a lisa with those who play with fire will come to no good and those who offend china must be penalized tension. sanctions on military drills follow in the wake of nancy pelosi footsteps as she leads taiwan. china warns that both washington on the self governed island will face consequences. over the u. s. i speakers controversial with a wall of silence goes up from e. u officials, over policies, trip with the only statement that there is no change to the plot to policies towards china. also on the program.

ah, least 4 people are killed in south africa. you know, as violent protests are wrapped in a ton ship over sky rocketing electricity calls a several in the evening here in moscow this wednesday, the 3rd of august. my name's unit o'neill and this is our to international. china has begun military drills in areas surrounding taiwan. the move comes in response to the visit of us. how i speaker nancy pelosi to taipei. beijing announced plans for 6 zones encircling taiwan, where it would carry out live fire drills including missile launches. ah

ah. speaker pelosi departed tele one earlier today. during her visit she met the territories president, $200.00 herd telling one's highest civilian honor for her contribution to us taiwan relations. despite us officials repeatedly stating washington does not support taiwanese independence. i would like lucy said, her visit was evidence of america's commitment to supporting democracy on the island. the u. s. house of representatives. speaker was the highest ranking american official to visit taiwan in a quarter of a century ortiz nikki, or,

and told me more about the trip on the trauma vacation. it was literally a flying visit by pelosi wasn't as she arrived late on tuesday night in less than 24 hours later she was already on not playing back home. this, the briefest of visits that's already having a significant impact while the trip spunk, something of a love, polosa love fest, entire pay. as you said, she was awarded the highest civilian honors during that short trip in beijing. it's been met with absolute fury. they warned pelosi against making this trip again and again. and it now opened a very dangerous period in relations between us at taiwan and china. now, a statement issued on wednesday, china's foreign minister, wonky. he did not miss his words. when speaking about china's response, he spoke about those who play with fire. those who offend china will be punished and is becoming very clear that these weren't just words. we're already seeing a robust response to this unprecedented visit 20th announced these military drills,

which are going to be starting on thursday their last for 5 days. they're taking place to 10 miles from taiwan. this is this in some of the, this is in some of the worlds at busiest waterways and it will include long range live ammunition shooting. now the chinese military, they've said look, everybody needs to avoid this area, old boats and planes for 3 days. but as we know, the u. s. isn't keen on taking advice from bating, we've seen that with this pelosi visit, so whether they choose to heat the advice of china here, or whether they choose to further test to resolve of china and continued to stand. it's boats and a plains into the area remains to be seen. let's take a listen. now we're at the rhetoric that and the developing rhetoric of the past few hours. through your thoughts you use your search retrogressive moves won't change the international consensus that there's only one china in the world, nor they can reverse the historical trend of unification of the mainland and taiwan

. those who play with fire will come to no good and, and those who offend china must be penalized. we resolutely defend national sovereignty and we'll counter any aggression against national sovereignty. we will strengthen our vigilance with a rational attitude which won't escalate conflicts, nicki, it's not only a button military action is an economic action, whatever they can do in that regard. that's very much to the forefront to which one is already taking beef to impose a quick economic cost on high pay for its role in pillows these visits? slapped import suspensions on $35.00 tie when he's exposed of biscuits and pastries . since monday this was well ahead of these visits, they can spare a thought. now for the people working in those industries, the economic impacts this will have on many people's lives. it's unclear whether more suspension looming. but if aging really wants to stick the booth and hit to

type a where it hurts and it's going to target the timelines biggest export to china by value, which is of course electronics and parts machinery. plastics and chemicals global markets already spooked by the pelosi visits on the initial fall out stocks in semiconductor parts already. so globally on tuesday, i had the end of the visit also along with global market. so investors like the brace for the economic fallout from this trip. what about from within taiwan itself? what's the immediate take there on pelosi stop? well, like i said, on the one hand we've got this pelosi love fest that being felt in taiwan with the local media. some even, you know, flattering pelosi of her outfits saying she looked like audrey hepburn when she met j. f. k. back in the day, and then we have others who a little bit most get the call back. very conscious of the precarious impact that this visit will happen. one of those being the former taiwanese on boston 2090 pill

