stretching time, but again, it's not, we don't wanna watch it because it might just change the way inside the as western states seek to projected their power across south east asia in the pacific states remain committed to peace and disability in the region that says the page things foreign minister business to carter as part of a multi state tour. as indians take to the pools western media try to overshadow the process by casting doubt on the countries democracy could change from the rest of the waters on a broad shoulders us. but really portal out independent and really, even those are tournaments decision making. that'd be the so many, you know, donations only loans us lawmakers. consider

a $16000000000.00 bill for ukraine abandoning unconditional aid and reserving one 3rd of the sub for us manufacturers and rushes. grove surpass or as of the western countries that pledge slave moscow's economy in tatters, but are now left trailing according to the international monetary fund. the live in moscow. you are watching r t international. i'm rachel ruble, western states to seek to project to their power and the politics in the in the pacific. well, china and indonesia both reiterate their commitment to peace and stability as comes as by james top diplomat business jakarta, on a multi state tour of the region. the just on the indonesia b r. c. comprehensive strategic partnership will continue to be nurtured in the spirit of cooperation, mutual respect and mutual benefit. indonesia reiterated its commitment to

maintaining stability and peace in the in the pacific. and the pacific stability and peace will only be realized of all parties, respect international law. indonesia appreciates china supports 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 administered and lots more modest would be under line that china is one of the nation's most important part here, is we'll 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 fully in foster segment, trying us also contributed with an investment value of more than 7400000 u. s. all our last year bought the bilateral discussion, not only focused on the economy field, but also on tech. cling 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 work, no modest to be in why that one e as the chinese for administer to a tech call and p that this to stop further things happened in the future. and if we talk about the relationship between chip car dot and b drink is also important to highlight that the vision president elect softball was to be on both solicited be june earlier of april this year, march, this is the 1st the country that he, if this that i see in the media and president elect. this of course, shows the importance relations between the 2 countries where both countries

highlighted the importance and also all the economy and also in fresh structures, relations that has been beneficial for both countries and how, what president drop all we go to has done will also be continued jerry and probable she'd be untrusted leadership in the future or to contribute our carl jobs says off on 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. solved in border, the us strategy to militarize. this, the south china sea is to slain that us is here to preserve space ability is because the country in the region wants us to extend the security blanket of law. and fox c o is a for awful, southeast asian nations of, you know, you know, nature is a buried board member. and this is where the atl nation could make their voice

heard, you know, like they, they preferred trade over consultation right now is not china. that's forcing people to take sides. china wants to trade with everybody. is united states asking people to pick between china and us. it's either your way or the highway. you're either with us or against us. that's. that's not the position that the country is letting you know any of these are the likes to pick people who are preferred to be friends of an enemy or not. and less than 24 hours, india will begin the largest extra size of democracy in the world. the only 1000000000 voters will go to the pulse and a 6 week long parliamentary election. but the 1st phase, starting on friday, we're bringing the special coverage of the events. the

while waiting for pulling stations to open. india has been celebrating the upcoming election as people seem dancing and marching in the streets, voters will choose their representatives and the lower house of parliament of the law office of the party with the majority will form a government and appoint one of its winning candidates as a prime minister or cheeseburger sharma has more on what to expect from the election and the coverage of 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 split of, of body bgp will basically get loving $400.00 seats out of the $543.00 fall level and receipts that are up for grabs. that's small than the force and the 2nd that's no ring. the more the had that basically if and when you look, if not even the more these approved or waiting is the highest and the wall that makes them the most popular lead. and that was with the spice that the western press, the kind of coverage that thing the, the elections a guessing defend itself,

which the neurons more these get guessing to give you an example with democracy on the thread in the range of all these india hall free on said will, this is election b dash drugs to almo, recall the election drive sees the india. now this finds any doubts within the can see about the elections not we see all said the western press continues to do what it does to best, which is the blocks and noah's 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 government directions are conducted by an independent body folder election submission of india. an election division of india has in fact been doing, conducting elections in the country for several years in india. in fact has one of the boys. well, boys, we seem to reach to conduct elections and engine 1400000000 people in the sun seats

