u. s. for example, but how sustainable is its position? india has maintained close relations with russia for decades. the asian countries, not just a key customer for russian consumer goods, but weapons are also high up on the list of imports, especially our craft tanks and frigates, 60 percent off in the us arms and ports come from russia. india hasn't sanctioned russia over the war and ukraine. quite the opposite. at the end of march, new delhi seized the opportunity to buy a russian oil edit deep discount. and as considering further orders to spite calls from the u. s. not to do so. if you're looking at energy purchases from russia, i would suggest that your attention should be focused on europe. i suspect, looking at the figures, probably our total purchases for the month would be less than what europe does in an afternoon. russian gas, coal, and cooking oil could also be exported to india. soon. foreign minister sag a lover of sought to strengthen trade chives. when he visited delhi at the beginning of april we will be ready to supply

u. s. for ukraine and for its allies, it's long overdue. so it will be an interesting day today they will give it press conference afterwards to announce how they will keep supporting ukraine to defend itself against the russian aggression and to me of her asleep. ramstein airbase. thank you so much. thank you, talking about this announcement from the german government i'm bring into must be called. he's a journalist, specializing in international defense and security policy. welcome. mr. lee called and tell us more about these anti aircraft tanks and germany will now send to ukraine. how much of a difference can they make in the war? you think? actually they can make quite a difference. it's not tanks. technically speaking, it's short range defense systems. well, it's an arm, a chassis, but still the main important point is a antea craft cannon on those machines. and the german army has taken them out of use almost a decade ago. not because they were obsolete. but because at that time the boom to say i was scaling down, they had no use for

place in 2018 before the sanctions, an estimated 4500000 barrels left to ron for the foreign market each day. while the u. s. has sanction sales, the european union has not, but the u. s. measures are enough to scare off almost any company that purchases iranian oil. the order for germany to buy iranian crude oil, it is necessary for the us to lift their sanctions on shipping companies, crude oil and financial transactions with iran financed with on of you. at the moment, no european shipping company wants to transport iranian oil with its tankers. no, refinery in europe wants to process the oil, and no international bank wants to handle the payment. the fear of penalties on the lucrative us market is to great iran cells, most of its exported oil to china rather than use currency. iran and china have agreed to an oil for goods deal, a kind of barter transaction. yet iran hardly needs chinese goods. machines from europe, it would be much more important for the economy of a country with a population of $83000000.00 young entities. and iran especially has a huge problem with foreign exchange. if this crude oil

u. s. u n. hi, officials for iraq creation car doors for civilians. major poly and gay, representing the russian federation, spoke and explained very clearly that the presence of these civilians in the factory was hidden. despite repeated requests on the part of russia to make sure that no civilians were in harm's way. and now russia has been calling on to influence the fighting forces there and allow the civilians to leave the factory. so essentially, ukrainians are being used as human. she'll buy, you know, by these extremist anti russian forces that have been armed and trained by the states and ukraine. now it's also important to note that at the security council meeting, shina, it's up to the floor and talked about the dangers facing what we call them. and how the targeting and manipulation of current it as a result of us sanctions of having a very long term and serious effect, not just in russia, but in other places. now the world economy has been badly affected by these moved by the united states. that the escalation of the conflict. so i was qu

for libyans, the nato alliance, u. s. to germany and the pretext of protecting civilians have been the biggest lies ever. now all these lies our god. we always emphasize that people are being used as a pretext for carrying out certain political objectives and projects sought by the international regime. we've seen this with syrian and libyan refugees. ah, we are fully aware that the u. s. is one of the main facts is behind the destruction of libyan infrastructure and the internal systems in 2011, while pretending to be the patron of freedoms and human rights. these folks slogans . if one day i met the u. s. president, i will express my hope that those slogans be set in reality and that there will be human rights and children's rights as he pretend on your social media platforms. the director of the asia study center told us that the u. s. doesn't seem to be interested in di, escalating conflicts in other countries. i think if america wants to put an end for both the problems that they can, but the will not because america

u. s. her, so for provided. so what has the u. s. given to ukraine that we know of so far? well, quite a lot, william, and if you look at the bill alone, the u. s. has allocated nearly 3 and a half $1000000000.00 so far to support ukraine. that is the most more than any other country at this point. and just this past week, president biden unveiled the latest aid package that was worth the 800000000 dollars by the way. and he went to great lengths to emphasize the weapons, a heavy weaponry that the u. s. was going to provide to ukraine all things that ukraine at specifically asked for things like howitzers, ammunition, tactical drones, all things that both the ukrainians and the u. s. believe will be critical for the ukrainian military to defend the don bass, where rushes pushed ahead with it's offensive right now. important to know also william in that press conference from president biden. when he availed this package, he said that he's essentially exhausted all of the aid of resources rather that congress has made available to him to this point that he has to build anothe

