of billions, react the as western states seek to protect, to their power across south east asia. in the pacific states remain committed to peace and stability in the region pets, as they james ford minister, visits the card as part of a multi state tour as indian take to the polls. western media try to overshadow the process by casting doubt on the countries of democracy. this actually reminds me some of the audio single stage. i know it was a lot of clear back plays at all. john, i'm the list for jean from the rest of the waters. i'm abroad for her to get pulled. there's a bunch really photo out of defendants and really told him was the decision they

think that'd be the process. growth surpassed as the western countries, the pleasure to leave moscow's economy in tatters, but are now left trailing, supporting to the international monetary fund, and no donations, only loans us lawmakers consider a $16000000000.00 bill for ukraine abandoning unconditional aid and reserving one 3rd of the psalm for us manufacturers, the retail rouble live in the russian capital. you're watching our t international. western states seek to project their power and the politics in the in the pacific. well, china and the news both reiterate their commitment to peace and stability always comes as paging, stop diplomat visits to card on a multi state tour of the region the, the biggest companies, the indonesia, pierce,

the comprehensive strategic partnership will continue to be nurtured in the spirit of cooperation, mutual respect and mutual benefit, indonesia read the read and it's commitment to maintaining stability and peace in the, in the pacific id, in the pacific stability and peace will only be realized of all parties, respect international law. indonesia appreciates, joining the supports for the so outlook on the in the pacific will have responsibility to keep our region peaceful and stable. what's the sides also agreed to strengthen their cooperation? china is the country's biggest trading partner, and the 2nd biggest for an investor, for indonesia is china, is the 2nd biggest investment destination. and ministers also touched upon the complex and the importance of an immediate cease fire in the casa to this course live. now to our take contributor carl, john, carl, how can china and indonesia helped maintain peace in the end a pacific given the tensions that we've seen?

well, 1st or indonesia is a world 4th largest. uh huh. sports most populous country in the world was 275000000 people. and indonesia is also the world's largest muslim majority country. and what is recent sol has show recent survey shows the majority of malaysians and donations per for china over us. and this is because us each i need the investment has been pouring into the region, particularly into areas of infrastructure energy. on fridays, i live on the balls leaking donasia here. i'm talking to you over the for g network bill by far away the electricity is provided by the chinese bill power plant, north of bali and china is everywhere. and, and right now, united states is being seen as a destabilizing factor in the south is trying to see, you know, nature and china, they do not have here to dispute in. so i was trying to seize

a donation being was the most important member in the ac on is citing with china to preserve state ability in the region because that's in the interest of majority of the countries. is that border south china sea. you know, it's a very important to see lane and most of the country in south east asia have a very close economic highest we, china, didn't you, didn't, china is, you know, nation is top trading partner. and the top 4, you invested into the new nature, a single board, china and hong kong. a lot of the money is coming from a single point in hong call are actually chinese money seeking alternative channels . so the 2 economies very i leading to the line and they in donation meters, do not want to rock the boat. so karl, how do you foresee the evolving role of aussie on in the region particularly considering the interactions with initiatives such as august as well sir?

support is off in the nation. do not like the fact that i do not like to see a militarized australia. it's solid in border this. you know, the fact that august is all about australia acquiring new, clear summaries is not looking upon kindly inviting donasia. you know, is this, is it because you're all, you're actually do not order china or so i was trying to see there's indonesia is it is between us, your ali, uh mad china us. and so, you know, nation as well will be caught in the middle and this is the last thing the donation meters want to see is to see the region get caught in the crossfire of a militarized alliance like ok, isn't that a china? so in what ways and can all see on member states engage with or respond but strategically to the formation of august to ensure their interests are protected and regional security remain stable? well one thing, you know, one of the excuses. busy there's

