conflicts lodge on odyssey, the china warns the us against threatening and sovereignty in asia, where an increasing number of nations are leaning toward bay jane instead of washington. israel braces for conflict with a ron is the assignment for public dollars for eventually killing of the people by the id f during this try to in syria and the gaza is gripped by intense fighting as the war enters. it's 7th months with no and inside, with at least 33000 citizens reported pills, including 13000 children, the rachel rouble live in moscow. you're watching

r t international. we're covering the top news stories from around of the worlds and the weeks gone by. a china has a warrant of the us that is ready to respond to any threats to its sovereignty in the, in the pacific region. that's after the rival powers held, the military talks in hawaii. meanwhile, us treasury secretary, john ellen says china will face significant consequences if it's company's help. russia and ukraine comes like the american official, isn't they doing where she's already met the countries premier and vice minister ellens to her accomplishment washington's concerns about china's manufacturing over capacity and cheap exports that america sees as unfair competition. the treasury secretary has also said aging and washington are trying to find a common ground through some tough hawks on the mortgage. another worrying trend for the us is china is rising. popularity in south east asia with washington sees as its own a sphere of influence. a notable shift in sentiments china has experienced the

surgeon popularity among respondents from southeast asia, climbing from 38.9 percent last year to 50.5 percent of this year. edging ahead to become the preferred alignment choice in the region. it's frustrating when you put in the walk, but don't get the results. so shed a tear for washington, which is about in the last 12 months building up the china book. do you mind need find face? things don't scary and off to send its neighbors running because its neighbors are real. a smoke volume to logs like those who stoke the corridors of the capital. so they see the us ramping up on supplies to taiwan. they see delegates and often delegation flying in, and they had president by didn't promising the tune of american peace. so unlike ukraine to be clear, sir, us forces us men and women would defend taiwan in the event of a chinese invasion. yes. and they know the blog post that would inevitably follow.

they also know that china is active, largest trading partner, beijing's investments in the region, a growing here on yet. but every single one of them is a beneficiary of the vote and vote initiative. so china's economic health is that it cannot make health the us targeting this lifeline by snappy on the terrorists, restricting access to might projects and judging allies to sign onto the china. take down. no, quite the winning strategy. and it's really not reassuring when the ideologues to show what length they'll go to, to kick off the competition. this is one of the interesting ideas, it's unplugged, floated out there for deterrence is just being very clear to the chinese that if you invade taiwan, we're going to blow up the fmc. just throw that out, not because that's necessarily the best strategy for the details. of course, the highest, the tie want to use really don't like this idea, right?

calling up system says, if you do that, you have a 2 trillion dollar economic impact on the global economy within the 1st year, and you'd put manufacturing around the world at a standstill. i mean, this would be, this is a terrible idea. i'm not promoting the idea. i'm not getting the idea, michelle, who's saying make it a bit to what i'm saying is these are some of the things that are actually actively being debated amongst us. yeah, it might see us policy makers, american foreign policy is also failing to win out in a region with a large muslim population, which is horrified by washington's by king of israel to the last palestinian pulse is 0. solve mentality, one that's on roster. will china sales to hit the mark among nations who are traditionally mutual have ties, including military ones that extend way back decades and still believe in diplomacy? [000:00:00;00]

the passion member states, including the see thing and fall, want to maintain good relations with both the us and aging. the one make us use we will refuse the troops. i don't work for beijing, i don't work for washington, dc. i work for the philippines. so i'm on the side of the philippines and the 3 the time slates into a very simple statement of foreign policy, which is, and i promote the national interest, but peace is not a classic investment for the us military base start. yes. well, in fact, while china has built bridges and railways, washington spent 2023 splashing the cache on yet more basis throughout the asked young region. it's funny, isn't it? how rocking off in a neighborhood, far,

far away freshening to stop was to grow up the global economy. and why daniel finger 10? i have one to full in line. eventually lose this. you some good? well, a circus. do you have political research or is male? am or on says washington and his allies are desperately trying to cling onto their waning influence in asia and beyond. eugene begins to be the full amount colonial actors of the usa in europe and the existing well, will want to maintain that hedge human a. so it's not easy for them to recognize china is the 1st economy that playing countless games against china, or similarly against russia. though the only military powers in the world can compare with us, but it serves western interests. they don't recognize any human rights so low as they provide taiwan when needed. they provide the ukraine russia issue when needed . they provided garza a wide range of different issues as well. so this open the in the numerous attacks

