this is the general picture and that's why there is more concern and these latest attacks will no doubt ad. so those concerns and again, was this man suffering from pizza? is the highly likely but does not mean we need so this regard what he's saying and those emails, not necessarily the well, the story regularly, so many questions. so let's stay with it and go live. now to inform us seeing your

security policy analyst, the pentagon, michael maloof, thanks very much for joining us all to you international. i just wanna stop by asking you about these emails that have been published. describing matthew live goes back as participation in a drone strike that killed a numerous asked and civilians back in 2019. i mean, we often suggest that the strong strikes which are being operated remotely. so if i don't have the same kind of shooing motions attached to them because it could be like using a computer game, but clearly does have an impact to me. how do these missions affect the soldiers that are involved? well, it's clear he has a the p t s d. when you're directly involved in something like this and you are killing people directly. it does have an impact on if you're engaged in more it's events, it comes back and fonts. i know i know this and it's, it's, um,

it's something that, uh, some people, most people can deal with, some cannot. and the fact that he was involved in the targeting and, and the actual showing, i think it to that, combined with the fact that he was home on leave, that he was having the miracle issues with his wife. and i understand that there was instability involved too. i don't know which side. i think it all just gained up on him and he just pulled the clock out. i mean, how common is this? obviously this is a, you know, a very now well known case as being picked to pop up when we looked at us back to and she was struggling with that mental health dr. returning say from i found the stone or rock for example. i mean, all they being offered enough support to and uh, according to uh, people who have gone through the program with the,

i know the answer is no. uh and, and how do you get this kind of uh, how do you know what's adequate or not adequate or the you have so many soldiers that are affected and, and, and the p t. s the creeps up on your overtime. i know with my father, for example, you didn't talk about world war 2 until 50 years later. and then and then uh and then it all started rolling. now. he held it back that long, that period of time it's, it's uh, everybody reacts differently. some are some to come to their uh, to, to what's happened and what they experienced most do not but, but universally, they're, they're the amount of care by the v a is just getting adequate to the overwhelming demand by the veterans that you're seeing today. who are required,

and it every individual salter with the blue of experience more will have some form of p t s the. okay, it's just the measure of the degree and the intensity and what they, what they experience. and obviously in this case the, the targeting civilians got to, uh, got to the soldier. yeah, clearly a huge issue. i just wanna talk briefly about one of the, of the things that i life was bug talks about being one of the reasons why he conducted this incident. and this is the us in china using cost. it's howard, he said by gravity function system is this is a feel free technology, and that's why we consider to be puny. hypothetical and, and he was linking this to the mysterious trends that have been cited across the us over the last few weeks. what to make of his claim here?

well, it's an interesting concept. i haven't seen any other evidence and i, i've, uh, i've never heard of it personally. and it isn't treating it. maybe there is a new technology out there. we don't know about it at least to the civilian world, and because there's the development going on all the time that we don't know about . i would tend to doubt that that, that, that those drum drums were that this case because otherwise the government would have had to come out and say, so they said they didn't even know what, what the drivers were over jersey. no released the eastern seaboard. but the drums clearly are being used, whether they're propelled by something exotic, i don't know. but clearly drones are a new warfare concept. they have altered the concept of in the, in the conduct of war. and,

and we're good and we've seen this in ukraine. worse, we're seeing that elsewhere and it will and there's hardly any defense to it. yeah, and that's one of the things it domestically, by the way, i think the united states needs to be concerned about in terms of dealing with terrorist attacks. chairs, you know, these, these are, these are not just little cave dwellers. these are people who are engineering, backgrounds, lawyers, they have professional backgrounds. and what i'm concerned about is that that's going to be the next level of uh, conduct by them. let's say it may i ask. yeah, the reason like we just saw in uh, in new orleans coming while i'm getting off subject a little bit, but the drone issue is clearly something that law enforcement is not prepared to deal with at this stage. well, i think be interesting to see how that email, perhaps, that probes to move us to so not, but thank you very much for your time. that's for my pentagon senior security policy unless michael maloof joining us. thank you.

well, breaking with its colonial pulse. now molly has chosen to rename some of this historic landmarks on the newly formed the lines the saw hill states. the government is hoping to remove any mention of from says colonial administration from public spaces. now this is a move that mirrors simulate initiatives that are being taking place in neighboring media and also in the key no faster any place names will affect the country. so when state is reaffirming ties to historical for some need is we've been hearing from some of the locals who have welcome those changes. i think the no news here are the different alliance of say, health states: presidents, abraham troll, or a see me going to and up dural home on a t on e. then they are all officers, captains, and general setup. when i came to visit this monument and i am very happy with,

