in the, in the headlines here, an aussie international, the french president and manual background denies personal involvement in the case against telegrams co founder, cited simply a legal not, however, must go branch at a breach of freedom of speech. the american journalist to expose washington's censorship. it speaks out about the prosecution, all the telegrams the by paris saying he's being charged for what he has nothing to do. it is a symbolic moment where somebody is clearly being held accountable for things that he didn't do. but that almost certainly is that is going on inside his plus russia instant

a goal are committed to the basic principles of international law, including the sovereign and quality of states that rush or for administer. right? the same respect for non interference is unites, must go with african countries. that's all denmark shop is, and blessings, and motley. and but you know, fast enough time to put the pressure on it and keep the defense ministry confirms losing its 1st at 165 digit during a russian to miss all attack. while the ukrainian politician suggests the plane was pulled down in a friendly fire. the, all right, the top stories are lined up with the knowledge is on come a tree is i guess, done correspondence, this tiny bind to go live during this hour went out to the international. so was it a setup? the french president has denied media reports that amazing had been prepared for

him with public dollars prior to was arrested in paris, emmanuel macro. and the times he had nothing to do with the telegram co founder being detained. it'll cost kimball sims and as far as i'm concerned, i was completely unaware of mister during the visit to france. that's quite normal by the way, because i've never been aware of the comings and goings of nationals from all over the world. whether they have french nationality or not. it's not true that i issued any invitation whatsoever. it's totally false. i was not supposed to see mr. du or off either at the end of last week or in the days to come up have a daughter faces up to 10 years in prison if found guilty on a slew of charges of the list, including uh, the complexity of the distribution of child pornography drug trafficking fraud, as well as refusing to provide information requested by various french authorities . rushes for ministry spokesperson said well, macro on claims to be a free speech, defend. he's done precisely the manual on the

cron during his speech and fell grade. said that this is not about political persecution, of durham, but about legal proceedings. i think the next question to my chrome will be, what is it like to be in the place of those whom you groundless? we accused yesterday of what you are doing today. that before the front stay considered telegram founder, pub, elder of a pariah facing preliminary charges on everything from eating and a bedding drug trafficking to organized crime and propagation of child porn. because simply founding an app apparently now means that you're literally driving the getaway car for every criminal that happens to use it. you're off somehow found the time is busy crimes free to dine with french president a menu and back home 6 years before pablo door off landed in a french holding cell. the anti establishment, founder of the messaging app telegram, was in a very different position in france, having lunch with president emanuel ma chrome at the lunch in 2018,

which hasn't been previously reported. mac crohn invited. the russian born door off to move telegram to paris, people familiar with the discussion said, door off declined at the time. the french leader even discussed granting french citizenship to him. one of the people said, it sounds like not cold, the leader of list stuff definition of was all up in drugs grill, talking about making it official with a naturalization that was mysteriously fast tracked and also proposing that telegram being moved to france. when pressed about that naturalization, my call just said then something that he personally does, basically for rich guys who make an effort to speak french that have been doing this with you. also, in terms of naturalization, it is indeed a decision that we made in 2018 as i recall, which was taken in a completely assume strategy to allow men and women who are office athletes entrepreneurs to become citizens. often they make the effort to learn the french

language. these are people who develop wealth and innovation in the world, and they are welcome to become french citizens. so i made sure that mr. du or off became one of them, just like i did with mr. spiegel, an american entrepreneur as well as the mac doesn't athletes. i am in the state of law with justice operates independently. so what happened here? well, let's just say that they initially really liked his branding a russian who had a spot with moscow over the app, which in their branding stands for freedom. and it was briefly banned in 2018 in russia, sparking protests around the country in favor of a free internet, complete with paper airplane prop symbolizing telegrams logo. now this is what kind of thing it can be leveraged by the state department that's constantly trying to parlay any unrest. intriguing change says who an actual former state department official telegram is, is very, very powerful vehicle for the us state department to be able to mobilize protests,