u. s. allies accused of helping to move tons of cocaine into the u. s. for almost 20 years. is also charge of accepting a bride from the head, the path of cartel. amanda is denies the allegation. and the arab league colon israel to stop jewish pres, taking place inside the alex and mos compound and occupied east jerusalem. another 21. alice damian's were injured. earlier up is ready, forces thought rather bullets. next way to disperse them head of a tool by jewish groups. there's been almost a week of heightened tension at the holy side. field by visits, by jewish alternation is bruce, bring them was them? oh, the month of ramadan. so those are the headlines. the news continues here on al jazeera, after my cuba staging. thanks for watching bethany frank assessments. what are the political risks of panic? russian oil, a gas for western leaders or sanctions on russian energy exports was informed opinions. france is not abandoning to fight against jet is terrorism. india going to be acting from nisha and from char critical debate? could china actually help in russia's invasion

u. s. and yet with all of this, talk about the need for the u. s. decide more weapons ukraine. it never is mentioned that this trend of supplying weapons do a country only leaves you instability and chaos which then creates more refugees. and the trillion government minister has arrived on the solomon islands for talks, amid concerns encumbered over a proposed security deal between the country and china. the ministers are ready urge the islands pm, not to sign the deal, alleging beijing's presence cut to stabilize, which we have asked solomon islands respectfully, to consider not signing the agreement and to consult the pacific family in the spirit of regional openness and transparency. consistent with our region security frameworks, the solomon islands initiated a security deal with china 2 weeks ago that could allow chinese navy ships and defense forces to be based in the side pacific territory. the move is designed to offer protection for chinese infrastructure investment in the developing nation. wherever critic saying such a deal could undermine australia's position, which

u. s. agenda. well, for the u. s. wants to do is gather those countries under an umbrella of democracy, flats of them, and then use them to its own advantage. we use labels such as democracy, autocracy, or authoritarian regime. recently, political pundits in the us dropped the label. democracy when referring to india and begun calling it an electoral autocracy. instead. when i mentioned this to my indian fence, they smiled they know about it. there are many methods to try and put pressure on the country. and speaking about the talks on ukraine, we know for a fact that both the u. s. and the u. k. that seems to be eager to fill it. solitary post breaks its existence with excessive activity, advised president zalinski to gradually toughen his stunts. instead of expediting the talks, what became clear after the meeting in the stumble, as president putin already mentioned, it was the 1st time ukrainian site ever provided a list of their written proposal signed by the leaders of their delegation. we were ready to incorpo

the military and humanitarian aid to ukraine flowing, we need this bills for ukraine is fight for freedom. u. s. president joe biden on thursday asked the u. s. congress for $33.00 more atrocities and aggression ukraine . biden's request for $33000000000.00 includes more than $20000000000.00 for military assistance, like artillery and anti aircraft weaponry, more than $8000000000.00 to help the ukrainian government continue to function and another $3000000000.00 to help refugees. in addition, biden is also sending to congress a plan to crack down a russian oligarchy who laundry illegal and rem lining. the federal government's ability to seize the oligarchy property, and allow the us to use the proceeds to support ukraine. march of this real norm as challenge at the moment, if approved by congress, might into plan would create a new administrative process for the forfeiture of property owned by russian oligarchs, and knowingly or intentionally possessing funds gained from corrupt dealings with the russian government could become a criminal offense, while most members of congress support presiden

u. s. congress for ukraine. right now.

for such a system. and it's been, reveal the u. s. has officially resettled 12 ukrainian refugees over the past month . that's the spike president biden's pledge in march to allow as many as a 100000 ukrainians into the country, citing the need for family reunions ortiz rachel blevins has been looking at the gap between the promises made the actual reality on the ground. the mine and ministrations promise that the us would accept 100000 ukrainian refugees certainly has not become a reality with the latest data showing that just 12 ukrainian were accepted through the united states official refugee program. now the white house is putting the blame on the us legal system as the department of homeland security reveals that nearly 3000 ukrainian crossed over into the united states through the us mexico border. so the question then becomes, is the, by an administration planning anything to maybe get it a little bit closer to the goal that it set for itself. while reports are saying that they are looking at some sort of a parole program where

