that they still rule the world, but in fact, every, especially against russia, every sanction they have imposed has shown, has underline how much they don't before. ah ah, strengthen in time as russia becomes new delhi top oil supplier and use foreign ministers set to visit moscow to further boost bilateral relations. dance because $0.50 is on fire after 6 ukrainian strikes it. infrastructure including railway admin offices as western countries pin hopes on the call $27.00 climate conference to encourage a switch to electric vehicles. kimberly's residents are sounding the alarm over in just this in the countries. the cobalt money industry. and western countries came here with promises of changing our lives,

but this is not what is happening on the ground with us. do men and women benefit from the minerals and other countries when our husbands are dying? no one cares about our situation. and europe shouldn't support the whole kitchen, us policies the prolong the conflicts in ukraine. well, that's according to the french political party, had earlier called present the landscape. a pop it is not for you to look at it. we should not move towards russians inflation, unemployment war for the sake of mr. zalinski is beautiful. i for the sake of the crooked jumps around him, and the american is all she live on the land with moscow to the world. this is all the international. my name is peter scott here with the top stories at 11 moscow time. this monday morning. and our top story, this, our russia has become india is top oil supplier, overtaking vengeance providers such as saudi arabia and iraq. new trade figures

emerge prior to the indian of foreign ministers visit to moscow on monday for talks with these russian counterparts. and the visit comes amid growing ties between moscow and new delhi. recent polls suggest the majority of indian people consider russia the country's most reliable partner agreeing the defense relations with moscow of vital for the country. respondents also said the brakes group of states which includes india and russia, is the most beneficial platform for realizing the countries global interests are t. wonder sharma brings is more tindy. all foreign minister tells was it to moscow could not have come at a more important time with the world grappling with major food, an energy crisis doctor as j shanker is duty drip is aimed at expanding cooperation between the donations during a period of whilst global challenges energy will be a major focus off this trip, especially since the g 7 has conform plans on pushing for

a price cap on russian oil. the groups moore was aimed at cutting rushes revenue, but could potentially hurt in del supplies. that's because where sanctions against russia left deprived a russian energy, while other countries including india expanded their trade with moscow. russia has now so passed in the else traditional dominance suppliers, saudi arabia and iraq as the chief supplier of its oil. so any conversations around energy security between new delhi and moscow are becoming increasingly more and more important. despite specials from the west. india bought a phenomenal 9 lack 46000 barrels of russian crude birdie in october. it's highest ever monthly total. i don't think it will be, it will be willing to look at its energy relationship with russia, particularly as it, as it is so important for india, political economy and the needs. and it is so important put in your strawman man

and woman. but moscow and new delhi share more than just oil, both a brick spot nor, and beyond economic and cultural partnerships. they share a long history of defense corporation as in the else foreign minister, recently himself acknowledged. we have, as, you know, a substantial in men trio from soviet to and crush and origin weapons. and that in men tree actually grew for about 2 reasons. you know, permitted shulty weapon systems themselves. but also because for a, for a multiple dick, a western countries did not supply ah, supply weapons to india and such corporations are not new or recent. so we buy a new deli based think tank o r f stress that russia have been in the us most reliable bought now, since it gained independence. and 1947, we did a survey of the indian youth in which this question was us, and it showed that our billing, right,

other countries have shifted their support for india. and depending on the circumstances, shane india have had a relationship spence back ever since independence and has been going on strong since then j shanker is. who is it? amidst the shadow of the ukraine conflict and its fall out will be a significant 1. 1 that the west and the world would be closely watching region sharma, r t. new denny. and now for the latest in the ukraine, conflicts were done yet. city center has been hit by ukrainian shelling, causing some serious damage to local infrastructure. here you can see footage shed on social media showing the aftermath of the strikes local railway admin officers as well as other buildings in the city sense have also been hit. no casualties though have yet been reported. ukrainian troops shelled the city with nato supplied weapons. according to local officials, ortiz, rama cauthrin reports from the scene. another sleepless nights and another

terrifying starts of the week here in the nest, as just after 3 o'clock in the morning. the city, the center of the city was struck by multiple launch a rocket systems, high mars by ukrainian artillery. right now i'm standing just outside of the local railway administration building. this is the point of impact where one of the rockets landed now, according to local authorities, at least 3 rocket slammed in the a center, the city, but all and all there were 6 strikes so far in this particular area, we don't have any information about any casualties and leave, there are no casualties. i will be just simply a miracle because we're right in the center of the city and apart from office buildings that are all around me. there are several residential buildings as well. i can see that the windows have been blown out in this building and in surrounding

areas as well. now, once again, we are in the center of the city, but the rest of the city of vanessa is under constant artillery fire. the outskirts of the city are situated right on the front lines, so there's constant bombardment constants casualties. now over the last 24 hour period in done ask republic, one woman was killed and at least 3 people were wounded and their daughters and are fighting for their lives in the local hospitals. asked for the scene over here, you can see that is still a smoking. fire fighters are still working here trying to put out the blaze. now a local office workers will instead of starting their regular day at work, now they're trying to enter the building and salvage any of the documents that might have survived this blast. but all in all, as we're talking right now, artillery strikes against a residential areas of the nest. continue on as those the types intensify us.

