a new 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 counterparts that again lever he's currently on a toll of africa. that's much to the dismay of us politicians who run the alarm bells over russia's increasing influence in the region. russia says its artillery has destroyed ukrainian control center is an ammunition deposed across the dom bus from not the crew visit. a unit with ukrainian forces have few options to choose from the surrender. withdraw or be completely destroyed on brazilian president pulse or reiterate his country won't join until

russian sanctions, and that's despite ukrainian president zalinski is called for brazilian to choose a side in the conflict with new weeks, just getting under way in moscow. my name is peter scott. and welcome to 30 minutes of news and analysis ero nazi. now from egypt to the republic of congo, the russian foreign minister has been touring the african continent with the global few crisis. been one of the key talking points as he held several high level meetings. love london in congo earlier, and it's the 1st ever visits of a russian foreign minister to the country in both russian. i'm soviets, history. later, monday instead of a lover of is scheduled to hold talks on a number of issues with his congolese colleagues. the rest of minutes is 1st stop. however, the thought was cairo, where he held talks with his egyptian counterparts. after that, me think,

lover of stress, the importance of bilateral ties, or egypt, top diplomats out of the africa, is free to choose who does business with 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 on us. 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. level of trip comes, is us politicians drawing alarm bells over what they call russia spreading influence on the african continent. and that's something that they say would jeopardize us interests during his visit to egypt. sylvia la, brought him to the west, had already attempted to sabotage his meeting with members of the arab league, whose leader he also met during that school. i love you when i was on my way

here a protocol was shown to us. there was distributed among the diplomatic corps by the secretariat of the league of arab states. this protocol concerned the protest made before the legal verb stays by a group of voice and ambassadors from the united states, france, germany, great britain, and the representative of the e. u. it demanded that our arab france 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 the legit western attempt to put pressure on arab league states, the meeting in cairo saw a friendly atmosphere with her girl of rav getting a warm welcome from over 20 representatives of the league ortiz, maria finacialow, whose following the foreign minister on his tore, brings as more details from his 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 a 2nd, russia africa summit is planned for the next year, and the 2 minister 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 it's the law group answered my question, criticizing the u. s. pressure to move weiss, moscow's engagement with african countries reaching too much concern in washington . you're moving. it's hard for me to comment on a situation where sovereign states disapprove of other countries, desire to engage with other nation, especially when those countries have a long history of solidarity and co operation in many areas. for any state, especially the united states, which brings itself as a leader of the entire world,

an ex, like, it's a holier than thou. it's on dignified to act this way. the to foreign minister is also discuss bilateral relations between moscow in cairo. egypt has a long term strategic and economic partner for russia and both mr. lab robin mr. shook re said today that the 2 countries agreed to expand and dipping corporation between the 2 states that he or my colleague unit o'neill got some insights from human rights and labor lawyer done kovachick on political science, professor mcgee, but ross on africa is a political stance and why the west's been so concerned about his ties with russia, egypt is leading the african stand for mon alignment. the language that the east and west understand is national interest of the country, egypt to adopt a very unbalanced stand between united states,

the west in germany, and russia and the east. as a matter of fact, what we're witnessing now is a confrontation between the east and west. sorry, go for off. recently said western ambassadors call for our oblique members to condemn russia not take pictures with russian representatives. what we've seen though is pretty much the opposite with very warm reactions from his counterparts on recent trips. does that really just put in the spotlight that the world is bigger than the west? absolutely. i mean, since the conflict in ukraine began, we saw this that really outside of the u. s. canada, western europe, japan and australia, the rest of the world either supported russia or, you know, were neutral. and the developing world in particular, in africa, asia, latin america actually increased their ties with rushes since that time. so

i do. ready think yes, the world is bigger than the west. i think most of the world is tired of the west. the west has been looting africa, for example, for centuries. and, you know, they're looking for other partners of the u. s. really. what is it brought to places like africa in the middle east in recent years, war and destruction? you know, and so i, yeah, the world is getting bigger. we now see a multi pale polar world in blue. and places like africa are taking advantage of that is, should russia doesn't have a colonial passed on the continent, unlike many of the others who are criticizing moscow for, for this very trip right now. does that make a difference for how they can build relations from here? the fact that there's no colonial baggage with moscow,

this will be union back in the 1950s, did support all lucian's against colonial powers in the middle east and africa. the african countries and country middle eastern in general. i believe that russia is a genuine ally. it doesn't lectures the world and the african countries how to adopt that was didn't that in the democracy in the us wants what it's always wanted out of africa, a monopoly over africa's resources. right. and they want to have ultimate military penetration into africa and simply put the u. s. doesn't want any competitors in africa to take any resources. and it doesn't even want the africans to use their own resources. after wrapping up his visits, the republic of congo love will travel,

