the revelations come as relations between france and mali plunge further.ssociate fellow at the royal united services institute. thank you for joining us, live from oxford in the u.k. i want to ask you, france was part of a protracted disinformation campaign against its forces, what is russia trying to achieve with the smear campaign? >> russia's soft power and influence in mali is partially predicated on the fact it is not france, so not a colonial power. ever since august 2020, t russians have been fanning the flames of anti-french sentiments, including claims that the french are trying to steal resources or engaging in the poisoning of civilians, and now escalating with the french killing civilians and carrying out massacres, so this has been two years in the making, and ever since the start of operations in 2013. anchor: is this disinformation campaign working? are we seeing a wave of anti-french sentiment on the ground because of this? >> i think there is a wave of anti-french sentiment, and that is what the russians are tapping into. it is not pro-rus

there is also very little information about operations in mali. most of the information we have comes from government sources. there are some local corporations of this, but again, details are thin, photographic and video evidence is quite thin. so it is quite difficult to say. now, the timeline given by the million government as for when this massacre was discovered, from se twitter accoun thatsts are believed to be trolls, that doesn't quite line up. it is clear that there was some confusion i think on the malian government decide about the order of events here, but we certainly don't know the full story. >> we have an announcement concerning mali. molly has upheld its decision to block broadcaster france 24 at radio france international. our parent company is strongly contesting the decision, which has been in place since march 17. france 24 will continue to report the news in mali, the country of interest to the whole of africa and the rest of the world, and we will put in place all possible technical solutions to help the people of mali to ac

they are now in mali and gathering strength. over 1,000 there now. have been doing is shining a spotlight on that with information operations and some public diplomacy and advising our african partners to try to steer clear of these groups. i think that they are not going to help our african partners. i think the government and the people of mali are going to regret inviting wagner into their country. >> as we speak, we have one military base in africa. in your opinion, do we need two? >> in my view, i don't believe we do need any other permanent u.s. installations. our presence and our activities there are is not dependent on permanent bases in africa. >> okay. thank you. general mckenzie, recently, we have seen several attempts to block weapons sales to saudis and uae and egypt. those attempts we know could severely weaken our influence. even president biden recognizes that and has changed his mind on some of these in the last year. what have the saudis and egyptians specifically requested that we haven't given them? >> senator, let me begin by say

the as we've seen, and it just happened now in mali, the mali government has asked the french forcesdepart and has instead invited in this russian pmc. i think that is disturbing. it's impacting our partnership with that same government as well, and i think that's not good for mali's future. >> what do you think the strategic goals that they might be advancing for russian leadership would be? what's the overall goal here? >> for vogner, they are guns for hire. they are a for-profit operation, and they are going to be extracting natural resources out of africa. we see this in all the countries they're located in, whether it's oil, gas, gold, diamonds, strategic minerals. that's what they're going to be going after and that's how they're probably going to earn their remittance. but what they're doing for the kremlin, though, is they're usurping their partnerships, they're displacing western influence, like france, for example, in mali. i think that's what they're trying to block us out and vogner is trying to make a profit while they're doing it. >> it sounds like they're being somewha

the thing is that these photos have nothing to do with that village it mali. look at the image search. it led us to various news articles dating back to 2020 reporting on the chadian army destroying boko haram basis, and how nigeria seized hundreds of weapons belonging to boko haram. so one situation that has nothing to do with another. far from it. on the second picture that we showed earlier right here. a google lens search led us to the original photo. you can do this by yourself at home by right clicking on your mouse to find any origin of any photo. the user retreated in photo from the official page of a security organizations page. but this caption says it is detailing a terrorist attack that took place in burkina faso. this generalist also posted this photo, discussing the terrorist attack, that hurt two soldiers. one detail we should point out is that most of this information comes from an anti-french and pro-russian group. for example in this photo that is out of context, you can see a russian flag in the caption. this is a common theme, as many prote

as we look across the world from cuba to mali to russia, authoritarians are crushing free speech, lysing technology to control their citizens, relying on mercenaries and illicit weapons to target civilians and topple governments. this is a confrontation between autocrats and those of us fighting for a rules-based international order, democracy, and human rights around the world. our diplomats and development professionals and our budget for these efforts, which we are examining, are our front lines in this fight. i'd like to take a moment to highlight some of our most pressing areas of concern. in europe, we must maintain absolute unity, as president biden has said, and i believe your recent trip to kyiv to show support for president volodymyr zelenskyy and the ukrainian people and to continue shining a light on russia's military brazen abusive civilians that certainly amount to war crimes was a critical display of that unity, and we salute you for the visit. more broadly, this means countering russian aggression with security assistance that aligns with our foreign policy, combating dis