to be able to galvanized political support. the national endowment for democracy was actually paying the main administrators of the telegram channels, who were orchestrating those rights. those protests, not employees of telegram, but people, a violinist, really ministrations the people are using it, organizing others to use right? us and french, shared military intelligence and diplomatic and economic interest in, in arresting problem. and finally, getting the leverage they have craved for so long to be able to both control, con, kilograms, content, migration practice. but also the, you know, the ability to get this backend access to it for, you know, to just read every russian text message. effectively telecom apparently featured so prominently as an activist tool in the ronnie and protests in january 2018 as the most popular messaging app in that country that ends up being permanently banned just a few months later under the pretext of national security. so it's around this time

that your off is being wined and dined by mac home. according to the french press, with black hole, really not seeming to mind what was brewing behind telegrams, cloak of encryption, as long as it was causing problems for others. now around that time, back home was also like, hey, why don't you get your little ass over here? and he was pretty much pressuring her off to relocate the app to friends. meanwhile, telegram went on to help back to this communicate with each other during the western back protests in hong kong. again, space yang, which of course were framed by the western process totally organic and leader this because the us of course, has absolutely no interest in using hong kong or taiwan against china as we seen over and over again. but more recently, the app has been linked to this summer's and time migrant unrest in britain and has started to come under fire from western governments like spain, norway,

in germany as it proliferates across the globe. it's really not hard to see how the same western governments that apply to its role as a facilitator of democracy in other countries may not appreciate doing the same at home to the point where it suddenly becomes convenient to point out that it's not is freedom fighting activists who are cruising down telegrams, encrypted information, highway, but also an assortment of sex, pass terrorists and money lovers. and just as conveniently, any roadblocks that they're able to set up through lothair against or off or otherwise would just happen to allow them to peer right into everyone's car window quote, a paradigm shifting moment. that's how investigative journalist might tie be his brand to the french prosecution of people. do it off. mission type a who is known for exposing cortez previous collusion with the us government says the rest of a ton of ground founder was a new logo for media censorship. so here's

a taste of mass interview with ashton, or tennessee on guarding on the ground. it's a all day or not see tomorrow things worse now. then when you would, documenting the censorship in the twitter files is often yeah, no, this moment in time, especially the the arrest and the attention of durham is a paradigm shifting moment. and i think the history is kind of free expression in the west. uh, you know that there been rumors and threats and there been, there's been a lot of saber rattling in the direction that people like you on musk ever since the passage of the digital services act in europe to the effect of you must comply or else there will be crippling penalties, but the detention aspect of it is something that's completely new coupled with threats by former national security executives like alexander vin. here in the

states is this the united states behind the scenes of acting to attract durham of a head of a us election in november. and how would we find out? you'd be very difficult to find out. i've heard so many theories about what actually happened and you know, in the last 3 or 4 days, there are a lot of people who believe that it's specifically connected to the war and ukraine . that there are issues that the united states military are made or has with communications on telegram. but in the bigger picture it, it really doesn't matter. there's a perception issue here, which is that whether he was, you know, arrested because of local french violations, which is what the french government claims. whether it was for following the file, the dsa, as some european officials hinted at before his arrest or whether it was something

else. all the exec tech executives have been generally on notice for a while now that they are going to be held accountable in one way or another for the behavior of their own customers. and this is just the, it's a symbolic moment where somebody is clearly being held accountable for things that she didn't do. but that probably almost certainly is, is going on inside his platform. and yet another attack on those that are not following the western narrative. while speaking at a campaign, roddy and dressed in a mine approach to the stage, attempting to douse german, the left wing pod lead a sorrow of luck and connect with the red paint of the 50 year old asylum who was quickly tackled cofton taken away by security yeah, it's not him so you have to be i deed, but mr. voss from connecticut that carried on with a speech off for a brief pause. no, think the quote some people clearly don't want us here. oh,

so titled a lion's party was full ability of this year, advocating for ending military aid to you, correct? the russian relations with center goal as well as other african countries are based on mutual respectful political independence. and moscow insist that africa should deal with. it's a fast independently. that is, according to russia, is a foreign affairs minister. speaking of the press conference with is a sign, a lease count on us. we have the same or similar approaches to most of the key issues of world politics. russia in senegal are committed to the basic principles of international law, including the sovereign and quality of states, non interference in their internal affairs. and of course, respect for the right of peoples to independently determine the ways of their political and socio economic development. in general,

