ah, ah ah, moscow says that about 97 percent of the guns republic is now under the control of russian lead for the south major ports in the black sea and said to have been the mind and are preparing to make long awaited grain shipment. washington allegedly pressure of african countries to refuse to buy grain from russia, seemingly ignoring the worsening food clients is on the continent with millions on the brink of starvation. plus the massive backlash ignites among several latin american leaders on the west decides not to invite the bandits way like cuba and nicaragua, with summit, and improving unity in the region. we think it's

a continuation of the old policy intervention of disrespect for nations and the people. what the government of the united states of america is doing is an act of discrimination against 3 nation, 3 governments, a warm welcome. you're watching aussie international with the latest world news. it's good to have you with us. and we start with the latest on the ukraine conflict as russia, the military has report, states making steady advances in to previously ukrainian held territory and elegance gun don't. yes, republics. so on the sewer, the soon as he total of 97 percent of the territory of the legacy republic has been liberated so far, this recovery operations are currently underway in those areas to return to normal civilian life. in mario poll, electricity and water supplies have been restored to residential buildings and streets are being cleaned. d,

mining operations are in full effect throughout deliberative areas. while the le ganske or public has come predominantly under the control of russian lead forces, they're still heavy fighting in the neighboring don. yes, republic. one town that recently changed. hands is fair, auto gore's renowned for its mountain top monastery, moscow's defense ministry said ukrainian troops had been using that orthodox sanctuary as cover after russia had vowed it would not conduct an attack on a religious site. to the south, russian forces have completed a de mining operations at major ports on the black sea, including in the city of mario paul, allowing the 1st con guys vessels to enter since the war. rob said the doctor now reportedly preparing to make a long awaited grain shipments. but local authorities say the ukrainian army attempting to destroy grain stored at mario post pause or t correspondent, among closer if it's not the facility trying to get inside. we are right outside of the c port in the city of farm or you pull it houses and major grain storage

facility, at least 57000 tons. now, according to local authorities, ukrainian army, as they were retreating from this c port, they try to destroy all the grain that was said here, that's a wheat and corn and local authorities said they, they could not put out the fire for 3 days free. now my crew and i will try and get in to this great storage facility and finds out whether these reports worked for me. while the u. s. is apparently putting a new spend on the grain story, reportedly sending out warnings to african countries, claiming russia is trying to sell them stolen weight. that's an african struggles with severe food shortages that faces a potential of famine. when earlier t shala gibbons, he told me 3 was behind washington's latest allegations against moscow. well, this is the u. s. that is apparently said out a memo to some 14 countries,

many of which are on the african continent saying don't buy grain from russia. if you do, you must understand that this grain has been stolen from ukraine. that's at least the allegation from the state department in the u. s. and this is a huge quandary for many african countries at the moment. because in a we have seen massive issues when it comes to the delivery of going to these countries that heavily depend on these, our deliveries from russia and also ukraine. countries that are seeing air problems at the moment with a lack of rain coming in. that's being problematic, the crops, and there's an understanding that some 17000000 individuals just in 3 countries on the african continent are facing hunger in the near future. we've also had a warning from chad. it's declared an emergency situation when it comes to food. so there's this big crisis that's looming on the african continent, and now they're being told don't buy grain from russia because it may have been stolen from ukraine at one of the things we have heard over know for is how western

sanctions are playing into the problems the crisis in africa at the moment, and that's certainly something that the chair of the african union pointed to when he was recently in russia to meet vladimir putin on the diesel. we. there are 2 main issues, the foot crisis and the sanctions. we must work together to resolve this issues. so the sanctions preventing food supplies are lifted on these sanctions against russia have only exacerbated the situation. now we have no access to russian grain and was even the worse we have no access to rush and fertilizers. the situation was already bad and now it's worse with foot secures in africa at risk. so russia has denied obviously that it's doing this at, but that is not have the west sees it, particularly in the european union. we heard from at the european union council present, shaw, michelle just the other night at the un who said, you know, this is all russia's fault, let's be honest. the kremlin is using food supplies. oh,

so still from sale. oh, don't developing countries that america trinity reince's offer shall fall off brewing over across the globe. and this is driving a foot prices pushing people into poverty and distribute isn't entire regions. now the u. s. continues to claim that russia is blocking your cranes grain exports. so what's the latest on this situation from the kremlin? that's right. the u. s. is also accused russia, using blackmail it comes to this grain. but russia says it's been very clear, it wants to get these grain shipments out and it's prepared to do whatever is possible to be able to open those ports. again, it is doing this d mining operation in the black c ports to allow the shipping lanes to be free and secure. and that is something that is said it wanted to do for a long time. the minds that were put in the water were apparently put there by ukraine lacing them so also as a form of stopping the shipping routes. now,

