postpone polyps, you color collins with with a lot of air pollutant and she she can ping harold. the start of the 4th russia, china energy business for of saying the economic partnership of their countries is needed now more than ever made pressure from the west, with politicians from 2 ethnic groups in russia. slam comments from the pope and said soldiers from those minorities are the cruelest on ukraine's front lines. and people representatives, confiscate a flag at the world cup of the ukrainian, of the ukrainian neo nazi household battalion. it had been unfurled by spanish fans

during their teams match against germany. with watching r t international. i'm your host donald quarter. thanks for joining us. strengthening business ties and developing new ways of economic cooperation. that's the agenda of the 4th russian chinese energy business forum, where she ging paying and vladimir putin shared messages for the need to further cooperate a mid western pressure. ortiz fiorella isabel has all the details. the 4th russia, china international energy business forum, took place in moscow on tuesday and kicked off with russian president vladimir putin and president teaching thing. both addressing the event and acknowledging the ever growing cooperation between the 2 countries. in spite of western pressure and a challenging political international landscape. despite the complexity of the

international situation, relations of a comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation between the russian federation and the people's republic of china continue to develop in a positive direction. china is willing to work with russia to forge a closer energy partnership, promot clean and green energy development, and jointly maintain international energy security and stability of industry supply chains. me of that focus on maintaining agreements between the 2 countries, as well as expanding trade and economic development. there were several announcements made deputy prime minister alexander novak spoke about how the 2 countries are already using their state currencies in order to have their gas contracts. and are actively seeking to replace western back swift with an alternative payment system. he also spoke about how russia with pakistan and kaz extend, are looking to form an energy alliance. these 2 nations already having good relationships

with china. as far as the attempt by the sheet 7 nations to put a price cap on russian oil, russia has stood firm and tough on the position that this is unacceptable. and they will simply stop sales to the countries that are pushing this agenda. and of course, with india and china replacing the e u as markets for russia with increasing demand the e u itself, my find itself in a precarious situation with this back firing, as they will have 0 options to find the affordable energy and gas they have. so long relied on russia for especially this coming winter. that of the catholic church pope francis has labeled to ethnic groups within russia. the crew list 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 are not of russian tradition such as the chechens, the variety and so on. the pope's remarks led to a huge pushback 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, berea 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 an entire state like olivia were bombed without the participation of the barriers, chechens and other people of russia. political analyst, alexander povich questions whether the pope stands could have come about through foreign influence. he certainly couldn't have known this for a tax. so i think the pulpit on when unwillingly become a channel, the caps propaganda. it was the goal to actually try to forman some sort of

ethnic, i'm arrest or ethnic division within russia, or was it just simply misunderstanding all what russia russia is? a multi ethnic stay. you know, the pope, you know, has kind of forgotten once of people from the catholic tradition i've done for centuries. i mean, they've done the most heinous crimes and genocide to the inquisition torture. just in the 20th century, we had instances like the independent state of croatia while you no longer with the support of the catholic church. you had a genocidal, bought a 1000000 orthodox christian service and the vatican was never really distance himself from it. first that the vatican should set his own house in order to form condemning anyone for anything, including suppose it cruelty for which they really haven't offered any proof.

anyway, another day, another headline having nothing to do with football from the world cup spanish fans unfurled flag with the emblem of the ukrainian. busy nazi as of battalion, shortly after, however, the flag was confiscated by reference representatives from fif up journalists. esau lee brought us this report from cut her or been saying go through this fall cup is a, i wouldn't say the fault will being overshadowed by issues off the field, but certainly them taking a more prominent role not by accident, perhaps without the western media seeking to use, they swelled coppers bullhorn for promoting their own causes. and in the latest episode of control to see if you've seen this issue from the spain game where a group of fans wave the adult battalions flag. of course, a neo nazi group. hugely controversial group play, 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 of 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 of battalion fee for our, the victims of frush and propaganda. i hope that the ukrainian 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 stance, i hope they will apologize. and finally study the real history of the issue, not according to the kremlin back media. now those claims might ring hollow one