we advocate that the situation in this a harris, that held region should be the subject of agreements by the african countries themselves. senior go, well that's all as denmark at all, as the closure of embassies and that's a hell nation's of molly and bought a keen, a fast. so live to jo, both we go. what about quarter past 7 in the morning this i'll corresponding oliver . i can get approval a very good morning to you. would you take us through these a latest development? you've got a lot of tell us about this morning. the absolute, avery insights in the intricate missouri could see upon it takes the whole region as it moves to as a focal point of sifting alliances. once again, modeling is in between a fossil erstwhile stalwarts of the t 5. so how light is not only serve a ties with a few, but they have turned towards the width is adversary's um and the pivot has now begun to show the impact of some of those long standing relationships. denmark, one has become the latest wisdom. come see, to close this embassies in marty, and picking a fossil following the likes of norway. sweden add from us,

have listen to this. we have a clear interest in the african countries looking towards us in europe as they chop the costs for the future. we must demonstrate that we offer an attractive alternative to the increasing chinese and russian influence on the continent. in face of the clothes, embassies, denmark's hands to open, new embassies and cynical to these. yeah. and one to these locations, seemingly bit to surfing its strategic interest and enhancing relationships within reason is 8 times more stable and promising. yet denmark has absolutely no qualms that have been embassies in countries moved by west. in fact, i'm dictators for decades. and so i'm the state news that we all see in section 8. and one could easily see that to the west is doing to this the how, what it's been doing to rush to for us to, for mexican isolate, to the countries because of the inconvenience, independent foreign policies. and the recent catching of ties with your trade by

marty and u. z. also not making things any easier, as we know that choosing moscow over 2 of his bond to land in the country to the blacklist off the wisdom. and while they fly to paint the picture of a world united against russia, reality shows that there is a more complex picture in the one is one of the prominent regional giants taking a new wants to approach to the ukranian conflict. refusing to be told who it can and can be friends with this fight, washington is parisha. been glad to see again the strength of the international alliances come together to, to support you printer that is in its efforts to defend itself. and so i think that's the important piece here is to try to protect and preserve the international order we understand. india is a long relationship with russia. and india has to make it sound determinations

about where it's wants to be on, on the scale. the balanced approach to the conflict is a bit as solves the global south imaging as a strategic force. and this reveals that to many countries, no longer wants to be exclusively tied to a us lead block. and we'll see you. this is, of course in contrast to denmark and is in line with washington's rule book. i have, i'm distance themselves from money and picking a bustle while keeping the close eyes, which african countries will be most useful in the future. terms of natural resources have a lesson in 2051 and every 4 people in the world. we live in africa, one and every field the once you will be african, given these developments that you must for its efforts to be the prefer bought. now of african countries and ensure that it is able to deliver what is needed,

they continue to space the need to adopt a proactive approach to counter chinese and russian influence on the african continent advocating for a more comprehensive strategy. when in reality, the battle for resources will say foreign policy in years to come, even as african states themselves are clear about how they see their own future and making it quite clear that despite the end of colonial rule, many wisdom power has continued to exclude the continents, resources and people in many ways that perpetuates a film of modern day slavery and that needs to stop. it says nvidia, this is no cancer. those imperialists consider that we belong to them. and a wealth also belongs to them. they think that they are the ones who must continue to tell us what is good for our states, africa, our continent that suffered so much because of being fair, always this arrow is gone forever. our resources will remain for us in our

populations. so it seems that denmark is only lifting go of money and picking a fuss. so because like many wish to live nice is it still on? this is off maintaining a foothold and the region looks quite slim. but positioning yourself closer to the states does not 65, a major change. it is find a policy on the continent allows us to focus a new applicant stack. disease simply means new lyrics. it's not the same oh to it's a very well rounded report. are that, you know, you talk about denmark, talk about the french, the germans, even the americans as well as being kicked out of a vast mineral rich sauce hail region times a changing logic corresponding level ok. well, surprise, surprise, the us says failed to impose this agenda wrong. china, not my words. that's the summary of america's national security adviser is trip to badging of the china refuse to put kids interests 1st. in the crating and con,