what we have seen is that turkey and russia has come to a tentative agreement, apparently, to allow those shipments out turkey saying that will act essentially as a 3rd party guarantor when it comes to this issue. however, key f says it's not a suitably happy with that, and it probably needs to look at the proposals even further. but what we have heard from the ukranian president said lensky is what he believes is what should happen. he's talked about the only way to guarantee the safety of those green shipments from black see ports would be for the west to give you quain, more weapons at particular what he wants them to give him is antiques, ship weapons. and he says that would be the only way of guaranteeing that safety really difficult discussions. all parties obviously clear to get their own agenda route and to be really looking after themselves here at. but i think we need to spare a thought for the african continent, which is the one where we're seeing millions of people,

possibly facing famine and starvation in the very near future. a member of the africa humanitarian action organization says there's no reason to follow washington's orders. if doing so, could exacerbate the continent hunger crisis. i don't think is appropriate for anybody to tell african smoked bios for from anywhere when 1000000 stop now stuttering. and therefore, it's very important that we get the food as soon as possible before dying. and this is really important that most often countries, including south africa, are question of why they should support any initiative from any other sites. africa is an online confidence, and therefore it is very important that africa goes open with any country in the world. this is very important source for africa because we have a lot of people here. we have climate change in our lives and now have a major drought, not happening in many parts of africa. simply we cannot make the people or africa

poems in this great org that's happening in the central per box. the controversial summit for the america is hosted by the us has been causing a major backlash in the region with mexico as president now refusing to attend. he anticipated as well in counterpart of slammed washington the decision to exclude several latin american countries from the events. i am not going to the summit because not all countries of the americans were invited. i believe in the need to change a policy that has been opposed for centuries exclusion and the desire to dominate, for no reason. the failure to respect the sovereignty of countries, the independence of each country. we think it's a continuation of the old policy of interventionism, of disrespect for nations and their peoples for 3 more. so we have expressed our admiration for the clarity and courage of president lopez abra door and all our

support for the message he has sent. in recent weeks of abandoning the world of sanctions, blockades, exclusions and discrimination. what the government of the united states of america is doing is an act of discrimination against 3 nations, 3 governments, local whitehouse spokesperson korean. john pierre said, joe biden doesn't want to quote, dictators to attend the summit. they excluded countries are cuba, venezuela and nicaragua, all 3 previously targeted with us sanctions. washington has stood by a decision on stress that they expect the summer to still be successful. the summit taking place in los angeles was planned to revive us engagements in the region with migration issues as an increase in the oil trade high on the agenda. bolivia, as president has said, he won't attend on the leaders of guatemala. el salvador, antoine jurors are also not expected. earlier i discuss the issue with a previous us presidential candidate who coordinates the cuba and venezuela

solidarity committee. glory lever. as lopez over to dawn and president of cuba have said, as well as many others, they're all seen. the u. s. is itself, the one that's becoming isolated by this highly anti democratic position to deny the invitation to the 3 countries q of venezuela. and he got iowa in the whole world, whether it's the u. s. army of ukraine and its involvement in eastern europe with the sanctions against russia. that if you don't go by the way of us, you will suffer sanctions, blockade, and even war and what's taking place right now with a summit of the americas is a failure by the united states because it can no longer dominate and dictate as it used to and those countries have said, it's time that we have the say in our own continent, the community of latin american and caribbean states was formed. so lock,

this is why they have begun to insist that there has to be economic and political, social integration of the americas without the u. s. and without canada, who have dictated to them for too long. meanwhile, in asia, pakistan has been looking for alternative ways to conduct financial transactions with russia and at the western sanctions. as according to the south asian countries ambassador to moscow with the majority of the world refusing to join the west's campaign, my colleague in our nails discussed the situation with mohammed at our job at the director of the pakistan house international think tank. the euro centric and the u . s. centric and the west centric policies, more or less has been creating lot of trouble for the developing countries. for only one matter, i think the sanctioned regime has paralyzed many economies. the new world order, i would say also can be categorized in terms of how he,

one country or set of countries stand up to one narrative. the construct that only the rest and way to deal with any shoe is correct. one large majority of countries, if you look at them, it will find out that it is only a matter of opportunity when you ask them about the issue. they will speak up, he's got china, india, pakistan saying, well, hold on you're, you're not, you're not talking for us as well. we want to make our own decisions there. and i think it has that be more to the forefront of western leaders mine since the start of the korean conflict. i think it came later to be honest because they were under the perception or view that when they will say that this is the reward will make the decision to the western world in meaning. this didn't happen because the countries made their own minds up. they looked at their own national interest to me and the respectively made the decisions when the,