u. s. for provoking and fueling the war and new train. italian journalist angela also is among those voicing an alternative view of the conflict in defiance of the mainstream narrative, the remedy code. but we must remember that this war, besides everything that we're talking about is a war of the united states against europe. the you is the real object of this war. the united states is interested in severing ties between russian europe and also china, a contributor to top italian media outlets. dorsey has more than 40 years of experience in journalism. his track record includes being a found to of several magazines with a focus on history. last year, he also runs a mad, the italian city of tyrann. we spoke with dorothy to get more of his insight on the contract in ukraine and on bus. and my mentor, welcome each other little technically it's russia that and least the war. but in my view, it's the united states that prompted russia to do that. it staged a number of provocations, including with n

u. s. bond supporting ukraine or essentially making a play for power. but with the u. s. outlining such big go will so openly, this idea of essentially making russia militarily new to, to make it fail. there are some, in certain quarters would say that that is the only logical conclusion. or you're a correspondence. charlotte dubin state taken us through that nato, provoke the war in ukraine by repeatedly dismissing russia's security concerns on supplying arms to key. if that's according to current serve, member of the presidency of bosnia and herzegovina. miller around duke. he's been sharing his thoughts with our t so show her though, that the conflict in ukraine is a result of a global shift of power. the western partners refused to listen to russia's concerns about nato's expansion and some other issues. the sound of the conflict is a good illustration of that. let me quote the european commissioner for external relations. it's all our fault. we promise ukraine as sessions at night and the a you. but when it was time to keep a promise, we backs out. they instigated

u. s. for pressuring countries into voting up for in line with the u. s. t, as interests. and we also heard from leverage that he criticized the west as a whole for using nato as a springboard for to hurt russia in eastern europe. now, who turn also expressed regret at the fact that the un was excluded from the normandy format. that was a group of delegations that were the, that negotiated the men's protocols that were supposed to establish a piece in ukraine even before russia's military operation began. but probably the most important point that lab rav made, was that amid all this talk of peace from all sides of the u. s. and the west continue to send weapons into ukraine loads of weapons. in fact, western leaders continued to say that this war can only be decided on the battlefield. so all these things considered, it really looks like a classical case of the west's words contradicting its actions. don't. thanks very much ridiculous throughout our t stone courts. her well, let's get the latest now in the situation on the ground, rushes to armed forces have destroyed for

but for ukraine, for the u. s. and for many allies, this is a step that was long of a do. all right, utilities benjamin alfred. griffith. thank so much i'm joined, not by the doesn't his chief political editor at attend mckayla casner at mckayla. tell us what has brought route brought about is really very significant change and policy. well, quite clearly, it was internal and external pressure. we've had quite a debate here in germany of the past couple of weeks with 2 of the 3 coalition parties actually continuing to criticize chance, the order of soil for not interpreting his tightened vendor. the full turnaround is backing ukraine with everything germany has including everything german industry has. and now we see the pledge by the german defense minister lamp saying that is some 50 of those cheater tanks that are anti air craft missiles capable and vehicles being sent to ukraine from the outside. it is giving into pressure on the inside. it actually is quite a turnaround in itself for the german forces. so i would expect that to be the beginning of new thinking on that

u. s. aid for years only to be cut off last year after their us supported government fall apart and the man came sweeping back to power. and the u. s. came in and froze $7000000000.00 worth of athletes creating a huge humanitarian crisis in their country. so there is a lot at stake here. as the u. s. shows that they are more than willing to move forward with tens of billions of dollars in aid. as long as they agree with the government that's empower, and the biden refers to that, a small price to pay. here. you heard from radio host to john elliot, who says the u. s. move to see russians. assets is actually an indirect attempt to punish moscow by any means. the united states government is going to the constitution and fries assets of a foreign government, but it cannot turn around and use those assets that are seized to distribute to a 3rd party. so i would think this would need an act of congress, or we need an act at official act from the bit by the ministration, signing and consent decree to do that. i'm not sure the oligarchy, perform any other service other than i can be. i think it

u. s. for more than $340000000.00 worth of the countries assets and 2019 and then announced that it would release $150000000.00. opposition leader one. why go in 2021. the washington recognizes the country president, even though he's an elect, it in their criminal adventures, to plunder venezuela's, gold, oil, and other lucrative resources. both britain and the u. s. are exposing themselves before the entire world as having no interest at all in supporting human rights. freedom and democracy and venezuela. on the contrary, both britain in the u. s. continued to demonstrate their utter contempt towards the venezuelan people and their right to determine their own future. so much for a role based order and so much for the american constitution as the us has shown time and time again, that when it was to defend freedom and democracy in a country, what it actually means is that it plans to seize and control the assets of the people leaving them was a humanitarian crisis. what you're seeing is kind o

