[000:00:00;00] the, [000:00:00;00] the breaking news this, our russian intelligence reveals that francis, preparing this in 2000 trips to you'd frame last go say the french contingent will be considered legitimate targets. also a head on the program, libya and marks 13 years since nato was military intervention, which plunged one of the most prosperous african countries out about time into a decade of turmoil. discuss the western living persons legacy. with the former, deducting governments like cubans, foreign ministry,

summons the us and bosses are slumming, washington for, allegedly fueling the government protest. pedaling from the island nations domestic efforts, the problem must go to the world. this is our to wealth. come wherever you're joining us from across the world. we begin with breaking news fronts is preparing to send an electric contingent to fight in ukraine. that's being revealed by the russian foreign intelligence service. the head of the s p r said partis, is that the send to solve this military personnel to the conflict. so according to data received by the foreign intelligent service of russia, the contingent to be sent to ukraine is already being prepared. at the initial

stage. it will be about 2000 people. the french military fee is that such a significant military unit will not be able to be deployed and quoted in ukraine unnoticed. it will become a priority, legitimate targets for attacks by the russian armed forces. the russian for an intelligence service is basically sending a very clear message to friends and logic to the in time they to blog because they're saying we know what you're up to. and we will do with your troops on the ground. accordingly, they will be rushed as primary targets on the battlefield as they have already become. and essentially, this message is a warning to both nato and france. and the fact is, this idea of deploying french troops in ukraine directly. well, it is not very popular with fonts is very own allies within nato. so, according to russia's intelligence this, i'm big unity in the crumbs rhetoric will eventually has to go. parents not only

has carefully hidden the number of losses, but also the very fact a french troop involvement in ukraine. crohn will eventually have to reveal the ugly truth, but he will try to delay that confession as long as possible. i, for the release of such sensitive data could provoke citizens to protest, especially against the backdrop of massive anti government protests by firm is across the country. now, russia has repeatedly talking to the front, says, must scenarios in ukraine. it's last is estimated to be at least in the dozens, if not hundreds and that is, well, that's a lot of uh that people and that's a lot of, uh, disgruntled, well, just relatives and friends who want to know the face of the loved ones. and if 2000 proves are to be deployed in ukraine, that means even more heavy losses. so indeed, a nationwide protest is arguably the lease that the mccall and government might

face if uh if they decide to go through with this plan because up for macro on was the one who started this room is google. when he was 1st to announce that he did not rule out this very idea of deploying french troops and ukraine that did not find support neither inside fronds, not new within the e u or nato. so the chrome he had to back track on his own was a but he's, well, he went into semantics. he tried to pin all the blame on that, that he was just badly misunderstood. but the way that it was interpreted by his very own allies in both his people was just as more mixed signals, maybe at some point it will be necessary to carry out operations locally in order to counter russian forces. frances might isn't our ability to do so, we are ready to prepare for any scenario. it would be a mistake not to do so. so he does try to sound very whole cation and at the same time, very cautious. and this may be, we will,

maybe we won't and big us see this and decisiveness is not something you want from a leader who might drive a country and, and the world's largest military book into a very bloody or you don't want that if you're in infancy mind you don't want, if you're a strategic ally like any of nato member, so i'm a chrome really isn't helping his cause here. and essentially, this message behind that the behind the announcement from russia's for an intelligent service is, well, we see you, we see what you're doing. you won't have the element of surprise. so whatever you do think, i'm think hard with former senior on the list in the us department of defense. mike, i'm a live towards archie that people in the us especially friends, will not take kindly to being embroiled in the ukrainian conflict as their own domestic problems ramp up. you don't hear any other types of being this

forward with that in advance. and the notion of introducing trips as, as mccaul is even the polls have backed off from their threats. and certainly other members of the alliance will not stay with this. and that this could actually represent the 1st crack in the, in the cohesion of nato itself. this could be the beginning of the of serious seizure was in nato itself. if this is allowed to go forward flexing much further in and i, i think the europeans will not be we're not supported in as it is. they have their own very serious economic issues. now that they've got a contin with and, and they, they have to, they have to their own standards of living have, but each period, it's not taking a generation. they've got to find alternative fuel sources. they, they're all ex, 40 countries, and their factories are down. yet, if you're going to go on a more time production,

that means you've got to ship your, your, your, your economies from piece time to wartime production. i don't think the europeans have a stomach for it, and they certainly don't have the resources for it. and it will take a quite a long time to do that on the one hand. but russia is far ahead in terms of its own production and would be able to do cuz sizable damage in the process in the meantime until and they, they were able to get up and get get going. if it came to that point, i doubt that it will. i doubt that it will. okay, to another of our headlines stories today, libya is marking, it's 13 years since the invasion by nato forces, which resulted in the toppling of the country's leader who america, at delphi, the north african nation was one of the confidence and most prosperous nations of

