ah ah, all countries of africa have sovereignty are free to choose their own policies, including foreign policies in the interests of their own people. those were the words of egypt, foreign minister, after talked with his russian counts about a gay lover of whose currently on a tour of africa. to the dismay of us politicians who rung the alarm bells over russia's increasing influence in the area. that is, artillery is destroyed, ukrainian control centers amunition default across the dumbass front and not the crew visit a unit. a ukrainian forces have few options to choose from the surrender withdraw or be completely destroyed under brazilian presidents, both in our reiterated country won't join until russian sanctions,

not despite ukrainian president the landscape coal for brazil. yet to choose a side in conflict with bill watson watching odds international life. my name's peter scott and wherever jordan is from, welcome to 30 minutes of news and analysis. now, from egypt to the republic of congo, the russian foreign minister has been touring the african continents with the global few crisis being one of the key talking points as he held a number of high level meetings law landed in congo earlier. and it's the 1st ever visits of a russian foreign minister to the country in both russian and soviets history. later on monday, i love rob is scheduled to hold talks on a number of issues with his congolese counterparts. the russian foreign ministers 1st stop on the top with cairo where yell talks with his gyptian counterparts. and after the meeting lover of stressed, the importance of bilateral ties,

while egypt top diplomats are, it's for africa to choose its own global partners. and the most law in we have good relations with russia with you and we got our relations with them to advance our interests. all countries of africa have sovereignty and are free to choose their own policies, including foreign policies in the interests of their own people. but we are both happy with the development of friendly relations between russia and egypt, which had a progress in according to our agreement on comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation. we share the desire to develop our interaction in all areas. love. rob's trip comes, is us. politicians rang alarm bells of what they called russia's spreading influence on the african continent. some thing they say would jeopardize us interests. but join his trip to egypt. sylvia loved off in the west, had already attempted to sub latasha meeting with members of the arab league, whose leader he also met during his toll. when i was on my way here,

a protocol was shown to us that was distributed among the diplomatic corps by the secretariat of the league of our state. this protocol concerned the protest made before the legal states by a group of western investors from the united states, france, germany, great britain, and the representative of the you. it demanded that our friends, firstly condemned. and secondly, reject all actions that russia is taking. it said it was impossible to sign any documents with us or take any pictures with us despite a legit western attempt to put pressure on the arab league states. the meeting in cairo apparently saw a friendly atmosphere with a good lover of getting a warm welcome from over 20 representatives of the league earlier r t 's maria phenomena who is following the foreign minister on his door brings is more details from the foreign ministers meeting in the egyptian capital, out of his visit to the continent. mister la rav sad to local media. that's russia

has always been advocating for strengthening africa's position in more than multi polar world, and will do its best to help make its voice heard. for that exact purpose, he event for 2nd, russia, africa summit is planned for the next year, and the 2 ministers said that the preparations are now in full swing. but not everybody seems to be happy with russia's activity on the african continent. we heard several concerns from a number all us senators and when to celebrate answered my question, criticizing the u. s. pressure to move weiss, moscow's engagement with african countries regions too much concern in washington? yeah, it's hard for me to comment on a situation where southern states disapprove of other countries, desire to engage with other nation, especially when those countries have a long history of solidarity and cooperation in many areas. for any state, especially the united states, which brings itself as

a leader of the entire world and ex, like, it's holier than thou. it's undignified to act this way. the to foreign minister is also discussed bilateral relations between moscow in cairo, egypt, his a long term strategic and economic partner for russia, and both mr. lab robin, mr. show pre said today that the 2 countries agreed to expand and dipping cooperation between the 2 states. middle east studies, experts doctor said sunday cuz says that russia comes to the african continent, essentially baggage, free as it has no colonial or imperialistic footprints. unlike some others. america had was drawn from the middle east and had ignored africa. china was russia will accept it in both the east and africa. and the american at one point will not heavy chinese. and the bill was just silent criticism. and now after the

cleanup prices, all of the americans began to discover that we cannot leave those areas. and that's why you had those statements regarding africa and the middle east from the american fish. and the point of the, the one, the chinese they want to be back 2nd, a lot of stuff because it has no history in africa. it has not occupied the middle east. if i got it does not balance the african countries. so it has a clean plate when they come to africa. this is very possible that big and managed with the nic pharmacy as well. after wrapping up his visits to the republic of congo, mister lovell will travel to ethiopia and uganda. and of course, our correspondent will bring you all the latest on the visits as it continues. in the dawn bus, heavy artillery fire exchange has intensified across the length of the front line.