a so called the pivot to asia. the us strategy to militarize to this the south china sea is to claim that us is here to preserve state ability is because of the country in the region wants us to extend the security blanket. why? and i, c o is a for on, for all south seas asian nations, you know, you donasia is a buried board member. and this is where the r a, c, a nation could make their voice heard, you know, like bait preferred trades over a consultation right now. it does not sign us that's causing people to take sides. fido wants to trade with everybody. it's united states, best buy, asking people to pick between china and us. it's either your way or the highways you are using with us or against us. that's. that's not the position that the countries like, you know, in addition to like to pick, you know, be in southeast asia and people who are preferred to be friends of an enemy of not call job reporting for us and from a bully. carl,

thank you. thank you. well, a less than 24 hours, india will begin the largest extra size of democracy in the world. nearly 1000000000 voters will go to the pulse and a 6 week long parliamentary election with the 1st phase. starting on friday, we are bringing these special coverage of the event the that while waiting for polling stations to open, india has been the celebrating the upcoming election with people seems dancing and marching in the streets. voters will choose the representatives in the lower house of parliament as the lots of boss. the party with the majority will form a government and appoint one of its winning candidates. as prime minister are 2 things and sharma has more on what's expected in the election. and the coverage is getting abroad when you talk about the venetian, all the info,

the pointing towards the one direction that's moving from will be in fact he sees that his political bossy b to b will basically get more than $400.00 seats out of the $543.00 parliament, the seeds set up for grabs that small them the 1st and the 2nd, that's no reason the movie had that basically. and when you look at the more these approved more readings, the highest and the wall that makes sense, the most popular lead in the was with the slice that the western press, the kind of coverage that thinking elections are getting. the kind of coverage, the names and what he's getting, getting to give you an example with democracy on the track in learning to me all these india, how free on say will this is election. b dash drug who's almost recalled election drives, the z india. now despise any doubts within the can see about

the elections, not the see. all say the western press continues to do what does the best, which is the book that knows in, in things they don't even understand very well. for example, in india, in elections and lots conducted by a bunch of different boxes. well, the government directions are conducted by an independent body bullet election commission of india. an election commission of india has in fact been doing connections in the country for several years in india. in fact has one of the most when machinery is to conduct elections and 1400000000 people in this country and india. and that's elections just fine. having said that, this will cover the election during the cisco and politics we yes, i can tell one thing that i know when they took the dig seems to be made to the. * world has counted that as close as going to happen on the 5th of shoot. earlier,

my colleague nikki aaron spoke with a panel of indian experts about the upcoming elections. they said indians don't care much about foreign attempts to influence the voting process and are focused on reinforcing the achievements the country has had them both as i find them to the aster costing. that was how did you compare it with western countries? the voting for centuries, union guys, pretty high. and so that shows that the new people of the new prospect wants and you will make the choices at the, at the bottom and fox. right now, the brothers ultimately electronic 14 machine. i'm being the largest democracy, the one is naturally a huge and gone to an x. the cyberspace is a lot of influence. 15 from the rest of the lots of them abroad who want to want to have somebody bring the election has been going on for

a long time. i mean this could be invalid, honestly and obligations are open data games that are included in the media about india and, and then sort of negative stories that sort of died to downplay the a cheap months of the southern government. so these things are going to happen to the available, but i don't think this bothers us much. it's really portal own independent and the really the most decision making that'd be have done over so many years. i'd like to ask you about the headlines that we're seeing in the west and mainstream media or about the threats to democracy on voting bribes. why do we see such a narrative this? uh, actually the lines needs, um, uh, i think the audio singles when china was riley and there was a lot of very bad plays of all john and the list. so was the daily subsided, the media awaiting a god. oh,

john now wants to be against china. so what is happening in india? india is being the uh, the democracy, the sort of problems so far, some really go to us. we have the mindset of the web for the week. but people really don't want the government. so uh, you know, a week ago and the, the, the decision making so harder then game barely just strong, started making decisions that he started making bought or not just really the base of the wind. all these uh, electronics do not use the campaign of the body. these all 99 percent on the the glass. so, you know, we uh, from we have this and your, uh, the message. it is now the question of stabilizing this process this uh, very happy that it will be the house. it is the election stop that will, you know, we just go to the other, stay with our

