reason why you should be alive, you to find something to believe. john story is a story of ho story, victory, and whatever i can do. to help him, i went to a china stand by at 0 cove. it policy despite western criticism that says beijing says that certain social media users have been distorting the facts to stir up, protest. mainstream media outlets call on washington to stop persecuting julian hassan as they backtrack on their years. long smear campaign against the whistleblower politicians from 2 ethnic groups in russia slam has printed primitive thinking comments from the pope who said soldiers from those minorities are the cruelest on the ukrainian for flies.

with just about 4 pm here in moscow, and you're watching our to international. i'm your host donald quarter. welcome to the program. now china is affirmed. it's staying with its 0 coven policy. and the face of western criticism, beijing went on to say that particular social media users have been deliberately distorting the facts to stir a protests in the country to whom china has always been following its general 0 coven policy, and has been making relevant adjustments in the light of the actual situation, we are now actively implementing the 9th version of the prevention and control plan centralization. protesters have been pouring on to the streets and demanding an end to antique cove. it locked out. the government insists that the policy is effective in preventing the spread of the disease. some western countries which previously

clamped down on their own domestic anti lockdown rallies are now condemning china's approach as they speak out in support of the protest. are message to peaceful protesters around the world is the same. and consistent people should be allowed for the right to assemble and to peacefully protest policies or laws or dictates that that they take issue with the western mainstream press has been gushing with sympathy for victims of government coven crackdowns, and they're cheering on protesters spilling into the streets and referring to the quote remarkable bravery of the protesters fight against draconian state loc downs . well, you know, just as long as the people protesting against these, coca crackdowns are in china. but it is citizens demanding to preserve their basic freedoms, to assemble, to work, to move around and to decide you know, what to inject into their body or not happened to be in the west. well then the

western media treats them like a bunch of nut job conspiracy theorists who are a threat to society and deserve to be suppressed and marginalized for having the absolute gall to resist government policy. a, with those the last time to any one witness to massive. nearly none of us outpouring of support in the western mainstream media for anti cove mandate protesters in europe, for example, who took to the streets every weekend in places like here in paris for weeks on end

. where was there support for the freedom convoy and canada, who supporters wanted nothing more than to restore equal rights? as the federal government engineered a 2 tiered society with travel and work prohibitions for those who failed to comply with government job mandates. all while prime minister just intruders government declared martial law to stop these protesters from taking to the streets and ordered the freezing of their bank accounts. using protests to demand changes to public policy. is something that i think is, is, is worrisome when their own fellow citizens are standing up to government oppression. the western process is quick to denounce them as lawbreakers. but when the same phenomenon is unfolding and china, well, you know, you can't stop the spread of freedom, right? just ask german state broadcaster, deutsche valley if he is an extraordinary moment in china. on its spreading further,

i'm wider protests which for the most part are illegal have become more militant in recent weeks. what a brilliant example of objectivity and reporting that same sort of protests in 2 separate places, maybe opponents of western authoritarianism, she go waves and science denouncing their own governments, coven crackdowns over there in china. if they want the western media to help them denounce locked downs while pretending to objectively report the news. victor gao is the vice president of an eastern, focused think tank, and he says, the west spends more time being preoccupied with china than on its own domestic problems. protests, i'm not common in china. a protest are common in many european countries right now in many european capital, cities, et cetera. there are huge protests stripes of all kinds, for example. and in the united states, you have massive kimmy, gamble is,

is really a curse. now they do not talk to laugh much about these disturbances, for example, and they focus on the protests in china. now i do care about the protest in the chinese cities, and i do hope our countrymen will suffer less inconvenience as a result of the imposition of the dynamics. 0, call the policy. but i also hope the protesters each other will realize that there is a high, you're good to be achieved for greater stability, greater health and less deaths among the chinese be will because other had damage after years of smearing julian a song, several major western media outlets have pulled a 180 there now calling for the u. s. government to end its case against the wiki leaks co founder. this group of editors and publishers, all of whom had worked with the sancha,