the russian defense ministry says the artillery together with a long range, missiles have hit a large number of targets on ukrainian territory, including control centers, ammunition depots, measure hardware on the ship in the ports of a data. and they've gone, screw public out. 3 units have been using shells filled with leaflets, urging kids forces to surrender. ortiz saga and dia, this one such artillery unit fighting bridges on the, on the don was frontline with artillery playing a crucial role. the queen in forces are bombarded daily, including with these $122.00 millimeter shells containing propaganda leaflets. ladon, intense artillery battles are currently ongoing between our lu ganske forces and the ukranian military. what a shilpa shot the la guns could republics militia forces are now showing the ukrainian army and knew not said battalions with propaganda. shells calling for them to surrender and explaining how to do it the right way to save their lives.

the joint forces are now advancing on the dawn bus front deep into the dpr. ukrainian forces have few options to choose from surrender, withdraw, or be completely destroyed. what the acadia drones and reconnaissance devices accurately locate enemy positions which then become targets for the ill tillery will strengthen your promotion. of course, we're trying not to miss and we're doing very well. the artillery fire coordination is working just fine. at present, it is difficult for us to advance further gifts forces are using cluster bombs against frontline villages and cities as russian lead forces approach. the advanced continues in the direction of severs solid, r and r. tell mosque in while of the residential areas in the daniel republic came under shelling by ukrainian forces on sunday, one local residence was injured as a result of an attack on gordon of cur officer was also damaged in the city, according to local officials, but no immediate information on casualties was available ortiz roma crossover

reports on the aftermath of that. recent shelling in goal of her ukrainian artillery attacks continue against civilian population. here in the city of foot, gore lapka on friday, at least 14 private residences. and as 16 multiple apartment buildings have been damaged as the result, 4 people have been injured here and girl of god alone, this particular building has just 8 apartments. and 4 of them are now lying in ruins. ah ah. matilda we she's them, we had just gone out to get water when there was an explosion right there under the balcony, left to pillage. did everything went flying,

which for apartments were destroyed all of us. all of the residents are still alive because we had stepped out. my neighbors had gone downstairs, which they would have died in their apartments. the 4 apartments on the side of the building were destroyed. the other side was left unharmed. when we came back home, there was no home to come back to bushes to such a misfortune as i bought. when i got a call and was told that's eat, your home is gone, your apartment is gone. i'm happy to be alive. the owner of this apartment, how recently did renovations here. however, as you can see, all of that work was futile, as it now lies almost completely destroyed. not charge, like these can be found everywhere that might look small to you, but it weighs at least a 100 grams. no one was killed during this ukrainian attack. however, there were several wounded people here in goal of car and are now in the hospital

for mon cauthrin r t. the nest people's republic ukrainian president followed him is the landscape coal to brazilian president julia ball scenario to join in sanctions against russia seem to fall on death is as the brazilian lead against that he's country will continue to adhere to his balanced position. move that we will not adhere to economic sanctions. we continue our balance position. if i didn't have this balanced position, do you think we would have fertilizers in the country? us? now brazil has faced condemnation from the united states and its allies over its stance on russia. the countries presidents not only refused to impose sanctions, but also met with vladimir putin, despite warnings from the white house. brazil face is a serious economic challenge related to inflation and a decline in economic growth. some reports suggested over 30000000 people faced living in hunger as rising food prices way on the approval ratings of president bull sanara who is seeking re election in october. i grow business is