t throughout this weekend in the coming months as we're bringing special coverage of india's parliamentary elections that were run through june starting friday, april 19th. the russia is toys to outpace europe and the us in economic growth rising ahead of all other western advanced economies in 2024. and that's after the i m f increase to the countries that growth forecasts. so we have revised the russia as g d p. now a growth in for 2024 by 0.6, percentage point 23.2 percent. so this is a significant upward revision. and the numbers are quite astounding. the i m f which let's be honest, right? it is no friends to russia. it has a restaurant that grabbing at 3.2 percent and as opposed to west and god was like

the u. k. no point 5 percent frogs, no point service and germany allegedly us power. how's it going to be the i mean no point 2 percent. they really bring out the number of factors as to why this is happening. um, which we, we see here living in russia, which many people outside may not have study or that support they haven't. the slight down biden's idea to put in quite crushed. russia is not happens or less bolt, so i'll put a, a little time high really strong investment from the corporate sector. strong buying power here from rushing can stream is actually going out and buying things. um, and then of course the russian government hasn't slowed down its spending commitments is just increased the. yeah, it's true. i did have a good laugh when i read this report because as you said, for anyone who lives in moscow and rush to it like we know this is reality. but the west, it seems like they're finally having to admit, however things across the atlantic is that use big brother bearing the same economic burden stuff? absolutely not a nice thing, right. so we saw the inflation reduction. i cycled policy. if the bye didn't

administration it, i was trying to forcibly move west that you repeat and businesses to the us, and it's had a catastrophic effect. i mean, let's have a listen to a clip from, from administering farms, talking exactly about this. it could be the am f, has just released it's new forecasts. and what is striking is that you're up to level of growth is persistently lower than that of the united states. why is that? because it has been keep much harder than any other continent by the water in ukraine and by the search and gas and oil prices. but also because there's a lack of productivity in europe. so as we can see from, from that to it, right. and it's just not looking good of soul for the french or of the year of it seems that a kind of been left the flounder time to make these high uh, oil and gas prices due to the conflict. can you try us? doesn't need to worry about that. the us has an oil and gas in it, so black belt, in its own country, i never, it's, it's the geographical location. so it's weston towns, the pots, and it looks like they really struggling now. interesting. well,

what are the productions for next year? well, the growth remains study. yeah, it's a really great question, rachel, looking at the numbers, he have it coming directly from the volume, and they also take to me slow down. and is that still russia at $2.00, the same price? if you look at the other numbers that really catastrophic the, the, for that, for the west and counts of pos that we're looking at here. financial expert and author, mark free, direct, says gloomy economic forecasts were germany stem from the government's failure to priorities. national, prioritize, national interest over the geopolitical agenda, the escaped mail. is it clear or several reasons for this? of course the energy transition that has failed. we have very expensive electricity, we're no longer competitive. and of course, we see a lot of uncertainty among companies. energy intensive companies in particular, are suffering at the same time, the high se the interest rates mean that more and more companies are facing difficulties. we have record levels of corporate in solving sees and of course, geo political tension around the world. we still see record levels of debt and

a relatively high price of electricity, which is not competitive. and we see that companies from germany, such as the hell from bible and are producing goods in switzerland and switzerland is a country with high prices and high wages. so it's even switzerland is now cheaper than, for example germany. this should be a worrying sign that germany is no longer competitive. we see that germany is the only country from the big 7 that is in recession and right at the bottom. and therefore, i do not harbor such hopes, like misses the guard and have a more realistic outlook. i think this is why the decline will continue as long as we have the wrong government. and of course, the wrong central bank policy every day, every month, every year, when the government makes wrong historical decisions, we will move into a dubious future as for the energy issue, the collateral damage will be all the more significant for germany. russia does not depend on fossil fuels because it can by large amounts of raw materials,