mainstream media hasn't held back on praise for a member of ukraine's fall rights, as of battalion who's known to have made post glorified naziism on the social media account. tro kosicki i soldier in ukraine's national guard was held captive in a besieged scale that the meter thank you for your heroism and for the record that you have shown. the fighter is also giving talks to middle school students across the u. s. in some of his previously posted but now deleted sweets, the ukrainian, as of soldier, was seen openly brandishing not see symbols, even going so far as to bake a swastika themed pizza. in the streets. you can see another ukrainian soldier displaying a swastika on his rucksack. the bbc, for example, has also featured a soldier wearing an assess nazi insignia. while western media has now changed its june towards the other battalion, they didn't manage to hide. their proud display of neo nazi tattoos. law

comes despite the rise of far rights groups across the world. 52 countries, including the u. s. voted against russia's un general assembly resolution condemning nazism, the chief editor of the finish and v, letting news outlets. so the numbers reflect the willingness of the west to tolerate far, right? audiology. i think the do general problem here is that the western political system doesn't want to recognize the difference between the battery, us, and the nationalistic. now we are seeing nazi's lecturing in the european or the western schools about, glorifying naziism. that's, i think, a step forward where and somewhere should be the border. and i think that some kind of red line has been grocer, i'm worry, afraid of these un voting. now, what's happened? because past years, at least, there has been some decency for from the only do you see and crane was in favor

for not condemning the glorifying off to not to be cation. and we know the reason because the usa was behind the crania nazis. you're all this year, so now looks like that the western countries, their allies, are willing to start to glorify the nazis as well. and while ukraine is still refusing to conduct any negotiations with moscow in washington post is reporting the biden administration is pushing president zalinski to consider peace talks with russia. u. s. officials are apparently worried that if kia doesn't consider negotiations, it may start losing support in ukraine 14th west. the request by american officials is not aimed at pushing ukraine to the negotiating table. these people said, rather they called it a calculated attempt to ensure the government in kias maintains the support of other nations facing constituencies, wary of feeling

a war for many years to come. that's article explores the difficult position. washington finds itself in. the ongoing conflict continues to cause significant damage to the global economy and energy security. biden's pledge to support ukraine for as long as it takes a strong some criticism from republicans and democrats alike. moscow give, haven't tell piece talks since the early months of the conflicts when the sides managed to pen a mutually acceptable treaty routines. press secretaries, that key of butts out on expected expectedly most likely, under washington's instructions. present. lensky issued a decree in late september, make it impossible for him to negotiate with boots in both the washington post article says the us officials believe is trying to gain a stronger military photo before winter when he may be forced to negotiate executive vice president of the rage censor, o rasmussen, says the longer key of drugs out his feet, the more difficult the situation would become that i think there's

a lot of conserve on the open checkbook on the flow and then mismanagement on accountability of weapons and, and resources going on. if you look at europe, you've got which go very little reporting in the western media. we've got demonstrations in the hundreds of 1000 against the war, anti nato demonstrations against the economic condition. we scuttle the negotiations on conbal. that could, it could have ended this and, and even before the but i do not think, i think the u. s. intention is to try to break the thought as long as possible. they don't really care as far as the lives that are law. it's the geopolitical game, and ukraine just happens to have stumbled into the to deploy, being played by the, by the west. essentially, it's part of the game. i do not think the u. s. is really interested in, in any sup, negotiated settlement. i think if you don't go into negotiation,

ukraine, if we know it will no longer in no than use the future doesn't lie in fossil fuels. well, that's the main method from the head of the united nations climate change conference which opened yesterday. representatives from over $190.00 countries will focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, transition into green energy and funding for climate action. now the conference opened with the aim of ensuring the full implementation of the purchase agreements . the main goal being the reduction of fossil fuel use. e lawmakers recently agreed to ban the sale of new fossil fuel caused by 2035 and to switch to battery powered electric vehicles for the democratic republic of congo is founding the alarm. the d . c is the world's largest producer of coal bolts, which is a key component for electric car batteries. now, most of the mines are owned by foreign countries on this sector, widely used as

