ah ah, you as president, jo biden's democratic party should clinch control of the senate to securing more states this weekend in the mid term election. western policies are trying to weaponized the region that's still warning to asian and pacific countries from of russia's foreign minister. as the axioms summit wraps up on the storage of shape the weekend off the international peace field after 2 years of violence, a cheap through dialogue. officials from ethiopia and the take re region agree on c spy and open the door to humanitarian aid

with sunday weekly highlight program here, one alternate to national. however, this was getting kicked off now with some breaking news that is just now reaching us here at moscow. as we understand there are very few details available at this moment. but as we know right now, an explosion has rock the city of a stumble. the videos are circulating on social media appear to show the moment of the blas which happened as we understand on the main tourist street in the city. some media reports claim at least 4 people are being killed, many more injured, although there's no official confirmation right now. on the number of victims emergency services are currently at the scene. the local area has been evacuated. it's now just about 2 minutes after 5 pm on sunday and assemble. it are on our team

to national. we'll keep across this breaking news story for you. we'll give you any updates the very moment we get moving on this our here on our t international as we understand now, the democrats appear to have a clenched control of the senate following this week's midterm elections. as a key race in nevada is set to be cold for the party with 96 percent of the votes counted. so that's a projected blue when in the syllabus state. while another close contest is an ira zona. so narrowly decided for the democratic party that candidate as well, that with those victories, the upper chamber of congress is expected to remain under democratic control. but it's republicans who look set to gain a majority in the house of representatives. meaning things have just gotten tougher for the biden administration to get its policies passed earlier. my colleague union o'neill discussed the latest with archie sphere. rolla is about so this is a very net narrow victory for democrats with 5249 in the senate. 50 for democrats.

now this is because catherine cortez moscow, bested former attorney general adam like salt, giving them that lead. this is after the arizona victory and the victory of course of john federal mon and pennsylvania. this now may say it's less important for the georgia race which will take place in december to determine any sizable difference . because b, p harris can actually cut that tie. and in congress to though we have still a, the race is going on both being counted in california, arizona, and oregon. and of course neither party has breach. so 218 majority that is needed and many are questioning why this right wave that was supposed to happen according to republicans did not happen. and according to many, it has to do with inflation. it has to do with the fact that perhaps voters voted against the trump in discourse. and also abortion issues were very high. young

voters said come out to vote, jen z did. and of course, the other accusation is election fraud as well, even before the election freleigh defense of joe biden. i recall kim mike, he said that whatever happens essentially that he's got the answer in his office to push through certain policies that v were the veto. democrats have, for a long time, been accusing half of the country of being deplorable republicans all being involved in january 6 have been really going against a vast majority of the country and even accused rush of having hackers to undermine the election. yet when democrats, when, then that means everything is good, and joe biden talks about exercising his use of vito power. if we lose the house and senate, it's going to be a horrible 2 years. the good news is i will have a veto pan. this is of course, with the fact that joe biden's approval rating is in the tank. i mean,

according to a c, b as pull 46 percent of people think that joe biden's policies have actually hurt the economy. 52 percent trust republicans better on issues like abortion and inflation and 79 percent of the country. think that the country is out of control, which says a lot about why people don't have trust in the system. and of course, for some, this has been enough to question the integrity of the u. s. selections. let me get this straight. 72 percent of voters, se americas on the wrong track. only 42 percent say they approve of the job. joe biden is doing 58 percent say they feel more worried that america's best years, mail ready be behind us? yet? no. redway, congratulations to president biden. his rate on trump's home. the rest of pro lifers his illegal intimidation campaign against the supreme court. his censorship of opponents and threats to jail and harassment of any one who questioned his

election help steve off red wave. so we're talking about long lines. we're talking about machines that didn't work. the fact that we are still counting ballots here and of most i mailed her as well. there's no paper in saint clair. there is really no chain of custody in the united states election. so of course, this is why people are accusing this and many other countries you get the results, the day of and or the day after, at least. but democrats of trying to normalize this say, well, this is because we have so many vote by mail ballots. so obviously, the vast majority of people are not trusting in the system because they have, they have questions as to why this is happening now. the democratic party says this is a victory for the american people as a whole. however, they have been largely accusatory of anybody that thinks differently. anybody that has been questioning this, there's been intimidation tactics. there's been all sorts of things in the electoral process in the united states. so a lot of people are saying this is chaotic. this is embarrassing, and it seems that democrats promote democracy abroad while still having these sorts