. >> mali's armed forces are going to have to carry out decisions by themselves because the decisiono remove forces stems from the position of their authorities. from now on, the fight against terrorists will be their problem. >> these were thscenes two months ago, when the ruling class demanded that soldiers involved in an operation against islamist groups in africa's sahara region leave the country. they accuse them of being inefficient in tackling the insurgency. paris meanwhile has refused to work alongside russia's group which is been called upon by the ruling forces. both mali and russia deny that the organization is made up of mercenaries and say that they are in fact helping to train local troops. the ngo human rights launch is accused both russian troops of killing civilians in march and south of the country. russian equipment continues to arrive. to combat helicopters and surveillance radars were delivered this monday as ties strengthen between them and the kremlin. marc: who better to join us then kate moody. great to see you. international fund has/the forecast of global

early this week has accused russian mercenaries of staging burials in mali, claiming the actions are part of a smear campaign against them. video provided the associated press, allegedly shows around a dozen bodies being buried near an army base in northern molly. the soldiers invariably, to be members of the wagner group or russian mercenary contingent. and the french military claims is an attempt to discredit french operations in the country. the russian foreign ministry has called for a thorough investigation into the burial given the traditional tendency of the french media and often some european officials to blame other countries for all the sins. we can assume that some will be tempted to throw into the media space versions directed against the malia military who successes in clearing the terrorist threat from their republic has irritated paris, which failed to do so during the years of its presence in molly, we support the decision of the maryan authorities to thoroughly investigate the circumstances of the commission of this crime. we hope that the perpetrators will be ident

and also in mali, france has accused russian messen aries of creating a mass grave and falsely blame me on the french army. nicholas hock has more from neighbouring to car. in synagogue. we spoken to a french military officials and they say that there's a campaign of disinformation happening in molly, especially targeting the french army that are pulling out most recently, just last week. the french forces were pulling out of a base in go see, shortly after we saw on social media accusation of, of the presence of a mass grave there on the site. now, the french forces deny this. they've showed evidence drone footage, that they were not involved. the russian are pressing on, and according to this military official, he says make no mistake. there is a war being play, being played out, not on the battlefield on the ground, but on social media between the russians and western forces. and the french, specifically, in cotton, middle of this, is oversee the 1000000 people, more than a 1000000 displaced as these attacks continued to step up. the 1st verdict in one of several trials of myanmar

in an information war involving the russians and the west and caught in the middle or the people of mali. nicholas hawk al jazeera, a guardian man accused of carrying out killings for former president ya in 2000 and full has got on trial in germany. it's a law mal case for crimes committed during janice presidency as charlie angela reports. so baba, hi dora, this day should have come 18 years ago. the alleged killer of his father journalist data hydra finally on trial, not in the gambia where his murder took place. but in germany it's a significant moment, not just for a son, but for a country still healing up to more than 2 decades of often violent rule under president yaya. jamie well, so this is the day we've been waiting for for 18 years. so it's a big day for justice for my family and myself, we start this journey in 2004 for more. so this is the beginning of a long road law because law was just one of the year kingston road. there are others. and the most important one is ya. yar jana, who we hooked one day to see in front of a tribunal by lo, is accused of crimes against humanity

on the main stage of the state academic maly theater, the premiere of the play the marriage of the balsam based on the play by ostrovsky , by the way, is timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the writer's birth. the play balzaminov's marriage is on everyone's lips, but on theater posters is rare in the small theater decided to rectify the situation. and this is not the first time in moscow for a very long time this play was staged at the maly theater in the late seventies, and before that there was also a huge break for the audience. i missed the long-awaited meeting of this play with the audience. new staging. on the eve of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the author alexander ostrovsky, the best gift for the writer is to try again to woo his misha balzaminov, i'm in love with him, but i can't justify him. i'm alone. i have a beautiful wife and i probably way off topic. but play very convincingly the plot is not new, but for all time when you have a play here. i have already begun to study in more detail all the heroes and the matchmaker and mother and brides live in truly

first time this play has not been shown in moscow for a very long time, this play was shown at the malye that, too huge viewer break. i missed the long-awaited meeting of this play with the audience.