a small scale mining where dangerous working conditions on corruption are rampant. more than 40000 children work in non regulated mines in hazardous conditions. and many congress workers feel robbed by western countries, which make huge profits on the industry. so sure, no western mining companies are working on our lands. countries came here with promises of changing our life, my giving a good job us, but this is not what is happening on the ground with us. besides taking our land for a low price. but we don't have jobs and we remain bored. and now they are even forcing us to leave our own lands. we can not accept this at all. do men and women benefit from the minerals and other countries when our husbands are dying because of bad conditions due to the lack of proper jobs in the big mining companies? no one cares about our situation with western countries should do more to change our situation. because they're getting too much from our minerals here, one opponent,

but my husband died while working in the mine and the mining company hasn't given any saying no, even in order to help our o feel children, i can not even afford for them to eat properly. there's no way to send them to school well, but the new e u law is not actually that green as battery production now accounts for over half of global cobalt consumption. electric vehicle batteries require between 6 to 12 kilograms of the metal and sales of such vehicles are predicted to increased tenfold in the coming decades. independence unlist alton san gay says that african countries need to change their mindset and re benefits from their own resources. buyers tend to put the rules on the table, but that's way african countries, the understanding that if you process and transform locally, you're not in a rush to sell your products for survival. that's exactly what's going to put the balance between east and western western countries. and africa, african kong in particular, trying to localize the edition in africa as far as we were

used to. so especially we were just actually wasting the value and the money of the continent. and now the process is being changed a little bit, and the intention is to use more and more local rights to go on. i and for jade and trying to localize jobs and investments, and the additional locally made holy puppets. while that's how a member of the french political elite debates had ukraine's volume is zalinski accusing the president of marrying hawkish, u. s. foreign policy, and dragging out the conflict and ukraine. zalinski says this morning that he is fighting against the russian and rainy and axis. soon he will at china, and his foreign policy will coincidentally be a perfect decal of american foreign policy that of the hawks who want world war,

holy puppet. and surprisingly, the french politicians comments made waves on the internet and he was in san criticized for being a kremlin puppets. but it's just the latest incidents. and another example of alternative narrative in the west been slated for young philipo. presidents of the patriot party says that because washington is not keen on resolving the conflict with this unit, so names does require extension. if you don't sit at, if you're in my opinion, it is impossible to continue living in a world in which the united states has too much power and seeks to dominate everything. to be a hagaman, which has turned the european union, france and other countries into that colonies which turned a blind eye to the existence of developing countries in the world, such as bricks, members and others. i'm a supporter of a multi polar whoa. i believe that it will be a balance, weld all the without walls and the well dominated by the united states and nato

with the e. u is a world older with walls and without any respect for all of a members of the world. community united states has been in a state of relative decline for many decades, waging irresponsible, and often illegal was in an attempt to maintain its agony. in the case of ukraine, it is obvious to me that its goal is to bring european countries to suicide, to collapse, to separate them from russia in diplomatic strategic energy and economic terms. this is extremely dangerous, and it is better for us, the french to keep our distant small. that's because it will not lead to peace. it will lead to war i reply, carol is opinion public. you did, i think this war fatigue in europe and american society as well. people realizing that it is destroying them and it is unclear why and the name of a wall that does not concern us in the name of the ukraine regime, which is extremely corrupt. and people say to themselves, we should not move towards russians inflation,

unemployment war for the sake of mister zalinski, his beautiful eyes for the sake of the crook, john to that surrounds him. for the sake of those who want to drag isn't to war. the americans or i shall of, on the land from the european commission. so yes, there is an obvious fatigue of society in france in europe everywhere. let me see over a day reclining if we want to seriously approach the issue of the such for pace, we should no, there are some very important points. when you thomas eve, ukraine, the status of don bus, which needs to be seriously discussed. these old issues, the expansion of nato, the annexation of new countries by the alliance and so on. it is likely that what is happening now will have political consequences at the election level. perhaps some european nations will strive for a more reasonable majority in the government to be more inclined to dialogue with russia to search for peace to such for autonomy and independence from united states . i am convinced of this. i believe that this will happen in