of issues at home. and what this does is it's going to lead to a tug of war in congress, both in the senate and the house of representatives where little policy work actually gets done as the i see. and the summit concludes in cambodia. there is discord among top officials on what the traditional final statements should include . rushers for ministry, excuse me, for minister. i should say mr. saca law for awful. he took a moment to explain what many a calling a stand off a cucumber. no collective decision on a joint statement has been made because the united states and its western allies insisted on absolutely unacceptable language regarding the situation in ukraine will. after all, for either that washington and his nato allies are seeking to weaponized asia to try and contain russia and china rather than support such regional organizations as i see on the statement came as

a number of western countries including orcus allies, australia, new zealand, attended the assay and groups meeting to discuss various forms of global cooperation. and we spoke with international affairs analyst at dawn mclean, gil, who believes global competition for power, is coming at the expense of regional security. what we're looking into now is that there is a clash of not only material power, but also ideology and of course perceptions towards the order of asia as a whole. so what we can see here is that because of this particular clash, which also aligns with the distribution of power to shift china, india, japan, russia, the united states all engaging in this particular critical hotspot, geographic hotspot, while a shooting war may not be in the works anytime soon, we have to understand that the problems that are being driven by these arrangements,

these power competitions come at the expense of the security architecture of asia. and, you know, going back to the main core of these meetings will look into as young since 1960 s of the end has endeavored to maintain its centrality within the continent to ensure inclusive dialogue between and among major powers. but with what is happening now, we're looking to the erosion of that audience and trial at the discord within the block. and at the same time, the proliferation of exclusive arrangements for that matter and the delusion of existing multi lateral frameworks. so this becomes very problematic in terms of the security architecture of the region. after 2 years of violence, the yoke in government, i'm militants from the northern te gray region. this week signed a peace agreement to cease hostilities. negotiations began at the end of october, after the ethiopian army captured several major towns that were previously held by

local insurgents. now, according to a published document, the parties agreed on the withdrawal of troops including foreign fighters from the conflict zones. in addition, they've taken on a shared responsibility of protecting civilians and ensuring their an ended movement. monitoring and verification team formed by the african union will be established to assess the implementation of the commitments make with dimensions on it too. and so you can do some of the parties agreed on a main point not to impede the delivery of humanitarian aid according to the un,

at least 20000000 people in the country for foods in security. and this, due to the military conflict, ongoing drought, and of course inflation. and beyond that, 15000000 ethiopians are set to be in need of emergency health care. all 4 and a half 1000000 have been displaced from their homes. now the conflict in ethiopia is an oven to gray region has raged since the thought of a decade. the violence originally erupt when government troops would employ to fight the so called people's liberation front, near the border with the fighting has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. we spoke with independent journalist i under while m c. say, who believes the piece deal could serve as an example to resolve other regional conflicts in africa? if you'd say, for wisdom the media have given birth thing about these companies like now the after the signing of the deal. most of the wisdom. yeah, i'm not properly,

i know i'm not interested in reporting about the fact that dispute daily, like just stroke goes away down logan. she will be african probate by africans. so the, it's a good list for the countries as well, to avoid and would extend interference in their own issues. because if we see the more interesting to accomplish, the more the conflict will be worse and takes into a different angle in the different return. what is rightfully ours, that's the call of a gyptian archaeologist to a demanding museums throughout europe, hand back priceless artifacts. they currently hold. many of them such who have been acquired illegally during that of colonial times. now an online petition calling for the treasures to be handed back because now received more than