the time. but to send it into chaos on the prolonged military conflict which is still ongoing today, this is how it all on for the some are good, i think as last legitimacy to lead in the must lead the. 0 the we can choose read of the well we can speak live now to most say it, but i came spokes person for the then the libyan government under colonel at good duffy in 2011. we thank you for your time today. if we go back those 13

years on the starts of nato's offensive in libya, what do you believe were the west motives to launch the? so there was a very clear path to peace in libya through the and tell them the libyan social and religious and political structure. as a matter of fact, by the 19th of march 2011, there was a clear tipping of the balance of power and balance of conflict towards a peaceful negotiation and ending of the limited 7 conflict that took place in the country. they've been tribes being religious needed as political leaders, withholding major folks and negotiations that would have ended the conflicts within a few days or weeks of the most the west. and just to this very well understood

that libya was a solving country that had been on me, was very strong. and the political leadership was very willing to make sure that libya remains peaceful, strong and silver. and that's why they rushed the 1970 decree by the security council, and then the 1973, which allowed a nato to attack the country. and as a matter of fact, france could not wait to attack. it did so hours before the permission of the security council leading to the marriage of hundreds of libyan sold just officers and civilians and the destruction of the whole country. as we can see today in 2024 . as i mentioned, you served the spokes person for moving market duffy when the invasion began. can i make it personal for a moment? how were you affected when the government was top of to my best?

another story, the one is very small, detail in the misery and tragedy of my nation or libyans where gravely affected by this unjust attack on the southern country of libya. one of the cold therefore made countries not just in africa, but in the globe of south, as shown by old international reports, especially the united nations index for human development. on a few of yours can go back to the numbers in 2010 and 11. can see how a press bar a slip, b i was for all of its citizens on the past and 11 of. busy us, i still need with many of those a genuine, a political movement from inside libya to get libyans to speak together, negotiate and stop this ministry and for an invasion. that's totally continuous

until today, libyans now, i'm really desperate to sit. and so this crisis, but i've been limited from doing so by you'll be an impasse that there is by a 40 minute tree base is established in the country and more than 20004. and 5 sir was admitted to by the security council as still existing unclosing. has it in the country 15 years of that nature, invention, intervention. so after time, did you think there was a way out of the domestic at violence, the scenes of unrest that had been going on in libya for that time that, that it was made clear that domestically this could be sorted out internally at where their talks going on, on an international level about that there was

a major intent of dialogue inside libya and another one overseen by the african union. as for the united nations, the security council in europe data fused to listen and the auto bleak. they refused to listen to any talk of peace and negotiation. let's remember that the crisis and libya started on the 17th of february and we've been a week of this event. the security constant was involved in bose sanctions on the country in bo is a no fly zone. and within a month it's attached to the country. this a very speedy process of intervention shows that these had no chance dialogue has no charles libby and tribes had no chance to negotiate. so it is just to be a leader as far as it could, leave it as a free time union this the member. and that's just what the us and the libyan

government. we're saying. but let's remember. but what's the great african union was saying of the time that libya was indeed able to solve this crisis. that's where the very clear positive signs of dialogue between libya and factions. and that's the libyan army was strong enough to secure the borders of the country. and to make sure that there is no a civilian casualties and no title, it is an established in libya, of course, with the destruction of that it'd be an army bung by nato libby. i became haven for international from the month of august federalism, which later on, spread through the side of the reason of africa, which is now with that iving and modeling new jobs. and another book you know, fast, so i know than i do. yes. all of them we're funded, i'm on direct 3 by nato, admitted to a game by the lead is

a funeral and they, they said this was a mistake and this was not the hand the drive, but of course we know that they always liked to have to on funds, terrorist rooms, they did this, the media, they did this and syria, they did this in iraq. i mean, how many times, how many times do you have to make the same mistake? before you realize you make it a mistake yourself and the state is by intention. did you get the sense of the time, sir, that it was old? why don't we a traffic it by nature or, or where there are elements within the western alliance to try and find a compromise? or was it always going to end one way attacking libya, that there were some voices in the west that actually were positive and they were trying to find a way out of this peacefully. i would like to mention tool problem and on the exam bills, the 1st one was barely sco, need a prime minister if it's any who came out and said there are no civilian casualties

and libya, there is no more crimes committed by get duffy. we are doing all of this to get on the oil of libya and to stop libya's in for the ones that are freak out. and he called for straight to negotiation with gift, asking, no one of course to listen to him. they called him denied a right wing. uh you know, uh lead of a tele and he was silenced the 2nd problem and i believe it was actually mode cuz of jeremy many who spoke out loud. i made a statement saying that it's, it seems that there might be a way out of this without raising the war against give duffy ra science that we can, has negotiation and stuff to this peacefully bought a game. even america believe the of the biggest pile wide euro was silenced because of course, the states of america, fraud and britain,

