10 times, but again, it's not, we don't wanna watch it because it might just change the way and say the, the haitian prime minister, resigned to mid wide spread gang violence washington ledges to help the island nation. despite playing a role in causing its current crisis in the 1st by the us and europe, witness a military build up as the use weapons and boards double wall arms exports from france continues to climb the and despite western sanctions imposed on russia and the country's economy remains of resilience days ahead of the presidential elections that are say they haven't told us any impact from the pressure leverage each of those, all of which has become even better. russian manufacturers are starting to do everything defense can you've got i personally feel no effects of the sanctions.

there's everything i need in the shops to look scary or mtv. then in real life the you are watching r t international. i'm rachel ruble live in moscow. the prime minister of haiti as announced his resignation amid rampant and gang violence and gripping the caribbean country arial andre, who is currently in the us territory of puerto rico, says he will de facto remain in office until a new government is formed. one of these yeah. after the council of ministers, tonight's acceptance to put into place a transitional presidential council. the members of the council will be picked after agreement with different sectors of the national life. the government i am running will remove itself immediately after the establishment of said council. they heard that he wants to stay in position until the interim council is set up.

this is an interim council that would be comprised of around 70 members, and that would then lead the country into the next elections. haiti hasn't had elections since 2016. so they, you've seen this been pretty crucial at this point. we've also heard mean, well from the us, if not more money that it wants to apply in the country. this is to create a multi national security force given this increasingly urgent need. i'm announcing today that the united states department of defense is doubling its approved support for the mission from a $100000000.00 to $200000000.00. and that brings the total us support to $300000000.00 for the separate. i'm also announcing additional humanitarian assistance for the people of $8033000000.00 to further support their health and food security. well, the announcement is unlikely to go down very well with many haitians who once again,

possibly feel a bit being held hostage by the international community interfering in the internal affairs of the country. hate to use a form of french colony than the us. and they did it was that for about 20 years in the 20th century, and it's been accused ever since if essentially being the power behind the politicians in the country wielding its influence. just to give you an example of that, we see leaks, memos, at least back in 2008, 2009. the us state department at intervened and stopped for being an increase in meaning. the wage in haiti a minimum wage that many people desperately needed at the time. just to give you another sense we've got over here. i'm over here who's saying he's stepping down. the us is accused of essentially putting him in power. he was elected when the former president of the country was short. he had been appointed prime minister a few days before, but there were others who felt that they would suit because they had been elected

to be the president of haiti. one included the senate president who was told by the us that she should step down and allow on re to take those. and it wasn't just the us. it was other western powers, european countries like faults in germany who also urging haiti's to accept somebody. i've said the desk who had not been elected. let's just take a look now, nicky, at some of the other way use the us in particular has influenced and intervened in hatred history. the

hey, is that still missing? isn't it? when you look back and coming back to the situation in haiti at the moment, what exactly are locals saying about the old where you'd expect that there would be happy that there's less violence as a result of this transitional government coming into place, the head of hopefully elections, but we have already heard from one of haiti's. main. gang both says, this is jimmy the father to it. she's. yeah. who has said that once again. she's unhappy, she says the international community is continuing to essentially, you know, interest in hate. and he says, if it continues down this current quote,

then it will plunge the country into even move chaos. and he is saying that it should be only patients who decide who runs and what type of government there is in the country. and that seems to be echoed by people in the crime too. when we talk about caring home, have they even done anything for haiti? all haitians need to work together to see if we can save the country. those countries always good haiti in a situation where we end up finding each other. i going to your kind of com cannot do anything for us. it is like when you run from the rain and end up falling in the mud, the only thing i can say is that aerial henry is out forever. he cannot do anything for us anymore. what you're hearing, that is people saying, look, we want to control our own country. we want to control our own destiny. essentially, haitians of fed up with being treated by as if they're a colony of another country. whether that is fonts with about the us or anyone else, they would like to the site that the feature against the backdrop of the escalating