we have the opportunity to exchange views on the war against ukraine over the course of the last 3 days. we didn't reach any particular plan with respect to diplomacy in large part because united states very rigorously. it here is to the simple maxim of nothing about ukraine without ukraine. so ultimately it will be up to ukraine to decide how it wants to proceed with diplomacy and negotiations, while innovating. solvent met with us aging, paying the nation's foreign minister. i'm the chairman of the chinese central military commission. it is the 5th time he's mad with china is top different about over the course of the last year and a half. and there's also the 1st official trip to china by us national security advisor. so 2016. after his visit, the white house announced president biden energy are expected to hold a phone call in the new near future. well, we'll see about that also on top of the issue of bilateral ties, which includes us military support of tie one tensions in the south china sea and

of course trade disputes and the american tariffs on a range of chinese export. however, they were reportedly no final agreements reached on any of the masters as well as level shop if it's possible, if not to professor and deal with the teacher kind of list of us have gregory mahoney joining us here brighton early on. how to international a very good morning to you. sorry, very, very well welcome to get you on the program here. but what, what a story this is, i mean looks basically a lot of people look okay. so solomon saying it didn't work is amazing. and paging, it wasn't a raging success, i guess some people are saying was it a predictable outcome? i mean, i mean mr. mahoney, were you expecting anything bigger to come out of this? and, you know, given the mess and now you create and cause us and the significant shift in policies will likely see if the truck wins the election. the white house has a compelling reason to try to consolidate its positions and make them uh what some have described is truck proof now. well, china can't weigh the construct

a role of helping to resolve the conflict in both places. i think it's been rather clear to badging thus far, that neither bite and nor sullivan are ready to do so in meaningful ways. now, perhaps, given the recent developments around pers, so in hopes of the ground that some well shifted in badging, but that wouldn't be misguided rather of binding. and sullivan are running out of time. and this probably sits paging just fine. do you, do you think there's any issue on the timing here? i mean, this is the 5th time the sullivan has as met. china is taught for him, policy official, a, y, and e, but, but also the 1st official trip mr. mahoney to china by us national security advisor since 2016 didn't. and you read anything into the timing? well, the timing is curious. you know, i don't think solomon put on his blue suit and brown leather shoes and came to red china like an intrepid 19 seventies cold warriors to talk primarily about sense and

no ai or taiwan. i think this trip might have been sequenced prior to buying this decision to withdraw from the race given the other high level visits we've seen and this year to accommodate the ongoing many to todd maybe um, you know, solving wanted to score a few more points. um, uh before, uh he has to leave office uh whether related to ukraine or gaza. um and maybe he thought that of aging uh, might be able to, to support the these efforts. uh, but again, we've seen those, you know, they've breakthroughs now. perhaps other reasons to meet the growing fictions between badging and manila required. perhaps this required to sit down get invited security guarantees to philippines. perhaps they discussed the situation in march. it's also possible that sullivan just wanted to seize the opportunity to visit aging. a given his obsession with china,

whatever future book to bites would have had a missing chapter if you didn't visit at least once. that said, i do think it's likely that long he sees sullivan as is real counterpart and not blake. and this may explain why a sullivan is reportedly received a warmer welcome in badging them to us secretary of state. good looking me. it's very interesting point, mr. honey, i appreciate you saying that i mean when you, when you look at the logic context of like orcus, for example, the 5 i is and the continued. and she was saying that the what freedom of navigation routes, the american destroyers and warships, they love to go to the south china sea, the taiwan strait. that kind of area for the 1st time now and years. america doesn't have an aircraft carrier in that part of the world. they've all been set over to the red sea and around around the israel toast as well. i mean the, i get it on the pay upfront. it looks good when washington evasion get together, but you know what i mean? i just saw on a personal appointments my how many i was watching,

changing things. he didn't look too thrilled. he didn't look too happy. i mean, you know, i get it, but he's using thing, put on a good front. when an american official goes over, the changing thing comes out, shakes his hot, puts on a good show for the cameras, but i just kind of got a sense that he was getting a bit tired of it. or did you think his aging thing might be getting a bit fed off at the end of the day? just keep going through this well, you know, i think we did see a lot of the, the, the things that he said previously repeated. uh, he did show up a little bit late to the meeting. he kept the se, uh, waiting on there was reported lady some disagreement as the as the meeting started over, which media would be allowed in the room, then it was closed or we don't really know what they talked about. we don't really know what's on their agenda, but you know, we did hear a lot of repetition. that the of the things that the boiler plate, the presence she has said before, that said, i wouldn't know that although i don't think there were any significant

