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a resolution to investigate the flows of cat ah, hello, and good morning for moscow to wherever you may be watching welcome to the hours most, pressing new stories form around the globe. i'm carol is about seeking new partner is chinese presidents, aging thing is set to go on a tour to saudi arabia for a chinese arab summit with the bolstering of strategic partnerships on the discussion agenda. the visit comes amid relations between both countries and the u . s. souring over oil production and influence in the middle east are tease rachel blevins takes us through the details. a key strategic partnership and the growing multi polar world stands to get even stronger as chinese presidents using ping visit saudi arabia for the 1st time in 6 years. while it may be a short trip,

there was a lot at stake with reports noting that the plan has to sign off on nearly $30000000000.00 worth of agreements between the 2 countries. while china is saudi arabia's largest trading partner with bilateral trade nearing 90000000000 dollars last year, we can't forget about the geopolitical significance here, which is why this summit has attracted so much attention. the beijing is going into this visit, emphasizing its desire to continue to work with arab countries and citing their shared respect for sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity, mutual non aggression. and most importantly, non interference in each other's internal affairs. china has always believed that there is no such thing as a power vacuum in the middle east and that the people of the middle east are the masters of the future and destiny of the region. china has always played a constructive role in the region and never seeks any geopolitical self interest. and while they don't mention a country like the united states by name, it's no coincidence. so this summer comes just 5 months after joe biden made

a visit of his own to saudi arabia, where he specifically voice concerns about leaving a power vacuum in the middle east. that could be filled by a country like china. let me state clearly that united states is going to remain active in gauge partner in the middle east. we will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by china. russia ram will seek to build on this moment with active principle. american leadership and re jada appears to be just fine with finding new allies, amid continued tensions with washington with south africa as president even suggesting the gulf kingdom is considering joining the bricks alliance, which would bring it even closer to both china. and if key partner russia, speaking of oil, it's also likely to be on the agenda as riata is beijing top supplier of crude. as her reports earlier this year,

that saudi arabia was considering accepting payments and due on, well, if that does happen, it would mark the 1st time the country turns away from the petro dollar in nearly 50 years. but rather than turning the saudis into a quote pariah, as he once promised, joe biden continues to promise consequences that never seem to come to pass. it will be some consequences for what they've done with russia. what kind of consequences manenda says suspend all arm sales? is that something you'd consider? i'm not going to get into what i consider what i'm have in mind, but there will be, there will be consequences. so i do see it as a deliberately hostile act and what, why would we have troops defending a country that behave this way towards us? it would expose them. but again that's, that's what they should be thinking about. the next time they decide to hurt the united states of america in our was for years. we have looked the other way as saudi arabia has shopped up journalists,

yet has engaged in massive political repression. for one reason, we wanted to know that when the chips were down, when there was a global crisis, i just think it's time to admit that the saudis are not looking out for us. it appears that in the same way, saudi arabia chose to increase its ties with russia and mid warning from the us to do the opposite. it's now falling a similar path and its relationship with china. c. this week summit is yet another sign that the multi polar world isn't just coming. it's already here. let's now go live to international action center, co director sarah flounders, welcome sarah. president, being paying is set to pay his 1st visit to saudi arabia and 6 years as part of efforts to boots china's relations with the golf region. what are your expectations of the meeting? well, new certainly is a game changer. it's a huge development, and it's not only a meeting with, with saudi arabia. this is

a meeting with quite a number of our countries and whole new deals to be signed. that is whole new development in the world today. and until this time, really, us had a lock on rolling in, not only was saudi arabia with the gulf states, and through military equipment and sales, they didn't offer much else, had locked these countries into what was a constant struggle that they had to control their own resources to set the prices to set the developments against the expectations and demands of the us empire. now we can see the change coming, the demand of the us to set an oil cap, which worse undermines of loss is being met in a way which was completely unexpected. and it means really,

it certainly appears to me and of petro dollars, where oil, oil transactions were to happen only in dollars, and not now coming to an end. in contrast to the us, china says it has always played a constructive role in the region and never seek geo political self interest. what message is beijing trying to son here? well, the same message that china has been standing around the world for quite some time . and it really is a message that the sovereignty and the self determination of every country that should be under their control. and it should not be work as traded in the interest of us capital. and, and that is what is being stepped away from around the world. and frankly, china has much more to offer in terms of infrastructure, development of a great deal of sales. i think gosh, the,