see both ethiopia and uganda. and of course, our correspondent will bring you all the latest on the visit as it continues. in the dawn bus, heavy artillery fy exchange has intensified across the length of the phone line. the roof and defense ministry says the artillery together with long range missiles have hits a large number of targets on ukrainian territory, including control senses, mo, deposed mich hardware and a ship in the ports of a desa. and it will go through public artillery units have been using shells filled with leaflets, urging kids forces to surrender. ortiz a saw gone. dia visited one such units fighting ridges on, on the dawn, was frontline with artillery play in a crucial row. the queen, in forces are bombarded daily, including with these $122.00 millimeter shells containing propaganda leaflets. london intense artillery battles are currently ongoing between our lu ganske forces and the ukranian military. what her show persia,

the la guns could republics militia forces are now showing the ukrainian army. and neil now 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 fronts deep into the dpr. ukrainian forces have few options to choose from. surrender, withdraw or be completely destroyed. the acadia, drones and recognizance devices accurately locate enemy positions which then become targets for the l. tillery or banks, and you're looking at, 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. keith's forces are using cost of bombs against frontline villages and cities as russian led forces approach. the advanced continues in the direction of severs solid, r and r. thomas. meanwhile, other residential areas in the next republic came under shelling by ukrainian

forces on sunday or local residents was injured as a result of an attack on gordon of cur ospital was also damaged in the city that's according to local or thought local officials over there and there is no information immediately available on the casualties. there are t's roman casa reports. on the aftermath of the recent shelling inc, all of her ukrainian artillery attacks continue against civilian population. here in this city of gore lapka on friday at least that 14 private residences and a 16 multiple apartment buildings have been damaged as the result for people had been injured here and girl of god alone. this particular building has just 8 apartments, and 4 of them are now lying in ruins. little

cover. she's them. we had just gone out to get water. when there was an explosion right there under the balcony. it left a pit to which 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, which is 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. now,

shores like these can be found everywhere. now it might look small to you, but it weighs at least a 100 grams. no one was killed during a vis 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. now the news, an f b i pro, has allegedly found the cell phone towers belonging to chinese tech company hallway, a capable of intercepting communications of us strategic command. and that means that hallway could impact the functioning of the u. s. nuclear arsenal. that's according to an exclusive cnn report and it comes as f b i director christopher re claimed 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 and sent back to china, and the u. s. government refuses to provide any evidence for its claims me. well, hallway has denied all the accusations. one of our products importers to the u. s. have been tested and certified by the federal communications commission before being deployed there. now equipment only 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. or the investigation into hallway equipment near us minute infrastructure was launched as far back as the obama administration. back in 2020 congress approved almost $2000000000.00 to try to force fall way off the us market boats. none of the equipments has been moved so

far. let's go live now to andrew learned independent china specialist. andrew, thanks for joining us today here on oxy. now, what do you make of this report or any of these allegations surprising to you? well, hello supplies at all, because this was the 1st time why has been identified as the arch any b o u. s. technology way back, as you mentioned, the obama administration, while way already. in fact, why has been cut all over and finally the high and michael chips result he almost collapsed. so bob. ready industry, but the fact remains why has been in infrastructure, especially in 5 g, a structure on a long time. in fact, in spite of the company that council 60 percent,

all l y g in both structure throughout the world and actually in the station. and you can continue with by the industry, all sorts of areas and also. ready sanctions and also barriers against an entry. so the lead this, this company, and obviously if you find a company, we got this all the evidence evidence that the united states, this is the key to use the other infrastructure. but i think the accusing why all those doing a thing destroyed american technology. it's a bit of over high. i think that it would be best to concentrate on its own competence. but nevertheless, this is part over 360 degrees,

respect and china. so this again, but of course hallway has denied all those accusations that it is a tool of the chinese government. now having read the article that, you know, there's very little evidence they all comes from anonymous source as to what extent do you believe this undermines the claims are made in the article? well, i think it's for the lot of state defense department and i didn't the station to judge as to what to do with sure. but i think the fact remains the white is extremely strong. why and also it's a close to 5 g on intelligence. so those on the wall would be killed in spite of the fact that i wish that it was

a state of view. and also i think about is a structure and, and i think that this is really otherwise it, i have to worry about why, why all day long independent china specialist, i'm afraid that's all we've got time for for now. but we would love to discuss that with you, maybe at some point in the future. thanks very much for joining us today. what is the landscape coal, to brazilian president, julia boston, our to joining sanctions against russia fell on deaf ears as a bazillion lead. again, the said his country will continue to adhere to its balanced position. no one was that we will not adhere to economic sanction. we continue our balance position, which if i didn't have this balanced position,

do you think we would have fertilizers in the country? is us a brazil her faith condemnation from the us and its allies over its dance on russia? the country's president not only refused to impose sanctions, it's also met with vladimir putin, despite warnings from the white house, brazil faces serious economic challenges related to inflation and a decline in economic growth. some reports indicate that over 30000000 people faced living in hunger as rising food prices way on the approval ratings of president bull scenario, who is seeking re election in october. agribusiness is a key sector of the economy and the government is trying to establish trade agreements with russia for the supply of fertilizers on the purchase of diesel. we discussed the brush on brazil with our guests election appending election in october. many brazilians, if lamed balls scenario for worsening economy, the most depressed sectors, the father law goes a historically marginalized afo brazilian population. the definitely bull scenario