. what do you mean? hello. see what the hell i doing here right now. i'm all the way here to the board . the table. nice people support yourself. you want to support us to fight against the peoples of duration. army americans always ask us to let more taiwanese people join the army. whenever you come to taiwanda, i want us to buy more weapons from you and fight against the people's liberation army in urban terrain. it's none of your business are here to support a wine or to provoke a war. what the hell are you doing here below? see the relationship between the mainland and taiwan is already very tense. you are supporting to wind, but we don't need your support. you are literally purring oil on the flames. you only make things worse. meanwhile, on the streets of taiwan, people a split as well. some in full support of the policy visit us and others just think that she's causing trouble with i think it is the u. s. policy. they just care about themselves. they don't care about the problem of ordinary people in other countries. i think it is wrong to just do what the us wants. pelosi should respect the will of the taiwanese people are soon,

though. maybe try to clarify us. rather it's so many times. okay. duct, the old story, the always come, you know, come on. oh, well the way it will somewhat effect i one, but will it affect our daily normal lives? i personally think it will not, at least for the next 2 years. so what we're seeing play out now is this ripple effect, this very brief trip by nancy pelosi and whether intentional or not days. that creates a ripple effects. of course, as we know, ripples turn into waves. these waves will be felt globally how significantly remains to be seen, but we're going to get a clearer picture in the coming allison days. yes, a more reaction to developments. investigative journalist, edward sal believe nancy pelosi visit to taiwan was meant as a distraction from america's own problems at home. we have another example of the united states overextending itself. me for example, with nancy pelosi, i think all this visit was, well the, a high,

a high cost distraction as opposed to you know, so the average american can't even point out where tiwana is on a map that passes the cost of food, the cost of fuel these are the things that after americans care about, but then we see nancy pelosi taking a little bit of vacation around the world and at a time when trying to nothing but to gain from dig churchill. now they get the entire world to concentrate on sure. what their motor is capable, what the show is, 1st of all, is the child is able to project power or its own country. i want to be the front on the doorstep. you're going to see the use of futuristic. i'll take you terrific, but high technology, long range ballistic missiles. they're going to use this as the firing mechanism for many of the indirect fire they're going to show off. and the reason going to do this is because the united states, as a counter to it well, nancy pelosi visit to taiwan was met with a wall of silence from european governments. according to the only official

statement from the you, the block is not rushing to publicly support the move of the u. s. representative. we have seen the recent media reports about the arrival and taiwan of the speaker of the us house of representatives, nancy pelosi. we don't have any specific comments to add. we encourage the peaceful resolution of the issues in the strait. the e u and the e u. member states remain committed to the use one china policy, the reaction within the european union to air pelosi putting wheels down in taiwan is remarkable by its deafening silence. it's one thing for you to pay lip service to what it calls the preservation of peace in a rather boiler plate statement that apparently took a whole day to come up with. but why is it so suddenly shy about taking sides in this, when they're usually so quick to shoot off their mouths when it's far too late? especially when speaking out could act as a counterweight to washington provocation and prevent conflict or even war. if the

you had done the same in ukraine, that is have the courage to stand up against washington's constant provocations on the russian border. then maybe it would now be bearing the brunt of it's own ideologically driven anti russian sanctions. and sure, nancy pelosi, a speaker of the house is the 3rd top ranked american official. but she's also a career as on public. i tell when it comes to china in particular, washington post is called this trip a culmination of decades of challenging china. sure. whatever floats your boat, nancy pelosi, but you can't then argue that her presence in taiwan, which let's face it, washington exploits as a proxy to go. china is just business as usual and not a provocation. it's too bad that europe blocks real statesman these days like former french president, jacques chirac or former german chancellor. gerhard schroeder, who took an unwavering stand against washington's drive for war in iraq, 2 decades ago, alongside russian president vladimir putin. the question is,