felt the need to publicly criticize his conduct in 2011. but we come together now to express our grave concerns about the continued prosecution of julian, a sorry for obtaining and publishing classified materials. this indictment sets a dangerous precedent and threatens to undermine americans 1st amendment and the freedom of the press. well, it certainly makes sense that major news outlets would speak up about the fact that a journalist who published information has been stripped of his human rights as being threatened with extradition and prosecution under the espionage act in the united states. but what many have note it is that this statement seems to very much contradict the town of these publications earlier. and we will note that when julian assigned was being held up in the ecuadorian embassy and when he was dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy, these publications weren't speaking up on his behalf. rather they were helping to build the case by bas marching,

his character running him through the mud. he has proved a highly problematic even embarrassing champion for the principles of press freedom in the public's right to information. even mister a sanchez friends have described him as difficult, a narcissist with an outside view of his importance. it's probably too late for a sons to recover his former glory. but if he could give up his futile struggle against extradition and show a little respect to the swedish justice system, that would at least be a 1st necessary step. now it's also important to note that these words from these publications that now say they support mr. dives are they echoed a full blown media campaign to essentially demonize your innocence to justify any state repression levied against him. it was a full blown mainstream media assault to justify what was happening. let's review what was being set on television at design for a decade. go and some of the worlds have tried to shut we can leaks down. and today julian sanchez, the head of wiki leaks, and draco malfoy,

biological father has finally been arrested. you could tell that living inside the embassy for 7 years, has taken its toll. here he is back in 2012. yeah. now compare that to today. i mean, amazing. the guy went in looking like draco malfoy came out with like dumbledore, a wiki lease founder julian assigns, was also arrested in london where he was dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy, looking like santa claus with a manifesto. you're all not a i haven't on my right look, look at him like in just a few years, he went from bond villain to crowd surfing habits. now, while focusing on obscure criticisms of his on his personality or his appearance, mainstream media seemed to have forgotten what he reveal review the revelation is about real crimes and real scandals that came to light due to the work wiki leaks ah,

[000:00:00;00] a now the biden administration has given no indication that they have any intention of dropping the charges or the expedition case against julian, a,

sorry to the u. s. department of justice says they continue to pursue extradition and that they will continue to pursue extradition for the time being. now the u. k home secretary did approve the extradition of julian assange, because u. s. officials have promised to treat him humanely, whatever that means. so at the moment, julianna's on his legal team is appealing that decision that he would be extradited to the united states. american legal and media analysts, lionel says it's unclear why the western media suddenly changing its tune about assange, but their previous smears against him should not be forgotten. if you listen to this, absolutely imprisoned and feckless commentary by today's canoe shanty, just making fun of the way he looks, you know why he looks like that. let me tell you, it's called torture. that's why you look like that. and i like to see any of those

brave journalists see if they can within a week of this, this is something which absolutely galls me. julian assigned whether you like him or not, whether you care for his personality is a hero. something must be happening. why all of a sudden, what changed? what information are they privy to? what sensibility were they exposed to that made them say, wait a minute. oh, by the way, all collectively, simultaneously is some kind of a choreograph fashion. they all decided, i think that maybe there is somebody to be said where he was actually a journalist. i haven't the foggiest, but i won't tell you, there should be a follow up editorial as to how, how just, how imprisoned these people were. i can't believe how these journalists and they do the new york times high and mighty, and dare i say if you go back in your read what they said, their actual statement, it doesn't even provide a bill of particulars as to why it's almost like