a key sector of the economy and the government is trying to establish trade agreements with russia for the supply of fertilizers and the purchase of diesel. we discussed the pressure on brazil with our guest election appending election in october. many brazilians lane both scenario for worsening economy. the most depressed sectors, the farther logos, that historically marginalized africa, brazilian population. the definitely bull scenario is not thinking with the united states. and the state department needs right now is thinking about what both sonata needs right now. united states and see latin american mainly brazil as part of his gay outfits game. i mean, we are the backyard of united to say, united states have never help with latin america overdue to to arrive in better condition of goldman. what the united states do is

business and business for corruption and business through over throwing government that are not allied to them and business through dictatorship. i mean business with intervention in the polito in thermo situation of latin america account for is a hungry joint. brazil in the criticism of unto russian sanctions as key of accused the countries prime minister, vic tolben of spreading russian propaganda sanctions didn't shake russia. it's a classic example of russian propaganda. we should make no bones about it. europe is in an economic crisis, not because of sanctions, but because of russia's hybrid war with his combs as v to all been said, that sanctions against russia failed on hit the you itself. he also stressed the only weights and the war is talks between moscow and washington. however hungry

stunts as well as its foreign ministers. recent visit to moscow received an angry response from the you. politicians on the media. hungary was already actively undermining unity and is now actively helping russia. undemocratic governments have no place around the european table, kick hungary out of the un nato. let ukraine join both. instead. there is no reason to keep hungry inside e, u and nato. if it's systematically serves as the best russian trojan horse inside of our allied institutions, who are the past has refused to impose an embargo on russian fossil fuels to saying it can't replace them. the international monetary fund warns it's stopping the gas flow from russia would plunge hungry as well as the chet republicans lock you into a severe recession. thus is the faces economic difficulties with the annual inflation rates hitting a reward record of almost 10 percent. last week, the euro fell to a lower value than the us dollar for the 1st time in 20 years. thought to george

some well, a fellow of the global policy institute of london points out the old one was opposed to the use policies from the start. hungary has regarded the human native policy of continuing a war that's basically kind of great when that's considered that is absolutely foolish. validate and above all it's one that is the destructive. busy for europe and any particular or hungary, which is very reliance on, on fuel from russia. but he question believes that it's been a disaster for everyone in europe. he's now really saying that this cannot go on. it's just a very dangerous disastrous policy that nato and the union are involved

in other news and f, b, i pro, has allegedly found the cell phone towers belonging to chinese technology company hallway, a capable of intercepting communications of the u. s. strategic command. the co way could impact the functioning of the u. s. nuclear arsenal. that's according to an exclusive cnn report. and this comes as f b i director chris to re claims the bureau opens a new china counter intelligence investigation every 12 hours. probably about 2000 or so, investigations and that's not even talking about their cyber theft where they have a bigger hanging program than that of every other major nation combined and have stolen more of americans, personal and corporate data than every nation combined. now it's still unclear whether any data was actually stolen, anson, but to china, and the u. s. government refuses to provide any evidence for its claims. meanwhile,

according to the c in an investigation, while we denied any search accusations, all of our products input to the u. s. has been tested and certified by the federal communications commission. before being deployed, there are equipment on the operates on the spectrum allocated by the federal communications commission for commercial use. this means it cannot access any spectrum allocated to the u. s. defense department investigation into the hallway equipment near u. s. military infrastructure was launched as far back as the bomber administration . back in 2020 congress approved almost $2000000000.00 to charge a force. while way off the u. s. market was none of it's equipment has been moved so far. that goes live now to michael mallow, a former senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense. michael, welcome to the international. thank you. now, 1st of all, what are your impressions of the report? what do you make of these allegations?