metals and energy itself, organize them and organize them cheaply. and this certainly makes russia resilient . our government brings us immense prosperity because id, ology is a priority for us over common sense. what other country closes operating safe nuclear power plants. what other country is engaged in an in direct more with its most important raw material partner, which is on the same content at the top, you officials have criticize brussels authorities for the attempt to forcibly close the conference of representatives of right wing forces by a put a police correct down the middle is branded undemocratic and unconstitutional. archie correspondence, charlotte davinsky has the details. a conservative voices in your boss celebrating off the cold. over turned the bond on that russell's comb, friends seems a few local mess decided that they should have more power than the belgian

constitution. sending the police to close the meeting down that riled up organizes. it's really something out of a 10 part dictatorship. they're trying to use a technical reason to make it political points. they told the owner that if it doesn't get shut down, they're going to cut the electricity better on board. this politician? no i so far i was was on stage when the police were at the door. now he tried to make light of the situation. the police a big in colorado to come in and shut down this conference by of even been speaking to the k service. so the food hasn't arrived, the place haven't arrived once the whole, the drinks have when they arrive. sorry, it wasn't the neat big name in town. there was also the hon gary and prime minister victor open, who was due to speak. so too was the former

u. k. home secretary. so while a brave woman, the binding of a conference with such big names made a big splash belgium's overpayment if it was more to find his country's constitution was held by the local legs in such little regard. what happens at the cloud, rich, today is unacceptable. municipal autonomy is a corner stone, the fall democracy, but can never over over belts and constitutional guarantee, the freedom of speech and peaceful assemblies. since 1830 banning political meetings is unconstitutional. full stop, a victory for free speech die perhaps. but this creep of if we don't like what you say or think we will find you is spreading of the less high profile incidence attract significantly less controversy. take a pro palestinian meeting that was due to be held in berlin a few days ago. where was the outrage from western politicians when the police were

called to shut it down? oh yes, they was intending building police to turn the power of the venue. so one of the speakers appearing by video link event was prohibited from doing so. a speaker was projected who was subject to a band and political activity. there is a risk that a speaker will be repeatedly shown by a video in the past made and submitted remarks and glorified violence. for this reason, the gathering was ended in bond on saturday and sunday as well. ok to this had a different take. the police violence, like we was some sort of criminals, was unbearable for democratic country. they not only stormed the stage, the depaula, like we would transmit in violence, left between greek, fully not assuming this, the youngest bar of focus was due to speak at that meeting. he didn't even make it into germany also being followed by the countries interior,

minnesota because the german police at don't buy the whole of the political system of the federal republic of germany, boasting and prevented jews. but as the means and the rest of us wanted to have a congress during which to discuss these, the conservation, good existence, universe of human rights, from the golden rule, or do they make it that any and c, german police proved to be younger. reasonable doubt by bursting in an interrupting live stream, grabbing the microphone ending that magnificent congress that flashes me does not need to win government in order to be in power. while it's easy to say that these are isolated incidents, that's just not the case. because bonding, all ideas or controlling the narrative is something that you has the history of doing the guy they find all to you from broad costing back and even from within nations is concerned that brussels loves to use

a bit of political blackmail to get everyone singing from the same song sheet, it's clear that alternative voices on welcome, unless we will march to the same drum beats you too could find yourself on the wrong side of the ministry of truth that says you've had a bit too much to think. us national security agency is close to vastly expanding it's already far reaching surveillance powers that's according to a bill that could be quietly passed on capital hill later this week for me or. and as a contractor and whistle blower, edward snowden is calling out the move in a last ditch attempt to raise awareness about what it will mean the national

security agencies just days from taking all of the and that's and it's not on the front page of funding use paper because no one has noticed under the current u. s. foreign intelligence surveillance act, electronic communications providers like google are obligated to send the n a say all the information required on the agencies targets. however, the proposed bill would see that authority expanded to include any company or individual providing internet related services. john to reaku, former us intelligence officer and host of the whistle blower show right here on our t shared his take on the ramifications. a very quiet lead. they have elected to expand anastasia authority to intercept communications. so it's not just targets now, individual targets. terrorist groups accused terrace point spies. it's literally anybody that has anything to do with the internet. that means you and me. now this