why are european leaders so lacking in courage to speak out against u. s. foreign policy and instead making weak neutral mealy mouthed statements in the case of taiwan may be ally, silas is the result of seeing how some of them have been lambasted by their own western counterparts for even suggesting rational diplomacy as the path forward instead of provocation. for example, former nato secretary general anders vogue rasmussen even considered that french president, a mentor and mac holes call for diplomacy with russia over ukraine, was directly harmful to taiwan. the chinese are following the developments in ukraine very closely, because if putin can get away with taking crimea and maybe the don bass and that is settled in a peace deal than china, might interpret that as an invitation to take taiwan by force. so now apparently, according to this esteem, former nato chief, if you aren't actively provoking russia using ukraine or provoking china using taiwan. then you're inviting war. likewise,

canadian prime minister just inter was given flock last year for stopping a nato linked forums. provocation of china over taiwan trudeau, intervene to stop the halifax security for i'm held regularity and canada from getting taiwan president. it's john mccain award, named after the late neo con, warhawks, american senator, who had an uncanny knack for turning up in places like ukraine and syria not hung before the trouble started. there are other cases of you officials getting in trouble for standing against washington foreign policy provocations. like when you ambassador to cuba, alberto navarro openly stood against us sanctions and was subsequently recalled to brussels to explain himself, even though the u. s. cube is main export and trade partner. brussels missed a golden opportunity to lead the world stage over the taiwan drama and to position itself as a truly honest broker. which would have meant not simply calling for peace,

but also taking a firm public unambiguous stand against washington's dangerous games or moving the program on the protest. over soaring electricity rates in south africa, half left at least 4 people did. the local barricaded roads with burning tires and set municipal buildings. a light near the country's largest city, johannesburg protesters are angered, and the government's failure to find a solution to rising prices. it comes amid soaring global energy and food costs, which leaves the african continent, especially vulnerable, with countries lacking funds to help their crisis hits citizens. the mood is still tennis year following days of protest here in san visa. as you can see, the still a strong police presence controlling the area and making sure that they can be any

more upheaval following the burning of a civic center building, as well as some damage to private property with more money has to be put out to this and didn't, i think it was not necessary. i don't think there might be, frankly, so today we don't have the outcomes that they were expecting. i don't see them or to see children go to school. this will some of interest with commerce. this is the civic center building, or at least what remains of it. this is where people into these are used to come to get municipal services. and it is the very building that was pushed. they is worried in this country that these kinds of protests could en, golf, other townships in south africa. and they could evolve into an uncontrollable mess

as we have seen during last year's july riots there in gal. 2 of major provinces in south africa. it is common in south africa that people vote with their feet and take to the screen. but what is becoming uncharacteristic is the loss of life that accompany such protest came to visa for people have already lost their life. and if the semblance of life get back, it appears that this feel very much tension and deborah da ukrainians will fight to the last person. that's the assessment of american senator lindsey graham, who was commenting on the issue of u. s. weapons supplies to kia, as long as the way up ukraine, with the weapons they need, and economic support. they will fight to the last person. but russia is foreign minister, has previously claimed its washington's intention to get ukraine to fight until the

very last ukrainian while, while we are said the main task of the u. s. is not to help ukraine, but to achieve goes up. so it's nothing to do with the interests of ukraine people . meanwhile, the u. s. as a non, it's sending another $550000000.00 in arms to clear up takes its total to more than $8000000000.00 in february. let's go live now to executive vice president of the eurasia center thing tank. earl rasmussen. earl, you're welcome to the program. so you have us senator lindsey graham thing, washington will tori on arming ukrainians until the last man standing? it does beg the question, how much value does he supposedly, as stone, shall i put on ukrainian lives? well, i think i am in clear mean you've got this statement by lindsey graham, i think earlier, had another statement by congressman shift with