. and india and that's elections just fine. having said that, as doing this install with election during the cisco apology, we, yes, i think the one thing that know when the tickets were dig seems to be made to the last world has counted that as close as going to happen on the 4th overshoot. earlier my colleague nick 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 of them both. as i find them tools he asked in costing that was did you compare it with western countries? the whole thing uh, less than 2 days in industry. huh. and so that shows that the new people of the new prospect wants and you'll make the choices at the, at the bottom. and fox,

renowned on the bottom of the box. but it's uh, electronic voting machines. i'm being the largest democracy. the one is actually a huge, haven't gone to fix this. i've stated a lot of influence between from the rest of the bottles and a broad one to want to have somebody bring the election has been going on for a long time. i mean, this could be in philadelphia and operations are 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. but 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 a balanced way. it's to democracy on voting bribes. why do we see such

a narrative this? uh, actually the lines means, um, uh, i think the audio singles when china was driving and there was a lot of very bad plays about john, i'm the list the, the daily subsided, then the listened video in a ga dot old china. now, once again against china. so what is happening in india, india, india, the democracy, there were certain problems so far. so i'm going to go to us when we had documents on the web for the weekend. but people will be the ones that might be sending me the government. so, you know, a week ago, and these are the decision making so harder than game maybe just strong, started making decisions the started making, bought or not just really that base and development has become the wind of the electronic do not use the campaign of the leading bodies of 99 percent on the

development of glass. so we uh, from we have to ensure the messages. 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 do say with our teeth throughout this week and in the coming months as we bring a special coverage of india's parliamentary elections that will run through june starting friday, april 19th, the latest attempt to get the controversial for an aide package past us. lawmakers have decided to break it all down into several separate bills, including a $16000000000.00 deal for ukraine has speaker mike johnson has about to support

the bill, despite his previous tough 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 of precious taxpayer dollars and american citizens. the republican warehouse will not be jammed or forced into passing a $4.00 and $8.00 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 love to americans. many are looking at johnson, the current speaker of the house, who is a republican in smelling a bit of hypocrisy. 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 on 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 current $60000000000.00 more dollars. you're seriously out of step with the 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 comes missiles, as well as $61000000000.00. however,

it's not simply a guess, 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 dollars important to note the 61000000000 dollars, but not all just be directly given to you grain. 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 is no longer have to be paid up to 50 percent present. 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 to need 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, for the september 11th attacks, we should say supports the green now just missed a booty and from encroaching know, now these are allies and, and show that he doesn't draw us to scenes of future war in europe. now, the russian president has made abundantly clear. he has no intention of invading nato members or european union countries, but that has not stopped by 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 all ready being leverage to control ukraine and it's government policies. this new mobilization in ukraine is certainly not popular now,

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 ukraine in conflict and the supplier of the american taxpayer money to the government and the american political analysts. to christopher a law, they offered us his view on the way the divisive bill is been 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 is you'll still be able to make the executive decisions to wipe out the debt. and then either way, he'll put uh, you know, if president jeff or 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 key of 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 bowls and that his approval rating is saying that they realize that even if he can last until, you know, uh, another time at least give him a november 15th or so. the rate of the dead, 50 percent of the debt for kids chose ukraine, not nato. that's the message from the blogs chief. yet in stoughton berg, who says, sending a decap should take priority over nato's own capability. targets including limited, expensive american patriot air defense systems. and i'm also encouraged by invitation stopped to use congress may take up a further aid to train in the coming days, but the crane needs even more. that is why if allies face a choice between meeting, they don't complete the 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 batteries. and that's exactly what about working up despite a weakening of nato's potential on favor of backend, tia of stilton bird has supported. so biden's claims that russia won't stop at ukraine warning. the lions should stay ready for a possible conflict with moscow. former us marine corps intelligence officer scott ritter, says it fresh opposed to real danger to nato. the alliance with prioritize developing its own defense systems, not helping ukraine. first and foremost, we have to understand that by doing this in store for 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 stands taken by for so young, stone, 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 decisive points that had in ukraine. right now is the opportunity to inflict are to inflict damage. but 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 to ukraine, is freely xian stolberg would like russia is poised to outpace europe and the us in economic growth raising ahead of all other western advanced economies in 2024. and that's after the i am as increase to the countries, the growth forecasts. so we have revised russia as g d p. now a gross in full 2024 by 0.6, percentage point 23.2 percent. so this is a significant port revision and the numbers are all quite astounded. beyond that, which let's be honest, right? it is no friends to russia, it has the restaurant that grabbing at 3.2 percent. and as opposed to western god was like the u. k. no point 5 percent frogs, no point service, and germany, allegedly you, it's powerhouse economy. i mean, no point 2 percent. they really bring out the number of factors as to why this is