is not thinking with united states in the state department needs right now is thinking about. ready boston, i don't need right now. this is not 1991. this is not 2003. the century of american exceptionalism is over. we're going to see a more sovereign brazil or more sovereign south america. imagine a state department right now. united states see latin american mainly brazil as part of his gay operates game. i mean, we, on the backyard of the united states, united states have no help a glass in america. oh, brazil. 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 allow you to them and business through

dictatorship. in other news, american citizens should not be worried about or recession. thus, according to the us treasury secretary, who said that the current state of the american economy should rather be described as a period of transition, where despite slow economic growth, there are jobs for those who want them. this is not in the economy, it's in recession. but we're in a period of transition in which growth is slowing and that's necessary and appropriate us treasury. secretary also said that rising inflation in the country can be controlled by june. the thing inflation in the u. s. surging to 9 point one percent effectively reaching its highest rates in decades. now, her optimism is not shared by everyone, including a form advise. it's a brock, a bama. you said that recession is almost inevitable. in the meantime, pressure on american consumers continues to increase as food, energy,

and rent become less and less affordable. less cost live now to our gas professor of economics, his st. mary's college jack rasmus jack, welcome to the program. now the us secretary of the treasury describe the state of the american economy as in the transition rather than a recession. do you make that statement? i. * i would disagree with her, i don't put any more trust in this forecast of hers than i did in her forecast several months ago that inflation was going down. i think she's wrong. if you look at the u. s. economy 1st quarter, the sheer it contract, it already minus 1.6 percent. the federal reserve at atlanta is forecasting another contraction, 2nd quarter. we'll see you next week. in addition to that last week, a whole series of indicators were reported out. that kind of warned people, and maybe that's why she's responding because the talk now is

a recession is closer than, than we thought. there are forecasts that business activity is dropping out very quickly in the us. we have a purchasing managers indexes, both contracting both for manufacturing and for services. we've got the fed the next week, going to raise the interest rates, another 75 basis points, right into the teeth of this big slow down. maybe we haven't crossed the contraction yet in her mind, but boy, we are moving very quickly in that direction and i've been forecasting a recession before the end of this year, or for 6 months now. and i'm not alone. there are other other economists who are beginning to see the same re, investment is slowing dramatically. consumption is rising, but only equal to inflation. so it's all price. inflation is not real consumption growing. there's a whole host of things that are indicators that we are moving very quickly into

recessionary stage. here she seems to think another communists seem to think that, oh, because we don't have a significant lay offs going on right now that that means we're not in a recession. well, employment is always a lagging indicator of 6 months, at least to what's going on. the rest of the economy and already we're seeing a claims for unemployment benefits rising the last 4 or 5 weeks. so i think the lagging indicator will change your mind. and i think it will be very clear by the time we get to september, that the u. s. economy is already in a recession. well, of course, like you, not everyone shares the positive outlook of the treasury secretary. if this a session does take place towards the end of the year, how worried do you think the american public should be? how serious will it be? well, i think they're quite worried now if you look at the polls, 60 percent or more in the major pose of americans and say that the number one

concern is the economy. ok? it's inflation, right? but we're going to have unemployment overlaid on that by the, by the end of this year. so it's going to be, you know, both inflation and unemployment look to fit has decided and the politicians have decided they're going to shake out this inflation by destroying demand, by having the federal reserve accelerate interest rate hikes, which it is doing now. so by the end of the year, they will shake out some of the inflation, but not all, i think we're going to have a recession with about 4 to 5 percent inflation in addition to it. this is kind of new ground that we're entering. we haven't seen since the late 19 seventy's, early, early eighty's. so i, i think the politicians are saying, and she is saying what she needs to say, because now you have markets and investors last week, really, you know,

upping the discussion about o recession closer than we thought. and the feds raising rates again or quite an unprecedented situation if you not seen it since the 70s or eighties. now you did mention that interest rate hikes, one of the tools that can be used to try and reduce inflation. but some also say the russia take i recession high, a joblessness to ease price, precious and sauce extent. do you agree with that statement? well yes, if you raise interest ration you slow down the industry, which is already happening, as i said, especially when you get to manufacturing and construction. when you slow it down. that means you, you have layoffs if you have, why are people have a less disposable income to spend? there's less consumption business or pulls further back on this investment. and yeah, that's how one way you can get an end to inflation. like i said, though, i don't think they're going to shake it all out. that's exactly the way it happened

in 1981, 82. this is very similar to that where the federal reserve raised interest rates, the double digit levels, and caused a deep recession. $198182.00, but this time is not going to going to get to double digit interest rate levels. i've predicted that for some time the global economy, u. s. economy is much more fragile and it won't take, i've been predicting for a year more than 4 to 5 percent interest rates on the benchmark. and you're going to be in recession and we're getting darn close to it. right down on professor economic st. mary's colleagues college jack rasmus, always a pleasure to have you on your program. thank you very much for insights today. my pleasure. i saw the world's look in at 730. am this monday morning us all from me? peter scott, for now, but do stay tuned for well to pots with asana. boy coming up next. ah

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