was, could have been a doctor, or nurse could have been the next president overtake, keep losing that people out here. the as western states has take to projects of their power across south east asia in the pacific states remain committed to these tense ability in the region at the staging foreign minister visits to car to as part of a multi state tour as indian say to the full western media try to overshadow the process by casting doubt on the countries democracy. feelings for change from home or rest of the lots of the broad street we bought on independence and delete decision making. the solar, you know, donations only loans us lawmakers. consider

a $16000000000.00 bill for ukraine abandoning unconditional aid and preserving one 3rd of us, some for us manufacturers and rushes grocer passes. the western countries up clutch slave mazda of the economy in tatters that are now left the trailer. that's according to the international monetary fund. the are watching r t international. i'm rachel ruble live in moscow. western states to speak to projects, their power and politics in the endo pacific, while china and indonesia both reiterate their commitment to peace and stability. let's come to the staging, stop diplomat. visits to card on a multi state tour of the region. the biggest of 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 its commitment to

maintaining stability and peace and the end the pacific and the pacific stability and peace will only be realized of all parties, respect international law. indonesia appreciates, trying to support for the s o outlook on the in the pacific. we'll have responsibility to keep our region peaceful and stable. economists feel emission for administer loves more modest to the under line that china is one of the nation's most important part. here is the look at the economy by lateral between the 2 countries. try not, is it a new chas largest trading partner? we treat folder reaching more than a $127000000000.00 us dollars. and if we look at the forwarding in foster segments, try not also contributed with an investment value of more than $7400000.00 u. s. all our last year bought the bilateral discussion, not only focused on economy field, but also on tackling and preventing

b cross border crimes, especially online scans, because it will look at previous cheeses. many nations have fallen into this traps and became the victim of the so called online scans. therefore, in nation for administer blip, no modest to be in. why that one e as the chinese for administer to tap co n p exact best to stop further things happened in the future. and if we talk about the relationship between trip car dot and b drink is also important to highlight that the vision president elect softball was to be on both disappear. be june earlier of april this year, march, this is the 1st country that he fisted as the image and president elect. this of course shows the importance relations between the 2 on trees,

where both countries highlighted the importance and also all the economy and also infrastructures relations that has been beneficial for both countries. and how, what president jo, call we do to has done will also be continued jerry and probable c, b, untrusted leadership in the future are taken tribute or carl jobs says aust, in countries do not see confrontation in the region. unlike office indonesia, do not like the fact that i do not like to see a militarized australia united solid and border the us strategy to militarize. this, the south china sea is to claim that us is here to preserve state ability is because the country in the region wants us to extend the security blanket of why and i c o is a for on, for all southeast asia, nations of, you know, you know nature is a buried board member, and this is where the ac

a nation could make their voice heard, you know, like they, they preferred trade over a consultation right now is not china that's forcing people to take sides. fine wants to trade with everybody is united states. that's asking people to pick between china and us. it's either your way or the highway you're using with us or against us. that's. that's not the position that the countries like. you know, any of these like to pick people who are preferred to be friends of an enemy of not less than 24 hours. india will begin the largest extra size of democracy in the world. nearly $1000000000.00 voters will go to the polls in a 6 week long parliamentary election with the 1st phase starting on friday, we're bringing a special coverage of the events. the

while waiting for pulling stations to open. india has been the celebrating the upcoming election with people seem dancing and marching in the streets. voters will choose the representatives in the lower house of parliament to most of us. the party with the majority will form a government and a point one of its winning candidates. it is a prime minister. our cesar engine sharma has more on what to expect from the election kind of coverage is getting abroad. when you talk about the mood of the nation, all the opinion bulls are pointing towards one direction that's in the range of all the. in fact, he sees that his political body bgp will basically get $12.40 seats out of the $543.00 fall level and receipts that off for brabs that small them the for us. and the 2nd that's know, ring the more the had that basically if and when you look at the more these approved or waiting is the highest and the wall that makes them the most popular lead in the was with the spice that the western press, the kind of coverage that they do the elections a guessing defend itself,