i think, renaming this monument is a great initiative before we pass by this monument without really paying attention to it. but thanks to this name change, i can now come and visit it to the i, i believe it will become an attraction for everyone. it's a good thing about the, the, the fact that this monument was renamed and the name of b a. e. s. really touches me. it suits us perfectly before when this monument was called france africa summit, it bothered us a lot. that name didn't represent us. we are africans, and it should carry an african name. not that of the colonizers, the former leader didn't understand that. need to assemble that to that, but the idea is simple. we must 1st reclaim our history, honor our heroes, and reflect on our past. we are a country of culture and civilization, and empire and kings. yet the school teachers of colonial history, but never the true history of molly. our heroes are kings, are brave people. so many men and women who made this country great are ignored. it

is high time. we return to ourselves restored the true history and taught it in our schools or countries in the so hell region have been taking even more decisive steps to break away from the west. you've got several states that have shifted foreign military bases in 2024. last, these correspondent, new level you can get, has been taking a closer look at this for decades for administer bases and to accept and stepped to the cross fragile countries and regions in africa, from the horn to the great lakes. and from this the how to the gulf of guinea in the name of counter terrorism, and in reality, disrupting peaceful coexistence in these countries. and that's according to local thought of 2020 for number. winston really committed to basis and kicked out from civil applicant countries and recent weeks recently got these presidents pool

for the close of a freight submitted spaces in the country. comparisons also began withdrawing from chad updates. anita announced that he wants to be gone, but the french on the only ones reading epic. so you as submitted, she also completed its withdrawal from g, germany. its counting mine to 12 months to to soldiers from mon. also for you and peacekeeping mission was folded out of modern endings and living here prisons. fritz president, announced a significant deduction. he's an ivory coast no power was, was calling to move. and if it is laces which had to maintain a foothold in the house, had had also been long regarded as far as his number one allies in the region. some chad was the headquarters of operation for con fonts. his largest external looks of this and the 5th half a difficult khan into the 2014, some french forces were made. i'm the 8 by legible,

packed with paris is also in tad, with a come on state. so for french forces in this, the house has been base right now. chad says it's finding the liberty to sell from the taxes, fees and that disagreement has become obsolete completely obsolete. it no longer corresponded to the security geo political and strategic realities of our time, nor to our legitimate expectations regarding the full expression of our sovereignty . in the same way, it does not bring us any real added value on the military ground where we face alone, varied and serious challenges including terrorist attacks. the french military presence in chad is not based on a reciprocal basis. chad must no longer accept from others. what is not accepted by these others? this is the sacred principle of reciprocity. a nother seismic declaration that a sent shock waves the call the joseph loses. tom was cynical as president has to

bond to face chips pack up a need. make it clear that cynical is an independent sovereign nation. solvency is incompatible with the presence of a hard military base. best gunpowder as the french people could. you imagine seeing us in your country with tanks for military vehicles, with senegalese soldiers and stomach leads uniforms. that's what history has been like. france has been slaves last. the colonized and remains is a to stay. as process presence of this, a halt diminishes. mccrendon has attempted to recalibrate purposes approach to the region, including by attempting to address these countries. colonial biggest difference has been undermined by domestic backlash from fridge. right to this will be painful. memories remain deeply rooted in the collective consciousness of the countries. for mccullin's, of the breakdown of the biggest was in africa, seed as opposed to to see what happened to chad is tragic. 50 is a friendship,

has ended, the same would send a goal. it's a disaster for our foreign policy, and it's matt crumbs fault. he has endlessly shown his contempt for african lead is the same contempt he shows for the french, when he publicly reads morals to african leaders. during his trips, one can only have that kind of relationship. there are at most one or 2 states with which we maintain relations. so the new foreign ministers on noel barrow is on a tour of chad, ethiopia, and set a goal is very 1st few hours later. center goal announces that french troops must leave the country. chat announces the termination of defense agreements with france . no need for the evil russians. we can quietly shoot ourselves in the foot with such idiots in the government on the whole. so i, because one of the most friends of food, meaning it has to fix it into is a bus that has been strong resistance to what many local school a home for yoke. the country is becoming increasingly political,

large scale prison. so far it seems to be the $1893.00. some outside of the state. it is clear, the front is no longer need by the waste applicant comes. must come believes the upcoming withdrawal of the french contingent is evidence that it's no longer needed in ivory coast has authorities do not need the support support of foreign troops stationed there since $1893.00. this generally fits into the logic of the process has taken place in the francophone countries of west africa with populations are increasingly critical of the large scale presence of foreign troops. a similar vein to what happened in neighboring african countries following political changes in recent months and years. one of the key to mullens of the new government in which, you know, fossil of to drive in from out was to gain control of its own the sources and solving to. and from what i see so far, it has achieved that i'm more even liberate to lodge areas that was seized by till

the french army still leave the country. in fact, false as the president is introducing progressive reforms, the aim to eliminate the dominance of wisdom colonial powers. and he is showing as the african countries what must be done to protect african solvent. that's almost always your me to fighters will continue the mission to reclaim all the territory and revitalize our nation. the military will do everything to secure our wealth because that's what this is all about. we are victims of our wealth. these are riches that the imperialists wants to get back at any cost and, and for which they would keep us in slavery. we will preserve them on the ground and in the air, we will hunt down the enemies of the nation to the last frontier. several operations have already begun and will intensify. for good