to the central academic theater of the soviet army for the post of director, then there will be the malyheater, the mayakovsky theater, he will put on dozens of brilliant performances, uncle vanya the lion king, my poor marat, of course, pavel the first with oleg borisov in the title role and the cherry orchard with smertunovsky it is almost impossible to find an extra ticket for a kheifis performance, so the decision to make a tv performance looks logical, we are tender. my beautiful garden my life heyfit showed russian classics from abroad to the audience the cherry orchard was applauded in poland and france turkey bulgaria the director said that this play had no limits for him and to stage it. it can be infinite. believe me. i live life and just as life changes. every time a new chekhov his interpretation of classical works. always featured one of the most romantic plays of the 20th century. ping bernard shaw for the director was not about love at all. what is my nir gentleman instead of the traditional story about cinderella the flower girl eliza turned into a lady, he showed the aud

caught in the middle are the people of mali. >> a gambian man accused of carrying out killings in 2004 has gone on trial in germany. a landmark case for crimes committed during the presidency. >> this day should have come 18 years ago. the alleged killer finally on trial. nowhere his murder took place. it is a significant moment not just for a son but for a country still healing after more than two decades of often violent rule and the president. >> this is a big day for justice . this is the beginning of a long road. there are others and the most important one that we -- >> accused of crimes against humanity and murdering two people. he is the first alleged member of the gang to go on trial. >> there were other proceedings around the world. in particular, we hope that this will boost efforts in gambia. question we regime was notorious for crushing dissent with murder , rape and castration. allowing a foreign country to prosecute crimes against humanity regardless of where they were committed. analysts say there is not only a lack of judicial resources to bring back justice but a lack

shuttle transport maly has changed since soviet times. the same travels through the streets of the city, all the same people pass on the passage. take, please, the fare is true, then it cost 15 kopecks. please. in the cabin of the minibus there is constant movement of people entering how to notice and remember three passengers? and yet the driver remembered. where are we going to see grandma? these two mentioned the train several times, for which they were afraid to be late, it became clear to look far beyond the borders of moscow mironov decided to unravel the mystery in the past of the popov family galina is too closed and careful not to find out the necessary information from her because her husband was smiling, the investigator decided to talk with viktor popov, but was surprised to learn the man left his sister in ryazan and he took it and went there. the investigator was puzzled at the man being kidnapped his only son, and he takes days off and goes to another city to visit. something here does not fit, whether the father went in th

. -- mali. the mission began nine years ago , berlin is yet to decide whether or not to extend the mission. france announced earlier this year that it will be pulling out its troops. boris johnson has been fined for preaching covid-19 regulations. police have been investigating several gatherings that government offices during lockdown in what has become known as the party gate scandal. opposition parties are calling for boris johnson to resign. the u.s. state of virginia has began hearing the defamation case brought by johnny depp against amber heard. he is suing his ex-wife for $50 million for allegedly damaging his reputation and career. back in 2018 she wrote a newspaper piece saying that she was a survivor of domestic abuse without naming her ex-husband. in the united states, the morning commute turn into the scene of a massive shooting today. at least 16 people were injured during the attack. no motive is known, yet for the shooting, the attacker is still on the loose. >> confusion and pan

putin has sent them to africa to kill people in mali and libya, and they have been on the donbas previously. they have a saying, these wagner thugs, these monsters, that our business is killing and business is good. this is sick. they rape women and girls and they kill for a living and, yes, now they're entering ukraine. sadly, madam speaker, i'm not sure bucha is the last we're going to see of this. and when the dust clears from mariupol', god knows -- mariupol', god knows what we're going to find there. when they talk about kremtory -- crematoriums to hide the bodies, so many bodies to be burned, this has to stop. we're standing together united as americans condemning this. and as a former federal prosecutor, yes, to indict mr. putin for his crimes against humanity. mr. putin thought his legacy after this fiasco was going to be reclaiming the glory of the empire. he will be known as great as the czars or maybe stalin. you know, maybe he is like stalin. his legacy is not going to be reclaiming the empire. his legacy is going to be that of a war criminal and that will impact his psyche. tha