during the voting boss wanting. i think also that is a political fantasy on the part of the western powers that they considered that they can get away with whatever they want to do with any developing country. what example, all those was previous wars are imposed on other countries. had shown a very bad result, unpopular to see and making even at their home is it in the process of occurring western dominance coming to to a close process has started. i mean, they will never accept this a political defeat that they accept at. okay. we failed in all these countries. we could not maintain peace, we loss trillions of dollars and we had to leave in some kind of, you know, submission to the countries and that in afghanistan included. can you give us a sense of how the east now sees the west has that changed since the conflict again? we're east has a one comparison there. make for example,

i can give you an assessment. these say that all right, all this human rights, all this destruction, this show and propagate whatever happened the ukraine. but they don't remember that any one of them can come out. they came out after very many, hundreds of thousands of people could millions refugees in iraq, for example. or we were wrong at the time. and then they went to syria, they had a problem, then they went to libya. so they are looking at somebody that the breasts should have stood there when they have initiated all the uno wars, but did refuse to accept the responsibility. it is impossible that the united states and other countries desirous to abandon mark sanders shall relationship in the past 20 years, going to a very positive trajectory. and we are of the opinion that this conflict will be dissolved sooner or later. but at the same time, the saltisha countries of other countries has

a great example to know that when the rest decides to something in their interests, they will come together. but when the global challenges there, they will not. they think that the european problem is everybody's problem is not the way you as president joe biden has declared an energy emergency thank potential power shortages, jeopardize national security. and the quality of life of americans by them has blamed russia and climate change for the looming prices. same, the u. s. may not be able to generate enough power to fulfill consumer demand. multiple factors are threatened in the ability of the united states to provide sufficient electricity generation to serve expected customer demand. these factors include disruptions of energy markets caused by russia's invasion of ukraine and extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change. as the pentagon has added, feel to the fire thing that china could undermine us. national security threat, beijing's control of key global supplies of ram,

minerals vital for the production of american military electronics unties caleb more pen as lease house when it comes to rare earth minerals, china has the market cornered, almost 90 percent. and at this point, we've got a member of congress coming forward, introducing a bill intended to reduce dependency. the chinese communist party has a choke hold on global rare earth elements supplies, which are used in everything from batteries to fighter jets, ending americas dependence on the tcp for extraction and processing of these elements is critical to winning the strategic competition against china and protecting our national security us dependency on china is being declared to be a national security risk due to the fact that missiles anti tank weapons and other pentagon hardware depend on rare earth minerals for their computer chips. when china cut off japan supply, this was a very dramatic blow. now we have us officials coming forward and saying we need

domestic production of this vital commodity. our mission as a company is to restore the full rare of supply chain to the knighted states of america. and so we have this unique resource. we can also do it in an environmentally conscious way. we have by now invoking a war time law to make sure it gets done. strong words and dramatic legislation are one thing, but actually getting it done might not be so easy. currently, the united states only has one mind that extracts where are minerals and setting up a whole chain could take years. also, rare earth mining is not good for the environment. it's pretty eager, logically damaging with long term consequences. also, much of the land that would have to be utilized is currently designated for native americans. not surprisingly there's quite a bit of pushback. there is no situation in which i'm going to feel good about giving even more subsidies to the mining industry. hard rock mining is governed by a severely outdated 150 year old law that less mining companies get away with

destroying the environment and hurting nearby communities without paying offense in federal royalties or paying to clean up toxic abandon mine lands. it's not just a new too rare is elements. usa also depends on china for solar panels. so white house has just granted a 24 month exemption to the tariff imposed on china in order to allow solar panels to be imported to the united states. the tariff that was imposed out of supposed concern for human rights has been put on hold out of necessity. the pentagon is scrambling to make sure it has computer chips for its weapons. and at this point, us officials are trying to figure out how to set up a whole new chain of mine's tariffs are being put on hold. washington has a big mass on its hands, a big mass that could easily be avoided if they simply learned to get along with china. so far, the chinese government has not threatened to cut off the supply to the us and keeps insisting data one site, a sanction is illegal and not aligned with the national policy of china. china

repeatedly that a tree war is a lose lose situation. the fight and ministration order a ban on the us imports of a key solar panel, but euro from chinese space companies over force labor allegations in fact, over the course of the last few years. similar issues and other reasons such as generally have been used as an excuse for the u. s. to south h to tell you trade war we've china, but he's china who has pains that can tolerate the heavy pollution stage to get to this stage of manage pollution to pick up the whole supply chain of, of production and mining of these materials in the u. s or the other hand is highly limited due to heavy and mental regulations is incredibly difficult to synchronize and create a vertically aligned supply chain. that not only exists in china, but he's not impossible. irish airline. ryan,

