the, the banners of flags and flowers, north korea prepared to welcome vladimir putin for his 1st visit to the country. since 2000 the rest and later highlighted the country is pushed back against the western sanctions. well, shaping a new security framework in your ration. that's the message and put in his article ahead of his visits independence, a lot. the military staff, director, general warrens about western countries, waning influence, and central and west africa. so frustration goes way deeper than just the security issues. the reality of the moment is with those cross also means that when we're on

a person there, this will be more difficult to have access along with your the and is rarely as class with police and anti government rallies amid the dissolution of the war cabinet. after a key up, positionally dark, withdraws from its hiding benjamin netanyahu miss handling of the complex in gaza. the rachel ruble live in moscow. you're watching r t international bladder opinion is set to sign a treaty, establishing a comprehensive strategic partnership with north korea. the russian president will be in the country for a state visit from the 18th and 19th of june. his 1st trip there in over 2 decades . the streets of john yang have been lined with russian flags and certain portraits

the head of the president's visit, particularly around that kim elson square are located in the center of the capitol, where a welcome serenade. maloney will take place tomorrow on june. 19th will be june 19th will be a busy day, as many meetings and other events are scheduled for the russian and north tram leaders. our correspondence on quarter will be bringing you all the latest from chunking the, on the eve of the trip, the russian president praise moscow's relationship with the d. b r k, highlighting their united stance on the international arena. a feeling young was and remains are staunch like minded support to ready to resolutely resist the desire of the collective west to prevent the formation of a multi point. a world order based on justice, mutual respect for sovereignty and consideration of each other's interests. how

does it visit, printing is highlighting the emergence of a new multi power in a world one which the west and in particular the united states seems to on the mind, failing a loss of power. now this is a russian presence. first trip to people young in 24 years, this is usually significant. it's a very high profile delegation, foreign minister. so guys, that role has joined the trip, as has defense minister by the use of now this follows kim's visit to russia in 2023. he went on to invite preaching, to visit the democratic people's republic of korea. now in this wide ranging all school polluted also as things north korea for support for the special ministry operation. and they also praised the dpr k for 5 seem to defend this interest. despite this huge pressure from the united states. we highly appreciate the dpr k strong support for the russian special military operation in ukraine. it's

solidarity with us on key international issues and its readiness to defend coming priorities and views of the united nations. it is gratifying that korean friends, despite many years of economic pressure, publications, blackmail and military threats from the united states are equally effective and defending their interests. we see with what strength, dignity encourage the people of the d. b r k, are fighting for their freedom sovereignty and national traditions came and says he's looking forward to consolidating the relationship between 2 powerful nations and strengthening peace and stability, the meaningful dice and close amicable report which would continue between us in the future will. so that consolidate the total cornerstone of d b r t, a russia, really patients in the new era and on this basis strongly promoted because of the 2 countries building powerful nations and make it positive contribution to realizing global peace and security and genuine international justice on the victory and

prosperity are always in store for the peoples of the 2 countries across the united with common aspirations and ideals. perhaps on surprisingly, the west has been apoplectic, would range over the visit. i'm particularly the dean, putting relationship between the 2 nations. now, the west has constantly accused young young of supplying russia with weapons to use and you find something which both nations have denied. career, of course is place on the very heavy sanctions. this is mainly related to uh, its weapons program on phase of the expansion over its new to also now in mulch, russia vetoed a un security council resolution. what you would have expanded the mandate of the panel of experts, a task within forcing those sciences out of the west. of course, we know we watching very, very closely. the western media has gone into a title. spent about the visit in washington says, we didn't say as a security on dependent to that, but also uh over the d for the relationship between russia and north korea. we're

not concerned about the trip. well, we are concerned about trevor is the deepening relationship between these 2 countries. and not just because of the impact is going to have on the ukranian people because we know north pre ballistic missiles are still being used to hit the crating targets. but because there could be some reciprocity here that could affect security on the korean peninsula now, so has also expressed it's concerns. it says that it doesn't want no relationship between north korea and russia to develop into some kind of ministry cooperation. now north korea or of course have strengthened its military. we seen the westgate rick side to the re ballistic missile launch. but kevin says this is justifiable, and he's science. the us minutes we, i'm naval drill was carried out with south korea and japan, which it sees as an escalation of it. as soon as i saw 2 people, cuz security part which it says not only d stabilizes the region,

but it probably is, is a direct threat to p on young malaysia is on its way to becoming a bricks member according to the countries of prime minister on our abraham elaborated on the new direction malaysia is taking a plunging last year to ditch us dollar dependency. we have made our policy clear and we have made our decision. we will start the formal process soon. as far as the global south is concerned, we are fully supportive. i have worked very well with president lula on the expansion of the membership. we're waiting for the final result and the feedback from the south african government. this is the western narrative. you see, this is the problem with the west. they want to control the discourse, but we can no longer accept it because they are no longer a colonial power. and independent countries should be free to express themselves. the head of malaysia is international trade ministry. it says the turn toward breakfast will be economically beneficial. meanwhile, thailand has also applied to become a new member of the bloss,