number among hispanicsti and among 18 o 34 year olds, mali 21%.ow these are seismic findings as it relates to the democratic party currentlycurr constituted with its current set of beliefs and policies. i have never seen numbers that low in my adult life, period. it's particularly noteworthy because most polling firms have a bias that helps out democrats and inflates their numbers. these numbers are abysmally low but unsurprisingly so in somes regards it's actually surprising they and even lower given what the situation is in the country we are careeningn toward a recession and we're careening toward possibly a war with russia while our border is overrun and crime is surging. and it'sru true that this isf poresult of biden's policies. it'slicies b also true that thee really isn't any disagreementde in the democrat party at large about these policy approaches. you don't see people in the house or the senategr really disagreeing with president biden and this is going to be really quite the november givenp that you're not going toeo havee a you're no

i come from mali, but live in ivory coast. i have a little brother and sister. with my little brother and tease him. we're close. i tell him everything i like school, especially my new one. i feel good there because the teachers listen to me. on thursdays i have online classes which helps me improve my computer skills. i didn't have that before. in my free time i like to watch youtube videos, funny ones. or dance videos to dance and exercise to. what makes me sad in abidjan is seeing all the street kids. some have no family. others do, but live on the streets, since they have no home or money. what's gotten better is that there's more freedom to express yourself. my grandmother wasn't allowed to express herself or wear what she wanted to. but i can dress how i want and say what i think. host: that's all from us at “global 3000” this week. thanks for joining us. drop us a line at global3000@dw.com, and check us out on facebook, too -- dw global ideas. see you next time. take care. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible

short documentaries from african filmakers from mali and senegal.he adventures of bubacar and ladu, on al jazeera. ♪ maryam: ukraine's president has told the un security council that they should expel pressure or dissolve itself. zelenskyy said of the world is t to learn the full truth of russia's war crimes in his country. russia's ambassador denied allegations of war crimes. he repeated claims that the bodies on the street were not there when russian forces left the town. new satellite images taken of bucha show civilians were killed while it was under their control. several bodies can be seen on march 19 had russian forces withdrew at the end of march. the u.s. top general is saying the world is a more dangerous place because of the russian invasion of ukraine. general mark milley told members of congress that military action has raised the prospect of a bigger war between the two great nations. u.s. defense, lloyd austin, has promised to move more switchblade drones to ukraine. >> you will have that debate about what that topline number should b

potential deployment of french forces, potential new deployment, because france is now withdrawn from malidiscussions are ongoing about french involvement. that could become a factor of concern or of major interest in brussels, and also in ohter member states. overall we have to bear in mind that particularly if macron does not win the parliamentary majority, building consensus with the other parties and having good relations and working relations with parliament to get domestic agenda implemented will take a lot of presidential resources. and those are potentially resources that would be mission -- missing on the european level. so let's see how relations between macron and parliament go. let's see if the french, as they used to do, equip him with the parliamentary majority together. but i am currently not very optimistic that his party will have this majority. mohammed: thomas, it looked to me like you are reacting to some of what gesine was saying. did you want to jump in? thomas: respectfully, yes. if we look at the french parliamentarian elections, for the past two decades now, we've

um you could even think about what is happening now in mali every place the russians have been engaged. it has been a tactical game that's embedded into what we're now seeing is a much more largely nefarious strategy. and if we miss read vladimir putin for the past 15 or 20 years, why would we now start accepting a narrative that the kremlin is putting out around these sues when we see, you know, their definition of humanitarian corridor is not one that leads to the west and alleviate human suffering. it's one at leads to russia and leads to some version of incarceration camps or or nefarious questioning. so i do think that, you know, western intelligence services have been to the point up to this point, we should continue listening to them and heeding their advice, caroline, how do we stop misunderstanding vladimir putin? we start listening to him. we take him at his word vladimir putin was never hiding what he was actually thinking and if you look into his older speeches into his older texts, it's quite easy to see that this idea that that ukraine should be a part of russia. actually