is coupled with an earlier decision by n s a c i a and f b. i to go directly to internet service providers and purchase meta data as if they were a commercial entity, a private company. rather than to go to court and ask for a subpoena or a court order to gather this wholesale grab of information related to people that have nothing to do with terrorism. counter intelligence with drugs, with anything, with anything. what the intelligence community here in the united states wants to do is just have free access to all information on all people, without any probable cause, without any legal reason for seeking this information. that's what we object to, that at the very least has to be the red line, the farthest out red line. i would argue that we should go back to september 10th,

2001. but at the very least, the government should have to show probable cause and it doesn't us over to the u. k. now, where hundreds of people i've taken to the streets to protest against london support for israel waving palestinian flags. protesters demanded the government stop selling arms to tell of the protest was also. busy for an immediate cease fire in gaza, bmo and parliament m p. george galloway put prime minister research to knock on the spot over his inability to influence israel's position. because the prime minister told us that he was off to make a telephone call to mister annette. santiago to restrain our government that has killed and maimed well over a 100000 people in 6 months. 72 percent of them, women and children are going to tell us how the telephone call went on board. he will do is advice is not on the restraint,

more begins to speak of both please to speak with prime minister netanyahu, who signed the u. k. so the support of israel security over the weekend. we also discussed the situation in how they roland is isolated on the world stage. and also i made the point to him that significant escalation is not in anyone's interest. and it's a time to call him has to prevail by all sides. reiterated our concerns about this amount of terran situation in goal is that when i welcome the statements and commitments of each already governments have made about significantly increasing a into gaza. and now we need to see those commitments delivered across to 70000 people signed a petition calling on the u. k. government to stop arming. israel. this came after conservative m p. alicia kern said the u. k for an office had failed to announce that had received official legal advice. the israel broken international law, the british governments arms export guidelines allow it to revoke licenses if there

are suspicions that the export of weapons might be used in serious violations of enter national humanitarian law. meanwhile, a new public opinion poll and 5 european countries shows sanctions against israel have wide spread the public approval, at least half of voting, age responded and said they support a ban on arms trade with israel. a significant number of people also agree with the allegations that as well as committing a genocide against the palestinians in guys, i'm the executive director of the palestine institute for public diplomacy. i know, as of the rest, like says, western governments don't seem to be listening to their own populations. calling was the important to do in order to show the governments, the, their public opinion is actually in support of fundraising and rights. unfortunately, you know, the governments are, again disconnected from their public opinion. so unfortunately, the governments are following a, you know, a political agenda,

and that is the one that is supporting is really interest and not the one else piece or justice. the one that we need to see uh, you know, for a durable and adjust piece in, in the future, which is actually with the respect of a senior national rights. and i've kind of seen in people's rights. so these governments uh, you know, continued to have this colonial approach and unfortunately, until they change this ally and so with israel, that they're not waiting to let down right now seems to be in the latest attempt to get a controversial for an aide package. it passed us lawmakers have decided to break it all down into several separate bills, including a $16000000000.00 deal for you. crime congress members who are expected to vote on a proposal on saturday. want to loan the money instead of donating it to key of more on this now from our new york based correspondent caleb mountain,

as well after months of the house of representatives, delaying and debating the nature of upcoming aid from the united states to ukraine . we now have a new set of bills that have been put forward in the lower house of the us congress . now they have divided funding for ukraine funding for israel and funding for the government on taiwan from each other into 3 separate bills. the bill for ukraine provides ukraine with attack them's missiles, as well as $61000000000.00. however, it's not simply a guess, it will be a loan which ukraine will be required to reimburse the united states for the president of the united states will be authorized under the bill to negotiate the terms of ukraine reimbursing the united states for the 61000000000 dollars the important to note the 61000000000 dollars but not all just be directly given to you . crane a 3rd of.