a oh come on, enough's enough. i guess he's a journalist, it was rather look warm and tepid at best. the head of the catholic church, pope francis has labeled 2 ethnic groups within russia, the cruelest soldiers of the ukraine conflict. when i speak about ukraine, i speak about the cruelty because i have much information about the cruelty of the troops that come in. generally, the cruelest are perhaps those who are of russia, but on not of russian tradition, such as the chechens, the bourgeoisie, and so on. now the pope's remarks lead to a huge push back in the 2 russian republics. here's what they had to say. how can a spiritual leader, whose dice this includes the majority of the peoples of the world, allow himself to reason so primitively on the ethnic issue. to hear an assessment from the head of the catholic church about the cruelty of specific nationalities, namely bureaucrats and chechens,

protecting civilians is at least very strange. we don't have to go too far into history to recall that the capital of a european state, the city of belgrade, or in the entire state like olivia were bombed, without the participation of laborious chechens and other people of russia, ought to get more on this story. now we're going across live to award winning journalist and editor of my grubby dot org martin j. martin, thanks for joining us on the program. so good to the 1st question i want to ask is just about post pope francis's statement. he singled out chechen and bori out soldiers as quote, the cruelest within the russian forces. this sounds kind of more like a press, a press statement from kiev than something the head of the catholic church should be saying. don't you think it could be? i'm certainly the americans have moved in with a massive pill operation in queue as they do with all conflicts which say, support around the world. most famously you love one and the mid ninety's. so i

think i'm the pale machining. if may. busy well, be approaching him for none of these statements. it does seem very out. it's very bizarre thing for that. of the catholic church to be well, frankly, racist. i mean us really, what isn't it? you know it's, it's good. it's really, really acting beyond his normal rebates and making racist or ethnic political comments. that's not something we normally expect. so one has to question where this is coming from. well, you mentioned racism there. do you think that the religious beliefs of those who he's accusing have anything to do with, with this call out it's really hard to say because it is such an odd thing. but i think, i think the, the, the drive behind the, i think the source of this must be political. it must be a political message that he's delivering, which, as i said earlier, i think he's being asked to do. i'm the only real implications or, or i suppose what he's expecting, he can achieve with such a statement is to be divisive,

is to actually set one ethnic group against the other. so is it a message on behalf of the kid regime to, to be divisive to its enemies such as russia, such as those countries are? it sounds as though it's printed different device. it sounds as though it's really aimed a stirring up them ethnic tensions. i think it's going to make him quite, not so much an enemy, but certainly you certainly won't be on a lot of people's christmas cutlass this year. i think, well, you mentioned there could be western officials or whoever working behind the scenes here and that, that do you think that played into the fact that the po previously actually appeared. fair minded calling for peace talks to and this conflicts while he's making statements like that. do you think that some sort of behind the scenes work has to do with why that was happening? i think clinic is really the answer here. if you look at the landscape machine in the last 6 to 8 weeks, has been a lot of clinical moves by president of ukraine. you know,

if you go back to the black sea attacks, then the rock has been launched into poland. and some of the statements that he's his, you know, he's really going, as far as he can to track name. so insert international war within ukraine. and i just think this instant, the pope is just one more example of panic from him because, you know, he's got a very, very tough time ahead of him. in the coming weeks. there is a $1000000000.00 of military aid, which biden, supposedly trying to get congress to back. looks like it's going to be blocked by the republicans. that's going to. ready huge impacts on the war machine on the ukrainian side. and they've got power cuts now going through the country with winter setting in. and so i think a new political dynamic is coming his way. and the whole thing about the pope, it just smacks of really a desperate lead to reaching out to all or anyone. you can to try and choose some sort of positive spin his way. what we heard a bit of a different perspective from the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman. she said

that it was not even a phobia, but actually profession of perversion of the truth in regards to this statement. what do you think about that? how accurate prejudice aside, how accurate do you think pope francis statement was i don't even take it seriously because you know, you have to ask what's going on inside this chaps mind, you know, is he aware of history that he does you have any sense of irony just for the head of the catholic church to talk about cruelty or barbarism. ready or words such was, you know, just go look, look back in history to the 11th century crusades on which the catholics did in the middle east. and you know, it's, it's not very hard to see the irony of making a link to try and promote or lift catholics or christians, you know, above to give them the high moral ground them to, and to, and to, to shut the moral tutelage and to, to muslim groups, you know, i mean the catholics don't have