violence in haiti and verified video has emerged and as circulating on social media of an alleged haitian gang member. engaging in cannibalism. to jimmy sure is yay. also known as barbecue is the leader of the gang being associated with this video. he is a tour. yes. in haiti for his power and the legend lead lead the recent violent prison break and then attempt to over the whole prime minister ariel henri, who resigned today, the video has not been independently verified. the reports suggest the footage is 2 years old and not connected to mr charisma, and the current on rest. journalist dan cohen called the claims a mass of this information campaign to discredit shows the a why are we seeing a sudden this information campaign for training jimmy barbecue shows the as a cannibal. sure was the air is trying to turn haiti into a productive and prosperous country that benefits the whole population. the

complete opposite of the disturb you, that us imperialism has created the. all right, let's cross live now to discuss this rather gruesome story with daniel shop. professor of latin american and caribbean studies at city university of new york. and daniel, great to have you on with us. what are your thoughts on this? on verified video? greetings, rachel, this type goes and that i'm verified. click be. it is exactly that. this contributes to the stigma is the racist stereotypes that have been pushed by the west for so long. we never hear about 80 in the west unless it has to do with a cool disease or some type of chaos. but what the united states media apparatus has never informed us of is you, is our t played just a few minutes before the interview is the us that has invaded and occupied 80 for a greater part of the 20th century in the us is now trying to mount the invasion and

occupation, the 4th and 100 years in blackface, where they paid $333000000.00 to the canyon government, to the government of the name of chad, of diana, of the bahamas. so the us is now trying to deputize other colonized or oppressed countries going again in recall, and as he, that's what this amounts to. so do you think this is a mis information campaign against a haitian who has a lot of influence in the country and who would benefit by trying to discredit him? the jimmy? sure easier. it is the top dog, some call him a gang bought some call him a wall lord, some called him a bundle show or, or would that would be translated from creole into english is opportunities. the vast majority of haitian community leaders. i've been looking at senior series here since 2021 i just returned from 80 last month. this is an important,

historically sociological question, and i think it's important to give voice to the haitian people. it's a day of representatives from the peasant sector, from the popular sector, from the the, the cost to you to populate the poor oppress neighborhoods to determine is sex or into all the popular sectors. in overwhelmingly what i've heard from thousands of patients is that they do not trust jimmy barbecue she res year. but i also think that the media treatment assures year has, is not been balanced. and there are other gang leaders, paramilitary, mercenary leaders who have proven to be much more violent and sinister, then sure easier. so i think the truth is probably much more dialectical in the middle somewhere. so what do you make of the timing of this video emerging during the ongoing arrest in a heavy it's believe to be 2 years old. why would it be going viral now? this part of this, this information campaign that you alluded to,

they've long try to demonize the spirituality of the haitian people, which is food to a higher percentage of the haitian people. no different than any other south american or caribbean country at the history, steve and african spirituality. this has been thoroughly uh, zillow, pride and demonized for how long. so its an ongoing campaign, really of racism and misinformation, against the asian people at a time when they need an dallas's, and they need compassion and they need solidarity. what is this us bought and paid for? 4th invasion, going to solve the haitian people need food. they need work. they don't need to continually be invaded and colonized by the same superpowers always depends on the state department. the intelligent services continue to look upon. haiti is the backyard of the united states. and overwhelmingly haitians have said so long. they do not want to continue to be the us new york on. do you think there's any link

between this video and are you all on res resignation or, or do you think that's just a coincidence? i think there's a lot of lens racial because uh, 48 hours ago nobody cared about katie. suddenly my phone has not stopped yesterday or today. those of us who loved haiti and defend haiti are taking advantage of this . click b moment, this hysterical moment to try to get the truth out of the solutions. they have use self determination, but the haitian people can decide their own diplomatic economic, political, and military future how large of the haitian saying they want a closer relationship to russia. they want a closer relationship to the boulevard in countries like ben as well, who said how many billions of dollars in federal caribbean aide for the very people the very lackeys, the washington is deputize to be in power and pets. you on deal up in the rich hills of porter price. it was these klepto crabs. it was these puppets who stall