breakthroughs. and although the united states reports and read out, so this meeting had been rather modest and not very a beat. but we are seeing in some of the chinese state meeting today is a much more positive spin on this gauge meant as much as i think china wants to downplay the negative side of the relationship, at least what's domestic and international audiences. yeah. isn't that interesting? what an interesting comment to wrap up our conversation right here with professor joseph gregory mahoney, a. jared strategic analyst as well. joining us live on elegy international. it's been a pleasure. thank you very much. i ok of and the west of course, once claimed the f. 16 was going to be a game changer in the ukraine conflict. and now the 1st one has gone down in flight . the training defense ministry at ounce, the single engine, multi role side of jed, quote, crashed in an a defense mission while taking on a salvo of incoming russian missiles. now the 1st batch arrive to key everly this

month is ukraine. uh, well, waited a couple of years at least the pilot though, and this incident was killed. a key of the pilot era was not the cause of the crash . a lot of speculation sweating because um, one ukrainian m p 's says the f 16 was actually brought down by friendly fire by an american made patriot system. according to my information, the ukrainian f 16 was shot down by the patriot empty aircraft missile system due to discord nation between units. the reports noted that he lost control. war is war. such episodes, all possible. but the culture of lies in the combined ukrainian forces as well as the now the senior military headquarters leads to the fact that the military decision management system does not improve on the basis of truthful, consistently collected analytics. in fact, it was since and even collapses,

as it happens in the pop cross direction. and none of the generals have been punished by a wall street journal report says that the f sixteens provided the key of vulnerable to russian at defense is adding that you create in pilots loc experience . it's all in addition to many of the aging jets having been in use for decades and retired us air force, lieutenant colonel, counterfeit cowski. she says western military equipment simply cannot turn the tide for key. well, actually thought it might have come a week or 2 before this but, but it's kind of inevitable. the, the small numbers that they have a means that they can't use them the way we might use them in, in the way they were designed to be used. so they're very, they're highly vulnerable in just so many ways. logistically, operationally, technically they're just highly vulnerable. so this is a sign of, of what's, what's the at the con?

i think at this late stage, i don't think that they can make much difference except to further make the ukrainians feel bad about, about their war effort. but, you know, it's a and had every f, 16 that they wanted was as many trained ukrainian pilots as they needed 2 and a half years ago. that's a different story. but right now, with the way the country has been decimated, the loss of territory, the destruction of some of the infrastructure, inability to logistically supply and support these airplanes. and the rest of their military operation is just, it's just uh, in a sense too little too late. pamela harris has given her 1st interview off the officially becoming of the democratic presidential know many i went on us to comment on trump statement that she's using a racial agenda as a political tool. harris was apparently at a loss for what i don't want to ask you about your opponents. donald trump. ok. so

i was a little bit surprised. people might be surprised to hear that you have never interacted with him. met him face to face. that's going to change soon, but what i want to ask you about is what he said last month. he suggested that you happened to turn black recently for political purposes, questioning a core part of your identity and any same old tired playbook. next question, please. that's it. that's it. yeah, straight to the next question. to follow by good tackle as she does this, the multiple cried that let's uh, let's join veteran folks are hosting, you know, on the screen. right. it's difficult to keep a straight face when i'm watching this, this, and it's been described by the mainstream media, steve, as the most expensive insight into the high risk campaign seems like a bit of a leading bid did that hire is on. so all of your questions, you know, all of my questions weren't asked, and that is no surprise because dana bash on cnn has

a history of sticking up for com. a lot higher risk when there's a republican guest on and they say something about an hour. so was chill interjected, stop it and try to play defense for a higher. so i wasn't surprised by the way that tackle the capital was disappointing. i wanted a real com all like that and we didn't get we, we didn't get that either. but no, you know, one question that she was asked right off the bat was, what would you do one day one? what would you do one day one. and it had to be asked twice because she couldn't answer it. she said, well, we'll get to work for the middle class, but she said no, no, but what are you going to do one day, one specifically, nothing. she did ask about the withdrawal from afghanistan, which was a disaster. and the 3rd anniversary just passed. and you had the families of the 13 did us soldiers were killed on that day. be reaching out and dealing with trucks that you should ask about that. and she did ask, pay on a board should be you will have any cut off point. is there any day any month.