on the polish border section ugryniv hrushiv smilnytsia ustylug on the slovak border crossing point malyeznyy on the hungarian border crossing point devinkov kosyno checkpoint list of medical-sheghini checkpoints where there were no queues but everyone goes here now at the customs checkpoint machine foreign license plates some there is already too much in the queue, but this car should be sent to the marines, and here i am standing here on the way home , volunteer bohdana is driving a car for the ukrainian military from germany in a long-distance the queues of people like her are a maximum of five, the rest are mostly overbuys, the woman is indignant that the cars are waiting at the front, at the same time, no one is giving up the queue, no matter how she asked, i understand that for some people there, some cars have been destroyed there, is there an injured person? what kind of justice will there be in this, the guys are waiting, unfortunately, the war seems to have ended in ukraine, at least for those who, well, they just cheered to improve their property status among those who transpo

with gazprom, any other options will cost more and threaten to increase fuel prices, the republic of malilargest french media and radio french boarding. united tv channel france 24 permanently excluded them from the lists of all distributors of audio visual programs with the wording of a violation of the rules. eight people died during riots at a cement plant in mexico a mass brawl began late at night a wave, violence quickly spread beyond the enterprise, at least 11 people were hospitalized with injuries new twitter owner elon musk celebrates the long-awaited deal, and, as if jokingly, threatens the largest american corporations in particular , announced that she would buy such a giant as coca -cola and will radically change the recipe for drinks. the central regions of russia were covered by a powerful arctic invasion, according to forecasts, heat will not return at least until the end of the week. this vadim zavodchenkov? it will not be colder in the european part of russia coming to the peak of the last arctic invasion of april. which regions of the country have already been covered w

there now in mali, africa, he will have all of the resources we have to cut off oil and gas sales. people wanted to give him a ladder, he is showing as this invasion continues. >> you think ukraine can win this. >> when we do something like this, with cameras, we all recognize there is a legacy, i wager everything. when that tape is played, the ukrainians are going to win, and but we are going to be doing is say how many lives will be lose to win that fight. that is the calculation right now. >> why do you think it's this that unifies the progressive side and conservatives? i talked about the differences, but there is also a lot of unity. why do you think it's this? >> as we talked earlier, it is commonly considered that there is little ambiguity to this conflict. the other thing that is significant that their skin is not brown and black. the shape of their eyes is not different from ours. what is significant and powerful about that is because of the lack of ambiguity of the mission, the mission for democracy, the fight for the freedom to dream, this can be the example that we can

here, maly dmitrovka to the mayakovsky tunnel will be completely blocked; this is just one of the closed, the movement of cars will also be suspended from sadovaya kudrinskaya street to novy arbat from krasnoproletarskaya to first tverskaya yamskoye from staraya basmanny to the new basmannaya and this new basmannaya to bolshaya spasskaya is also on taganskaya square and others from only half past five to seven o'clock in the evening. in connection with the rehearsals for the victory parade, traffic will be limited today at 17 sites at 17:30 and until the end of training. it will block traffic in ten more sections ; traffic on the large and small moskvoretsky bridges. swampy streets of the embankment and the square, let them block the holiday was to seek. yes, from 10:00 pm , you will also have to look for detour routes from bolshaya nikitskaya to tverskaya street from tverskaya to naryshkinsky passage and from malaya dmitrovka to tverskaya, half an hour after that, the large and small stone bridge and serafimovich borovitskaya street will be blocked. novy arbat square and a number of oth

this is the worst attack in mali in 10 years. they attempted to blame the atrocities on french forces after french intelligence footage showed them burying victims' bodies outside a former french military base. putin's complicity in these war crimes around the world and disinformation campaigns to avoid accountability cannot go unanswered. i strongly condemn these attacks and the destabilizing role of russia across the continent and the world. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. connolly: i reserve, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. meuser: mr. speaker, we have no more speakers and we are prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. meuser: in closing, i want to thank our colleagues, chairman meeks and ranking member mccaul as well as chairwoman bass and ranking member smith of the africa subcommittee for offering this important measure. the assessment

groups of some mercenaries who perform tasks not only in russia and ukraine, but also in africa, in mali tsar, in south sudan, in madagascar, and in nigeria, and so on so on and so on and so on and so on that is, this is all the money that was stolen but which is allegedly used for the benefit of the russian federation, as soon as the war in ukraine will have some kind of conclusion, logical because of, for example, negotiations, because of, for example, some agreements, the next day, these paps with compromising material will end up on vladimir putin's table and he will make all these decisions, including regarding the leadership of the ministry of defense and it is because of this that i am trying to explain that minister shoigu has his subordinates and those people whom he controls among her ramzan kadyrov, in my opinion, and for example the same deputy of the administration of the head of the administration of the president kiriyenko and several deputies of the specific state group, all these people, they are not able to stop the war, because after it stops, their political career wi