the tie for administer stress. so the importance of cooperation among countries of the global south, on the sidelines of the rex foreign ministers dialogue was developing countries in the russian city of there's need of the rod last week along side the bridge, members, 12 other major developing countries with strong regional influence took part in that summit. all right, for more on the breaks ascension, let's cross live now to senior research fellow athens and tara academy for strategic research in malaysia as me. hassan as me. great to have you on with us today. i'd like to hear your thoughts on why you think the breaks block is gaining so much traction among asian countries. the one that's mentioned before, this is a 100 say institutions such as a higher math being traditional month, q 5, for example on g 7, making the position based on the interest rates commission trust, devil of additional interest. sorry, good, awesome nation feedback is not fair because we are not the bottom of it. i think that's the reason why previous was that stablish,

and that's another reason why breaks was, i think it's very, very popular and long awesome nations. so how would you assess malaysia and thailand as likely future members of bricks? what do you think that they could bring to the table as a part of this group? and not so much about the g p that we can contribute. because what did you to piece or what i would say is though, but again we tylen and alicia joining. i think this will be the 1st from the us. yeah. as the organization. and we have to remember a member of oscar and we just need your nature, i think is a very be in the population and also gdp id. so i think it would be a very accepting of who's due to offset the other issue to join bruce this case. you mentioned earlier, other groups such as d 7, an i am up which are mostly western leaning and we have heard some experts view the bricks alliance as anti western. do you think that's

a fair assessment of the purpose of bridge? do you think that bricks is anthony western? you know, i would say to us that and as i can see the new shows. no, thank you. grace the by joining briefly just happened to be a big organization. as i mentioned before, this is control of mind. a waste and they show ought to be moved. be both the nation of it and all the time is here. and we why the fed due to a not that we are in dive this particular particular waste initially. no, i don't think so. it'd be kind of a section that briggs was published so that they can go about going into the waste and there's just no, i don't think so. that's the main purpose. is that a very fair situation that you can create for both the tablet mission and also the ignition very well together? well, now that we are seeing more countries show interest in joining for x, then potentially malaysia and thailand. what,

what's your expectation for the block going forward? i think the very bright future in this case is, let's say if we are on to cut the stuff to join the, i think do be a snowball. all of the nations that see that come in june article and you can only factor that is very, very unfair to dance to joy. so i think it is a very bright future for briggs to expand further so that they can be, of course, all reckoning. well, western sanctions, as you will now have made it harder for russia to use the us dollar, their husband talk of creating a new reserve bricks, currency. do you think that's feasible? those plans i wanted. i think i don't see that quite feasible as yet to have a bruce and i will see the car and see this particular molar. but i guess the be on the island, the chinese one i guess is the best alternate. the somebody talking about the to

the resolution. i think i'm an issue. i then a smile us down over the vision and clean that to use of by the through the color and see not to use doing that. so i guess brakes next to what to of how do i need to get more members so that the type of common colors either probably place that the economy policies, members of 2, vast different come back to you, for example. i think he's going to take some time for breaks to have his own account and see these guys. all right, we're going to leave it there as we have some senior research fellow at the news and tara academy for strategic research and malaysia on the berks assumption. great to have you on. thank you. a western countries are being pushed out of west and central africa as other world players gain influence there. that is the message from the us military staff director general, who's raised concerns over a year at potentially losing access to the continental resources. we are more or

less pushed all as many of western countries, including us from the shower, from ali, from working off also from from other countries. and this will cause folders for the future if we don't act. so we are thinking about an integrated approach to step of our efforts in africa. and especially this approach will be that we will support them in a way that day off for instead of bringing them good, like we did in the past. so it wasn't hard on that one, but the reality of the moment is we lost grounds. we saw there are more more actors active in africa. and i mentioned already migration, but it also measured finally on a person. dad, that will be more difficult to have access to the materials. the heating several receipts trying to restores historic chases to form a kind of nice downsizing minutes. the prince's and striking noun times also on the continent fonts is, africa, stretches each seems at a num, costs, and particularly in francophone countries. you would remember that at some point

from well over africa, thousands from the west to the east of africa school in the name of come to terrorism. a cruise in half a dozen. um for my friends colonies in width and central africa over 3 years, including to even use it and combine this pump soul searching about what exactly went wrong in the house, if possible, to put the long standing donations an interest back contract. i'm trying, but it was a bit to nate with those questions. and those strategies, if, because process a really facing increasing opposition from local governments over is continued really to present in several of its former colonies and was forced to do a hundreds of tubes for my lead central african republic. i'm booking a fast so by 23 to 2 and 20 to 23 fonts that's full, 5000 and so which is the space of the various bases through all the pods in it. but the economy, political, and environmental crises, the, that's the hangings face of mates because of, for us. but as a protest,

