as i pointed that out on the billions says to submit, i lose you what i see the senior boss who's no room you motivation says use a gun, bob ah, strengthening ties. as russia becomes new delhi top oil supplier, india is foreign minister said to visit moscow to further boost bilateral relations . please hello to arrive with to threats from ukrainian nationalists. and a question center in the la guns republic has been left in ashes by instead very mines as western countries in the hopes on the call 27 climate conference, encouraging a switch to electric vehicles. congolese residents are found in the alarm over in just this in the countries cobalt mining industry. russia western countries came

here with promises of changing our life. this is not what is happening on the ground with us. do men and women benefit from minerals and other countries when our husbands are dying? no one cares about our situation. and europe shouldn't support the hawkish u. s. policy to prolong the conflicts in ukraine. that's according to a french political party head who earlier called present the landscape. a pulpit is also easily we should not move towards russians. inflation. unemployment war for the sake of mr. zalinski is beautiful. i, for the sake of the cook, jumps of that surrounds him and the americans all live on the line with thank you for joining us this monday afternoon. my name is peter scott's here with all the latest news from our headquarters in the russian capital. welcome to the program. russia has become india,

top all supplier overtaking conventional providers, such as saudi arabia and iraq. you trade figures emerged private through the indian foreign ministers visit to moscow on monday, 4 talks with his russian counterparts. now the trip comes amid growing ties between moscow and new delhi. recent polls show a majority of indians consider russia the country's most reliable partner agreeing the defense relations with moscow are vital for the country. respondents also said that the bricks group of states which does include india and russia, is the most beneficial platform for realizing the countries global interests. ortiz, runjun sharma has more. tindale's foreign minister tells wizard to moscow could not have come at a more important time with the world grappling with major food and energy crisis. doctor s j shanker studio trip is aimed at expanding cooperation between the 2 nations 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 to price cap on russian oil. the groups move is aimed at cutting rushes revenue, but could potentially hurt india supplies. that's because where sanctions against russia left deprived of russian energy, while other countries including india expanded their trade with moscow. russia has now so passed in the us traditional dominance suppliers, saudi arabia and iraq as the chief supplier of its oil. so any conversations around energy security between u deli 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 in the needs. and it is so

important for india, 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 tree of soviet and crush and origin weapons and doctrine. men cri actually grew for a variety of reasons. you know, committed shulty weapon systems themselves. but also because for a, for a multiple de of western countries did not supply huh. supply weapons to india and such, corporations are not new or recent. so we buy a new delhi based, think tank o r f stress that russia have been in the us. most reliable thought. no. since have gained independence. and 1947, we did a survey of the you in which this question was us about building,

right. other countries have shifted their support for india, and depending on the circumstances or shame be i have had the relationships spend spec guy since independence and has been going on strong since then. just junkers was it amidst the shadow of the ukraine conflict i'm. it's 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 where done yet, city center has been hit by ukrainian shelling, causing serious damage to local infrastructure. here you can see footage shed on social media all the aftermath of those strikes. local railway administration offices as well as other buildings in the city center have also been heads. no casualties though, have yet been reported. ukrainian troops shall the city with nato supplied weapons, according to local officials. and it's not just people feeling the force of

ukraine's missiles, a new guns republic equestrian center has been left in ashes after threats or t senior correspondent rodriguez. dia tells the story of warning. you may find the following footage, disturbing. this was once the locally renowned virtue, so horse riding center, loved by children and adults alike whom to a dozen beautiful horses. oh leg worked here. he is 84 and has spent most of his life trading horses. he was here when it all ended, he watched them burn alive. oh, if there was a man, there was her full. she was born on the 25th of march. such a wonderful little thing. so friendly, they launched an incendiary mine. it blew up in the air and set fire to the entire stables. there was no way to help. just 2 men remained in the village of me till

kid a leg. and another elder law said, or they shall both ends of the stable you and then they launched incendiary mines. if it weren't for them, it wouldn't have burned that they could only listen to the cries of burning animals in a conflict that is filled with tragedy. and suffering details from the truth of its ha, sometimes lost. we won't land what happened here. 5 months later, as these horses banged alive, 12 of them together, ukrainian media and euclidian military came out and said, well, what the russians have done. we've now land that. what happened here was very different from what the ukrainians said. this particular store trapped, the living band was omega. a young man, well known for how friendly she was. yeah, lloyd, she,