stumble. 6 soldiers have been killed and 20 injured in similar tang if attacks targeting 3 army bases in mali, russian fighters were involved in repairing their souls. because hack reports from a neighboring clinical, captured on mobile phone. the aftermath of a suicide attack, all tight of fighters detonated a car bomb in one of molly's biggest military camp in savari, inside the barracks of a hundreds of russian fighters. they repelled the assault, but lost a russian helicopter. on kite says this was a retaliation against recent operations by molly's military involving russian fighters in the center of the country. while in state tv follows the authorities on the ground here in the village of mora in operation to win hearts and minds. in what human rights group believe is the sight of a massacre. they say russian mercenaries and maryan soldiers tortured and killed almost a 1000 people, mostly civilians in the last month, in the village of mora, and whom bori. given all the soldiers that you see in the village, or only your brother's children and grandchildren. they can never be your enemy,

well, we've seen in timbuktu, in mali, the extremists went in and destroyed some of the artefacts.then the artefacts are destroyed in their home. are we saying that it is better for artefacts to be stolen and then kept somewhere so that... at least they�* re kept safe? no — in whose name? who asked them to keep objects safe for everybody else? absolutely not, i don't agree. all right — finally and briefly, dr njoki ngumi, you're doing all this stuff in the arts and you're acclaimed for being ground—breaking. but do you think you'd ever go back to medicine? i think so. first of all, i've never stopped being a doctor, ijust stopped clinical practice. i think that's important to note. i feel like the ways in which doctors are taught to think where you have all these different pieces given to you over different periods of time, you kind of arrange a timeline and then now you decide on a way forward based on that timeline, in collaboration with your patient, obviously, who has to agree, otherwise your plan is a useless one. i think i carried those skills into culture and the arts, and i

on the main stage of the state academic maly theater premiere of the play the marriage of balzaminovstrovsky , the performance is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of the writer, we are going to the theater. the play of balzaminov 's marriage is on everyone's lips, but it is rarely seen on theater posters. in the small theater, they decided to rectify the situation. moreover, this is not the first time in moscow for a very long time this play was at the end of the seventies, and before that, there was also a huge break for the viewer. i missed the long-awaited meeting of this play with the audience. new staging. on the eve of the 200th anniversary since the birth of the author alexander ostrovsky, it’s better to try to woo him again and misha balzaminov, i’m in love with him, but i can’t justify. i have a beautiful wife and i'm probably far from this topic. but play very convincingly the plot is not new, but for all time when behold this play. i have already begun to study in more detail all the heroes and the matchmaker and mother and brides live in truly illusory worl

in mali, they also made up a fake story in a town called mura. 600 dead were counted there and headlines appeared. why do i focus on the murir of amur, that is, they are looking for beautiful headlines in order to be able to kill at sea. that is, they directly, as if on purpose, select cities so that they can delicious for the audience, of course, congratulations on the western bucha muriro-mura crematorium on the internet. yes, there is such a version. i just now understood how it can be interpreted, because there is a feeling that this is a rocket that was flying. it didn't completely burst, that is, taking into account the fact that 4,000, uh, civilians were gathered there. this is a very dense collection. you see, yes, i am a small specialist in rockets, there are. uh, absolutely whole part and, perhaps, the number of people should be more dead and perhaps they were supposed to burn to show the crematorium. and you know why, look, we have two statements , zelensky’s statement that this point is u and then the apparition of the arrestovich tha

and the one year i have been here i have traveled to ecuador, haiti, to thailand, japan, niger and mali. it goes on and on. i mentioned romania this past week. all of that is part of our effort to again reengage. i have tried over the course of one year to meet with every permanent representative in new york. i have hit 117 as of today. i'm disappointed because my plan had been to meet with all 193 in my first year. i realize they cannot be in two places at once. i am being missed at the security council as ethiopia is being discussed. i do try to be in two places at one time because i know how important our presence is on the multilateral stage and how strong our voice is when we speak in multilateral forums. >> definitely no one could have predicted the you can crisis. -- the ukraine crisis. achieving 117 is impressive in this context. in terms of u.s. leadership, you would agree it is about traditional partners but also about nontraditional partners. if the u.s. will lead effectively on a global stage then how do we engage with the nontraditional partners? especially the ones that ar