evening music ceiling is useful. such is a widespread belief that foreign miniatures, especially american troops, have contributed to making matters worse as the country is having problem. and stuff pulls no punches and claiming that americans simply booted at the position is doing nothing. whatever was killed people and burn towns. some officials even cleared the u. s. military performance in the country. the american presence in the territory of the republic of knowledge is illegal. it violates all the constitutional and democratic rules which would require the sylvan people, notably through selected officials, to be consulted on the installation of a final on the, on its territory. to move to see the americans all to so just how much the world is changing as alternative ways to control and c'mon to have emerged. but mostly it is in line with appall routine. is it as given to find the case of wisdom, vehicle service you can my put on a roof warranty, you know, have macro and responded to the authority of this country need. it does not belong

to you need yet belongs to france. and it is not up to you to propose any solution whatsoever. it is macros, ignorance of history, just because he did not know that at the time when they were making their revolution. we had finished circum navigating the world nyja, the territory that we call nyja, had finished. so kam, navigating the world. and the territory that they called nyja had ceased to experiment with all social organizations in political times. and it is this country that macro and claims to be the exclusive property of france. it is within this framework that the prime minister's trip falls for show that niger is no one's property. anyone who thinks he has interest to defend denija, let him come and negotiate with us as equals with dignity. as of west africa, watson to not somalia say so, us intervention in the a country has lifted decided he was off somebody

a consistency wrenched mia at the bottom of butcher the full human to beautiful. this is from life expectancy in since we've had it since 1991. the country has been racked by civil war fields by you is support for various slides is a conflict. somebody is not suffering from one of the worst communicating trustees of the world with ramp and probity, and millions displaced now full suggest that the printer can you fundamental flaws with you as submitted to operations in the horn of africa. but none of the lease forced ahead, failing to address that having problems, dam this almost could have been written yesterday. i've known these problems have persisted throughout my career with the us government. but i didn't quite expect that this has been thoroughly studied by d o. d, with these issues conclusively identified and yet not addressed for 2 decades now. to make matches with some on the for a 22 percent increase in temper related 3 tendencies between, between city reaching a record high schools and 7000 digits. in fact, dates from

a sidewalk listed by more than 100000 christine, since the u is again, it's so cold warranty era. these find it as contradict claims by the parents of guns africa come on, that it is preventing terrorism on the continent and promoting security. and stability, many of the can save all the wisdom tooth, alms, and advise a scene to the continent, the name of counter terrorism. and the last 2 to yes, of only resulted in more close, more violence and table of as well the democratic republic of congo, where agriculture supports millions is facing off with your opinion. this is a new deforestation regulation. well, the easiest policy claims to protect local environments and gives up products it doesn't guarantee re for stage in a farm is in the congo has been our region saved, the regulation could ruin the livelihood channels of the local economy. exports

like coca all vital to rural communities, then grow as faith that new compliance costs and also potentially reduced access to markets would be disastrous. despite the benefit to sustainability is what locals have had to say about the challenges that these new rules would pose not to store that suddenly it's the same as residents of north cuba and congo. in general, we learned that the e u is suspending. purchases of our rural products. it breaks our hearts for me is a farmer and resident of any. it's a heart breaking because it surprises us and we didn't have access to our fields. but here we are in the middle of coco harvest season. and we have just returned to our fields and suddenly the european union suspends it's purchased this uh, it is becoming clear that it's a mastercard, or for a week and a farmer's suffering. and we are going to run out of places to bring our products because we are asking our politicians and the european union to urgently find

a solution to this problem so that farmers can see the benefits of their work on the fields were poorly d, c, c, o, ne, i'm going to need if we are saying that it is cocoa or coffee that causes deforestation. i think the european union has the wrong target. and when i say that the european union has the wrong target, it is because when we plant cocoa trees, we reforest 1st cocoa as such, is a reforestation process. now or more that i will fairly sound. so up k, y, do you see that the d r c alone plans to produce at least 3000000 tons of cocoa by 2030. that is already a broken dream. and if you go back to benny, most thousands of people have invested considerably in this cocoa cropping, which we turn so much to our population during their suffering from life difficulties and cocoa. so it was like a source of hope. this decision will ruin the grandiose dreams of the penny populations looks like this. this decision will reduce the income of those who invest in veney by

a large percentage. looking exclusively at benny from an agriculture perspective. i think it on a slide to well, i've, who needs a vase for you in around 30 minutes that they hope you can join this again the, the, the piano, the moon. but he keep bend the fun in campbell county in the republic of kansas. as we continue our conversations about the continent of africa with today,

focus on a subject that is very painful to wrap our minds around the conflict between the democratic republic of congo, underlined and in order to understand and appreciate that conflict, we must always go back to history, we must always remind ourselves that these conflicts that we encounter into the continent of africa as a result of the petition of the continent when a julia is come, brag in your area was a lie, and he was asked at one time about the problem in congo at that time, it was known as a he in the mind to these audience is that these

board does that. we.