and the israel, i'm us war welts, people felt like a bug care felt helpless, turning it towards china. china is economic cooperation with a huge exist that raja regional integrations are becoming a mutual prejudices, rehabilitating possible, minute your district is. i think these are also important. on the other hand, i believe turning towards china is a way to balance the us. and i think this is the right way to, i believe china also needs to learn this lesson, otherwise, from a distant geography. what does the us have to do with the asian pacific? for example, people are asking this, what does it have to do with the situation between the states that parents seems like holding a referee from a fall, when a bist can't get along. but history shows that when that referee of rise, it will home both parties, therefore neighboring countries have to get along. this is a, ron, and israel are on

a collision course in the region. that's all ready on fire to ron has vowed to take revenge for an his rally strike on the right in consulate in syria, which claimed 13 lives including senior military commanders bracing for retaliation . israel has close to 28th of its diplomatic offices around the world. a ron's top military commander has threatened to take decisive action. i hope the ration is conducted to the right time with precision and prudence, and with the necessary caution to maximize damage to the enemy would definitely lead to its regret and make it repugnant. freights actions. this so of course comes in the wake of monday, strike on the con, see that the rainy and consummate in damascus and syria. and this is a very, very, a momentous event, single country targeting a, another country in a 3rd country. it's, it's a significant breach of diplomatic. no one was if you like. so that's the 1st thing to note that this stuff doesn't usually happen. countries don't usually launch strikes on the diplomatic parity of a 3rd country in

a 2nd country if you like. so that's a significant thing. the impact of the strike as well is, is interesting to a 7, a senior, a rainy and military officials were killed. in this, 2 of them were a brigadier general's. they were part of the codes force, which is the foreign operation side. of the atlantic revolutionary guards core. so that's an as each military grouping which works with the rainy and allies and friends and the chief of staff of the rainy and military has said that a collaboration for one of the, those killed that at the, at this at that there wouldn't be a response and that would happen at when the time was right. so this is feeding and fueling sense of imminence of, of an attack. now, even i a tell a, at least so many the supreme leader, if you like in, in ron, has said that, that would be swift. and deaf and it's a response to this. something that's very interesting is that the radiance of

actually as america is whales vegas style. and remember, america, phones and politically supports the way the stays to a huge extent. hundreds of billions of dollars up and half the pumped into these very state, most of it in military aid. so without the american support, a lot of what is well doesn't the region is doing at the moment thing as what would be impossible that the radius of i should ask the americans to step aside and let us deal with the ladies in relation to this strike in a written message, these law mac republic of iran warn the us leadership not to get dragged into netanyahu's trap, stay away so you won't get hurt. in response to the us, ask iran not to target american facilities that the americans have said that they expect and a rainy in response as have these ladies who have suggested in senior is very on american. the face of suggested that they're working together to try to get ahead of whatever this response may be. now, that means is that the is really and the american intelligence services are working

for. you just need to find out what exactly the response would be interesting to you, as well as the world watches and wait to see what happens as president biden. and benjamin netanyahu have a phone call this week. the key issue for discussion here has shifted from the, the, the solved and gaza, to how to manage this increasingly dangerous situation in the, in the wide or middle east. and we'd like to have a listen to watch at bingham in yet. and you all have said in the aftermath of that phone call with joe boy, and i think it's quite tele, closer, an entry on board and they've done it for years in run has been action against us both directly. and while its process is that for israel is acting against the run and its process defensively and defensively, we will know how to defend ourselves. and it will act according to the simple principle of whoever homes us or plants to hom, us little hom, them there is a sense of expectation, not just from the,