are they surprising to you? no, not at all. they've been around for years. they were around when i was at the defense department in the early 2, thousands. so this is not not new. and secondly, it's not just walk away. it's also a z t. and what was interesting too, is that the bi limits are the trumpet administration actually came down hard on a while way as well as g t. h lifted sanctions on z t e. subsequently, however, the, by the ministration has ramp posed, sanctions on both, and also a few other companies that are associated with the telecommunications the i've, i've read the cnn report. and once again, it's remiss in providing any details. it does not provide any firm data on actual espinoza's or even sabotage. and that has been the main

concern for years in the defense department toward the way equipment. and you saw also the great britain and other members of the the 5 guys who are all involved in high level intelligence sharing, like australia, new zealand, canada, us, and great britain banning way for fear that their equipment could be used to extract data from an espionage standpoint or, and if implement implanted into equipment to us equipment, whether it's military or, or even us civilian, it could be subject to, to advertise that's never been proven. and i think that the, i think the f b, i owes more visibility on this and, and of course, one way and the chinese government have denied it throughout. so we're at it

another stalemate once again. but it's clear that way and as the key equipment has been, once again banned by the, by an administration. of course, yes. in the u. k, they were pressurized by the us to, to give it a hallway, equipment in the 5 g network over security concerns. again, now i'm no technology expert or engineer, but would this sort of equipment have to be tuned specifically to intercept sensitive combs, or is it just the nature of this telecommunications equipment that they can possibly receive the thought of information? well, i'm not a techie either, but i'm told that it's the way it's program the way the the microchips and what have you can be programmed. there have been whistleblowers, for example, who have testified before congress and provided sensitive information to

investigators on capitol hill, for example, in a senate report a few years ago that through the programming of the equipment and having that equipment then installed in other countries that rely on our way technology for its telecommunication systems that it would be and also potentially in the us, that it would be another source of, of collection at least by, by the chinese. and of course, the chinese are very, very concerned about this and its effect of the businesses. so it, so it doesn't look like this. this is going to be resolved anytime soon. now, as you say, you are always taking a huge reputational hits with these, these issues. now you did something before in your previous answer, michael. the whole article from cnn is based, no, predominantly on anonymous sources. so let's extend this undermines the claims in

the article itself. well i, i have a problem with it as well. i mean, if you're not going to be sho specificity or give details for and you're only quoting so called reliable sources, which 10 in that case to be from intelligence that automatically is regarded as a reliable source in the journal as a world. and that can be very, very damaging. i've seen that actually used as a weapon against us personnel itself. i happen to be a victim of that. and you can never find who these anonymous sources are, but they will go. but a cnn or a print media will immediately use as a gospel the, the word of a u. s. intelligence official. and you don't know what the motive is of that, of that official. and in this case, they're not being transparent in terms of providing why they feel while wait technology is, is of concern. and, and i think that that is,

that it does, i think that damages the credibility of the report itself and, and funding michael the time into this article comes wet tensions in the indo pacific region, specifically over taiwan, a very high at the moment. do you think it's coincidence? and now i do not. i think this was meant to aggravate the situation and with how speaker pelosi planning a trip to taiwan. this is gonna infuriate beijing to the point. now we're beijing is even threatening potential military action. so this is the the admit and she's due to go next month. she was supposed to have gone much earlier, but she came down with cobit, maybe she'll get a relapse, i don't know, but at any rate, she's scheduled to go next month. and this is going to be

a be a very telling thing and already we're, what we're seeing is the u. s. military cautioning against that is it, we're also seeing them looking at the extent to which the chinese have actually accelerated, their, their, their military confrontations with on the high seas with us ships. another war ship went through the taiwan straits just the other day. so tensions are building i would look to august as, as a potential problem, month in august is always very weird anyway in the international scope because things happen unexpectedly during august. and we've, we've seen this in the past with invasions like us invasion of are the iraqi invasion of kuwait many, many years ago and a few other episodes. so august is

a month to really watch out for and that's also when she's scheduled to go. and that could really create a confrontation. well, i'm sure we'll have you on the program again in august, michael mallow, of a former senior security policy analyst in the office of the sector defense. very interesting to talk to you today about the, the in an article on hallway. thank you very much for your time. thank you. ah sir, rests of launched a drone strike in the city of so cool a beer in the west of syria. 2 people were reportedly killed with another 13 injured oh, the syrian santa news agency says the drone pots, with explosive stroke civilians who were celebrating the opening of the hog. sophia church, russian and syrian officials were reportedly present at the ceremony. russian military official give again. good, awesome, have said that no russian emission personnel were injured

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