i learned to ride here and i loved horses. i loved being around them on my horse or rather the one my heart lay with was omega. she was the 1st to die nastier, left shortly before the fighting here began. but she remembers the threats very clearly guarded. i guess she has a long knack when i was still here, ukrainian nationalist visited and warned that unless the owner gave the horses up, they would burn the stable so the russians wouldn't get them the her didn't that the glenelg this one hotel will you still he was in lieu ganske in the russian controlled area. he was trying to get the horses out. he was pro russian in the immediate aftermath of the attack. ukrainian media blamed the russian forces for the flaw. they lied. tell us locals standing amongst the skeletal remains. they promised to burn the place and they did not saw the 1st horse was killed on the 11th of june. in shelling. it isn't clear who fired the ukrainian military or

nationalists, but the fact is it was the ukrainians who fired fox. they had positions all around the village august, the early put sanger gunners robertson, of course it was on purpose before the fighting. the ukrainian nationalist polanski was here. he walked her on the grounds, gladly. well now, if only i had a gun, then i don't know what i would have done, but i didn't think bill as cross such come to fire at stables was artillery. andre bell etzky, an infamous, sent open neo nazi, is well known in ukraine. he founded several nationalists, the neo nazi movements and battalions burning stables is not the worst they've done . it will do. his followers are behind, countless acts of savagery in middleton or like elsewhere. people will not soon forget what happened. and you could get them when they didn't want anyone to get these horses. if not them,

then no one would get them. if not on the least it isn't for nothing that they call the nationalists nazis. the germans did they same thing, killed everything. there is nothing holy for these people there wish mother. then if you look there shelling off denounced now, and people's homes bus stops at crowds at civilians at children. despite everything the fighting, the uncertainty, locals have not given up the owner as well as o leg and vladimir, have begun to rebuild 3 elderly men with almost no money or resources, but with an insatiable desire. once again, breed train and care for a new generation of horses, for at gazda of archie, from me told kina lou ganske region. and while ukraine still refuses to conduct any negotiations with moscow, the washington post is reporting that biden's administration is pushing prison zalinski to consider peace talks with russia. us officials are allegedly worried

that if keith doesn't consider such negotiations and may start losing support in the ukraine fatigued west. their quest 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 and kias maintained the support of other nations facing constituencies, wary a feeling a war for many years to come. the article explores the difficult position. washington finds itself in as the ongoing conflicts continues to cause significant damage to the global economy and energy security. but in sledge to support ukraine, quotes for as long as it takes, as john some criticism from both republicans and democrats. moscow and kia haven't held peace talks since the early months of the conflicts. that's when the sides managed to pen a mutually acceptable treaty. putin's press actually said the key of bats out unexpectedly, most likely, under washington's instructions. president zalinski issued

a decree in late september, making it impossible for him to negotiate with putin. what's the washington post says that u. s. officials believe here is trying to gain a stronger military foothold before the winter when it may be forced to negotiate. executive vice president of the razor center rasmussen says the longer key of drugs it's fetes, the more difficult the situation could become. further. i think her, there is a lot of her conserves on the open checkbook on the flow and mismanagement, and the on accountability of where weapons and, and the 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 scuttled negotiations on on 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 phone 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 as part of the game. i do not think the u. s. is really interested in, in any sup, negotiated settlement. i think if we don't go into negotiation, ukraine, as we know, it will no longer holy puppets. and then the of the french political leads debates ukraine's of all of them. is the lensky accusing the president of mirroring hawkish u. s. foreign policy and dragging out the conflicts and ukraine. zalinski says this morning that he is fighting against the russian and reigning axis. soon he will add china and his foreign policy will coincidentally be a perfect decal of american foreign policy. that's of the hawks who want world war,

holy puppet of the french politicians comment made waves on the internet and he was unsurprisingly criticized for. busy being a quote kremlin puppets, but it's just the latest example of alternative narratives in the west being slated . florian philipo, presidents of the patriots party, says that's because washington isn't keen on resolving the conflict, but instead of soon its own aims. does require stitching, 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 tend to blind dyed the existence of developing countries in the world, such as bricks, members and others. i am 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 weld, 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 claps, 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 distance from all this because it will not lead to peace. it will lead to war i reply, carroll is opinion completes you the, i think was wal fatigue in europe and american society as well. people are 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 rashness inflation, unemployment wall,