at the global community that's watching this very nervous and other countries in the region. so do you re view a rack all of these countries watching with a bated breath because it doesn't take much to put you off the powder keg. and what's really fascinating is that in this instance, is both israel, who is now preoccupied, if to a huge extent, with it's more as it calls it in gaza. it has a huge amount of troops on the lebanese border facing off against hezbollah. he's really military is no exceptionally at least you hired, stretched to accommodate the pressures on as a grade or conflict with the rom could push it as well to drastic action. and remember that we know that as well as the noise, it could be in possession of, of significantly a disruptive weapon we, let's say. and the world is watching at to see what happens next. the course we'll be watching to the international community,

rapid swift flight until the deadline is released right on monday. russia and china expressed concern over the escalating tensions in the region. mario convened an emergency un security council meeting over the issue, but western powers used the session to try and shift the blame to a wrong. former us marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter says the as really prime minister has clearly made a willful decision to escalate the regional complex. the 1st well is real, but it has been striking targets in syria, but for some time now for the purpose of interdicting iranian capabilities in syria. and so to have such a senior, a rainy and revolutionary guard commander in syria up together with, you know, a country of other persians in one place was, i think, just too tempting of a target for israel. and the fact that they chose to strike

a building that is protected under diplomatic convention shows that is real no longer cares about the rule of law about international law. and this brings us to the deal, i think there ultimate motiv, benjamin danielle, who understands that he is only viable as a leader of israel, so long as he is in war. he's a wartime leader right now. the moment the current conflict stops, he loses his ability to stay in power, he will be removed from bower. we're looking at a situation where his role is under tremendous pressure to try and wrap up the, the, the, the conflict and gaza, away from us. and israel is looking to expand to lease benjamin netanyahu. his government is looking to expand his conflict. and therefore, his taking the extraordinarily bold and irresponsible actions in hopes that you're on will try, you know, find its way to carry out actions that could be your be get

a larger complex. so i think this is part and parcel. the broader is really strategy of expanding the scope and scale of the conflict in the region. the intensive bottles are taking place across the gaza as the conflict enters its 7th months. israel declared war on him us after the october 7th terrorist attack palestinian officials say more than $33000.00 dozens have since been killed. international groups are crying foul over the humanitarian disaster. over half of the world health organizations, mission requests have been denied or delayed by israel. a group has now finally gained access to the ruins of the enclave largest hospital or the w. h. o has published footage of what remains of i'll see for after months of idea of raids and bombardments, the images so ravaged hospital wards with bodies strewn across the wreckage. following their visit, the members of the un mission referred to the hospital as quote,

an empty shell with graves. a satellite images of l schafer, put the scale of the destruction into perspective, world health organization spokesperson. margaret harris describes the hospitals, loss of someone ripping the heart out of the regions health care system. access to live saving aiden does is now confined to just 12, partially functioning. hospitals like the majority of the knows our ship a hospital once the largest, the most important referral hospital and gaza, is now with them to show off to the late to seek know patients remain at the facility. most of the buildings are extensively damaged or destroyed, and the majority of equipment is on usable or reduced to ashes. the who team said that the scale of devastation has left the facility completely non functional. so the reducing access to live saving health care in garza, the hi. international observers have warns of that around 70 percent of northern dogs as population are close to experiencing catastrophic hunger. their world food

programs has $1.00 and $3.00 children are reported to be severely malnourished. one o d u n organization is also reported. the number of people facing famine has doubled in the last 2 months. while the program is working to provide all possible aid to guys and it staff say their own safety is at risk wells who program has been able here to says 1000000 people every month with food because they completely depend on us. but we have times is we don't have the necessary security guarantees to work here. the people also need to be safe. so for that, for us to really be able to scale out. so i've heard famines so that people don't have to die because they don't have food. we need security guarantees. so us, su, my attendance, but also for the people recess in gaza. hey, that it, i have 3 boys and one girl. they need food. where am i supposed to give them food

from? i can't afford to buy food, everything is so expensive and i have no money. local kitchen, is there a safe place? we come here every day. let's see if we eat whatever we can find. we eat and we think gods. my biggest fee is that when someone leaves the house, they won't come back again. that's all i care about that they come back safely. well now to slovakia, where ukraine skeptic, canada, peter pelligrini has won the presidential election beating a pro western opposition candidates. it's probably granny is a former prime minister who's been holding the seat of parliamentary speaker. he also leads the social democratic party, which stands against escalating the ukraine conflict. the slovak president elect has said he will ensure the country remains on the side of peace. pelligrini is victory, established has full control of all, keep us in the country by the ruling party. the nation joins neighboring hungary,