which the names more these get guessing to give you an example with democracy on the thread in that range of all these in the hall, free and said, will, this is election, b dash drugs to almo, recalled election drive, sees the india. now this finds any doubts within the can see about the elections, not we see all fan, the western press continues to do what and does the best, which is the book that i know is in, in things they don't even understand very well. for example, in india, in elections and lots conducted by ability to box and go the document directions are conducted by an independent body folded election commission of india. and the election division of india has in fact been doing, conducting directions in the country for several years in india, in fact has one of the most well oil. we seem to reach to conduct elections and

a 101400000000 people in this country and india and that's elections just fine. having said that, as doing this, who's got what it actually was doing? this was gold politics? the yes, i think the one thing that nope, with a degree predictions should be made to the last world has counted. that of course is going to happen on the full overshoot. 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 countries achievements in dealing voters. and by dental's, he asked in costing that was, how did you compare it with western countries? the whole team less than 2 is union guys pretty high. and so that shows that they knew people of the new cost that wants and you'll make the choices at the, at the bottom of the box,

but not on the bottom. it's about smoking. so electronic voting machines being the largest democracy in the world. this is naturally a huge and gone to exercise, to inspection from the rest of the bottles and abroad. you want to want to have somebody bring the election. what has been going on for a long time? be aware of it. i mean, this could be in philadelphia and operations on open data games that are included in the media about india and then some sort of negative stories that sort of tied to downplay the achieve months of the federal government. these things are going to happen date and we are fully available. so i don't think this bothers us much. it's really photo own independent and the really the bottomless decision making. that'd be done over so many years. i'd like to ask you about the headlines that we're seeing in the west and mainstream media are about switch 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 in china was rising and there was a lot of very bad plays about john and the list. so was the daily subsided, then the media awaited a god, the china now once again against china. so what is happening in india, india is being the uh, the mobility. there were certain problems so far. so i'm going to go to yes, we had mentioned the web for the week, particularly the $1.00 visiting the, the government. so, you know, a week ago and the, the, the decision maybe so harder then game maybe just strong, started making decisions the started making, bought or not just really the base of the wind of the electronics do not use

the campaign of the bodies of 99 percent on the development of glass. so, you know, we, we have this and your, uh, the listings. it is now the question of stabilizing this process. very happy that will be the election stop that will you know, we just do it within a day. stay with us throughout this week and in the coming months as we bring you some coverage of india's parliamentary elections that will run through june and starting friday, april 19th. the in the latest attempts to get the controversial for an aide package past due as lawmakers have decided to break it all down into several separate bills, including a $16000000000.00 deal for ukraine. house speaker mike johnson has vowed to support

the bill despite his previous top stance against even considering it what i'm doing here. what i believed to be the right thing. i think for providing legal aid, do you agree in right now is critically important before we even talk about ukraine? i'm going to tell the president when i'm telling all of you, and we've told the american people border border border, we need a clarity on what we're doing in ukraine, and how will have proper oversight of the spending a precious taxpayer dollars and american citizens. the republican warehouse will not be jammed or forced into passing or for an aid bill that was opposed by most republican senators and does nothing to secure our own board. it is time for washington to start showing some loved to americans. now many are looking at johnson, the current speaker of the house, who is a republican and smelling a bit of hip hop prosy. he's previously opposed giving a do ukraine, but he appears to be supporting the current bill and the current proposal. so many