a 100000 signatures. it was launched by the former egyptian minister of antiquities and demands the country's prime minister, submits an official request to griffin, for example, to return that of the rosetta stone. it's currently held in london's british museum and became key to deciphering egyptian hieroglyphics. the bust of queen and f, a t t a currently in berlin, and den devin zodiac ceiling currently am piracies all among a number of egyptian artifacts scattered around the world, which activists have been de mining that we're turn off and locals in egypt say it's only right the treacherous come back home i am squeezed, this is not a good thing. this thing is our right and foreign country stole this from us so long time ago. and now when we claim our right to get our into rudy's back, they refuse they stole a lot of our antiquities, and now the refusing to return the antiquities, of course. well, that's a very bad thing side, and the chief a no, a machine that i see that this is nina fan out, be equal. historically,

i care logically, that egyptian antiquities remain and countries that stole them or counters that took them by occupying a land where the french, british, or american. because these relics are one of the important things for our country. and they must return to us because this is our right, the. i absolutely refuse. this is not there, right? and these are our traces that we can preserve by ourselves. i think that some races and some people's are arrogant as they actually say that we are a 3rd world country. it is certainly arrogance. i thought, across live a give a thoughts on all of this. now crossing live to the director of the asia center for studies and translation areas, augment mustafah joining us there on this sunday program. great to see that a thank you very much for joining us here in nazi international. i wanted to just get, get off that the 1st question to you firing off right away in that is that this petition demanding the return of these artifacts? it's already gone in more than a 100000 signatures. i guess that does show that the depth of feeling behind this. i mean, do you think it might work exactly, because it's time to us satellite,

best so on the government just to do, ah, domestically about supposed to be done as well as it is the kind of special on the international community just to do what supposed to be done because if you try to steal my hairy age a my artifact, sir, and my monuments, sir, ah, manuscripts, et cetera, it's kind of so you know, i, shall, we got a kind of devilish time did that to us as long as you are. i will turn an top level company, you have the white and you have in title just to get the wells. and they have a coach of the other. and then you can show week to and take 100. the eulu a 100 was telling pounds in a ticket to go to your gallery just to say, sure to, to see the head of nefertiti or a special or a manuscript, or was it still, or was it a stone? oh, things like that. and do you deprive me pump such benefits if such amazing and masterpieces

are being shown here in be home country? not only that, the companies that are not ratifying the units school agreement concerning bay and batter off ah, endowments antiquities. i'm at heritage, i think like that at the feel free just to do exchange and just to do the sale just to carry out all chince illegally worldwide because the i'm not about of israel in america as little as the by my jumping off. man, i'm sorry for i just want to jump in because i have limited time here, but it's so good to have you with us on this program today. surely, surely, there's also a good side to a good side, a benefit here to those people who have had the chance to go to the london history museums and other museums in paris and so on. and so for people from a different culture of the european culture, it's been a benefit to them to, to learn more about the middle east culture and this, you know, son, so on and so forth. so there is a good side to this, right?

if it is legally and there was kind of mutual agreement between the all in the country of origin and such company that showing these kinds of antiquities legally . and we have a share of the benefits, as long as it is that there's no kind of a chance of punishment of benefits. and as long as such pieces are stolen. for example, the last year we already was told about 5 more than $5000.00 pieces from europe, especially europe. it was stolen because it was some sort of collaboration between the ministry of tourism, ministry of antiquities, as well as a follow up question with the ministry of foreign affairs. why such countries by law think the low and the are most of the time using us just to respect the low and to respect the human rights and to respect the cultural multiplicity. and to have a teacher and things like that. the are completely double a standard, if the low come to them, it's on applicable, but it's applicable on us,

not on there. all right now or an addict. yeah. the mistake just let me know. okay . but there's a mistake on a different gene because until 19 acres made, there was no a lot to lay. think of the matter of dealing with and pick which is because they pulled back. it was allowing paul biggest evasion missions or companies just to pick 50 percent off. they explored her mother mintz and heritage, but it was completely missed because it is our wealth after that. and we have the low at $117.00, in the year of 1983, the fiegel 18th. this matter. and if i, we found out a traffic or monuments. oh wow. artifacts and things like that. and it was going to be like an impediment a sanction of 25 years. and this at the maximum, in the low as well as paying about 10110000000 u a g pounds, which is equal to full 100. all right, sounds like you're a dollar