looks at the history of this particular a football player, romans. those really has taken the social media before to praise the as of battalion. he's posted pigs with an image of stephen ben dera, who is of course, one of the big neo nazi collaborators who the 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 a, with regards to the nazi type of sympathies that so unfortunately many in those ukrainian armed forces seem to have what he was playing in spain. as i mentioned before, he was playing for a club called at c, f. true, who and the broader and what he was at the club. and 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 funds of the opposing team would bring him so much. because of those that far i believe that he holds on to now of course at this time chief, i've managed to stop the waving of that neo nazi flag in coordination with the cuts out the organizes and the security at the stadium. they to been kept busy by other issues. for example, iranian riots as a supporters of the riots as in iran, also trying to wave slogans and banners. and increasingly, we're seeing the security at teams here at the stadiums cracking down on that, especially ahead of that iran usa game later on. in other news from the world cup and caught our, the west african nation of senegal has made it into the knockout stages of the tournament for only the 2nd time in its entire history. the team defeated ecuador 2 to one in their final match of the group stages, the pro,

they progress out of the group along with the netherlands. and it's only the 3rd ever appearance of senegal at a world cup back in 2002 when the event was held jointly in south korea and japan. the african team made it all the way to the quarter finals. now another news, as the 1st shipment of free russian fertilizers heads to africa, the un has praised moscow for the donation, which it says will help to avoid a food crisis on the continent. archie is caleb up and takes us through the details . the united nations confirms and welcomes donations of fertilizer provided by russia. the 1st ship has already depart containing over 20000 metric tons of fertilizer. it's left the netherlands and it's heading for the african country of malawi. now, in total, russia will be donating $260000.00 metric tons of fertilizer. these will be headed

for african countries that would be having a food crisis without it and are very much in need of this fertilizer in order to ensure their food supply. now it's important to note that the west has imposed sanctions on russia and made it very difficult for russia to export grain as well as to export fertilizer. this deal basically refute a lot of the claims that we heard from western media. this notion that somehow russia was trying to blackmail the world and create a food crisis. we're profit somehow from. it's important to be very aware of the facts here. russia is not materially sitting from this deal. the fertilizer will be exported. it's being given by russia with no compensation. it's also important to point out the ukraine. great deal. the details of it revealed that it largely resulted in grain ending up in european union contractors, not in countries in the developing world that are having issues with food security

. recently we heard the russian president vladimir putin talk about how african leaders are confused. because on the one hand they hear the rhetoric of western countries saying they want to help countries deal with food security issues. but on the other hand, they see the unilateral sanctions imposed on russia, which make it difficult for these countries to get the food, the grain and the fertilizer that they need uneasily company, the leaders of several african countries have contacted me directly about this issue. they cannot understand what is going on because the constant message is that assistance must be provided to the poorest countries, including on issues that are not connected with food security. yet these deliveries, even free of charge ones are being blocked. this is absolutely unacceptable, yet this is happening a 1st shipment of fertilizer is already on its way. so it appears that despite efforts by western leaders to interfere, there is now no way to stop this proceeding effort by russia to move ahead with

aiding the countries around the world that are struggling with food security. the future restoration of ukraine's critical infrastructure has been the focus of a meeting of nato. foreign ministers currently underway in romania present. fulton is failing in his brutal war of aggression. he is responding with more brutality. we see it wave after wave of deliberate missile attacks on sit this on civilian infrastructure, striking homes, hospitals, uncover grids. this is terrible for ukraine. us, secretary of state entity blanket has announced a new $53000000.00 assistance package to help repair ukraine's electrical grid. the fresh batch comes on top of $55000000.00, which has already been committed for emergency energy sector support or her blankets plans and the choice of words by the alliances chief gen oldenburg,