it's have made key as many people want to face those crises without frances soldiers. and again, this is what it has come to a 100 troops in some parts of the continent as those graphics and new information is 3900 troops in gabon, in central africa, down from 350 a 100 in signal. go another 110 ivory coast down from 600 tubes, even inside where it had a 1000 troops slow and if to with um 350. so as far as has received it to you is moved to phones, the vacuum. but any questions with the, even that would succeed on the african continent, the developers would from off to a holding off for you is relations as well, with many african countries. but the u. s. does not take it still doesn't. it is just forging ahead with this diplomat visits and tools when he was full general micah land, his trip, which will likely reinforce content, terrorism,

cooperation with the need and part of why including tenants and sharing and some sort of additional military equipment. but this treat to pro, from the, the, the general highlights washington's dispensation. some would even say sufficient to rapidly secure a tone based in west africa following it's a force departure from the z and given been in and caught the voice of concerns that these the house was name, security environment could destabilized the northern regions. united states appears to likely come very close to those countries as a cure, a broad base in one of the 2 countries. but in all of this, one kind of help us think, what to the you is don to come to tourism in africa. we all know that to me because 20 plus years of come to tourism, supported in these regions, has lots of delta didn't meet the security terrace groups have risen menu is trade african. i'm office as a, as a team to the,

to these 9 was 8 of which was very successful. and in that 20 as, as well reports the truth back to the pentagon, new a fundamental flores, which is military operations. if you go on and i forgot, but had not the lisa forged ahead and failed to address those problems that release them to this. there is no useful shed conception of the conflict. the instruments of a national power and balanced which results in excessive reliance on the military instrument . there isn't balance within the military instrument as well. all the us troops, all the arms and advise is given to african countries in the name of counter terrorism. on the last 20 years has only resulted in more more violence and more terrorism. even the a former us diplomat to the web to somebody else has become one of the few us officials to recognize that the problems that existed at the beginning of the invasion still exist even today. i've known these problems have persisted throughout my career with the u. s government,

but i didn't quite expect this has been thoroughly studied by the department of defense with these issues conclusively identified and yet not addressed for 2 decades. now, to make things with this from terrorism in africa have skyrocketed more than a 100000 percent during the you is more on to rush. these find who is confident claims by after come, that he is preventing terrorism on the continent in promoting security and stability. and over the past few years, the test except showed that the so the how these and on its own has experience a significant increase in the number of children in texas and for utilities that compared to how the security office, the how it was was the before the inter vincent had is now the if the center of global terrorism, begging the question, would it have been bits of a front or the who is it not interviewed to former nigeria and presidential candidate ada moved guard by the 2nd says, decades of western influence have brought no growth to africa with the content and

now building it mutually beneficial ties with other global players to do some research on the visual net. probably financial and has made it possible for us for comes to realize that partnership with, especially from western euro and neutral countries, including united states of america, has always been, it's close to the deployment of the development on global off on africans on that in new partnerships. from child with china and worship. if you look at what china and russia, i mean, you have to disclose. we've also got one of the come terms, but really in, for some to on the, for the same kinds of ways. for the past, some eighty's for the last century, dale was moved. soon. principals the like except maybe 12. you see the point you

sent to me, so when you come back to do the 13, that'd be what you did. what color comes with a pinch of salt because also because we've never the one to pause them again. so didn't tear off what you say. you know, we don't one friends on his wife's from cynthia about pointing support. this is not the youth. today's is that also does a lot of interest and defend the finance and do one for the top of thousands of people to the streets of jerusalem to demand. if he is really prime minister quits after he does all the countries war cabinet is moved, follow the resignation of the former defense minister and rival to benjamin netanyahu. that again furious protestors rallied outside the country's parliament and flashed with police the

. # the, the thousands are frustrated and angry is really as have gathered in front of the countries. paul, i'm in the class of hearing jerusalem demanded with resignation and made saying there is a good number of reasons for that. first, 124 fail remain captive in gaza for more than 250 days, including women and children, and elderly people here cannot forgive them. blame the government, not doing an off. also have mass destroyed yet, 9 months to the war and gaza. several battalions of sale and rough, plugged in southern slaves and the idea that they might need at least another month to finish with them. people who are saying they cannot wait any longer. we have a hard. 7 government trying to tables and trying to use well into different countries. and we would like to stay the same