a good track record behind them to make such statements even even recently industry . if you look at the war in northern ireland, you know the cath which is essentially a catholic supported i. d i d, g, are you only supported catholic? well in this idea of cruelty to be used against these groups, i think is ironic and perverse. and you really have to ask yourself is, is he losing all sense of proportion receive it? losing his mind, it doesn't really seem like you listen to any of his advisors because that just seems to be such a trip. just a book posters position to play under to enter into international politics is probably unwise for the head of the catholic church. martin j award winning journalist and editor at mcgregor dot org. thanks for joining us on the program. ah, the canadian government has outlined its enhanced military interest in the indo pacific . far from its borders. just introduce cabinet unveiled the strategy in response to

what they call the adverse global influence of china. china is an increasingly disruptive global power. china's rise enabled by the same international rules and norms that it now increasingly disregards has had an enormous impact on the indo pacific. and it has ambitions to become the leading power in the region. china is looking to shape the international order into are you more permissive environment for interests and values that increasingly depart from ours auto us as its new goals include military and intelligence cooperation with its allies in the region. the plans to spend over a 1000000000 us dollars on related projects over the next 5 years of a document addresses beijing as being disruptive in the indo pacific and official at the chinese embassy in canada, denounced this new plan for him. it is to jody's speech contained a loss of negative content related to china that distorted the truth,

exaggerated the so called china threads are discredited. chart is image, which constituted a grocer, defendants in china as internal affairs. while western states are trying to gain a foothold and the pacific pro western political powers in taiwan have lost influence. as the pro independence party suffered a defeat in the islands mid term elections, the taiwanese democratic party has just had its worst result in the last 20 years. this led to its current leader announcing her resignation as the parties, chairwoman, the main opposition party will now lead the government, which sorts closer ties with mainland china. we earlier spoke with senior research fellow at the center for china and globalization. andy mo qu says, china has stayed consistent despite political moves by the west. well, i think this certainly is not in the interest of the canadian people. i'm the only

positive i think that can come from this is the absence of a negative. we see a lot of hesitation of remarks by dutch government officials about a s m l. i think europe in general is adopting a much more pragmatic and realistic. why think in all of these issues, china's demonstrated a remarkable ha, restraints and pragmatism. in that it said consistently, um and you know, this is very different than we see other countries with changes in government that can lead to radical, hollis, he ships. but china has been very, very consistent in that it is willing to work with any country in a constructive way. yet another day when it's not football, making the headlines at the world cup at the world cup, rather as spanish fans unfurled a flag with the ukrainian nationalist as on battalion symbol. shortly after, however,

the flag was confiscated by representatives from fifa. but to get more on this for the cross live now to esau lee, he's a journalist reporting from katara. can you take us through what's happened with the fallout from the latest row off the pitch? absolutely more have been saying go through this wall cup it. i wouldn't say the fault will being overshadowed by issues off the field, but certainly then taking a more prominent role, not by accident, perhaps without the western media seeking to use this wild carper's bull horn for promoting their own causes. and in that latest episode of contrivances, you've seen this issue from the spain game where a group of fans waived the battalion of the as of battalions flag. of course, the neo nazi group, hugely controversial group whose existence in the ukrainian military forces has been

a source of real concern to those in moscow and policy makers. there. now you think that everybody would be united in supporting the security at the stadium who removed that flag, who instructed those people not to carry that flag, but not everyone sees at the same way and roman xhylia and he's a former ukranian national team. football are actually spent time playing football in spain. and he was one of those who took the facebook in a post that he has since deleted. praising at the as a battalion and saying that fee for pub become victims of russian propaganda fee for are the victims of fresh and propaganda. i hope that the ukraine and football association and the ministry of youth and sports will also respond to such shameful behavior of the fee for representatives. and for those single celled organisms that prohibit our flag been raised in the stands, i hope they will apologize. and finally study the real history of the issue and not