for the sake of mister zalinski, his beautiful eyes. for the sake of the crook, gentle that surrounds him, for the sake of those who wants to drag isn't to wool the americans or i shall of on the land from the european commission. so yes, there is an obvious fatigue of society and friends 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 in utah receive ukraine to state as of dumbass, which needs to be seriously discussed. these are all 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 in other news, the future doesn't lie in fossil fuels. well, that's the main message from the head of the united nations climate change conference which opened yesterday. our representatives from a $190.00 countries will focus on reducing greenhouse gas transition into green energy and funding for climate change. the conference opened with the aim of ensuring the full implementation of the parish agreement. the main goal of which of course, is to reduce fossil fuel usage. you lawmakers recently agreed upon the sale of new fossil fuel cars by 2035, and switch to battery powered electric vehicles. but the democratic republic of congo is sounding the alarm. dibiase is the world's largest producer of cobalt, which is a key component, an electric car batteries. most of the mines are owned by foreign countries on the sector where more than 40000 children work widely used as

a small scale mining where dangerous working conditions and corruption are rampant . many congolese workers say they feel robbed by western countries, which make huge profits from 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 but, but this is not what is happening on the ground with us. besides taking our lands for a low price. but we don't have jobs for you 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 moment, 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 ofen children, i cannot even afford for them to eat properly. there's no way to send them to school. the new e u loins archly. that green though as battery production, now accounts for over half of global cobalt production electric vehicle batteries require between 6 and 12 kilograms of the metal on sales of such vehicles operated to increased tenfold. in the coming decades. independence analyst al q 10, gay says that african countries need to change their mindset and we 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 western western countries and africa. african convent particular trying to localize the edition in africa. as far as we will use to so wrote back,

especially when we're 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 direct to go on. i and a jade and trying to localize jobs and investments, and the additional locally made a roading trust in the american voting system. moscow is once again accused of interfering in your selections this time in the mid term race which is set to kick off this tuesday. speculation is now swirling in western media, the rushes allegedly using bots to target democratic candidates. with more, what's really undermines trust in the us solution. integrity is ortiz kellum. open, regular voting hasn't even started yet in the us mid term elections. but already we've got scandals about the potential result and voter distrust is riding high 15

pennsylvania republicans have sent a letter to state secretary chapman asking about the 240000 unverified ballots that have been mailed out a day later. chapman game forward saying that the mid term election results will be delayed. it's really important for us to get accurate information about the elections process in pennsylvania. so voters in the public know that, you know, when there's delays and counting, it doesn't mean that there's anything nefarious happening. it's just what the law is in pennsylvania now. male invalid have already been a source of concern. how do you actually prove that somebody else didn't mail in a ballot under another person's name? meanwhile, trust in the us, public, it for their election system is sinking. now, a poll taken by the new york times and coordination with st. college shows that 71 percent of americans feel like democracy is under threat. now you may feel like

you've heard that before. back when trump one in the 2016 presidential election, his democratic rivals widely describe the results as a threat to democracy. you can run the best campaign. you can even become the nominee. and you can have the election stolen from you after trump was declared victorious, the flood gates were opened. there were all kinds of conspiracy theories, congressional investigation sanctions on russia. there was even an impeachment trial, who was it who was banging the gavel over those who objected as congress moved to certify the results, county is not an order valid, even with the marion a shine by the american. i know today, and there's no date when the joint session. no debate. vote is no debate. 60 years low debate and the matters are. yes, joe biden was vice president back in those days presiding over the senate. now he's been elected president and those election results have also been contested,

surprising, not really, but the fraud happened. the election in many ways was stolen, but it begs the question, is it really that easy to steal an election in the united states? now with all these accusations of dishonesty being thrown around by both sides, it's not really shocking that as a result about 59 percent of the public maybe more did not have faith in the integrity of the us election system in 2020. but at least this idea that russia was somehow the nefarious puppet master was put to rest right. now americans who believe that donald trump was unfairly robbed of reelection, came up with charts and graphs and theories of their own. they even stormed the u. s. capital, a few people died and a lot more have gone to prison. democrats said the 2016 election was no good. republicans say the 2020 election was no good. and who do they blame each other? of course and nothing is really changed. there's now already

a steady drumbeat about the possibility of fraud in the mid terms. there's no question and it's been right why they reported that there was widespread fraud and irregularities across this country. many of us were warning about the fact the democrats unilaterally fundamentally altered our voting system. inside 90 days, we warn of the state of nevada was just simply not ready to give us a fully fair and secure election. if i was united states senator, on the day of the certification, i would have stood with senator cruz and senator scott and that small handful of senators who had the courage to stand up and say we, let's hold up on the certification of this election. hillary clinton is saying that the presidential election sat for 2 years from now is going to be stolen right wing extremists already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election. so with american