at his sparks outrage off the forcing south african passengers to take a quiz to board its flights to wait out for your passport. the test was worse than as i can say. first language for reportedly only 13 percent of south africans within the past. passengers have shed photos of the test and africans, which of those have been called the tongue of apartheid a painful chapter in the country's history. the general knowledge test includes questions about the geography, history and culture of south africa. we got reaction from one of the passengers who had to take the quiz to be faced with a taste like that was very surprising because i've never had anything like that before. the test was basically just asking questions about south africa, but had to be on that in off recalls. doesn't confirm the validity of citizenship at all because it only cases for 12 percent of the population. so it's actually marginalizing the population more than it is to seem to see if you're a south africa. i mean you take me for instance, i have friends who don't speak any offer collins at all. so they wouldn't pause to

transfer to 100 percent south africa and it's marginalizing it it's, it's discriminating against the population. and it definitely splits the population, which is what we've tried so hard to avoid for 28 years from my understanding of the situation they're trying to prevent fraudulent passport. so i think that matter will be dealt with an embassy diplomatic level and not a language test. it's, you cannot victimize, the traveling population or marginalized, discriminate against them because of problems that's, it's on a government level, especially like this, especially in terms of, especially where we come from our country. what is being through where it's going, using that language is exactly what a project was. you know it marginalized again, that 88 percent of the population. and it only had the 12 percent being able to do anything brings up all the scores and all the members from the post. according to ryan asked south african passengers will be denied travel on the airline,

albeit with a full refund. and i stayed on the controversial test earlier, the south african government res concerns are the numerous reports of fraudulent possibles in the country. we'll think of reaction to the scandal from stolen from a south african official tenant committee. so africa has got the liver, nakeesha, lungs, and li, live in ocean languages. doesn't mean everybody speaks. they are below the missouri to south africans, especially black, should lead africans to do so that they can travel overseas. that's wrong. it's clearly wrong. that's discrimination. they're doing this being at a wrong time for their own reasons. i understand a lot of fraudulent passport. yes. but to test all of us in the language, it's extremely role. i would suggest the so how for the government should go on this diplomatically and tried to sort out their problems.

the u. s. has urged furby to focus more on his goal of joining the e u. instead of criticizing its neighbors for every since scandal, when several balkan countries denied the russian foreign ministers plain passage to serbia through the air space. and serbian president has been publicly condemning the move for approval. i haven't seen the kind of hysteria for a long time. that little serbia has been exposed to in europe and around the world due to the arrival of love raw. you can't believe how much pressure there was on serbia because of that visit. said he has been facing heavy western criticism for its refusal to impose sanctions against russia. foreign minister, 3rd gala. ralph was scheduled to visit belgrade on monday to meet with serbia's top officials, including president v stitch, length of being forced to call off his flight after the ass based band life of slums. the move, thank it, effectively deprived a foreign country of a right to its own foreign policy, a professor at the institute of european studies in belgrade, se serbia is being pressured to take a stance against moscow. people in the diplomatic circles should be shocked

by unilateral acts i would say of nato because this is obviously not a independence solution. independent move on either bulgaria, montenegro, or norma, cydonia. united states is trying to force serbia to really abandon its policy of political and military neutrality. i can't use any other word but and insolence because this is a really striving what is happening because we are imposed to behave in a certain way or else are politically. the fabio to serbia. montenegro was, was bombed by, by nato. and part of its territory is still occupied by nato forces. and i think

that the language that we hear now is language of threats. me, thanks for joining us here. and i see international with it back at the top of the i with ah, with

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with a with walking towards the bar and old russian saying has it that once you have a reason finding a pre text is only a matter of time in getting, finding a pretext, or a war, animosity between the rush and the united states has been building for a number of years. in fact, one could argue that it never really disappeared, just diminished with the end of the cold war. how far can the current conflict over

ukraine take it and what does it mean for the rest of the world? to discuss it, i'm now joined by what is id, professor of political communications at the university of tech run, protesting his id is great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you for having me. now, in one of your recent articles, you suggested that they said you political rivalry over your credit, the all and now observing in summer, even participating in just like the problem of iran. suppose that malicious nuclear intention is essentially an artificial problem if it was deliberately created by the americans to justify their intentional jewel political you cannot make, has still a teacher with those countries. does washington even need a pretext to do what it is that is mind them doing? you know, when it comes to russia? i think. ready they do because it's not that easy to pressure russia when it comes

to, you know, they can always threatened to take on the case to the un security council with russia having a veto power in the security cancer. that's not going to work out that, you know, they accuse the dawn of trying to make an easier ball with russia. russia has lots of nuclear bombs already, so that, that is not going to work with russia. is so, if you like, the states wants to fight russia and they do want to do that. as you said, they need to find an excuse. and i think that is why they don't want the wall in ukraine to finish. because if there is a settlement, then you are going to be able to use ukraine to put pressure on russia. and that is why if you go back a few years ago the united.