the petro caribbean fines. and that's a microcosm of the last 100 years association history. and now they're trying to deputize these other countries to going be 80. but what is the canyon police officer or a soldier from the need? know about haiti, let's allow the haitian people to determine their own desk. right, well they, but they're latin american and caribbean studies. professor at city university of new york and daniel shaw. daniel, thank you. thank you. we are is arming itself as a weapons and parts nearly double with french and us exports. continuing to rise, serbian president alexandra richard says your ups, of course is one of militarization of what is happening now is madness. they all thought the booting would be easily defeated. now they see that this is not so the current trend is toward total militarization and a 5 full build up in all respects. farms president

a measure in my call said that western troops and ukraine could not be excluded. he also said that he wanted to maintain strategic ambiguity, also known as bossing, which only actually works if you don't a noun right after the boss that you could be bluffing. but apparently a menu and mac, whole treating the international stage like a local community feed or production and cause playing. and if i, the god, was enough to inspire a bunch of other european officials to take the safety officer on miles and fire off some belligerent rhetoric of their own. sonya is the soldiers of nato countries are already in ukraine. and i would like to think the ambassadors of those countries that took such a risk, they know who they are, they are replacing. the president did not say that the russians would advance towards odessa of ok of the way i see it. he's preparing public opinion for firms to intervene in this conflict by telling us. and if the from to moves towards

odessa or key of what we're going to do, there should be no limits to our intervention. this is how he presents things, but we should not play on the fear of the french. the time of peace is over. the post war era is over. we live in new times in the pre war era, for some of our brothers, this is no longer even the pre will era, but the period of full scale war and it's most cruel version. we cannot continue to feast on illusions. no one will take away all responsibility for fighting for our security and our future. we ourselves are the best guarantor about security and the unity. we need to turbocharged our defense industrial capacity in the next 5 years . and at the heart of this must be one simple principle. europe must spend more, you must spend better, and your must spend europe in europe should strive to develop and manufacture the next generation of battle winning operational capabilities. so what do you do when

you devastated your own normal economy for ukraine and have nothing to show for us? all you announce that you now sell so that defy as a war time country, and attempt to scare up some cash from your tax payers for the transition. sure, work for zalinski. we need to change the paradigm and moving toward the economy mode. this also means that the european defense industry must take more risks with our support. so now what we're seeing is european countries ramping up defense spending, well, the same time, say that they don't really have any cash just there for things like social programs or to sufficiently compensate their own farmers for being screwed over by the use free trade policy favoring ukraine's farming industry over europe's own. don't like it. well then, do you really want russian president vladimir putin rolling right up to a left bank freezing cafe in a battle tank because they're talking like that's exactly where he's literally

going to be. ordering. walked off from the mid day menu if the european tax stairs don't start wrapping their heads around the idea that making weapons is now suddenly europe's big priority. so how's that cell job working on the tax stairs? well, 76 percent of french citizens are against french troops fighting russia and ukraine does, according to a pull from just a few days ago. within the 50 to 64 year age group. that number was markedly higher at 85 percent against. it's all like, even the french establishment is all in lock step on this either from or french, foreign minister, dominique de paul, who warren washington about the risks of invading a rock 20 years ago. sounds like he's giving a dad lecture. you said you will play out of it. it would have 1st been necessary for us to be able to answer 5 questions. 5 risks associated with this escalation, who would be taking this step? so if we were to send troops and fighters by for essex,

while some officials are sounding right now, like they're hosting a telephone line for the european military industrial complex, others the spin off opportunities for all this war talks in other industries like bunker construction. there was an urgent need to put the commission to bunker's back into operation, and we need to build a new modern shelters in urban centers. underground car, parks, and subway shaft can certainly be used. we are currently seeing this in key of where people are seeking refuge from russian missiles. we also need to plan for such a scenario in germany, not a bad time to resurrect the bunker industry. actually, with energy costs and interest rates becoming a problem for europeans, maybe everyone can just save some money and, and crowd in, move in to government funded bunkers and hang out while waiting for pollutants. so the pope's appeal to crane to negotiate a peace settlement with russia has met fierce backlash,