the transactions between saudi arabia and china are becoming much, much more extensive. so there's everything to happen in normalizing these trade relations and refusing to go along with the sanctions that the us imposes on china, on russia, on more than 40 countries on a 3rd of the world's population. now, a lot of countries are refusing to go along with those demanded sanctions, which really impact the economy of every country in the world. so this is what this meeting i think in saudi arabia means with quite a number of countries with presentations. you've mentioned the petra dollar, could we see saudi arabia shifting away from the us, lead sphere of influence in general, and how will washington respond if it feels its being sidelined in the region? well, more than 50 years ago,

saudi arabia actually made an agreement that all petro all oil transactions would be in dollars. that meant every country in the world needed dollars. and it made it extremely hard. it's why it's strengthened the role of the i am not from the world bank and long were taken out just to buy energy could only happen in dollars. now this is being looked at. and it certainly seems that saudi arabia is going to no longer do transactions only in dollars. i don't new possibilities in the world today from many current landers, they turn national action center co director. thank you, sarah. thank you. and now to the ladies from russia, don bass region were ukrainian rocket attacks have left at least 6 people dead in the city of john. yes, on tuesday. that's according to local authorities. the

the footage you can see shows the latest strikes, continuing overnight. local authority, say 6 grad, ross kids were launched at the city by ukrainian forces. the attack followed 3 strikes that took place on tuesday. another strike a local electricity substation, leaving smoke billowing from the building as emergency services battled the blaze. a local market was also had leaving it in flames. our correspondent roman closer and arrived at the scene. minutes after it was struck, sending us base report don't ask was just sheldon again by ukrainian nationalists, we can see blooms of smoke rising, right in a center of the city will see multiple ambulances rushing to the sea. and we are also on our way there. right now to find out exactly what's going on. we are right in the center of the city. looks like the strike ukrainian artillery. i hit the

market. so right here in the center of the city, fire fighters are already on the scene. there are also ambulances. i can see multiple cars that were destroyed for the police are here. the army are here as well. we still don't know whether anyone was injured, but the market is working at the moment as and as we can see, it was a direct hit into one of the stores. it looks like it was a rocket from a multiple launch, a rocket system grad. a flower shop was africa. one of the cars is also on a fire. now we are afraid that it might explode at any moment, so we better her step away. we still don't know whether there are there were any people inside the store, but if they're wor, it's hard to say. if they survived or not, these are the remains of the shell that sir landed right here. ah,

according to locals, there were at least 10 hits, and so one of them struck that shop. now this is the confirmation that this is a, a shell from a multiple launch rockets system, a cold grad ukraine, nationalist continued there, a kiosk, and indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas here in john that is now this market is very popular among the locals. it's right in the center of the city where i get to find out whether there were any victims. the cars on fire can hear multiple explosions. has probably fuel fuel tank hands. we have to get out of here . we also hear shutting continues. so a better leave this area right now and get to safety room on call for a party. don't have republic. democrats

have bought a resolution calling for an audit of the nearly 20000000000 dollars of military aid sent to ukraine in a u. s. house. hearing this tuesday, a lawmaker behind the initiative has slammed the voting results as entirely political democrats on the foreign affairs committee refused to support an audit of ukraine because they are blinded by hate for me and made the resolution purely political pathetic. you're hearing margery taylor grain, she argues that this is a partisan political move. ready this is simply about her, but if you listened to the foreign affairs committee meeting, and when they discussed this resolution, the possibility, the democrats seemed to give the idea that they were open to some kind of transparency about all the money the united states is provided to a country it's been described by the new york times, and other outlets is notoriously corrupt. they just seem to think that the time

wasn't right. that was the argument. the democrats were using to argue that it was not time to open the books all for transparency and accountability, but not in this resolution. not now, author of this resolution who sat in november 4th. if the republicans, when the majority and the election, quote, not another penny will go to ukraine, unquote. that would suggest that the sincerity behind this resolution isn't there. that what really is the agenda here is to cut off all aid to ukraine, and that's why this member believes this is the wrong time to do that. so as you can see, a rather than discussing leave problem of where weapons have been ending out the an unanswered questions about all the minds dumped into. yeah. instead, they made it a personal attack on marjorie taylor brain, the member of the last congress who put forward the resolution. but now people are

looking on and realizing that there are a lot of questions that need to be answered. the recent audit of the pentagon turned out all kinds of money that was on, accounted for, and that prompted a journalist to confront the department of defense representative and asked some questions about what this could indicate for ukraine. how do we know that you can keep track of pentagon and inventory is going to ukraine, that you're not sending them stuff. and then come together, you have a major short focus. you, you don't have a good enough inventory. this going to come up as an issue at simplistic right, but i don't want to give you a sense to chance to fix it. get ahead of that count ability is important here, and we can always improve the ways that we do things here at the pentagon. and the way we are accountable to the american people. so ukraine is certainly a teachable moment for that representatives is set to change hands in january when a new congress is sworn in republicans will have control of the lower house of the u. s. congress. so marjorie taylor,