a number of european countries, including france and now for another story we're across today. an 18 year old palestinian teenager has been shot dead by israeli forces in the west bank is just the latest in continue cases of violence in the area amid the ongoing conflicts. the death was confirmed by palestinian health officials. most up, no fall was reportedly hits in the hearts by alive round and later died in hospital . he was reportedly shots not far from near by palestinian olive groves, the adf se they targeted the youth as he was throwing stones at his rally vehicles . but the things family insisted he was with them picking olives when they were attacked by israeli settlers, forcing him to leave the land and confront the assailants. this is far from the only reports of palestinians been attacked in the west bank while harvesting olives, the crop season in full swing. at the moment, 6 members of another palestinian family were left injured after an alleged beating

by israeli settlers on their land. they described what happened to them when we should warn you that some of the following images you may find disturbing. darla made at his m sultani. we were attacked by barbaric settlers who want to displaces from our land. this is the only reason because we pose no threat to them since we only come to our land once a week or even a month i was on my land harvesting. what's the problem with me harvesting my crops? the came with aggressive intentions. they brought wooden sticks, dogs and guns. they started beating us. the settlers came from all sides. one of the settlers asked me to come to the main road, so he wouldn't get accused of attacking me on my own land. i refused, so they demanded that i leave. they said i wasn't allowed to stay there. i asked them whether i could at least take my stuff, but they refused. my head injury require 20 stitches. both my legs were injured. there were bruises all over our bodies. they broke my daughter's right hand. my wife had a heart attack after being beaten. we had a 7 year old child with us. he got really scared. so we ran and hid in the car. and

oh, well neil hootie, the settlers beat me with sticks and iron bars. one of the bars had a nail in it which cut my leg. it felt like a bullet wound every year when we start harvesting the settlers, carmen either verbally attack us. we're start cutting down the trees and runing our lands using our own tractors. but we're standing for our land and we will not leave it is for the which allegedly showing the incident we just described was published by an independent israeli human rights group. the video documents is really settlers entering the family's olive orchard carrying wooden stakes and accompanied by dogs. a skirmish than in shoes which was when the family members were attacked. israeli authorities have long been accused by the u. n. of illegal settler policies on palestinian territories. but i've repeatedly denied any violations of international human rights groups. reports show a dramatic increase in settler attacks in the west bank over the past 6 years. over

a 1000 such incidents have taken place since the start of this year, with october alone, having seen over a 100 attacks in just 10 days coming amid the annual olive harvest in season. the thanks have already left, at least for palestinians, dead and more than 40 injured. we spoke to the coordinates of human rights defenders, palestine who believes this has become israel's systematic policy. i'm and i'm ca, monassa as your mom. i'm and continued attacks by the israel, a setlist on palestine. ian farmers specifically during the olive tree harvesting seasons. is systematic policy aimed at kicking the palestinian farmers of their land and taking control of the land, turning it into new settlements. the setlist spend no effort in taking palestinians also the israel at armies preventing farmers from reaching their lands. it's a way of thinking for the settlers to continuously attack and abuse anything philistine, whether it is people or their property to bonnie uninstalled o. occupations of spreading lies unconcerned over dis,

information. u. s. president joe biden has lashed out since elan mosque and his recent takeover of switzer, that's as a recent report claims. the tech billionaire apparently filed the platforms, employees that were in charge of policing content, moderation of the upcoming us mid terms. you as the president doesn't seem happy about the change of sheriff on the social network. and now, what are we all worried about? isla must goes out and buys an outfit that spews lives all across the world. there's no editors anymore in america. there's no editors. how do we expect kids to be able to understand what is at stake? oh, think of the children jo biden's taken care of his own kids in the past. that's for sure. like 2 years ago when he was on the campaign trail, the new york post published an article explaining how his son hunter used daddy's powerful reputation to help his business partners and ukraine. twitter took that story down, the post was censored, and the whole thing was labeled russian propaganda. that 100 mines laptop is part

of some russian disinformation campaign. it's simply not true. this entire thing is so obviously a russian class. the goal of these incidents appears to be the same to cast a cloud over the front runner in the closing weeks of that campaign. turns out everything about the story was true and had nothing to do with russia, but that only came to light after bite and came to power. and his former election rival donald trump, was just as band as the hunter story. now with mid terms approaching, the stakes are high once again, especially with twitters new c, e o e law, musk purging, one of the companies biggest sensors. it's so called human rights team. yesterday was my last day at twitter. the entire human rights team has been cut from the company that was only one part of a huge series of lay offs which cut over half of twitter staff after musk took the reins. top managers were the 1st to go the people who were regularly meeting with government officials to decide what to censor. emails between d h. s. officials,