politicians on both sides telling the public not to trust the election results, is it any more shocking that we're seeing more and more distrust of the election, integrity from the u. s. public divisions among the u. s. power structure are getting deeper, that crack in the liberty bell is getting bigger and distrust and disgust is also brewing beneath the surface. caleb martin r. t. new york. an 18 year old palestinian teenager has been shot dead by israeli forces in the west bank in the latest case of violence in the area. the ongoing conflicts, the death was confirmed by palestinian health officials massage, but enough all it was reportedly hits in the hearts by a live round and later died in hospital. the idea if said they targeted the youth as he was throwing stones, ortiz, rarely vehicles. but the scenes family insisted he was with them picking olives when they were attacked by israeli settlers, forcing him to leave their land unconfirmed,

the assailants. but this is far from the only report of palestinians been a 3rd in the west bank while harvesting olives with a crop season. in full swing, 6 members of another palestinian family were left injured after an alleged beating by israeli settlers on their land. they describe what happened. we should warn you . some of the following images are 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. for 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 away 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, common either verbally attack us or start cutting down the trees and runing our lands using our own tractors, but were standing for our land and we will not leave it. now this footage which allegedly shows the incidents we just described was published by an independent israeli human rights group. the video documents, settlers entering the family's olive grove, carrying wooden stakes, unaccompanied by dogs. a skirmish than ensues, which was when the family members were attacked as very authorities have long been accused by the you and of supporting illegal set. the policies on palestinian

territories was have repeatedly denied any violations. however, international humanitarian groups reports to show a dramatic increase in settler attacks in the west bank over the past 6 years of a $1000.00 such incidents have taken place since the start of this year without tobar alone, having seen over a 100 attack in just 10 days coming amid the annual olive harvesting season. this i have already left, at least for palestinians, dead or more than 40 injured. we spoke to the coordinator for human rights defenders, palestine who believes this has become israel. systemic systematic policy. m w m c m. when i spoke to your mom, i'm going to continue the tags by the israel, a satellite 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 span of effort, an attack in palestinians, also the israel, at armies preventing farmers from reaching the lands. it's

a way of thinking for the settlers to continuously attack and abuse anything philistine, whether it is people or their properties to bonnie unstoppable and was told. plus all from me for now. my name is peter scott with i'll be passing the baton on, said nicky aaron will be hanging around 30 minutes time with all the latest news and updates. thank you for watching. ah ah. ah, question leads essentially promise give a blank check to continue nature's proxy war against russia. businesses and consumers are now saying not so fast the west believe russia would quickly collapse under the weight of sanctions. instead, it is the weather, particularly europe, facing class,

the united states in many western countries setting this title of irrationality. and i basically call that what the u. s. is, you know, the u. s. position visa be sanctioned as a kind of mania. they keep repeating the same actions, and i think they're doing this because they want to show that they still do the work. but in fact, every, especially against russia, every sanction they have imposed has shown as on the line. how much they don't room . ah i ah, ah, hello, i'm manila chan you are tuned in to modus operandi there 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 in billions of dollars in aid and arms. the binded 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. you cranes application to the trade union. all right, let's get in to the emotions. the united states has been the number one benefactor to ukraine since the start of the conflict on february 24th. in may,

the bite in 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 in the form of weapons land lease programs, other types of monetary aid to below tamir 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 i minister boris johnson pled 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 up or to 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 in increasingly turning russia into a garage state. if that was so at present putin's plan, 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 china host at summit in june. so no indications appeal 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 seats 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 for it as russia continue, its advances in the cray for the ammo. i'm brooks on a salon. and joining us to discuss is samir dasani. he is the co director of peace vigil dot net and currently at the anthropology 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. samir. thank you so much for joining us today. so as we have seen, the u. s. as by far the greatest financial and military backer to ukraine thus far,

much greater than the e u and u. k. combined. how do you read this lopsided investment by the you us? yeah, i mean, i think the 1st thing to say is that we should all be condemning russia's invasion to 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 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. to there can be no question that the u. s. isn't doing this because it has 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 make, maintain

u. s. had gemini and dominance. and that's not a 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 germany is the official u. s. 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 did in libby, i think particularly, but even perhaps before the 2070 was made with the financial crisis, they anticipated that something like this might happen. so they sort of be, 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 are less effective than they might have been, had been implemented before. 2007 or 2008. now. so we are not long after the war

began. the binding of ministration 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 are prohibiting new investments in the russian federation as well as 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 resume 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 big invaded if 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 this 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 u. s. 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 u. s. being disappointed from the response by china who has maintained, you know, something of a policy of strategic ambiguity. i think that 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 violence 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, you'd not the reason election. somebody's been there 89 years, both scenarios 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 forward in exchange. and if that's the us citizen, then no, no one will be changing their line. but if the us is willing to bargain negotiate then yes it's, it's quite possible that somebody is, 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, took up his res, concerns that the u. s. might implement some sort of bill that might harm the co opera 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 u. s. 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 affected?