has drawn some flashbacks towards said in a speech given by nato's leadership some 23 years ago when the tables were turned during the bombing, serbia. i'm afraid electricity also joins command and control systems if president milosevic really wants all of his population to have water and electricity. all he has to do is accept native 5 conditions and we will stop this campaign. but as long as he doesn't do so, we will continue to attack those targets, which provide exclusively for his armed forces. well, later is playing the typical who, whom game tactic is either glorious when they use it or evil when somebody else does it. if attacking infrastructure that can be used to, for military purposes. and russia is on the record saying that they're attacking the power grid because it's being used to power to railways, which are being used for troop movements and transportation of equipment. that nato

is supplying to ukraine, which is basically a grain, entire logistics. then debt by nato's old rules is a legitimate military target. the reason they don't like it is that they are not the ones doing it. it's russia this time. so it's, it's one of those doesn't matter what is being done. it's only who's doing it. and as the comparison to $99.00 makes it abundantly clear after years of smearing truly in a song, several major western media outlets have pulled a $180.00 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. the initiative is in stark contrast with the old media

narrative, with the very same outlets previously running down the character of the whistleblower and helping to build a case against him. truly in assange faces up to 175 years in prison. if found guilty of espionage charges by the u. s. he currently remains in custody in britain pending washington's extradition request. american legal and media analyst, lionel says it's unclear by the western media is suddenly changing its tone about a song, but their previous smears against him should not be forgotten. if you listen to this, absolutely imprisoned and feckless commentary by today's a 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 journalist 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, it's 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 with luke warm and tepid at best. while the u. k. government stance on a sanchez scene, twitter users call out the foreign minister for hypocrisy. after he denounced the arrest of a b, b. c. journalist in china, they also highlighted a new law, passed this year, granting police in england and wales, more power to restrict protests deemed unacceptable. media, freedom and freedom to protest must be respected. no countries exempt. the rest of the busy journalist out of lawrence in china is deeply disturbing. journalists must be able to do the job without intimidation. i assume you've actually read the police and crime bill of 2022, james. you know the bill brought in by your government. hello, have you read the repressive laws you tories have passed in the u. k. lately, you can now be arrested and jailed if police even suspect will protest. don't like

our banners find. we've shed info on social media about a protest tore britain welcome to north korea or on temps. for m e p and author godfrey bloom is concerned about the lack of coverage jolena sanchez being given in the u. k. media. well, you know, that's really quite astonishing. he's not being covered here at all. it's been barrett, it's been suppressed. the baby she hardly ever mentioned the thing. i'm not sure about this turned around, but to see what you've got to understand is the with a trillion dollar budget trillion doria budget by the military industrial complex. in america, there's billions and billions of pounds, which big cans to be scattered around to journalists who read out the cia briefings on these matters. we have a very senior journal, his him simply sit down and read all the latest cia handouts is there's no concept of serious journalism at all. and it is absolutely disgraceful. i don't know quite

how these things are going to change when the so much secret money sourcing around with unaudited cia budgets. unacceptable policies based on fragile is some sions and going against international norms. that's how the egyptian senate president has described a damning resolution by the european parliament criticizing the countries human rights record. a lawmaker claims the move is nothing short of the you trying to revive its colonial past. we all received with displeasure. the decision issued by the european parliament. unfortunately, these policies are outdated, reminiscent of a european colonial legacy and reveal nothing but a hidden desire to spread the culture of a particular civilization. these are issues that no free country, particularly egypt, will accept. despite a number of moves by egypt within the last 18 months to improve human rights, european parliament says not enough progress has been made in the country and has

called for a review of the blocks relations with cairo. the e u has also demanded the unconditional release of egyptian political activists and social media influencers that move has been slammed by egypt, lower chamber of parliament as quote, a flagrant violation of the country's independence and a breach of guarantees of judicial independence. but to get more on this now we're going across live to professor of political sciences at how won university and cairo dr. maggot boutros, thanks a lot for joining us on the program. dr. now, the egyptian senate president says this e resolution is reminiscent of a european colonial legacy. do you think that's going to far or is that accurate? well, let's start from the beginning in politics. we say the social contract between the government and the people reflect the national values and traditions of any society in egypt, we have our lows in acted to reflect those values. and that are respected and