are looking along with a bit of frustration. marjorie taylor green, and some of the mog or republicans are not with him on this. you. speaker johnson voted against $300000000.00 for ukraine before we gave you the gabble along with the majority of republicans. no one understands why it is now, your top priority to give you crime $60000000000.00 more dollars your seriously out of step with republicans by continuing to pass bills, dependent on democrats. everyone sees through this 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 gift, it'll 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 $61000000000.00 the board in the notes, the $61000000000.00 will not all just be directly given to you. crane a 3rd of it will be given to us weapons manufacturers. and the president will have the authority to wave or disavow or make clear, and no longer has to be paid up to 50 percent president joe biden, who seems to be getting a little desperate in his rhetoric saying that this $61000000000.00 is necessary because without it, russia will be then storming into europe and invading european union countries. for us it's, i'm smith's, the boot is false. as we move closer than ever tell nate to allies dismissed the boot and they say you need to ally. we will come to its aid as our and these are

allies, the for us after the september 11th attacks, we should say supports the grading now just missed a booty and from encroaching no, no naser allies and show that he doesn't draw us to scenes of future war and europe . now, the russian president has made abundantly clear he has no intention of inciting nato members or european union countries, but that has not stopped my den and nato leaders from making this claim over and over again. when trying to justify their pro long of the conflict in ukraine. now at this point, people are looking at the new mobilization law in ukraine and wondering if the fact that this will be a debt that ukraine has to pay, it'll be a loan. and the terms of the loans re payment will be negotiated by the president. people wonder if that is already being leverage to control ukraine and it's government policies. this new mobilization in ukraine is certainly not popular and

it's certainly unpleasant for many men in the country. so voting on this bill in the house of representatives is expected to take place on saturday. there's a certainly a new development in the congressional battles surrounding us involvement in the ukrainian conflict and the supplier of the american taxpayer money to the government and the american political analysts. christopher hello le offered us his view on the way the divisive bill is being used by power players in washington. of course, the timing is amazing at a given the fact that it, whether bite in wins or loses, it will still be able to make the executive decision to wipe out the debt. and then either way, help point. you know, if president for president trump is re elected, you'll put a to bind on him to enforce the other 50 percent and ensure that the united states is paid back. you have to imagine that there are a lot of machinations going on behind the scenes to ensure that you have get this

money and the cube doesn't have to pay. and so of course, that date is very, very humorous for us to recognize that given the fact that now binding is losing so badly in the bull, and that his approval rating is taking that they realize that even if he kept less until, you know, uh, another time at least give him on november 15th or so. the right off the that 50 percent of the debt for kids to the crane, not nato. that's the message from the blocks of chief against dalton berg, who says, sending a dekalb should take priority over nato's own that capability targets, including limited, expensive american patriot air defense systems. i'm a so encouraged by invocation stuff to us. congress may take up a further aid to train in the coming days, but the crane needs even more that this why if allies face a choice between meeting, they don't compete to targets and providing more aid to ukraine. my message is

clear, send more to ukraine. we have a systems available that is a, is a big enough to enable us to deliver significantly more to ukraine when it comes to air defense in general. and also when it comes to a picture of buttress. and that's exactly what do i work in the, to this find a weakening of nato's potential and to stay for a backend key of stilton bird has supported jo. biden's claims that russell won't stop at ukraine warning that the alliance should stay ready for a possible conflict with moscow. former us marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter says if prussia post a real danger tomato, the alliance would prioritize develop, making its own defense systems. not helping ukraine. first and foremost, we have to understand that by doing this young stone, very exposure as the lives of his own statements that portray rushes. a threat to europe is a rush, is a threat to nato. if fresh was truly a threat to nato,

then no natal nation would talk about giving up it's critical national security infrastructure, especially air defense for which there was a great shortage at this present time. so it points out that there's, there's a lot of hypocrisy in um, in the, in the, in the stance taken by a young storm. bergen indeed, all other western officials who talk about the to ship a weapon. read to you create the nato, has made a decision that ukraine is the decisive point that had in ukraine right now is the opportunity to inflict harm, to inflict damage, which be frank, to kill russians. installed. virg is a non military politician who's making political statements that haven't been cleared with the constituent members of nato. well, each natal member has their own domestic political reality as they have to deal