they really wanted to get further get duffy and his project of liberation in africa . again, if you want to to issue the a free can goals ends. you not on bill in the us. we can bank center on the bank and the us, we can united army, can i just want to jeff there for a 2nd because he mentioned friends as well. i think the role of friends sometimes get forgotten about their role. one of the most active nato coalition members the pushed for intervention in libya. can you just briefly tell us why that was that this was a direct result of libya's get get duffy's libya plan to kick france out of africa. france had amazed a military presence in the west of the continent. for us controls the economy is of more than 19 african countries. all of a freak as well goes through the french banks. all africans know this. i'm getting

dusky, wanted the african union to come together, establish the organization for the natural resources of africa, and establish the african unified army to replace the french army. and of course, this would have been a major blow to the prophets making machine of the french financial sector. okay. so for us, for us won't get down against this many times. good enough, you never listen to them. so they, they were very active. i've been adjusted to give the nato intervention going because they wanted to end give duffy's role in africa and he's the duration project. the thank you so much. time has beaten us, but very enlightening conversation with most able to him. spokes person for the good duffy government in libby at the time of nato's 2011 invasion. thank you for your time, sir. okay, let's turn attention now to the car to being on cuba,

where the country's foreign ministry has some in the us, um, box of, or that follows the cuban presidents accusations that washington is meddling in its internal affairs and fueling the government protests which erupt in several cities on sunday the infamous truth wanted to go out yesterday to dance, showing the pain of the cubans, mediocre politicians and networks. terrorist lined up from south florida to heat up the streets of cuba with intervention is to messages and calls for kaos. they were left wanting. so as we just heard nikki cubans is undergoing mass of protests, hundreds of people have taken to the streets in santiago, the cuba, it's one of cuba is major cities and people have been processing food shortages. the supply shortages and of course are also undergoing a worsening food prices. now protestors had chanted that without electricity for food, the people get hot, which is understandable. the cuban government itself has some in the us and basset,

or however, blaming the u. s. seeing that they are the ones that are still doing this protest. attention was also drawn to the us government's direct responsibility for the difficult economic situation. cuba is going through at this time. and specifically for the shortages and difficulties faced by the population on a daily basis. with the suppression and in sufficiency of supplies and the central services under the weight and impact of the economic, luckily decided to destroy the economic capacity of the country. now this is just as the u. s embassy actually tweeted on acts that they urge the cuban government to listen to the people's concerns. so it's no surprise nikki, that the cuban government reacted this way. and so what has the us reaction been to these occupations while the us out it comes as no surprise, has said that they have absolutely nothing to do with cubans. protest, let's have

a listen to that. the united states is not behind these protests in cuba, and the actually accusation of that is absurd. i will note those and do asked we are closely following these reports protests across several cities in cuba yesterday called for electricity, food, and fundamentals, freedoms. i think that's what we're seeing is reflection of the dire situation on the island. well, and this isn't the 1st time that there have been protests in cuba in 2021. the cuban government also accused the united states of meddling and actually went as far to say as they the united states was funding these protests. and now, here we are again, but as a cuban foreign minister did say, if united states is so concerned about the well being of the cuban people, why aren't they removing the fuel supplies? that makes it impossible for them to get to need an oil. it is extremely expensive to get oil in cuba to get gasoline. you'll see lines of gas. that's also a huge issue. they also are persecuting anybody that wants to do business with cuba

. and of course, the obvious thing, the us 60 plus here blockade and saying since of cuba, when we looked at venezuela, for example, a country that is also undergoing on massive sanctions. we're talking about scaling that as well as bull. we're talking about food shortages as well, the attempts to destabilize, but as well as to over throw both is chavez and major redeems, were also evidence as well. you could even point to central america and on doris. and what happened there that led to a to that, but to gain violence and civil war essentially in the country. and even now in nicaragua, where the government is accused of not having fair and democratic elections. where have we heard this before? so the ultimate question is, why does the us get to decide which country is democratic and why are they using these sanctions? an active siege war 2, continuously these stabilize the economy of these countries turn the populations

against the government. and then of course be able to interfere and metal in their way of giving into this sort of humanitarian aid and democracy. the parties fear a isabel taking us through that. now another story, the european parliament has allegedly come to it, especially to limit ukrainian agricultural import. it comes submitted, must farmer protests on the constant which has been ongoing for months on the report claims the restrictions would deal a serious blow to ukraine's income that's expected to result in a revenue loss of more than 1000000000 euros a year for the war. struck country, today's decision doesn't just mean a revenue loss for ukraine. it proves that e, you lead to support for ukraine. caves under interest group pressure. the less delve into this with our to contribute our rate show maurice in the evening to you rate show. so where does this leave you train on how likely is it to