twitter, and the center for internet security outline the process for such take down requests during the period leading up to november 2020. it's come as no surprise since must promise to defend to free speech on twitter. the mainstream media however, is saying that easing up on censorship basically represents a threat to democracy because what could be done in the case of another hunter, biden's style scandal. if you can't censor it, while twitter is new, management hasn't been there for that long. there's still a chance for him to sell out. after all, must didn't actually say he would put an end to content moderation. again, to be crystal clear, twitter strong commitment to content, moderation remains absolutely unchanged. so washington might not have all that much to worry about. there's still time to get mosque down the mark zuckerberg road and have him apologize in front of the senate committee for failing to play by the government's rules. she's already experiencing pressure. the woke cartel

and their democratic and unit party state will not take a must buying of twitter lying down. they're going to attempt to fight back, and they're going to attempt to control his use of his own property to make sure that it's not used in any way that they deem injurious to the dominant unit party narrative. so this is what we can expect a lot more pressure coming from the left activists left the democratic party and the whole establishment for that matter because the establishment is leftist until tal terry. and that's how the world is looking at it's 11 27 am moscow time. my name is pete, just called me back again with another look at today's biggest stories and about half an hour's time. hope to see it. i'm a

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in a situation that is at home with ah, hello i manila chan. you are tuned in to modus operandi the show that explores the methods and patterns of u. s. foreign policy all around the world, and the history that reverberates in our lives today. this week we'll explore the conflict in ukraine and the failure to isolate after the westport and billions of dollars in aid and arms, the by net administration went on a pressure campaign to rally the global community to turn their backs on russia. was this successful? plus as the 2022 bricks virtual summit wrapped up. we learn the block may be adding

an a to the group argentina now being considered for membership. we'll discuss what this means for the block as the e. you fast tracks ukraine's application to the trade union. all right, let's get in to the ammo. ah. the united states has been the number one benefactor to ukraine since the start of the conflict on february 24th. in may, the biden administration issued its biggest lump sum approval, and the amount of $40000000000.00 us dollars. so far, the u. s. has issued about $55000000000.00 to ukraine, a form of weapons land, lease programs, other types of monetary aid, 2 volota mir zalinski and his government despite the acknowledged corruption and other scandals plaguing ukraine. meanwhile, the e u has issued roughly 1000000000 combined euros in humanitarian and military aid.

while the u. k has delivered just under $2000000000.00 us dollars. as prime minister boris johnson played with g 7 leaders in late june to quote, not give up on ukraine. all this as the head of the e. u. ursula vander lay in fast tracks ukraine's application to join the block a slap in the face to turkey and reach of earth one whose country has been vying to join the group for decades. but 1st, let's take a look at what countries have turned their backs to the u. s. in the e u, in their unconditional support of ukraine. now some of these countries have taken a position of strategic ambiguity or have decided to strengthen relations with russia instead, our international correspondent has all the details and increasingly turning russia into a garage state. if that was so present to his plant, well, you can say it's working. russia has never been so isolated. that was back in march,

when the full swing of anthea of russia hysteria was reaching its climax. but things have not gone according to plan. this map shows all of the countries who have joy on 2 sections against russia. outside of europe, north america, australia, and new zealand. the list is short, and by far, a huge part of the world's population does not leave a nation sanctioning russia. and now, several months on russia is looking less and less isolated. in fact, europe and the united states are isolated from the rest of the world. russia's economy is stronger than he was before the start of the conflict in ukraine. in fact, the rubel continues to strengthen against the dollar. and brushes trading relationship with other nations are increasing. like in the energy sector, oil and gas exports to china have increased since february of this year. and other

nations like brazil and south africa, part of the bricks block for which shine a host at summit in june. so no indications of pill enough and joining the west. in fact, more and more nations like argentina and iran are looking to join the bricks. now it looks like the west unity, as well as its economies, are crumbling, with more and more territory in ukraine, falling to the russians and their allies. hungary, for example, has refused to engage in an oil and gas embargo against russia. arguing the shutting itself off from russia would mean economic ruin for the nation. and its people. and inflation is devastating economies across europe, as well as in north america. and the rest of that man's world. so how long can the west hold out? and the supposed unity under great, as russia continue, its advances in the grave for the ammo. am brooklyn

a felon. and joining us to discuss is samir dough. sony. he is the co director of piece visual dot net and currently as the answer apology department of the university of western cape, where he is completing his ph. d dissertation on how colonial relations continue to define our modern era some year. thank you so much for joining us today. so as we have seen, the u. s. is by far the greatest financial and military backer to ukraine thus far, much greater then the e u and u. k. combined. how do you read this lopsided investment by the u. s? yeah, i mean, i think the 1st thing to say is that we should all be condemning rushes and vision of the ukraine. it's a violation of international law. it's a violation of the un charter. so as i say, it should be condemned by the international community and by the united states. but the united states itself is a country that perhaps has most violated international law in recent years. and it continues to violate international law even today. so when we look at invasion of