a calculate. all right, what? ok, but i'm sorry. ok, but when you talk, you're throwing figures around. now that you're bringing money into it says i'm going, i'm going to pick you up on this. if i may have met a lot of these treasures that were essentially what i do say illegally taken during many, many during which during colonial times by being taken away. and i'm playing devil's advocate here. so bear with me. but they've been taken away from this part of the well, they've been shown for many, many years in western european museums. but in one sense, you could say that in a sense they've been protected because a lot of these items can go on to the black market. there's an enormous illegal black market for archaeological artifacts and in a sense there's a positive side. yes. as i told you, if you have this mutual agreement with the county of origin of such artifacts, there is no problem because you will show it for specific years. like if you have like a concession agreement to or like what? so and an agreement between the company and the showing country and the west. but

if you don't have and if you don't like to allow 2 such countries in order to restore it before you just leaving b. 5 because you allow yourself and you for metro, took it yourself, which is not allowed for me and not by meant for me. it's a kindly, it's a severe douglas center and it's, it's severe, a violation of the law. and also, as i told you, thank you miss co agreement to protect, to protect the heritage and the antiquities. why you violate and why you don't if you really want to respect the heritage of the others as a civilization of the other. go and sign this agreement of the unethical in order to assure to the world that you are respecting the international law and international agreement. this is a big problem of the western counties because they think that they are like the top countries they can do what they want to do. but it is not like that in just time beef, whether in the human rights, whether in being thick with these with and things like that because these are my treasures. and now it is not allow for you just to take my life. because you, you,

i country off of the walls number one, 0, you know what to pull the not to the seemed world or maybe new of the household. this is exactly what i'm trying to show. but unfortunately, they are not, they are not respecting us. and this is the kind of an, especially after 2011 up at the judge and revolutions, and was a collapse of the different police i touched on if you remember, a lot of pieces during the time of the process of who'd already a classic, a boat and the commissioners or the people at the bank, but it would be over the mid millions or billions of us dollars, all off wells from such a black market rate, as you said in your, in your question before. now if you found out and now a lot of people, especially from the 3 ministers, i told you ministry of antiquities and that's your story, isn't. and of course, and the minister of foreign are planning to monitor, not just to control blanked money to all the options. because most of the extra

options that people, especially the very rich people are very attractive and be at the big museums like the love and the, the oldest candle of the louvre a little bit before concerning, showing some stolen pieces from egyptian heritage and in it. so i had walked in paris as well as in, in emmett's, at, without our permission. it's kind of a violation of the, of the low and such countries involved in it is a kind like a trafficking off at the weapons. i think illegal trafficking of the whip on illegal trafficking off b a, a drugs ah human trafficking. it is not lie. it is similar to nothing. it's all connected. it's all connected and in yeah, yeah, i, as you said, as you said, they look good. progress has been made, you said in recent years, 5000 artifacts had been returned to their rifle owners. but also this petition now has got a 100000 signatures going to the a as i saw,

the egyptian prime minister if he accepts the petition. perhaps more artifacts will be routine. oh ok. med most of it's a wonderful idea and i appreciate your optimism here and i think good steps of being re in the right direction, the director of the asia center for studies and translation. thank you very much for your time today. mr. was to thank. thank hello, thank you. and of staying on the southern continent, france as announced this week, the end of the countries decade long anti terrorist operation bar haine, in africa is us a hell region. and we heard from some locals who seemed elated with the exit of soldiers as you want. i'm ready, happy they've gone tarnish should definitely free our territory and leave us. this is good news for me honestly. on this is a great event. we're lucky to have them gone because we've been praying to see french troops out of our country. we are lucky and happy when the more minutes someone usually leave will feel better. with the help of god,