green and others that indicated that they may change this policy and we may be getting some answers. and the flow cache from the united states to kia may not be as generous as it currently is. all people, including 2 journalists killed by us forces in baghdad in 2007 could have been mistaken for legitimate target by those who opened fire. that's the argument of a prominent u. s. national defense lawyer speaking at a panel on the case of julian assange sponsored by a think tank founded by the former c. i a director. i didn't know who they were shooting. i thought they were shooting it rescuers of enemy. and you can, under the laws of war, kill the rescuers of the enemy because they are looked at as being the enemy. we now go live to the grey zones editor in chief max blumenthal. welcome mass. good

to see if you're ella. mark is aid. a prominent national defense attorney says that the u. s. troops mistook civilians for enemies which excuses their mistake. is this a legitimate argument? well, essentially, mark said is arguing for the legality of attacks on not only rescuers but civilians in general. if they are seen in the same space as the enemy. and in this case, he was arguing that julian assange and wiki leaks should not have released the so called digital murder video, showing a u. s. helicopter gunship, massacring a group of 12 iraqis, including reuters personnel journalists who were mistaken for insurgence. mark that was mark said's justification for declaring that this massacre was actually legal and within the laws of war. and further,

he declared that julianna's sanchez should have simply gone to the u. s. government and registered a complaint about this affair act that was still legal in his view. and that that would have resolved everything. and this was all part of an argument by zayed at under the auspices of the michael hayden's center, to argue for julian to sanchez, continued legal persecution by the u. s. government. of some argue that chelsea manny should have gone down official channels rather than through wiki leaks. what is your take on this question? well, edward snowden and julian assange have attempted to go through a go to mainstream media. they edward sir, was banging down the doors of mainstream media and at what, what mark said is claiming is that essentially they should have gone to him. but we saw what happened when whistleblowers went to mark said geoffrey sterling was one

of the most significant ca, whistleblowers, the former c i a employee who is blowing the whistle on an illegal program in iran . and his counsel was marked zaden. what did mark say do he turned him over to the cia according to an f. b. i agent who testified in jeffrey sterling's trial. so mark zaid actually ratted out his own client putting to this f b i agent. and according to former c, i whistleblower john, cure, yahoo! so it's and had now he's running a group called whistleblower aid, which seeks to entice individuals who were with working within government agencies into going to him and going through what he considers proper channels. rather than actually exposing these crimes and acts of corruption to the public through journalists and traditional means. and mark zaid has founded that group with members of the of us national security state, former intelligence officers, a former cia figures is

a very suspicious operation and it appears devious what he's doing and sing or dirt . 3rd said, i convicted criminal and a key f b i witnessed admitted he lied on the julian hasanti case. why do you as the official still try to pay him as this credible witness? well, it was interesting because i asked mark zaid at the suzanne about sig ye 3rd arson who was not only a criminal but also a known pedophile in sociopath. and i pointed out that zaid had boasted on twitter that he had gone security clearances for in his words, guys with child porn issues. so i thought the question was appropriate for him. did he think that the fact that the government recruited ciji threw dorsen a pedophile, who admitted to lying about julianna's sanchez, a key witness hindered the credibility of this case. and what did he think about the tactic of the government recruiting pedophile to testify against julian? aside and said, claim t, it never even heard of this. and he just kind of deflected because it is such it is,

it goes to the heart of the credibility of this case and the superseding indictment which has no credibility and is built on lies the and, and it was a lie, asserting that during assange actually actually instructed hackers to infiltrate the devices of reporters. and that's what he's accused of. so it should have taken this entire debate off the table. but, you know, standing there, the national press club seeing us of a former us officials and lawyers actually indict a publisher and journalist was just so full of irony was hard not to protest. let me ask you max, we're saying mainstream media outlets now call for the release and the pardoning of julian a songs. why do you think that shifts has happened? well, it's way past time. julian assange has, according to those who know him and visited him, including um, former ecuadorian president raphael cray. i've been essentially destroyed in prison