but the head of nato rejecting the call saying increased military support for cab is the only way to end of the conflict. find out more about what moscow and kids responses for the co post comments and ben as well as 20 more opinions and analysis on our website, r t dot com. the u sanctions have rains down on russia, but the blog is now finding. the strategy has been an effective european problem. it has given the go ahead to criminalize anyone who might help moscow bypass sanctions to the new law. set school system definitions for violations including know, freezing funds. note respecting travel bonds with arms and ball goes, transferring funds to pass and subject to sanctions, or do business with states and entities of countries on the sanction. providing financial services or legal advisory services in violation of sanctions. we'll see become a punishable offense. our correspondent fiorella isabel joins me in the studio to

talk more about this. can you give us more specifics on where things stand with the sanctions today? well, rachel, this is yet another what time to specifically go after? not just russia, but also anybody that is still willing to work with them. now, as you heard, the problem is new directive to quibble a criminalize. the violation and circumvention of a you sanctions will make it easier for member states to jail people and find these businesses. in other words, if you're providing financial services, legal advice, or disregarding travel bands, you could land up in jail. this can include the simple act of transferring money to a person or business which should be sanctioned, concealing the transfer of funds that should be frozen, hiding the true ownership of property as well, and not reporting any necessary information that they say needs to be said. these penalties also target specific individuals, russian, businessman, anybody that is

a said that they're going to be related to russia. now the courts will be forced to actually send since individuals to a prison term of up to 5 years or continue to push this waste of fines. for violating and trying to get around the sanctions. now the new law still has to be approved by the council. and now as a reminder, this comes just after brussels data and build the 13th package of sanctions against russia last month ahead of the 2nd anniversary of the ukraine conflicts. and these new sanctions are also aimed at restricting trade and tack and electronic sectors. they say, could be used by russia's military to get ahead of the war. now this hasn't been just about russia, as i mentioned, this has recently targeted companies based in china. it was becca, stand the u a e in india that are allegedly involved and also circumventing the sanchez now this seems

a bit desperate to many of us as additionally western countries have frozen 300000000000 and assets belonging to the central russian bank. since the start of the us m o, and now they're working on ways to seize this interest as well. but of course there's a division regarding all of that in moscow as that they will respond accordingly. now another example of this desperation is also switzerland's attorney general, who has now opened a criminal investigation to a legit violation of russia's sanctions by an unnamed company. this is the 1st time they've done that. also, as you may have heard, austria's rough hyphen bank, which is the largest bank of foreign lender and russia, does risk being cut off by the us financial sector if it is found to of help rushes military. but what does that actually include? and now there's also india and use a bass or the ambassador to india, the us and boss for to india, who actually did say that they uh, indian, the united states. it comes together for their shared values and cooperate on

foreign policy, meaning the ukraine conflicts. so this has been just n less than the russian of foreign ministry spokeswoman did have to laughed this off. while the german military is planning to bomb, the crime in bridge public sort in germany is seriously concerned that tons of sanctions have failed to not only break but even shake the russian economy expired economies. benjamin video discusses this in the new issue of spiegel. let me remind you that it was the 10th year of russia's economy being torn to shreds as brock obama put it. so very low given the abundance of sanctions that have been heaped onrush. can you remind us of the economic situation today in russia, while the economic situation actually is growing the economy is doing pretty well and against all odds, it seems that this has been to no avail. rocha's economy has continued to overcome these hardships. now, the economists the out with the economists wrote an editorial on sunday saying that

moscow has repeatedly defied the due sayers that's despite the, the attempts by the united states and nato and their allies to try to attack russia from all ends. and again, others have said the same you on must the sea of tests, line space acts as also said that these a sanctions have only done the reverse. and in reality, made rush, a stronger ad vladimir put in, did point out that russia is a, has a major agricultural sector for exporting. and it's one of the major ones in the entire world and rushes, obviously looking to the east looking to india, trying to establish more trade and more cooperation. we're talking even about the import of bananas that they've looked to instead of ecuador. there also is a huge thing going on right now with the hungry and foreign minister who just met in budapest with a general director of russ adam. and basically they are focused on working closely