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 is 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, severe 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 ah ah

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will ban in the european union. the kremlin. yup. machines. the state on russia today and split our tea sport. even our video agency, roughly all band on youtube with, ah, ah, with the 2022 bricks, virtual summit now behind us this year hosted by beijing chinese president, she's in ping underscore the importance of the group to remain open. he says, and to welcome like minded partners to join the bricks. family. this,

as the economic block showed resilience in the face of the coven, 19 pandemic. what 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 cain 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 greeks has highlighting the importance of countries outside of the west in that development of strategies for mutual trade, health and counterterrorism. this year's 14th break, so meet theme was foster high quality breaks partnership, all sure. in a new era for global development. but on the side of the main scattering bricks plus meeting took place with officials from countries like the united arab emirates, saudi arabia, egypt, cosette, stan indonesia, argentina, nigeria, synagogue, 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 brick saw is created?

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 it became even more relevant recent declarations of the argentine and precedent for a 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 is the to tional an 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, made days later in person with the 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 the future as well. there is no doubt that china has been investing in south american countries, especially with argentina. between may 2021 a mate 2022. the exports of china have increase by $49.00 and for san while enforce increase up to $513000000.00. other chinese projects include the renovation of the bill, grenlock, car to gas railway, connected to the china's belt and road initiative. and that coast shandey, solar park consider latin america's largest solar plant. perhaps what comes to mind with a future bricks that is a current political stage of russia you seen now in regard to the ongoing braun,

sion of crane and 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 go see their sanctions a mic amused him to a sheep piece as he said in a press conference in april where brasil as one of the 5 member, so 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 brooks and 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 from an economic standpoint. i think it would be beneficial to all of the bricks nation. now because the acronym is the initials of different countries are going to have to start working on how they rename bricks or expands it with the bricks up. i guess if they add, you know, that you've got brazil that has really been focus 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 can expand into more technology. got embry or they've got airlines, they've got some space technology they're trying to develop. so i think is the brazilians look at it, they won't really see argentina as a competitor, but maybe a good ally and expanding throughout the south american region. so you say plenty of room for another member. now what is argentine a 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 b producer and china generally coming out of the cupboard restrictions are 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 product and using the whole cal, so to speak. so i think our to gina 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 the china despite being a great economy power has very a 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 didn't stay nearly 30 years ago when i was a director of governmental affairs to the us trade representative during the last of the 1st bush white house. first 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 you. i felt that others did that if we 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 eyes model and try to gather more of the south american central american countries together. it's trading partners. i think you can see an economic boom and wow, if we had done that 30 years ago, 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, the last thing here, given china's official position on the war in ukraine, is neutral president. she has struck strong words against america. the 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 they're not so tacit backing of russia. final thoughts on that? well, i think, you know, you look at the sanctions and the fact they have not really heard russia. they heard america and 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 history good again for america, or maybe even for the globe. because again, china's 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 us. there's going to be a lot of 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 binary administration. that is, and perhaps maybe pick up a phone call from steve gil. i always appreciate your expertise, steve gill. thank you so much. thanks, michelle. ah, well, that's going to do it for this weeks episode of modus operandi there show that dig deep into foreign policy. i'm your host manila chan. thank you for tuning in. we'll see you again next week to figure out the ammo. ah, ah,

question leads essentially promise give a blank check to continue nature's proxy war against russia. businesses and consumers are now saying not so fast. the west believe russia with quickly collapse under the weight of sanctions. instead, it is the west, but to play europe facing a read for a while, we have, which are ours, we make, you know, let you to really care about me. if you care about the play. i wish somebody could just tell me why their hair lately, lynching, beating poverty. why supremacy is the disgusting amber. the people in mississippi voted on a flyer and 65 percent of the people voted to keep the current flag. our purpose is

to play in the good name and get better help because of these monuments that you see everywhere or not can they're not monuments to the confederate government. they're monuments to the soldiers, to the battery. you know, if we're going to be offended by everything, every negative part of our history, we have to get rid of everything. wow, ah, the united states in many western countries, adding a title of irrationality. and i basically called what the u. s. is the u. s. position would be sanctioned as a kind of mania. they keep repeating the same actions, and i think they're doing this because they want to show that they still do the work. but in fact, every, especially against russia, every sanction they have imposed, has shown as on the line, how much they don't room,

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