satisfy the protesting european farmers of the why don't some of these folks in the western press seems surprised that food farming would be a special interest. hey, you know, what else is a really special interest, guys, oxygen and food, oxygen to kind of important a bit more than you crane even. but still, these folks are all like, oh, but europe held out on taking any long showers so that puts in wouldn't get rich off of that. but now it's just food and that's going to cause them to bail on ukraine. yeah. and it's not just that either, let's face it, there's one thing that personally more important to european leaders and to elected officials in this block then doing whatever it takes for ukraine or sticking it to vladimir putin and that's preserving their very own rear ends. keep in mind that they're steering down the barrel at block wide parliamentary elections in june. and

the last thing that they want is a right wing surge that weakens the establishment agenda and that's what they're facing. so meeting on monday night, the blocks reps apparently reportedly decided to table some limits on block wide free trade that ukraine has been enjoying at the you farmers expense specifically with respect to poultry turnover chick in wheat, eggs, and sugar. so all of this is going to be discussed starting this thursday added today, european council summit of you national years, which is shaping out to be kind of a class of competing virtue signaling in favor of both ukrainian and use farmers interest. we'll see how that pans out. it turns out that france and poland are on the same page with the ukraine in port limits. french president, a menu, and my call was just doing his whole not pony on board that passed the routine of

threatening to send french troops to fight russia in ukraine. but it seems like his a bottle of water. li was actually with french farmers at home, who had been running away at the international agriculture fair in paris, where right cops blasted cows inadvertently, i would hope with tear gas. and now, because of the payments to french farmers are not making it to the farmers on time with farmers still missing up to half of what they're do under the blocks common agriculture policy. a bunch of angry french farmers recently near to so that's in the south of france, dumped a ton of tires and branches just made a whole mess in front of the actual bureaucracy task with making those payments. meanwhile, polish farmers are blocking the border with ukraine and they also decided to hit the other side of the country and it also blocked the board of germany to now back when i was in berlin, mid january,

for the 1st farming protests there with tractors and truckers, joining them as well as brandenburg gate post truckers were also joining in solidarity and all of them are really had fed up with heavy handed top down. you're obviously dictated by brussels, with their own governments, adding another layer to that all under the pretext of climate rules. but also they're fed up with unfair competition, of course, from the brain in western back. let's not forget corporate big farming. we're talking about special interest there. like from there monsanto. cargill, the pines that are not held to the same standards as you farmers and the were suffering from unfair competition. they make us follow specific rules and parameters for production that make it impossible. then they allow imports and other products that have been made with all the stuff they don't allow us to use it

. like i did other of the quality of non and you products does not comply with european regulations. here it costs us twice as much to produce because of salaries loan that bureaucracy because we produce better quality than i want meant from other countries. they are sending products without controls and ruining salaries because we cannot compete. and on top of that, it is affecting us because they are poisoning enough paying for others. it has to be cheap and our way and not under some stupid orders, imposed by the youth in the greenville can go to health. it's just kind of interesting in this political piece that was published about special interest in you farming that special interest in ukrainian farming, particularly for an interest of the big corporate conglomerates and the us. it's not something they really seem to want to dig into. so interesting point there. so with a big european elections just 3 months away, this is an issue that clearly needs some virtue, signalling of its own on the part of european officials. well, if they don't want to hand even more power to searching populace parties across the

block. now, already last week, some of those same euro deputies were doing that particular dance. the legislation gives the commission the power to take swift action and impose any necessary measures. should there be significant disruptions to the market or to the markets of one or more e u countries due to ukrainian imports. that's a nice sweeping proclamation. it almost seems like a campaign which was also happening is that the u has been teasing ukraine with a potential future wedding date, a lease, if a guy told you now in 2024, that may be hoped commit in say 2030 like european council president 70 send recently said of ukraine into your brain. would you think that maybe you were just the plain? anyway, ukraine has equally serious response to the you. a presidential michelle named to enter search at possible target to yes,

i'll fill you in lodgement, but we'll do our best for ukraine that it could happen earlier. immediately. i'll tell victory. we'll execute our whole book in a very fast way. i believe that it will take us not more than 2 years. so just as soon as we beat russia on the battlefield lake in 2 years at a rate of minus 2 meters of territorial gain a year, you can pop the question. ok? yes, by all means let support that ongoing tre, between you brass and ukraine at the expense of really special interests like food i some in the western press over at least support racial, good to see you. thank you for that to archie contributor rachel morrison with just a reminder on a busy news day. we've got,