iraq in 2003, when we look at the invasion of afghanistan in 2001, when we look at ongoing support for israel, which lately violates international law even to the point of murdering journalists in cold blood so that can be no question that the u. s. isn't doing this because it is suddenly found some deep respect for human rights law and international law, right? it's doing this for its own reasons, many of which have to do with the stabilizing russia to miss, maintain us had gemini and dominance. and that's not a, you know, saying that is not a conspiracy theory. so if we look back at the, the national security documents of the post world war 2 era, we see that maintaining dominance and gemini is the official us policy on for u. s. foreign policy, the number one objective. and has been, as i say, since about 950. so russia to their credit when it saw what the us id in libby i think particularly but even perhaps before that 2017 has made with the financial

crisis day. an anticipated that something like this might happen. so they sort of big, they anticipated that a conflict with the u. s. block may happen. so they took steps to sort of make themselves sort of sanction proof. and the sanctions which were meant to hurt russia perhaps, or less effective than they might have been had the been implemented before 2007 or 2008 now. so we're not long after the war began. the violet administration launched a major campaign to isolate russia, at least economically, that we saw by way of government sanctions like sanctions on critical major russian state own enterprises or prohibiting new investments in the russian federation, as well as the influence of the private sector. multinational corporations like mcdonald and nike, pulling out of the federation e you states and entities followed suit, but we didn't see the same type of response coming from asian states or those in

the southern hemisphere. why didn't we see the res, same response out of them? well, i think it, it gets back to this question of hypocrisy. i mean, i didn't see, you know, people pulling out of the us when the us invaded iraq or when the u. s. a bit of cornerstone. i don't see tears being shed wars ongoing on the african continent in central african republic in the democratic republic of congo and so on. many of these wars have points of origin in sort of european con, conflicts that were started when your opinions occupied this continent. so i think asking, and this is, i was pretty much quoting the south african position here, asking countries like south africa to take a position in european context. doesn't make much sense when the u. s. isn't really taking up per position on the issues that are important to south africa, for example. so, you know, and we can extend that even to foreign policy. we've seen that south africa would like to take a much stronger stand on, for example, the issue of the, the occupation of palestine,

but it gets no support from the united states. so in that context, why should countries like south africa, you know, between the us line, right? it's almost as if they think, well, if you're not paying attention to what we have to say, why should we pay attention to what you're beckoning us for when you need us. now, what about the, the us being disappointed from the response by china who has maintained, you know, something of a policy of strategic ambiguity. i think that's the, the term for 2022 on this war like china abstained from voting in the march. un general assembly resolution condemning russia for its action and ukraine. the chinese have actually issued stern words about biden's handling of this war, and it sanctions against russia instead, seeing as china is the 2nd largest economy in the world. therefore, the biggest player in bricks does china's position on the war in ukraine. does that

reflect the sentiment of the other member states? do you think? yeah, i mean, here i think we have to, we have to just be brutally honest with ourselves. and to say that the bricks as a block never really function like a block. and after recent elections, i mean, even be not the reason election, somebody's been there 89 years both and are, has been there 5 or 6 years. right? so, so after those elections, i don't think the bricks function like a political block at all. so, and i think within the break you have brazil, hon scenario who's seems to be open the asking us for help winning the upcoming election brazilian election against his rival lula. and of course, you have russia itself in bricks and then you have india, which would like to keep close ties both to russia and to the u. s. and i think china is on a whole different level, because as you say, it's the 2nd largest or by some measures even the largest economy in the world, but certainly the 2nd largest economy in the world. so it's a different, you know,

these countries function differently for different reasons. yes, they all seem to be by and large following this line of strategic ambiguity. but i suspect that with a little bit of pressure, you know, brazil for example, could be persuaded to take more. you pay us dance, india, and even south africa, i think, you know, are, are vulnerable to changing their stance if circumstances warranted. the question would be if they change their stance individually or as a block, what would they get in return? and i don't think the us is willing to, i mean, i don't think wilson with us is willing to, doesn't see this as a negotiation. i think they just see, you should tell our lie to get nothing for an exchange. and if that's the u. s. citizen, then no, no one will be changing their line. but if us is willing to bargain, negotiate then yes it's, it's quite possible that somebody's countries may change their line, right? kind of a, you scratch our back and we'll scratch yours. now, as far as south africa is concerned, the south african ambassador to russia, ambassador, or mac a took up, has raised concerns that the u. s. might implement some sort of bill that might