in opposition to fueling the ukraine conflict, as public really prepares to assume the presidency. his parliamentary deputies says their position is the voice of commonsense against nuclear escalation with russia. he spoke to r. t is a sign of blanco in her world's apart program, which you can watch in full throughout the day right here on our tea. here's a preview. the are very much like the way you frame this one in one of your articles. you wrote that it's wrong that to slavic nations are it's war and that american arms company is making money from in to some extent it's apparent obstacle reality. i want to how do you see this content proceed as an inexplicable or do you think quite the contrary, that it was to some extent predictable that it could have happened? i'm sure this is another conflict between the ukrainian nation and the russian nation. these, the conflict, especially between american and the russia,

and they're kind of rush side. so it's, of course, the west against the russian federation. everybody's skin cds, because if you didn't, would be golfing between ukraine and russia. ukraine wouldn't be law. so, you know, if you base, we don't want this causally so which didn't disclose to the ground floor, i think only to people without any common sense. den, comforting you to basically these calls me that, that's why we are we designing, uh, our and the return and then you will be in boxes because we are in the return. no, because we are and you will be gone for peace. we want to have good dialogue and good relations on the east, on the north, on the south, and west all the, all the arts. so i don't think that our, our positions are gays, to nubian, you know, we usually, we are just the, was of the come on sentencing the european union and i'm going to read the hungary, for example, if you are very critical to the walls of nato, for example in us loudy us or in libya,

this why we are ready for you to go and vc also because he's on the war in ukraine, in these expansion of nato, the . well, this sunday march 30 years since the tootsie genocide in rwanda. right, swap says francis support for the government of rwanda admit the 1994 genocide was quote, tantamount to direct to participation in the war. that act activist group posted that conclusion as it released our times about efforts to alert the international community to the atrocities and enduring lesson from the genocide as the international communities. failure to take heed of the clear signs that preparations for mass atrocities were under way, including warnings from human rights defenders who put their lives on the line to sound the alarm. despite the passage of time, victims deserve to see those responsible for genocide and other crimes, arrested and prosecuted in fair and credible trials for years could assume. so this

has been that to major international actors, policy makers in the u. s. and the u. n. o understood the gravity of the one to genocide within the 1st 24 hours, even if they could not have predicted the mass of told at the slow task would eventually take. but aside from that, there's also phones and the heat enrolled. we played in the genocide oppress advisory by the human rights watch arms project reiterates the january 1994 reports . conclusions including the francis support to the government of rwanda was tantamount to direct participation in the war and calls on french troops deployed to rolanda, as part of an evacuation force to be replaced with neutral forces from other countries. globally, historians have spent the last few years poring over government archives to come at to cables and military falls. the conclusion, france was not directly complicit in the one does mass killings, but french so far as he supported the violent and extreme is government. they were

blind to its preparations for the mess. okay. and reacted to slowly to stop the genocide. some argue that this means paris, therefore, biz over wyoming responsibilities for the tragedy, something is slats out of retreats through london. crisis ended in disaster for rwanda and, and to feed for france. but as france complicit in the genocide of the tutsis, if this means a willingness to be associated with the genocidal enterprise, nothing in the archives consulted proves that efforts to improve relations with the one that president to manual. mcclung commissioned an investigation and opened the archives to the public. let me of smoking gun was found proving differential villages direct involvement. the killers have stopped the swamps, the hills, the churches did not have the face of france. france was not to go to the companies, but some of those to survive the horrors of the genocide unconvinced and were lift, disappointed by the french findings, even the very man who lived to the rebellion,

but in the small town as regularly accused friends of complicity in the crimes 20 years later, the only thing you can say against the french in their eyes is they didn't do enough to save lives during the genocide. that's a fact, but it hides the main point, the direct role of belgium and france and the political preparation of the genocide and the participation of the letter. and it's very execution people still came from . so it's not only involved in the vin spin passivity but actually enabled genocide to read support for the who to receive before during and after the killings between $9.00 to $90.19. it is true that the one that was in the state of the economy, social and political turmoil, and that to the international community was reluctant to come to aid how it boxed. the complicity of this does not to the gate. the great responsibility of france was close populous. it allowed it to profit from alms deals and strategic positioning. what happened into one that was more than