a similar type of tone. but basically it's clear that it's not about ukraine, it's not about democracy and there's very little value put on the ukrainian people or their lifestyle at anything. and this just shows another clear indication that what we've got here is a proxy war between nato primarily led by the us and russia. it's unfortunate, but they are basically using ukraine as a sacrificial lamb almost to counter into as we've got and see we, we've had many statements. we've got the defense secretary saying we want to weaken russia. we've got the president united states talking about regime change. we've got 2 most recent funded workshops just

recently with senior, with senior government officials participating that talked about dismantling russian to several different sections. i mean, basically with this is, this is not about ukraine, and it's unfortunate that we could, carol, the political elite that are driving this train. could care less about the cranium, people that could care less about the country, a good care, less about the what happened? it is, it's unfortunate and sad and it's hopefully americans wake up and remove these, you know, kind of voice back in the elections and hopefully the cranium, people stand up to their government going along with this and who knows how much money is being pocket? can i touch on what you said there, the us defense secretary stating that he wants to see russia weakened by the conflict among others, of course, but on the point, how much can the supply of us weapons alone do that?

and what happens if they begin to dry up? well, i think there's what they're looking at here is, is a per long conflict to think. and i'm going to, i mean, my personal view is a lot of the leadership here. and if you want to call them leadership here in the, in the, in the west are somewhat delusional. i think they're still thinking back, we're back in the 1990 s. and that's just not the case right now. so. so i think what they're looking at and they're looking at something that we created in in afghanistan, we've got to prolong conflict drain and weakened rushes capabilities financially. the sanctions were targeted. you know? yeah, they carried delete but they were basically hoping to destroy the economy that would then force the people to cause some type of reading change. basically like a color relo revolution. everything backfired on it. we've got, you know,

we've got the, you know, we're lou going low on our stock piles with weapons because everything's been sent ukraine. now we've got issues in taiwan and article in the i think the wall street journal today saying that we want some of the weapons back from ukraine so we can give the taiwan. so it's a tragic situation here. so in terms of those weapons, or do you feel nato countries have enough oversight over what's being sent to ukraine? because you're a poll earlier seeing that weapons meant for ukraine are, are ending up outside the country. but it doesn't appear that that's either a worry or on the radar of of western countries. no, they have no oversight. fact, the most recent thing i'm, you saw the you saw center paul trying to insert language in the bills to provide

some type of oversight and that was struck down. i don't think they want oversight . i mean, some way that the money laundering scheme, the a lot of a lot of the money goes to defense companies and defense companies contribute to heavily to, to campaign. i'm sure there's some other money being funded to different types of organizations. some are going directly to to ukraine as well. others are going to the company that then provide the weapons to ukraine, to try to prolong the thing that i don't think. i do not think it's going to get, i think russia is going to call it quickly create an end of this will go rather quickly. i think it's not going to be a prolong conflict as, as some analysts here pro government analysts are actually expecting. as you say, a big profits for the defense industry nonetheless, or i'll thank says always,

always good to get your take girl rasmussen, executive vice president of the research center. thank. thank. thank you. know the threats of a direct conflict between world nuclear power is, is evident, and it is tangible that's according to a russian diplomats attending a much wanted un conference in arms control. group number senior principle around the, the gross violation of the principle of equal and indivisible, security as a result of the harmful expansion of the military block of countries claiming undivided military, strategic and geo political dominance provoked an acute crisis in the center of europe. the hybrid military campaign has been unleashed against russia, which could result in a direct conflict between nuclear powers. hey girl. this novit sky was speaking during a review conference for the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons in new york. he once again reaffirm moscow's commitment to building a world free of nuclear weapons mosque. also say that once the immediate resumption

of the iran nuclear deal arguing there is no alternative, the diplomat also underline of the progress achieved over the years has been quote, devalued by the u. s. when they ignored russia, security interest. that sentiment was echoed by china, which calls for the rejection of double standards in nuclear nonproliferation. may . the united states should withdraw all its nuclear weapons from europe and refrain from deploying nuclear weapons in any other region. what are that? well, for china, the question of a nuclear threat posed by washington house and come out of thinner, according to newly declassified documents provided to the new york times, the u. s. was ready to use nuclear weapons against mainland china. in 1958 during the taiwan strait crisis. military planners in washington details clubs for a strike using quote, low yield $10.00 to $15.00 kilo tone, nuclear weapons. the aftermath of the attack would have stretched as far as