there now in mali, africa, he will have all of the resources we have to cut off oil and gas sales. people wanted to give him a ladder, he is showing as this invasion continues. >> you think ukraine can win this. >> when we do something like this, with cameras, we all recognize there is a legacy, i wager everything. when that tape is played, the ukrainians are going to win, and but we are going to be doing is say how many lives will be lose to win that fight. that is the calculation right now. >> why do you think it's this that unifies the progressive side and conservatives? i talked about the differences, but there is also a lot of unity. why do you think it's this? >> as we talked earlier, it is commonly considered that there is little ambiguity to this conflict. the other thing that is significant that their skin is not brown and black. the shape of their eyes is not different from ours. what is significant and powerful about that is because of the lack of ambiguity of the mission, the mission for democracy, the fight for the freedom to dream, this can be the example that we can

mali has been in the grip of an islamist insurgency in its northern sahel regions for more than ten yearsmost senior members of the uk government are resisting opposition calls to resign, after being fined for breaking lockdown rules. borisjohnson and rishi sunak, the chancellor of the exchequer, have paid their fines and apologised. here's our political correspondent, jonathan blake. the two men at the heart of government, but now found to have broken the lockdown laws they set, designed to keep people safe during the pandemic. # happy birthday to you... pandemic. #ha-- birthda to ou... # happy birthday to you... june 2020. # happy birthday to you... june 2020- boris _ # happy birthday to you... june 2020. boris johnson _ # happy birthday to you... june 2020. borisjohnson visited # happy birthday to you... june 2020. boris johnson visited a 2020. borisjohnson visited a school on his birthday, which was allowed under the rules in place of the time. but later, he attended a gathering in the cabinet room of number ten, which police have decided broke the rules. rules, which the prime minist

well , for example, actually in mali, for example, they opposed the tuareg there, and in the centralthat, in principle, he, yes, it may be that such an innocent person was conditionally taken hostage there. here is this global model, but it exists in the center of decision-making, which receive direct direct signal and orders from washington and libya and pray and all over africa where do they operate? where are their missions now. i analyzed. you can see there, it's just that work is going on not in the interests of the countries that they kind of protect, but in the interests of the united states of america, divide and rule. i think that in the case of mariupol , in the case of i will call steel. this model will also be here and gutesh will not be able to go. yes, he can't do anything. e his will, even if he sincerely believes what our president told him and will understand that the situation is real. maybe not so it has already been laid down, it is living according to your analysis of the un, it is like a virtual state. and yes, unfortunately, yes, the idea itself is not bad. but

to mali, and it goes on and on trade i mentioned moldova and romania just this past week. and all of that is part of our effort to again reengage. i have tried over the course of one year to meet with every permanent representative here in new york. i have hit 117 as of today. i'm disappointed because my plan had been to meet with all. in that first year, i realized that i cannot be in two places. mr. coulibaly: priorities come within certain terms. achieving 117 in this context. in terms of u.s. leadership, i think you would agree that it is about traditional partners, but also about nontraditional partners. and the u.s. is going be effective, then how do we engage with nontraditional partners, especially the ones that have influence in a global stage? and a monk nontraditional partners, none is more influential perhaps in china. there is concern that we could end up in a bipolar world order with the u.s. and china leading to distinct blocks. similar to the cold war era. so competition is inevitable. cooperation is necessary to address global challenges. so how are you na

executed 300 detained men last week in what the group describes as the worst single atrocity reported in mali's decade-long armed conflict targeting islamist groups. human rights watch reports at least 100 russian troops or mercenaries took part in the operation. human rights watch's west africa director corinne dufka said -- "abuses by armed islamist groups is no justification at all for the military's deliberate slaughter of people in custody." in the united states, lawmakers in oklahoma have passed a near total ban on abortion. the bill makes performing an abortion a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine. reproductive rights advocates say the oklahoma bill say is one of the most sweeping abortion bans because there is no exception for rape or incest and the ban starts at conception. this is tamya cox-tourÉ, the executive director of the american civil liberties union of oklahoma. >> what we do know right now that this bill has no exceptions and what essentially potentially end abortion access in oklahoma. at we also know is that for s manyeasons, pple willave to t