observed by the people. like for example, let's say how words they are criminalized in the east. it's not in the west, but i mean there is a clear example of this in the 1950s when one of the protesters called a winston churchill as dumb and stupid when he was arrested. the, a british parliament did criticize him. you know what he said. he said, we didn't convey size him because he's he abused me. it's because he revealed a national secret. then everybody went to love and that was all over. so what i'm saying is that at the west is trying to, ah, impose a, the western culture on the egyptian culture. they are going, they try to interfere in the egyptian sovereign. ah,

lowe's and judiciary like a one of the, um, observations of the european parliament resolution saying that they are a mistreating and violating the human rights of our lab. the fact that i lab fatah is an activist. he was charged of criminal charges, inciting the egyptians to murder a policeman, and that was recorded air on t v or what you expect them to do. and he exhausted all 3 stage is of litigation. that is a final verdict. so what you expect of the egyptian government to do to interfere in the judiciary if they interfere in the judiciary and

release him, or what you expect. let's play the devil's advocate. can the egyptian parliament criticize one of the european countries for not responding to stress s or s calls of refugees in the mediterranean who were drowning and not responding to them? killing hundreds of refugees in them in the caribbean. and this is a serious charge. is this a criminal against humanity or not? is this a violation of human rights or not? resolution calls for a comprehensive review of the use relations with cairo. what do you think this document means for those bilateral relations? well, eh, egypt is a sovereign state, as i mentioned earlier, egypt has a parliament a freely elected parliament,

and the freely elected parliament did condemn and refused all those allegations. these are misconceptions because most of the allegations about the mistreatment of human rights activists are coming from a the most either the muslim brotherhood or organization which is a terrorist organization in 6 countries declared a terrorist organization 6 countries or are the opposition. they are activists. so are these misconceptions? ah, i mean there, there are 2 sides of any story. did they take the egyptian side of the story? did they observe what is the record of the egyptian human rights or improvements and progress in egypt? did they look at the initiative of the presidential party been committee?

did they look at the a national dialogue between the opposition and are they the government that the look at the decent life initiative to improve the lives and prove, provide the human rights a health care, a decent education, decent health care, decent living conditions. this is actually what the egyptians want. at the only dead institution can criticize the human rights is number one, the egyptian parliament number 2, the supreme council of human rights in egypt. there is a supreme council to observe this. so are we, we don't say we are 100 percent are perfect. we are saying we are

trying like any other country. look at any a country in the west. it has a record in amnesty international, including the united states. united states has one of the longest records of violation of human rights. ah, yes, we have a we need to improve some aspects of human rights. we are on the verge of doing this. but at any intervention or, or interference in our internal affairs, this is a violation of a sovereign state. and this is totally unacceptable. well, i just have one more simple question for you. what do you think european politicians are trying to achieve with this strong wording of this resolution against cairo? i believe they have. there is a hidden agenda. i like egypt did have

a very strong stand in cop 27. and this month in november, i to protect the rights of the poor countries, specially 3rd world countries that were affected most by the a global warming. and it did a stress the need for a fund to reimburse the poor countries of the no negative impact of the emissions produced by rich countries. and this fund is done so they are exercising pressure on the egyptian government for political agenda, i believe so. and, and each one has to try to be a hero in front of the, their own a constituencies. so i don't think there is

genuine accusations about human rights in egypt. there are, of course, there are violations, but this is not a phenomenon. it happens like in any other country. all right, professor of political sciences dr. margaret boltron. thanks for joining us on the program. thank you. that's all for this. our thanks for watching our to international and we hope you have a great day. ah . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on authentic, very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how

that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk oh, visited biden's administration. it seemed to have been given a blank check in regards to 8 packages. ukraine. ironically, america's borrowing money from china, all to stay afloat to make matters worse. president biden is planning on revoking a trump, eric perez, and sanctions on other countries to try and combat inflation, but doesn't lowering the price of improve products, make domestic products less competitive. when did it become wrong for a country to strive for the best products with the best revenue.