u. s. s. left backs by moscow's presence in the region where the top military chief, seeing it needs to be calendar. we look into washington's interest in the continent also. that's one. and 2 times my name is.

u. s. investigation into the killing of al jazeera journalist shooting in a block left. the u. s. state department says it's likely she was killed by unintentional gunfire from is really positions, but did not offer a clarity on how they reached that conclusion. nato has signed off on the accession protocols for a sweden and finland. it starts a months long process where all 30 members states must get legislative approval for their bids to join the military alliance. this is an historic date for fillum, for sweden, for natal, aren't for you to atlantic security. filane unsweetened will make strong, unimportant contributions to our alliance. our forces are interoperable they have trained, exercised and served together for many years. we share the same values and we faced the same challenges in the bolting c on the on ukraine's prime minister has put the cost of rebuilding the country a $3.00 quarters of a trillion dollars. a meeting of 40 countries on organizations and switzerland has agreed a set of principles to guide the reconstruction. alan fisher has more from air p and just

u. s. president, the u. s, president will revoke afghanistan. special status is a major non nato ally. jo biden's announcement came after a year of almost the humiliating american pull out left afghanistan in taxes and without any funds she rebuilt. well, let's discuss this issue now with a correspondent don, quota don, thanks very much for joining us in the studio. what exactly does this removal of this is known nato ally status even mean, can you explain that to be moral? well, sharla removing afghanistan status as a major non nato ally to the united states basically is a tacit admission by washington that everything in afghanistan was a complete failure. basically for the 20, for the last 20 years, or for 20 years and total rather the u. s. for its longest warren history, it spent 2 trillion dollars just to prop up an ineffective and corrupt government in kabul. and in the end, the taliban is here to stay. and on top of that, the taliban also has tons of state of the art u. s. military equipment that during that there was left behind during a chaotic and embarrassing military withdrawal in august of last year. now this, this humanitarian situation that is worsening in the

u. s. investigation into the killing of al jazeera journalists should in a block left. the u. s. state department says it's likely she was killed by unintentional gunfire from is really positions, but did not offer clarity on how they reached that conclusion. shitty and was killed in may while reporting on raids and the occupied westbank. stephanie decker reports from west jerusalem was inconclusive. that's the result of the u. s. investigation into fired this bullet that killed palestinian american journalist sharina blackly in the occupied west bank in may. ah, you, a state department says it was an independent 3rd party examination and pulled it in extremely detailed forensic analysis and continued concluded that gunfire from idea positions likely responsible for the death of shitty in ab lackley. and it added, it found no reason to believe this was intentional, but rather the result of tragic circumstances. terean's family issued a statement saying they were incredulous, considering the numerous witness accounts and investigations by numerous local and international media ou

u. s. foreign policy. it transcends the political, divides, it is driven by special interest that holds way over both the left and right in american politics. and if you study u. s. foreign policy regarding china specifically, you see this goes back decade says this desperate desire to encircle and contain china when, when they say contain they're talking about controlling and dominating china. and there was president biden himself who said most recently that china will not surpass us on his watch. this has been u. s. foreign policy regarding china that stretches back to the into world war 2. well, what do you think we can actually expect to come out of this visit to taiwan by nancy pelosi? is it anything more than a p r stunt? or is it something more than that? do you think? i think it is a provocation, a reckless and unnecessary provocation. the united states is trying to go. busy china into reacting or i should say over reacting the window of opportunity for the united states to actually contain control china. it's close. and chinese military capabilities continued to grow. year to year the united states continues to retreat from its pep had gemini around the

yes, detention facility which left 50 of ken spiders, dead and $73.00 wounded conscience. rise in the taiwan strait. s a. u. s. how speaker nancy pelosi start her for of asia with a stop scheduled for taipei. despite multiple warning from china and to the stories that shaped the weak rushes, foreign minister received a warm welcome while visiting 4 african nations, despite western pressure for them to snub moscow with hello from moscow to wherever you're catching us. i'm here ella is above what the top stories from the past 7 days and the latest news as well. this is the weekly on r t, and we have breaking news right now. ukrainian drones attacked the headquarters of the russian navy in the black sea, leaving 5 people injured. that's according to the civil stapo governor all russian navy day celebrations in the crimea and port city this sunday have been canceled with locals, told to stay home due to the threat of further possible attacks. ah, residential areas of the desk. republics, capital continue to be struck by ukrainian shelly, according to local authorities, with videos of the ensuing exposure of circu