as a man. this should have happened years ago from these outlets like the new york times which relied on wiki leaks, and julian, astonished to provide them with fodder for their front page reporting on government corruption. and it's too little, too late. we also see that the wall street journal, the los angeles times, and other outlets, the associated press, did not sign on to this letter. they are absent here, so they, the, the mainstream press continues to throw julian a sorry, under the bus. and this also occurred after years and years of attacks and defamation from these very outlets like the guardian max leventhal, editor in chief of the grey zone. thank you max. thanks a lot, 0. ah, china has once again stated that the taiwan strait is under its jurisdiction. this follows canada as decision to send more military shapes through the strait

we need to make sure that the question of the taiwan strait is clear and that is remains in international straight. we will continue to enforce the international rules based order when it comes to the taiwan strait. and that's why we also had a frigates going through the taiwan strait this summer, along with the americans, and will can to have more frigates going through it. this statement comes as canada launch has a new strategy aimed at increasing its military presence in the endo pacific region that includes sending more military ships and attaches the development of a new joint intelligence network. with the u. s. the u. k. australia and new zealand, along with an investment of almost $300000000.00 in military support for the region . nelson wong, a vice chairman of the shanghai center for impact and international studies, told us that canada's actions are understandable as not every country has an independent foreign policy. the chinese government has recently made

quite a few statements in response to the actions from canada stating, childless position once again very clearly and quite bluntly as well. so i hope that, you know, the canadian government will take the message, but in the meantime we do understand that not every country is absolutely independent when it comes to it's foreign policies and everything. so i just said with degree whatever canada is doing, it is kind of understand a historic growth have penalty victory over fame. has morocco fans pouring into the streets across europe? the match finished 00 after extra time with morocco defeating spain, $3.00 to 0 on penalties. it was the 1st time the country had ever reached the

quarter finals of the tournament and increased police presence was deployed to prevent any escalation from celebrating morocco fans. the next match for the moroccans will be against portugal who hammered switzerland. the one the historic victory far clashes between the fans in par itself, the police work quickly on the seem to diffuse the situation. meanwhile, in bangladesh, hundreds of supporters of the opposition, the bangladesh nationalist party locked the streets of the capital to demand new leadership of the country. the protesters are demanding new elections under a non party neutral government. the opposition party has also a government of resorting to arrests and intimidation to quell the unrest. ah, a state run french radio station is protesting. the burkina faso, the government's decision to suspend its broadcasts in the country after it was

accused of spreading misinformation about terrorist organizations and the countries in term president, a local reporter brings us more details. new grant between booking for so and for his full radio fries, international officially forbid air is program. it will kill reason last weekend. and if i will cuss the height of brains, i, leader jeff article that said a warning me phase 2 civilians, a book enough for decided to get me wrong. as volunteer to 5, we're booking an army against the decision of will killer to sustain the program or edify him. not surprised people here was that yeah, i agree with the government because for me there is a risk that are a fi spread fake news. so it's laura fi airs, information that's not true, or goes against homeland security. i think it's bad while love money or bank. the

way the journalists of all like treat information. there is no quality, no violence, no professional is everything. or if i says against this decision should be taken early, the existence of already in africa is a crime or western media should go home because there are more stories and more news to be covered back that you don't, we support our government. we ask them to keep going further. the new card will and you can use them. so it's one of the solutions to fight terrorism because there are secrets that cannot be published. and we need to stay discrete to achieve our goals . because we know terrorists are everywhere, they are on social media. i fully endorse the decision. there are decisions to be taken. and this is the beginning of these decisions. if the departure of frances are f i has to happen, it has to be because we know that our f i is an instrument of france has express is appointment. but what the decision of the service is possible to cut

the signal of the way to fish and fossil follows. the sample money where and if i and price $24.00 are since april 27. earlier we spoke to the editor of red star radio, alexander mckay, who says that the ban of our fi is a sign that france is losing its influence in african countries. the fact that these organizations are f i a now getting banned in places like working faso. and molly shows that the french losing that grip on these countries. and obviously this is a matter of great concern to the french government who are anxious to keep a hold in the hold. they have over these nations, any european nation who had a foothold in the african continent back in the days of the colonial period. they have since the nominal independence of these countries sought to frustrate and fought the development of these countries economic basis,

they have sought to keep them in a state of colonial dependency. in many ways, it's a sensible decision that's been taken by the government. the government of molly, the instability that the hottest organizations bring with them. it is very useful for the former colonial powers, because then they will say drawing upon the rhetoric of the war on terror period that they have a right to intervene in these countries. and those were the top new stories as our for more checkout r t dot com. we'll see you again at the top of the hour. ah ah, with a ah

ah . with hello and welcome to cross top where all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle. as the you, you finalize is yet another round of sanctions against russia. there is a growing awareness among europeans that washington stands the game economically from the west proxy.