it was for a reason that russia and the u. s. used to have an agreement to keep each of the informed of any man part deliveries abroad. it helps make sure that neither party ever supplied lethal weapons to any one with an evil intent. javelins also man portable missiles, even if they were delivered for tanks, they can also be used by terrorists. where would all these weapons turn up? we're talking about thousands and thousands of weapons. her previous experience shows that these weapons will leave you crane as they would from many of the poly control country, especially one where the neo nazi battalions of an i don all the units do not have beta supreme commander in chief and are proud of this. and occupy a special autonomous and untouchable place in the armed forces. these weapons will scatter, including back to the countries where they came to ukraine. these countries also groups of people, especially given the waves of migration, who would like to get their hands on such an opportunity. the u. s. military doesn't know where i

for biotechnology company. the russian parliament is inviting joe biden and u. s. under secretary for political affairs, victoria newland, to be part of their investigation. not sure, she earlier the chairman of the state duma instructed our international committee to begin the procedure of preparing an invitation for explanations from us. officials sees a mrs. newland and bite in junior, earlier we heard from the russian defense mastery that rosemont seneca hunter, biden's investment firm, had been involved along with george soros open society institute, and financing biological research facilities and ukraine. moscow says these labs are involved in developing bio weapons and one of these labs was even involved in research related to nuclear weapons. washington and kia have both denied that these labs served any military purpose and after mrs. new and mentioned them in congressional testimony, u. s. media has done everything possible to shut down any mention of their existence as for a 100 bite and his laptop created a scandal during the 2020 elections. but mainstr

he has been calling for pretty much since the beginning of this conflict when calling on the you and your and the u. s . rather for more support, more my artillery, more weapons to be able to fight the russian aggression as you can perhaps hear me . there's some sirens going on in the background. the era aren't has just come on, that's what you're hearing in the background. and yet, so obviously it's been met with huge relief. i mean, president and i see even played to congress itself in a live video address, as you remember a couple of weeks ago. now, this package doesn't require congressional approval and we are expecting the weapons to arrive as soon as possible. some they will need some training the, the military will need some training, but it's of course, as you just said in that report, as we heard in that report as a com at such a good time for the ukrainian military as they prepared for an onslaught in a much bigger assault in the 8th and southeast in the south, as he said, whilst it has been met with relief and very welcome. this will not, and president to lensky calls for help, or you kind

for decades, the u. s. government has armed non state groups in iraq, afghanistan, libya, syria, and elsewhere. often with unintended consequences. most recently enough gamma stan weapon supplied by the united states to fight the taliban are now being used by some militias against civilians. to commit human rights violations. the defense department is calculating just how much money the white house will need from congress for weapons for ukraine, whatever the amount of president biden says, the goal is to keep the weapons flowing without interruption. kimberly help him al jazeera, the white house. russian forces say they've captured it. dozens of villages in eastern don bass 40 to have been taken across the don yet gradient, which is a self proclaimed rushing back to break away state. the battle for dumbass includes lou hands scanned is critical to moscow's campaign, say new ukrainian defense officials say the military is facing a very difficult fight against a larger and better equipped russian force. whi

u. s. was going to provide ukraine all things that ukraine at specifically asked for things like how it serves ammunition, tactical drones, all things that both the ukrainians and the u. s. believe will be critical for the ukrainian military to defend the don bass where russia pushed ahead with it's offensive right now. important to know also william in that press conference from president biden. when he unveiled the package, he said that he's essentially exhausted all of the aid resources rather, that congress has made available to him to this point that he has to build another aid package, send it to congress for approval. so it's likely that whatever ukrainian president lensky shared with the defense secretary austin, in that meeting on sunday and keith, whatever list are further weapons that ukraine is looking for, that that will, at least in part, be reflected in what gets sent to congress. and william, it's one of those rare bipartisan issues right now in washington, likely to get a lot of support in congress from both parties. and let's brought out that support question to the whole wor

for mon do, and president one, orlando hernandez has been expedited to the us to face drug trafficking charges, a one time u. s. allies accuse of helping to move tons of cocaine into the u. s. for almost 20 years soon. so charge of accepting a bribe. the head of a powerful cartel. hernandez denied the allegations, but the arab league, as called in his rail to stop jewish prayers, taking place inside the alex, a mosque compound and occupied east jerusalem. 21 palestinians were injured. after his ready forces fire rubber bullets and use pepper spray to disperse them, it's been almost a week of tension at the holy sight fuel by visits of jewish ultra nationalists bruce during the muslim holy month of ramadan. while those were the headlines of the news continues here on our da 0 after infest, raleigh, stating, dental watching bye for now. ah, a heated debate in manuel macro and marie le pen go, had to had on several political issues. they both appeal to their base is just days ahead of francis one of those. but who was more convincing? this is inside story. ah hello, welcome to the program. i'm hash him. i'll both