they're going to find the force for that. the same power they use to destroy it. they're going to fight a way to rebuild this country. on this last wednesday, please return my call. i know the end of the back in a position the end of bank cannot corporation. beverly, the deputy depends on who paris pain behind to provide advisors in terms of planning and equipment to the local army on the middle of a gun that will sometimes only on demand. however, in the details and alice, by the french president, there will still be around $3000.00 soldiers that remain. he did add to the armed forces will change what the leader calls the status form and the mission of the french military and africa. over the years at service personnel, for example, were implicated of having healed 19 civilians. and molly, that's according to the un, incidents like this of reinforced a fair amount of anti french sentiment in that region and eventually forced to

withdraw the french troops from molly. that was in august and while the bar haine operation know how to state the goal of combatting is the most terror groups in the hell. we spoke with monte kima political analyst who says that african countries should be careful of announcements like not, not the sweat effect. you must like our wishes that france leaves africa, that barking gets out of our lands. this kind of declaration from them, as i said, is fake. it is demagoguery. it is certainly a plan they are putting in place to better choke african nations and particularly burkina faso. and we call on the authorities to per keena to be more careful. bar haine has never been useful to this. a hell. it has contributed to kill enough burkina abbey, enough. millions enough nigerians, enough of all this crowd that we have suffered and we are still dying by. yeah. actually there are no terrorists in this. i held france and her side kicks are the

terrorist. it is france who kills people. it is france who provides weapons to people. and we need to have the courage to say that what, but dozens of canyon troops of arrived in the democratic republic of congo, was part of a regional peacekeeping mission. it aims to combat the activities of the m. 23 rebels who have been active in the countries north kiva region for around 20 years . that the troops were dispatched to the country off of the canyon parliament rules of st. around 900 soldiers. we'll join the east african community block that includes that the asi, kenya, rwanda, south sudan, tanza, near burgundy, and uganda. as we understand so far around 60 soldiers have been sent back. so my school canyons are here because as you know, the road map of the eastern african leaders in nairobi is very clear. they are here so that together with the d. r. c. army, we will track down the negative forces. mainly the m 23 insurgents,

who are jeopardizing the regions security. we have a security you something that big stuff up front requires assistance with their local police on them walking. also together with him, i did talk a little piece of wood. well, it's tough to tally all of them, but more than a $120.00 armed groups, a currently active in the diocese, volatile e most appearing as a result of regional was from the start of the millennium. in the last few weeks, the m 23 rebel group has taken over a huge territories and north keybo fighting has led to power outages in the major traits, city of gama, as homes around a 1000000 people. the biase government has long accused, his neighbor, rwanda refunding the group. it's something that we're wondering, authorities strongly deny. now the 2nd congo wall created several on conflicts in its wake, with the ethnic tootsie fight as agreeing to join the d asi army on march 23rd,

2009. the peace deal was broken. 3 years later, when the newly minted m. 23 militia mutant need starting the march 23rd rebellion. the assertions quickly took up a gama. displacing 230000 people. and combined d r. c. troops on un peacekeepers were able to push m 23 across the ugandan border . but the militants attacked north, kiva in early 2021, and fighting has continued ever since i was bring you an update. now a quick update of the latest developments valve are breaking news this hour. that blast and central is down. bull. a warning you may find some of the following images disturbing. the make out is way off at the end of the short video circulating on social media or appearing to show the moment of the blas did happen, or one of the main tourist streets in the city. some media reports claim at least 4 people have been killed, many more injured. tough though to get any official confirmation on the number of

victims or what exactly caused the explosion. now you can imagine the blasted sparks and panic in the vicinity of the show crowds trying to flee the scene again . pretty tough to make out the details in the chart. so all that's being posted to social media, emergency services though a currently at the stay in the latest video to receive, to show police in the area helicopters as well. we'll keep across all the developments as you get them on the international. sorry, that's it for now. here, wanna see thanks for joining us to sharing your sunday with us here at mazda went back to soon with, [000:00:00;00]

with mm ah, hello, welcome to well, to part. most of us would agree that a bad piece is better than a good war, although it may be just as heartless, if not more, to the preservation of life and the nature of human condition. but once a war begins and the political moralizing exhaust itself, what factors need to be in place in order to ended once and for all? well, to discuss that i am now joined by richard trubinstein, professor of conflict resolution and public affairs at george mason university. professor rubinstein,