harm the cooperate between cape town and moscow. he also worries that european nations might fall in line with the u. s. what do you suppose he is referring to? as russia and south africa are concerned? what coercive measures might he be worried about the us doing against south africa? i mean, i think the big threat is this question of sanctions and trade and so on. and how is this howard's trade going to be effected? so russia is not by no means the biggest trading part of part of south africa, about about half a $1000000000.00. and trade goes from russia to south africa, and about the same amount goes from south africa to russia. and if you look at what south africa actually importing from russia, it's a lot of like, staple foods like, especially wheat, right? and as you know, the price of bread is something that all governments are worried about major revolutions. i'm going back to 1789 and the french revolution, but also in egypt more recently in 2011,

these revolutions have been sparked by the price of bread going up, you know, 10200 or, or sometimes a 1000 percent. right? so when we're talking about, you know, the sanctions we're talking about perhaps shipments being stopped, as we've already seen, to some extent. and we've seen food inflation to some extent already hitting if that goes higher than i think it's not just south africa, but the entire world should be worried about the, the ramifications of this war. absolutely, certainly a lot of things to still hash out as it pertains to this new multi polar world that we're dealing with. and this ongoing war between russia and ukraine, samir dasani of peace vigil dot net and the university of western cape. thank you so much for weighing in on this for us today. and when we return, we'll take a look at the possible expansion of bricks and what this could mean for us relations in south america. with a critically acclaimed author and international journalist, you won't want to miss it, so stay tuned to the ammo will be right back. ah,

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with the 2022 bricks virtual summit now behind us this year hosted by beijing chinese president. she can ping underscore the importance of the group to remain open, he says, and to welcome like minded partners to join the bricks family. as the economic block showed resilience in the face of the coven, 19 pandemic. with the chinese government displaying data from the 1st 5 months of 2022, showing china's total import export with other bricks. members growing a resounding 12 point one percent, year over year with a 20 percent rise in trade with russia and up 10 percent with india. and this year, a non member state was invited to sit in on the summit. argentina is said to be considered for membership. president, alberto fernandez, expressing keen interest to join, but western observer say this is a distant dream,

citing the bad timing for a 2nd south american country to join the block. due to the conflict between russia and ukraine as the 5 major emerging economies, brazil, russia, india, china, and south africa are looking at expanding their membership to other countries. how does a growing bricks dominance compare to other economic powers like the u. s. r international correspondent has the analysis. the growth of bricks has highlighting the importance of countries outside of the west in the development of strategies for mutual trade health on counterterrorism. this year's 14th break some meet theme was foster high quality breaks partnership, or sure, in a new era for global development. but on the side of the main break, scattering briggs plus meeting took place with officials from congress like the united arab emirates, saudi arabia, egypt, cosette gaston, indonesia,

argentina nigeria, semi golf, and thailand and bells were ringing for argentina, hoping to become the newest, permanent member of the group, but why would argentina bring to the table if a break saw is create? this is not the 1st time argentina has joined that multilateral summit. the country participated in 20182014 as a guest. the current conversation has been on the table for some time, but during the 14 summit in became even more relevant recent declarations of the argentine unprecedented for man. this made it explicit their desire to join as a precedent set. argentina was to join the space and offers its contribution as a member of it. and he added that, that institutional and economic weight of the brakes can become a factor of financial stability. and unprecedented fernandez tweeter account. he

said, joining briggs would be paving away to a new piece for future. argentine is bolstering their relationship with briggs countries as president fernandez med days later in person with a prime minister of india, strengthening their economic relations by exporting products like sunflower, oil and soybean to the asian country. a trade that amounts up to $5600000000.00 us dollars. argentina's relationship with other bricks members is looking into that future as well. there is no doubt that china has been investing in south american countries, specially with argentina. between may 2021 a may 2022. the exports of china have increased by 49.4 percent, while in force increase up to $513000000.00. other chinese projects include the

renovation of the bill, grenlock, i guess railway connected to the china's belt and broad initiative, and that co shandey solar park. consider latin america's largest solar plant. perhaps what comes to mind with a future bricks that is the current political stage of russia is seen now, regard to the ongoing russian crane in conflict. argentina has been somewhat ambiguous. president ferdinand this asked for peaceful dialogue and political solution and non use of force and argentina's foreign minister santiago, feudal doesn't consider sanctions a mechanism to achieve peace. as he said in a press conference in april when brasil as one of the 5 members of breaks all eyes are of how adding another south american member would benefit the already strong economic and political front, then emerged in 2009, breaks or breaks saw only time will tell for the m o, i am brooklyn salon,