with. and in many cases, these realities do not allow them to transfer weapons. do you crate as freely, is he on stolberg would like russia is boys to outpace europe in the us and economic growth, racing ahead of all other western advanced economies in 2024. that's after the i m f increased the countries that growth forecast. so we have revised russia as gdc number a gross in for 2024 by 0.6, percentage point 23.2 percent. so this is a significant port revision. the numbers are all quite astounded beyond that, which let's be honest right to, there's no friends to russia. it has the restaurant that grabbing at 3.2 percent. and as opposed to western cars like the u. k. no point 5 percent frogs, no point service, and germany allegedly new its power. how's economy? i mean, north point 2 percent, they really bring out the number of factors as to why this is happening. and which

we, we see here living in russia, which many people outside may not have study or will exploit the habit to slide down biden's idea to put in quite crushed. russia is not happens oil less bolt. so i'll put a little time high really strong investment from the corporate sector, strong buying power here from russian consume is actually going out and buying things. and, 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 or in russia like we know this is reality. but the west, it seems like they're finally having to admit, how are things across the atlantic, is that use big brother bearing the same economic burden stuff? absolutely not that i thing, right? so we saw the inflation reduction exercise group policy. if the bye didn't administration it, i was trying to forcibly move west that you are p and businesses to the us and it's out of 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 your 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 content in by the war 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? so it's just not looking good of for, for the french all of the year. if it seems that they kind of elect the flounder and doing these high uh, oil and gas prices due to the conflict. can you cried. the us doesn't need to worry about that. the us has oil and gas in it seemed like y'all in its own country. i never it's, it's a geographical location, so it's west and kinds of parts and it looks like they really struggling now. interesting. well, what are the projections for next year? well, the growth remains study. yeah, it's a really great question, rachel, looking at the numbers, he has it coming directly from the eye. they also take things slow down, but 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 pots that we're looking at here. financial expert and author, mark friedrich says gloomy economic forecasts for germany stem from the government's failure to prioritize national interest over the g. a political agenda, an escaped man. is it clear? are several reasons for this. of course the energy transition that has failed. we have very expensive electricity, we are 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 if 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 save 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. the top e. u officials have criticized brussels authorities for their attempt to forcibly closed the conference of representatives of right wing forces with a police crackdown. then it was branded undemocratic, and unconstitutional. the attendees of the conference, say the attack on free speech is deplorable, but not a new trends. you know, the support of the conservative parties are nigel fellows, another supporter of extra support, a free speech. and i think he was deplorable. who man effectively done a local conference or political conference. unfortunately we in belgium, we are, uh, you know, we've seen some things like this in the past as well. but you know, it's very unfortunate to because it's just uh, conference people speak and listen. that's basically the only thing that happens

here are to correspondence. charlotte dimansky has the details on the correct down on the conservative conference and the context of surrounding it. conservative voices in your boss celebrating off the a cold over turn. the final net russell's conference 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. by to on board this politician know until fires was all stage when the police were at the door. now he tried to make light of the situation, the police a big and coverage 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 the west of all the drinks when they arrive. sorrows wasn't the neat, big name in town. there was also the hung 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 own prime minister was moved to find his country's constitution was held by the local legs in such little regard. what happens as a cloud rich today is unacceptable? municipal autonomy is the cornerstone the fall democracy, but can never over, over belgium constitution guarantee the freedom of speech and peaceful assembly. since 18. 30 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 weston 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 were transmitting violence left when greek falling on this minister young, this 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. but because the german police don't buy the whole of the political system of the federal republic of germany, boasting and prevented jews by the stadiums. and the rest of us wanted to have a congress during which to discuss these a conservation, quick existence universe of human rights from the jordan river to the me to put any mc german police prove to be young, reasonable, got by bursting in and interrupting the live stream grabbing the microphone ending that's magnificent congress, that fascism does not need to be in 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 binding ideas or controlling the narrative is something that you has a history you 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 that everyone singing from the same song sheet. it's clear that alternative voices onto welcome unless we will march to the same drum beats you too could find yourself on the wrong side of the ministry of truth.