on the new reactors were hungry is packed to nuclear power plant, saying that the 1st a concrete will actually be poured on before the end of 2024. let's have a listen or was that what was the, the size of the, your opinion and global energy crises of the past periods have clearly shown that countries that can produce the energy they need themselves are safe. therefore, in order to increase hungry is energy security. it needs to increase its own energy production capacity. we are proud that a truly large international project is being implemented in pucks. because in addition to the russian general contract or shock, the chain of sub contractors includes french, austrian, swedish, and american companies. in addition to the german company, engaged in soil consolidation levels come part us. it was for real sense home state corporation. so with this project has a special significance that was there was always a special attitude here that the project contains a number of challenges. but as you know, we are influenced here by the regulation does not only hun gary and,

but also european legislation. we have our own commitments in particular that this project should be international because we always fulfilled our obligations. despite all the difficulties. the package project is, is a pleasure we will reduce the company. so you're looking at agriculture or nuclear economic. it seems like russia is just right ahead. meanwhile, the europe itself is actually crippling under this tanking economy. and we're seeing that in germany. people are having to pay significantly higher for electricity, for energy, for gas, as we've seen the protests by the farmers. and this seems to be getting worse and worse. so again, russia is not only succeeding economically, they're also succeeding on the battlefield. so this could be a way to actually do as much as they can and acts of desperation. very interesting article responded to your elizabeth. thank you rush. i isn't gearing up for it's 1st presidential election to be held over multiple days. and the polling

stations officially open on friday, our t international will bring you special coverage of this landmark event. the, the, with the start of the ukraine complex, the west reacted immediately imposing tougher and tougher sanctions. the aimed to weaken russia, but had an opposite effect as the country's economy and domestic production development have only grown ortiz, marina posts. right, but has more for us on the results of the so called, bring down russia operation. the last 2 years had been nothing but negative press about russia in the watson, in particular. vladimir putin, as mainstream journalism seems to new lows, while its fear mongering reaches orbital levels. if you're a dissident in russia, if you to fact from russia, if you turn against putting in russia, doesn't matter if you are no longer in russia, he will send

a fascination teams anywhere in the world and 100 treatment has made his darkest and most specific threats yet about using nuclear weapons account against the west, the west west of citizens, to believe that a lot of our uprooting is a lunatic. who has brain loss of options or is holding them hosted. how else can they explain? his skyrocketing approval ratings, 82 percent, compared to 64 percent in 2022 on the eve of his decision to protect the people of eastern ukraine who had been attacked for a to years by key of what happens. well, when the was impose the strictest sanctions in the history, it expected must go to crumble. the hope was that russians would suffer so much that they would take their anger out on the leader of the nation. we will limit russia's ability to do business in dollars, year owes pounds, and yet to be part of the global economy. russia's industry is in texas

and it is a and lyn that has put the rush us economy on the pass of oblivion. in concert with our allies, we would agree a massive package of economic sanctions designed in time to hold the russian economy operation. bring down rush, i was an epic fail which only made raso stronger and more independence. well, western partners fail to understand time and time again is that russia is very good at remaining unified during times of difficulty. they don't hit the streets and protests. they get to work, it was tough in the beginning in terms of figuring out alternatives for imports and exports. but it proved far from impossible. process economy one from a 1.2 percent decline in 2022 to growing by 3.6 percent in 2023. that's how quickly russia led by vladimir boots and turn things around for

meetings and negotiations of sprang solutions. frushell no longer cares about being cut off from western financial markets or the west export band on high tech, or even a price cap on its oil shines as buying. and in these fine, we'll do it all day one. i would say that every single sanction has failed most go took the sanction slap and turned east end to the global south diverse. and it's like sports to countries like china, india, using traders and shipping companies that don't abide by western rules. look at this large land mouse out there and i think when you'll see the mapping of it, i think that makes sense why india and our shop would work closely together. pressure and chinese freight has hit historic highs with china becoming a key supplier of rushes car surveillance gear drones computer chip.