he criticized the united states for bullying. countries into voting on that vote in line with the u. s. his goals actually criticize the collective west at, for using nato as a geopolitical tool. so let's take listen to what he said says the deal is when sort of it has been done in the interest to contain the russian federation. and with this goal, ukraine has been consistently used as a springboard to contain our country for all these years, initiatives by the ukraine authorities to ban everything russian have been encouraged and at the same time steps promoting nazi theory and practices have been legalized. our guitar is also expressed regret at the fact that the u. n. was excluded from the normandy format, that was a group of delegations that negotiated the men's protocols that were supposed to establish peace and ukraine before russia started its military operation there. but probably the most important point that lab rav made, is that amidst all this talk of peace from all sides, the west continues to send loads and loads of weapons to ukraine. western officials continue to say th

and wal mart is desperate for truckers. now the u. s. retail jain is paying for its warehouse staff to get behind the wheel and offering them a 6 figure starting salary. welcome to the show, i'm stephen beard. the e u has a proven import ban on russian coal as part of a new package of sanctions against moscow. marks the 1st time brussels has targeted russian energy. you members have grappled with how quickly to in fossil fuel imports from russia, with pressure growing on germany, in particular, to set aside its objections to a ban on gas. the e, you imports 20000000 euros of russian cold daily. but that's a fraction of what it pays for russian oil and gas whopping 850000000 euros daily. of the sanctions package is the use fit since the beginning of the war. and that includes a raft of measures. aside from putting a stop to coal imports at bands russian ships from you ports, add the russian bank v t b to a list of sanctions, financial institutions, and benz e u. exports of advanced computer chips and machinery to russia. the you also wan

u. s. does not packed this. what it preaches, the u. s. for europeans to impose sanctions against russia while they themselves not only continue to import oil from russia, but have also increased the oil supply volume by 43 percent over the past week to $100000.00 barrels per day. moreover, washington has allowed its companies to export mineral fertilizers from russia, recognizing them as essential goods. while we discuss the issue where former indian foreign secretary can was civil, he thinks western criticism of india which consumes only a small percentage of rational, this hypocritical in this situation when we are already on the economic press, go forward and other things. if there is a possibility of buying discounted oil from russia, we should take it off and estimate it opening that she has to protect our national interest law. in 2021, we boarded only 16000000 barrels of oil from russia. i did you consumption is a 4430000 barrels. really important only for dental. and i'm sure even if he increase it 4 times, it will only mean 16 days.

u. s. and yet with all of this, talk about the need for the u. s. decide more weapons ukraine. it never is mentioned that this trend of supplying weapons do a country only leads to instability and chaos, which then creates more refugees. this is the u. s. policy always to make great promises and come through on nothing when it comes to the people themselves. so with millions of refugees, once again, us policy is to give assistance to almost none of them. and to instead impose on the surrounding countries an enormous dislocation. ah, at this point, the biden administration has managed to process, they managed to process in march 12 ukrainians, who had refugee status. and by the way, this happens all the time. look at the hundreds of thousands who were promised refugee from afghanistan, not much different in iraq and syria and libya were all of the countries where the u. s. has instigated wars and kept them running for years and created an enormous dislocation of peoples who really are forced to leave their own country and then lives at the very dislocated life and enormous expen

for his removal because of his close ties with russia and china. joe biden is to hold talks with indian prime minister, not rendered mowdy as the u. s. escalates pressure for india to distance itself from moscow, and quote, downscale purchases of russian weaponry russia says keith is trying to pull as of nationalists out of the battle from r u, as the ukranian side loses control of the city are key here is from locals. who describe.

u. s, for example, things weren't handled as well, you know, to 1000000 deaths. you know, so there's a big geopolitical aspect to it as well. so he really needs to kind of stick to this 0 coven policy of fed, just for the political capital save face to china. it's even created a museum, a celebrating it's victory over covered which? well, i think that's still a little ways all good. we're thank you so much. good for conan from our business unit. french president manuel mccall and his all right challenger, marine la penn, are making a final push for boats before sundays. presidential ronald whole show of the race is much tighter than 5 years ago when french voters faced the same choice. though my call is expected to win, millions of voters are still undecided and the candidates are taking nothing for grant. his campaign slogan might be all of us, but it's not clear enough. a france will be with emanuel micron at the ballot box on sunday la hose, both the incumbent president, he and his far right opposition. marine la pen fair had been making a final push for votes