happening. which we, we see here living in russia, which many people outside may not as steady or will export the habit to slide down biden's idea to put in quite crushed. russia is not happens oil less boats. 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 then. 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 rushes 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 pull simply move west that you are p and businesses to the us and it's not a catastrophic effect. i mean, let's have a listen to a clip from, from administering farms talking exactly about this are going to be the i 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 continent 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 the hug twit rachel, is just not looking good. and for, for the french all of the year. if it seems that they kind of elect the flounder times. uh, dinning these high uh, oil and gas prices due to the conflict can you try us doesn't need to worry about that. the us hasn't oil and gas in it seems like the out in its own country. i never it's, it's the geographical location. so it's weston, towns, deposits 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 all take to me slow down, but still russia at $2.00, the same price that you took,

the other numbers that really catastrophic the, the for that, for the west and counts of pots that we're looking at here. the natural expert and also our mark friedrich says bloomy economic forecasts for germany stem from the government's failure to prioritize national interest over the geopolitical 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

as 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 ask 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 and men's 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 indirect war with its most important raw material partner, which is on the same content the founder of the friends and it's to me say french political party and former president to hold force on lick my lung. sean has lashed out at leo university for cancelling a conference on palestine under the pretext of escalating tensions between iran and israel. raised concerns over the suppression of the freedom of speech and accused the administration of instrumental lies in the event favoring netanyahu's government. a similar case took place in brussels. we're authorities attempted to forcibly close a conference of right wing representatives. the move was branded, i'm democratic and unconstitutional by top, e. u officials, the attendees of the conference, that the attack on free speech is deplorable, but not a new trends. i'm not

a supporter of the conservative parties are modul fell out a supporter of breakfast, but i'm gonna support a free speech and i think it is deplorable that 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 the conference people speak and listen. that's basically the only thing that happens here are the correspondent in charlotte dimansky is the details on the crack down on the conservative conference in the context of surrounding it. a conservative voices in your boss celebrating off the coat over ton. 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 point. they told the owner that if it doesn't get shut down, they're going to cut the electricity. by torn british politician, noisy, it'll fall, rush 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. i am even been speaking to the case service. so the food hasn't arrived. the place happen to arrive. once the whole, the drinks haven't arrived. sorrows wasn't the neat, big name in town. there was also the hung gary and prime minister victor open, who is due to speak. so too was the former u. k. home secretary. so while a braverman, the binding of a conference with such a 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 at the cloud rich, today's unacceptable municipal autonomy is a corner stone, the fall democracy, but can never, over old belgium constitution guarantee, the freedom of speech and peaceful assembly. since 1830 banning political meetings is unconstitutional. full stop, a training for free speech that perhaps but this creek book if we don't like what you say or think we will bind 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 on weston politicians when the police were called to shop 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 ban on 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, so much less twin greek falling on the smoothness. the 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 because the german police had gone by the whole of the political system of the federal republic of germany, boasting and prevented jews,

palestinians, and the rest of us wanted to have a congress during which to discuss these big observation quick existence, universe of human rights from the jordan river to they meant to put any n c, german police prove to be young. reasonable, got by bursting in and interrupting the live stream. grabbing the microphone ending the magnificent congress that fascism does not need to be in government in order to be in power and wireless. 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 e, u has a history of doing the guy. they find all t from broad costing that. 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. she.