a crime. it was an event. so that seemed to mandatory rwandan research or an analyst to get to obtain during a both says the incumbent in french government has no right to try and absolve paris over its rule in the african nations tragedy. i don't think strands hold how's the genocide because brands was actually helping the government the plus committing the jennifer. i find that's the that's totally misleading because it's like asking people a lot. so i think it turned in all that stuff the whole course yet if that is well fresh use for in alliance, we did not see. and so when france residents, they france with us the, they pulled have stopped. but they were also supporting the government that was conducting the genocide. so he's very me see these bit, man, it's revision is the strength of breast instead of on the side of the victims. yes . yes. drums was on the side of the key that there's no money you can be to replace

the media on people to run them. it's never us any money. and you can buy station from friends because we don't want the money because it would mean that the, our people die have the price. we don't care about spence because the composition, the admission of beauty is also have heart. there is not the least eats the, say, the od, and they said that it was for us, that'd be the strongest liability unit for cbo, general se, as though the wasn't not informed about every detail of it. so we don't want them to have that conversation. no, i think it's russian authorities have arrested suspected members of a terrorist. so believe to have been directly involved in the recent attack on the concert hall in moscow. authorities said the suspects provided money and weaponry for the attack. and we're also planning other strikes and the country investigators have said the concert hall. and so that was linked to ukraine.

personal forties of also supported another potential attacks that you've created with a cargo of explosives hidden in church icons that was seized on the left. the in border ortiz, either stand off, has the details. inside these boxes is more than 70 kilograms of extra powerful explosives, hidden with a truly devilish cunning inside charge plates and the icons. intercepted on the lot, the rush of buddha, the unholy cargo bull markings in ukrainian, unequivocally pointing to the country of origin. as the driver confessed, explosives made quite a voyage across europe. i was given the entire package of documents after which i moved to russian territory to the city of moscow, where the unloading was supposed to take place. i drove through romania, reached the romanian hungarian boat where i submitted all the necessary documents.

i was examined and checked. no problems were identified after which i drove into the shrinking zone. there were no obstacles on the road while manufactured and packed and key if it was shipped all the way to the town of chet enough to see where it crossed into romania. easily sneaking under the raiders of the boat, the gods, which is a dumb founding slip on their behalf. since for the past 2 years, the ukraine mania boy that has been among the tightest in the world, both ukrainian and romanian. both the gods have been viciously effective at preventing both contraband and ukrainians who are fleeing mobilization from crossing the border, you can see they were pulling literally no punches here. but this time a little truckload of explosives somehow evaluated this company. and the same case of selective blindness before the colleagues on the on gary and board, where the payload entered the you and as well in lock for you to wherever they

allow the shipment into russia. if it wasn't for the russian both a guard. well, the consequences would have been cataclysmic, wish list the power of this explosive was one and a half times greater than the power of t. n t. the mass of the seized explosive is sufficient to blow up a 5 story residential building, and it gets west. disassembled. b, g project tiles was stuffed inside the church utensils but it wasn't just because this was placed here on purpose so that it does not dangle everything was here, like this. and twin say 7 church icons were actually we purpose to serve as independent. i these via the that's in addition to, to be 7 to kilo's, simply hidden inside the cargo. that pages were shipped in the same delivery for the industrial sabotaged users with sets of moderators used by special units of the

armed forces to commit sabotage were found in the icons kits for assembling, improvised explosive devices. we're also found in the icons and when that person comes through church over our, the, the icon, the cta data, of course, he wants to some how to pray and don't think about potential danger, which could come from the night come. that is why is an awful way, how they are trying to use these in these trust that people act to actually have thoughts, icons to, to cube them. this is totally a in humane and i think it only can come from those who don't have any any just any clue of morality. last year we reported in a very similar case when ukraine tried smuggling explosives into russia by hiding them inside electric stove tops. background security services prevented attacks against the governor of crime in,