why left on the 12th of april, 1975, on a helicopter from ben ben. off into the gulf of thailand, onto the u. s. s ok our one of a number of american ships that were there for the cambodians evacuation, who were then later repositioned for the vietnam, evacuation. journalist shuttled between vietnam and cambodia. despite warnings of the impending danger, john swayne arrived back in pen. i arrived to the hotel plum and i immediately bumped into sydney shannon burgess in new york times our rock of freelance photographer who done a lot of work for sydney the new york times and said in his interpreter to pran. so he teamed up as a band and covered the last days of non pen as the carriage moved and o as the siege got tighter. in the last 3 or 4 days, refugees started crowding around the hotel because they felt safer in the presence of westerners. and the red cross took over the hotel and declared as an international zone. and then started letting cambodians in who wanted to shelter. and so the hotel suddenly, the grounds, very spacious grounds, were occupied by a mass of people. here, though it's out o

s u. s. foreign policy is again under the microscope after in a legit plan to smuggle guns to haiti as church donations left many people furious . the incident took place on july 14, when custom says it sees more than 20 weapons and around 15000 rounds of ammunition in a container sent from the u. s. to the episcopal church of haiti. the church, however, claims documents found that with the shipment, tying it to the guns were fords, local officials and you and representatives have threat such a legal arms or a detriment to the country security. a mid growing game violence that has led to hundreds of monthly casualty since a 2010 earthquake, the u. s. as it has provided over 5100000000 in assistance to haiti. the editor in chief of the eva post website with laura med and cor, says the u. s. should be tackling the smuggling of weapons to haiti, not contributing to it as its own reports show america's role in the armed gang violence in the caribbean. the very own a u. s. just to print reports from 2019 in the full sent that most guns which feeds in criminal activities. and he comes from the u. s . so clearly, there is a problem with guns coming from the country to countries like haiti. we don't have the, you know, systems, a bummer systems in place to filter them. and this is a prob

u. s. left vietnam and the draft officially ended 2022. the year we questioned the sustainability of the all volunteer force recruitment for the u. s. army was only 40 percent of target numbers. the air force was 4000 short. the air national guard and the army reserve are also short and won't meet their expected numbers. so they are turning to help from the silver screen. i've got a whole generation excited about naval aviation, excited about coming and doing military flying and joining the service our whoa, whoa, and movie it. either way. so good, all delegate side all over again about why and for the us military. so it seems that out of desperation, they've actually changed the rules. they now accept recruits without high school diplomas and with tattoos on their hands. and next, that's been outlawed for years. also confidence in the u. s. military among the u. s. public has significantly decreased after last year's debacle in afghanistan. u. s. public trust in the american military went from 70 percent in february, all the way down to 45 percent in december. and the policies of the u. s. military are also a bit off putting to ma

left unanswered with reporters. then i heard out. kimberly how kit al jazeera, sorry, arabia and the u. s. have a long standing strategic partnership. it dates back to 945 when the u. s. agreed to provide security to saudi rulers in exchange for access to oil reserves. in 1973 in the israel palestine war re add imposed an oil embargo on countries backing israel, including the u. s. in the ninety's during the gulf war against saddam hussein, sandy arabia served as a base for hundreds of thousands of american troops. but the 911 attacks were set back in relations. 15 of the 19 hijackers were sound it's. and then 4 years ago, the u. s. sanction the kingdom in response to the murder of journalist jamal kashodi. ah, let's bring in our guests in reality we have abdul aziz al gasha and he's a research fellow a project set that focusing on saudi foreign policy in washington d. c. doug bondo is a senior fellow at the cato institute on in london. zide bell bashi is a managing partner at hardcastle advisory, a political consulting firm. welcome. so you all are jealous ease. i'll start with you 1st in re out what have the saudis got out of this visit by by them pacifically? muha