shanghai will, as wildly us is pointing the finger out around, imposing yet more sanctions on its petroleum industry. washington is demanding. the country returns to the pac name, the joint comprehensive plan of action, which the us itself quit under president trump. we have imposed sanctions on entities trading in iranian petroleum and petro chemicals. we will keep using our authorities to target wrong exports of these products until iran is ready to return to full implementation of its commitments under a mutual return to the jcp away. american studies professor at the university of iran food is the believe, the idea of sanctioning around for a deal about the u. s. as we mentioned, quit itself signifies the current chaos amid washington's political it you know, the united states has an eviction on sanction. and they have been sanctioning iraq

and for the last for the years. so you don't, hasn't been surviving. and there's sanctions prospering under sanctions, ad man says in sciences and in different fields of providing services of the people here are quite extensive. and sooner or later, as the american official realize that by sanctioning countries, they're not going to do each of their objectives. and they have was the united states that left the agreement during the top administration and the by. busy the decision could return to the agreement and the 1st day of by the president's the same that he did with the paris climate, the cords and other agreements that tom had left. he refused. there are a lot of problems in washington. there's a lot of disagreement and in fighting, and iranian government alterations your life. if they don't pay attention to this

chaos in washington, you're going to face the same difficulty that they faced, the last time pakistan, former prime minister, em run camp, may be doing everything he can to return to power. but the country's government appears to be doing everything it can to stop him. that's after the financial times reported the countless party allegedly receive prohibited donations from foreign citizens and companies, leading to ruling pakistani politicians to call for a probe into the funding gallons party, branded the allegations as up to the false. no foreign funding has been proven. another propaganda of pakistan democratic movement has been exposed serious and ridiculous mistakes in the decision of the election commission, calling the funding of pakistani citizens foreign funding. another related key development comes pakistan, movement for just this party was set to claim

a key skill up in an election to fill the powerful post the print job chief minister that positions temporarily held by the song of the current prime minister and run comes counted. how to and enough votes in the legislative assembly to win. but then offense took a bizarre twist in a letter, a minor political party leader asked legislative officials not to count its block of 10 votes unless they favored the p. m. san hanser shabbos. the deputy speaker then subtracted those votes from con side and declared that she had won by 3 votes . international law specialist, and geopolitical as her son slum shod shared his thoughts on the current situation in the country. if you look back at the last 4 months, we see a lot happening in august on which is unprecedented. and we can safely see that it's going to happening for the 1st time. we have someone like him, ron pond was truly a leader. somebody who has

a vision for august and he wants to change the country for the better. and the sources of the starter school want to stonewall him. they want to make sure that he exists the political scene. and the reason by they see him run as a threat is because him bron exposes their shenanigans, the corruption. and he talks about accountability be entire system today is fact against him. rhonda con, they want to oust him. they want to make sure that he remains ousted and he never makes it come back. the people are supporting iran and this is not the august on 30 or 40 years ago. this is a different focus on that has decided that he wants to certain individual back and follow which happens to be my case. some deadly developments to bring you on the program. one survey shawnee into a 1000000 soldiers have been confirmed dead on at least 14 armenians wounded in the disputed territory of nicola car. a backward tensions have once again flared.

that's according to an official statement from the nagondo caught back army. no armenia has put the blame and other bershana units for violating a ceasefire in place there and killing 2 soldiers. nagondo quarterback has announced a partial mobilization of i'll be its own confirmed reports of clashes continue. the observation of the defense ministry though, claims it has taken control of key territories in the car, back region. as part of the operation troops launched on earth strike that it arminian military unit. needless to say will be keeping a close eye and developments in that region for you know, we can sometimes get bogged done with so much historical background to what's happening today in dunbar. so i, concise breakdown may just be what's needed, look would have it right ahead.