according to the kremlin back media. now those claims might ring hollow, and one looks at the history of this particular football player. a romans, australia is taking the social media before to praise the as of battalion he's posted picks out with an image of stephen ben dera, who is of course, one of the big neo nazi collaborators who groups like out of battalion, look up to go with great respect and also a post, he posted himself a photo ah, posing with the numbers. 1488 of course, more symbolism that by with regards to the nazi type of sympathies that sir, unfortunately many in those ukrainian armed forces seem to have when he was playing in spain. as i mentioned before, he was playing for a club called cf floor. who and the broader and while he was at the club, he was kicked out for holding extreme political views. and in fact,

in one game that he played in the spanish league, the game had to be called off because, or some of the fans of the opposing team would bring him so much because of those the far right beliefs that he holds on to now, of course at this time fif, i've managed to stop the waving of that neo nazi flag in coordination with the tele organizes and the security at the stadium. they took and kept busy by other issues . for example, iranian rioters or supporters of the riots is in iran, also trying to wave slogans and banners. increasingly, we're seeing the security at teams here at the stadiums cracking down on that specially had of that iran usa game later on already. sally, thanks for bringing us those details. ah, kenya's hosting another round of peace talks aimed at resolving a long standing conflict in the democratic republic of the congo near its border

with for wanda delegates from rwanda and several other countries within the east african community. along with the un representative or participating in the talks scheduled to last all week. but the major insurgent group fighting in the conflict, which is m 23, wasn't invited to this route. after a previous acord brokered in the angolan capital lawanda failed to take hold. a local reporter sent us this report from the gathering and never opened the time to the de communities dano aim or to store increased on security that east them via to see us just kicked off a little bit. these come to the wiggle to fit in, and hopefully we just spotted, please allow closing of a threat to the sustainability of the into east african community, the se, heads of days of committed to walking to get at each other, please. and do us in the region. meanwhile, the country that i've sign did run a piece i thought of hall meeting to walking together to ensure that won't make that look escalate in the east. and yet see the m t m b 3 liberal groups of boards of expressed interest in written def, while president who can answer in may, robbie mcgee, government,

and we have never attacked the state armed forces at all times. it has been the coalition of various military groups that has attacked our position and we are respectful of the ceasefire. we want a peaceful outcome for this crisis. and we take note of the summit in luanda. we must tell the government to respect the ceasefire because we have taken note of this road map. we asked the facilitators to come and communicate with us because we want to communicate with them was we demand that they also listened to austin that people on the ground on hoping that these sort of unity by their leaders will johnson it into police in the east and he has, he is done deb, sequence management and international politics expert caroline won, dearie, has high hopes for the talks. we will, that are going to be quite substantial law in the development of the business process. and we, well that, of course,

they will need to be some positive change. now, it is a member that they suffer corporation of cause they suffer for potential people who is to speak to the member from what they are making. you know, some of the left up to, you know, that will be on. so that drama brock. yes. the lake as a member because they think that the way that they suffered under region can you put the rule? that's the news for this. our stick around for more in just about 30 minutes here on our team international. ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy implementation. let it be an arms race is on

a very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time time to sit down and talk a place in ocala, florida because baseball which was a pool hall, but also place to be hung out. a lot of the owner thought it was sort of as a type of security and one night there was someone that showed up that he really did not like. and he wanted us to make the guy leap. i used to wear these reins thinking that if i'm somebody was going to cost more pain and it did every time he's trying to face, he would scream, every had me hitting him, did to spend my kidding him. one guy broke his hand punching so hard. some entre harder and harder and eventually got loose. one shoe came off the joke,