and here to weigh in on what the addition of another latin america country to the bricks line up could mean is steve gail. he is an attorney and ceo of gil media and nashville, tennessee based public affairs, media and marketing company. he also happened to serve as the director of inter governmental affairs for the us trade representative's office. thank you so much for being with us today. steve. first, can you address for us the likelihood of argentina joining bricks? because western critics say this is a distant dream and point out that argentina would be jockeying for the same business deals that brazil, which is a sitting member already has with china and india. they're referencing things like soybean exports. what do you say to that? is there room in the block for a 2nd south american state? i think there's certainly room and from an economic standpoint,

i think it would be beneficial to all of the bricks. nation. yeah, because the acronym is the initials of different countries are going to have to start working on how every day breaks or expands it with a brick saw, i guess a bad job. you know, this is that you got brazil that has really been focused more on development of their technological and industrial expansion and not the another doing agriculture . i don't think that the brazilians will really see argentina as a tough competitor in the agriculture arena, when they're really looking at how they get expanded. more technology got embry or they've got airlines. they've got some space technology they're trying to develop. so i think as the brazilians look at it, they won't really see argentine as a competitor, but maybe a good ally. it expanded throughout the south american region. so you say plenty of room for another member. now what is argentina stand again by joining bricks. i mean, any benefits that would differ from what they get from the g 20. well, argentina is obviously a strong beef producer and china, particularly coming out of the kobe restrictions,

is still seeing an expansion in their demand for b. right now they get a lot from chile, they get a lot from australia. they aren't getting as much in these days from, from the u. s. and the demand for beef in, in joe and china is actually much more to, to boil it rather than to have it real like steaks. like a lot of folks do. so you have a different demand for the type of be products and using the whole cow, so to speak. so i think argentina could certainly benefit from the expansion of their beef exports into china among others. yeah, definitely. none of that animal goes to waste outside of the u. s. steve. now earlier this year on an official trip to europe, president fernandez of argentina told the german d w news outlet that he thinks of himself as an argent time european, nist. and that china, despite being a great economist, power, has very little cultural ties with latin america has no history there. does this lend any insight into what he thinks about the block,

especially as china was the chair country to this year's brick summit? you know, it's in stay nearly 30 years ago when i was a director of intergovernmental affairs in the us trade representative during the last of the 1st bush white house, 1st of clinton. i and other proponents were really encouraging the us to look more north south, not to abandon the east west perspective economically better, really look more north and south and expand. and america is kind of trading partner the time we were seeing. the brits in europe do sort of the predecessor to the economic union of the u. i felt that others did that if we had expanded our view more south, you could have created an economic trading giant of south central and north america . and unfortunately that didn't happen. so i think that the argentine president was exactly right. that if argent gina could perhaps take the lead and follow a european model and try to gather more of the south american central american countries together is trading partners. i think you could see an economic boom. and

while, if we had done that 30 years ago at economic prosperity in the south, you know the plot of illegals into the u. s. they're not coming here because they want to be americans. but because there's lack of prosperity in their own countries, if we had expanded that prosperity south 30 years ago, it would be a model of how to do the, the world economic and political balance in a north south view rather than just east west. now on that note, steve, last thing here, given china's official position on the war in ukraine, is neutral president. she has struck strong words against america sanctions that have have global consequences and a lot of blow back, at least economically we're seeing so far. china has not back down from there. not so tacit backing of russia. final thoughts on that? well, i think, you know, you look at the sanctions and the fact that they have not really hurt russia. they've heard america in the global economy a lot more than they've heard russia. russia is looking for new markets for their oil exports. china is desperately wanting oil,

they're wanting call. so i think there's a, there's a cultural affinity is being built on economics right now. and that is not mystery good again for america, or maybe even for the globe. because again, china is aggressions throughout the world are going to continue. and i think after this, ukraine war comes to an end. you're going to have to reset a lot of things, including the role of russia with europe, the role of china in the u. s. there's going to be a lot of a fix up make up is going to have to happen after this war is finally concluded. at some point. yeah, they're going to have to look beyond just the next few months here, the vine administration. that is, and perhaps maybe pick up a phone call from steve gill. i always appreciate your expertise steve, gil, thank you so much. thanks, michelle. the me that's going to do it for this weeks episode of modus operandi, to show that dig deep into foreign policy. i'm your host manila chan. thank you for

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