left. or i'd gas div r t for lynette people to republic. u. s. chief of space operations has confirmed that ukrainian troops have been provided with certain capabilities that's coming from the u. s. itself. the space is important. o m, and we've seen them in this. in this conflict, the commercial spaces provided capabilities of been helpful to, to ukraine as well. you know, a mosque satellite system. starling has given a critical communications lifeline to ukrainian forces and that's according to the air force magazine, a number of major media. let's confirm the crucial role of the systems to ukraine. starling can fly up to 130 miles, or that's around 210 kilometers over a war zone to beam down high speed internet access. this allows the frontline ukrainian troops to communicate with the chain of command stretches, hundreds of kilometers, styling police on satellites that are in low earth, all bits, which means that they are able to receive and transmits information faster than traditional communications satellites. across live now to former us marine corps intelligence officer. scott ritter. scott, welcome to the program. now it was the nations of obviously provided huge amount

s. he's had a came here to meet with the g, c. c, u s. needs to be here, needs to fill the void, that's been left. so the china and russia don't filled that space, so biden very clearly seems like he's on the defensive. he's trying to change the narrative and really send the message that it was a meeting that he had to have, and that it was worth it for the country. thank you very much, patty, calling in washington, before departing for saudi arabia. u. s. president joe biden spent a couple of hours in the occupied west bank and promised not to give up on efforts to end these writing palestinian conflicts. and the emperor reports on that now from bethlehem. ah, better humanitarian condition said financial aid. those are you as president job? i did promises to palestinians in a 3 and a half hours visit to bethlehem in the south of the occupied westbank. why did didn't bring any political initiatives to the table. he says the ground isn't suitable now to renal to the peace process, but hasn't urged palestinians not to lose hope in a better future. our c 9 states as a partner this work to improve a day to day large, the power steering people. that's why when i came to office are reserved the policy . i reversed the policy my predecessors and resumed age of the palestinians. aid is not the only change in policy the palestinian authority wanted. and then we'll look forward to steps from the us administration. drink them by lead, tell relati

left the u. s. model, president bite and wrote an opinion piece, i'm sure you read it in the, in one of the u. s. newspapers defending his trip to saudi arabia. it's a country that he wants called a pariah state. so talk to us about what your expectations are for the strip, what you're going to be looking out for and where you think's going to happen. i should, it's important that it's in the washington post, where my husband was a columnist, one point in time. and then the later part of his life. so i think it was sort of a defensive mode of move on the part of them i can present it is not habitual for the american president to be justifying himself why he's making a foreign trip. so clearly this start apologetically towards the saudi arabia. why? of course, boasting of his relationship and visit to israel. even though that is there, i was human rights record is far worse than that of so the a, b, and the killing of german as seems to happen in both spaces. and yet it's clear that the real point of this trip to the middle east is soldier a but not the israel in israel, as we just heard, as you

left isolated. as it has been many times since this war began. there's no sign the u. s. or nato will send warships to escort that grain out to sea. yesterday the u. snnouncing plans to send 400 million more dollars in weaponry to ukraine, including four more subtly guided high marks rocket systems that will bring the total of the 12. but some experts say ukraine needs 60 to 100. those high mars rocket systems. in lviv, ukraine. lucas tomlinson, fox news, new united nations report suggests russia and ukraine share blame for fatal attack on a home for the elderly and disabled. ukrainian fighters occupied the facility in march. while they were there they battled russian forces and dozens of patients and staff who were trapped inside died. you creating authorities blame russia for the situation. united nations workers say a decision made by ukraine's troops to occupy the home made the facility a target. get ready for the possibility of more. johnny depp. amber heard drama the reason herds. lawyers say a mistrial should be declared in the recent court case battle that she lost at a barrier weather a little bit of a cool down today and temperatures acros