phones to be that we were. we're also because as the dying pensions also continue in the north mains role with his idea of the group launch. 5000 drones and different me solve into israel since the beginning of the war and a full barn and continues every day. thousands of evacuated is really soon can no return home as a fire region remains dangerous. from time to time, we are able to shop that. now we now they said has to leave the office for one day or dismantled the 6 member war cabinets that basically do after the departure of the chairman of the national u. t. policy, it's gone, said he's for the eyes in court. 10 days ago. guns just like these people here, criticized beaver's approach. the warring guys are guns accused rob minister of

having a clear track regarding the warren. so he pulls the day off also gone. suppose this isn't yeah, plus way of dealing with a hostage fleet almost 3 weeks now, that has been an american back from boston to do a proposal on the table. the other things includes the release of all remaining hostages garza and the permanency buyer. well minneapolis never signals a clear supposed full that long so far off from the hotels with teacher discussions . now when american secretary of state visit the days real, just recently again, he met separately nothing the apple and then john, who at that time was not part of the war cabinets already. on monday the us special envoy came to israel to discuss the invitation in the countries north. and it's really a recent confrontation with his baldwin meeting. guns was also shad. you want to happen to depending on who was out, supposed so many guns and his people call earlier and another letter

a letter. it says that the days are numbered, accusing prime minister of acting in his own and no to national interest. yes. so let me say no, no, nothing will remain of him. there will be no square named after him. no schools, there will be no fountain of benjamin netanyahu leave our lives already go go. after the drawl of 2 poor shall members is really prime minister, had a choice to invite other political figures to join the war cabin. i'd like national security minister ben, cuz he requested to be part of a to finance minutes. a small church as well as you know, offer on the 3, right? we can with total weight and 2 pounds, a student approach fund calling for even more gather bombardment. but we've been rejected that probably not willing to be more associated with the patient, controversial ministers. but even without that, there is a huge internal pressure facing. and we can feel it right here. there is global

criticism as well, including from a 0 p l. washington. so the failure to keep the unity ward cabinet will only add to business problems, then you will have to do something with that palestinian activist and commentator. your price always says prime minister netanyahu is under the control of hard liners . and that's despite denying them a place in the war cabinet. what it is clearly is it's a government is very much disco, dated. and the st. john's go actually went out of the government because it was difficult. they said nothing that actually changes are going back to s new old dog owners and they ask you to become clear and clear that varies idea only cannot make any type of victoria is as long as they've actually gone through and all of them know to be filed of the federal government

actually let them know has no oxygen for the sea, and those thought the g to just on to the ongoing 0. and the key is on the right side. here's the captain at, in his own government in the hands of the explained provided 3 bank via smoke punch . but he want, you don't want to show to 0. how much is cost is disease x i missed. so he is the whole property name, you know, do not do i go to the side to one step to 0. ok. but it doesn't change anything because any way he his cognitive by the psych spanish because the kids are, is government. they tend to solve their government. romero goes a lot, even went and it was a long company mentions over all of the payment you do there to do any decision

resolves the mission? german chancellor. all off schultz has praise the u. s. leader for having experience and wisdom, you also predict the joe biden will likely win re election in november, and that's despite recurring gas that raise yet more doubts about president biden's ability to serve. another term is finished, it does go by thing, joe biden is somebody who clearly knows what he's doing, especially when it comes to international politics. i think it is very likely that the coming to us present can also when the elections, the, the, the president can you tell us, or donald trump prefers himself as a political prisoner and blames you directly. what's your response to that serve? 0 last 0. so long night the

u. s. broadcast or and political commentators, steven osborne says americans are right to worry about the mental health of their elected leader. the 1st let me just say, god bless joe biden. he's 81 after the election in november. he'll be $82.00. i mean, you know, and we've all, if you're lucky enough to have relatives that lived that long. we've seen it in relatives. we've seen symptoms, people slow down, people slow down differently. donald trump is 78, just turn 78. he's the,

almost the complete antithesis of joe biden, but you can't not biding for who and what he is. look, i think anybody who watched the video could honestly say that he froze. but this is something he does all of the time. he looks like he's out of it. he looks like he's staring. so did he actually freeze? what was it just being 81 year old joe biden and acting the way he acts almost all the time when we see him on a stage when we see him on a platform, especially when he's finished. he has to be led away. he has to be told where to go . he has to be directed. so i think it's open for debate whether or not he froze. i don't think it matters if we actually froze. it's what the optics are. however, however, it is legitimate, i believe, to question joe biden does it, is he really capable of not only serving as president now, but for 4 more years?

i would say that most people in this country and the polls show it most people in this country are extremely concerned with his age and his cognitive ability or lack thereof. and it's a, it's a big consideration going forward. all right, well that's going to do it for me for now, but do stay with us. my colleague nick aaron will be in next in about half an hour with more of the day stuff. news stories by the look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings except we're so shorter is that conflict with the 1st law show your mind, anticipation. we should be very careful about visual intelligence at the point obviously is to makes a trust.