a ah ah, the chinese president, it's that to arrive in saudi arabia for a summit to both for beijing golf ties. that's us both countries strain relations with the us leave washington sidelines, ukrainian strikes hit the russian city of don. yes. overnight leaving at least 6 people dead and 19 with no oversight of washington billions and military 8 to ukraine. as democrats say, it's not the right time to begin an audit walking a resolution to investigate the flows of cash. and in

a dr. cooperation and economic growth, 17 african countries sign up to a landmark air transport market initiative with good morning from moscow to wherever you may be. watching. welcome to this hours most pressing news stories from around the globe. i'm fearless about seeking. new partner is chinese presidents eating, paying is 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 at mid relations between both countries and the u. s. souring over oil production and influence in the middle east are teas. rachel blevins takes us through the details. a key strategic partnership, and the growing multi polar world stands to get even stronger as chinese president choosing pink 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 is to sign off on nearly $30000000000.00 worth of agreements between the 2 countries. while china is saudi arabia, as 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 refilled by china. russia ran we'll shoot to bill on this moment with active principle. american leadership and riata appears to be just fine with finding new allies and then continued tensions with washington with south africa as president even suggesting the gulf king them 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 was promised, joe biden continues to promise consequences that never seem to come to pass. gonna 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, and why would we have trips defending a country that that behaves this way towards us? it would expose that. 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, 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 in 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. the chinese presidents visit comes as many countries, the energy prices, historic records, the fear. let's take a closer look. in the 1st quarter of 2022 household electricity prices in europe by 32 percent compared to last year with denmark leading the rankings. natural gas prices have also been peaking with consumers and another lens paying almost $0.50 per kilowatt hour. global gasoline prices have been the highest in hong kong,

going underground show host option rotations. these says the upcoming summit could be a significant step towards a multi polar world. is at the most important meeting of the century, so far as perhaps it is in the context of a war in the hospital of europe. and the fact that saudi arabia reportedly refuses to answer job biden's phone calls when it comes to oil production. we idea that he is meeting with she, gen ping, amidst an environment where joe biden seeks to sanction chinese industry and continued to ramp up the numbers of soldiers surrounding china in a myriad of the basis. so the significance cannot be underestimated in, in that context of the widening of the shang. i cooperation, organization the widening of bricks. there's no doubt that the top breed out from

this summit will be the multi polar world, the drifting away of power from western nations in the decline, or the u. s. empire, whether it will be seen in future years as a true marker of the transformational change that so many have been expecting will depend on whether the united states sabotage. is it by any means necessary? that's what they've done in the past, and it will be the secret services, the military industrial complex, the weapons companies and lobbyists. what will they say after this meeting? will they even start to realize that to make money? let's help the climate. let's ignore this idea that the washington edge i'm on a project must be saved. it will cost when it is now due to failure. ah. and now to the latest from russia, don bass region were ukrainian rocket attacks. have left at least 6 people dead in the city of don. yes, on tuesday. that's according to local authorities. the

the footage you see here shows the latest strikes continuing overnight. local authority, say 6 broad rockets were launched at the city by ukrainian forces. the attacks follow 3 strikes that took place on tuesday. another strike hit a local electricity substation leaving smoke billowing from the building as emergency services battled the place. a local market was also hit, leaving it in flames. our correspondent robot, full serv arrive, that's a see minutes after it was struck. sending us this report don't ask was just sheldon again by ukrainian nationalists. we can see plumes 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 this, strike ukrainian artillery. i hit the markets are 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. 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 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, please us, they are 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 confirmations and that this is a shell from a multiple launch, a rocket system, a cold grad ukraine, nationalist continued there, a chaotic and indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas. i here in a done that now this market is very popular among of 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 is probably a little fuel tag. and 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 on this republic. ukraine supreme court has ruled that the

emblem of the leesha as, as division is not a nazi symbol. despite the unit historical ties to the 3rd grade military, the calisha division was created during world war 2 by german nazi military officials. you korean soldiers who were members of the unit committed atrocities against civilians. that division was recognized as a criminal organization in the nuremberg trials. former hamburg left party member, martin dozer says this decision does not come as a surprise. i don't agree with the interpretation of the ukraine on us, but is consistent to that face philosophy that the owner, people like to my mind, it's consistent that now they do it as the legal. ready way contributing to that division. to my

mind, there is no justification for sexual change of history because the question and especially the german questions them in the 2nd world war, they were getting 6000 jewish people in the low cost of 27, at least 1000000 citizens of the soviet union. and the divisions which were recruited in several countries. they all were involved into us democrats have blocked a resolution calling for an audit of the nearly 20000000000 dollars of military aid sent to ukraine in the us house. here on tuesday, a lawmaker behind the initiative has flam, the voting results as entirely political democrats on the foreign affairs

committee refused to support an audit of ukraine, because they're blinded by hate for me, and made the resolution purely political pathetic. you're hearing marjorie taylor grain, she argues that this is a partisan political move. ready this is simply about her, but if you listen 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 has provided to a country that's been described by the new york times and other outlets is notoriously corrupt. they just seem to think that the time was the right. that was the argument that democrats were using to argue that it was not time to open the books and all for transparency and accountability, but not in this resolution. not now the author of this resolution who said 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 kind of follow 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 the problem of where weapons have been ending up an unanswered questions about all the minds dumped into give. instead they made it a personal attack on marjorie taylor. grain, the member of the us congress who put forward the resolution, but many 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 inventories going to ukraine, that you're not sending them stuff? and then coming out we have a major short focus. you, you don't have a good enough inventory. there's going to come up as an issue at simplistic right, but i don't want to give you a sense to chance to x and get ahead of that. town 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 you create a 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, grain 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. idaho state representative barbara earhart thinks that every step should be subjected to audit. since it's all taxpayers money. even if

every single cent of this money has arrived to ukraine, we need to be auditing as to where the money actually has gone. when we read some of the initial stuff where this is going from, you know, way, i mean, we're probably think weapons and supplies and food. and there's other things like other 4 and 8. what does that mean? other 4 and 8 to whom and for what? a lot of questions on here where this money is supposedly gone, we absolutely need to audit it. that's the american people's money. that's taxpayer money. and we're at a time where we have incredibly high inflation. the prices for or gas granted they've come down, but they're so much higher than they were 2 years ago. we're struggling with food. we don't even have our own food supplies. we're still trying to make sure we have baby formula and we're sending, unaccounted dollars over to ukraine. know ah,

the prime minister of papa, you get, he has worn that his nation won't be taking part in the increasing tensions in the pacific between the u. s. australia and china, our nation is still an emerging economy. we cannot afford a stand off between our trading partners. papa new guinea doesn't consider the u. s . as a significant trade partner. that's what the country's prime minister said to bite and during his september visit to the u. s. adding that the u. s. is a very far away from his country. so keep your fights and debates to yourselves. your enemy is not my enemy. that's a line emerging in the pacific. we will not compromise democracy or our relationships with the west. as far as democratic values are concerned. at the same time, we will never compromise. our trading relationships less cross live to the director of the center for counter had demonic studies. have anderson welcomed him. thank

you. the prime minister of papa new guinea has said his country will not participate in the rising tensions between the us and china. is it possible for these countries to remain neutral in such a polarized geopolitical world? they certainly want to, and the same can be said for the solomon islands. as for pop, you getting that these are the 2 biggest elevation countries in south pacific. and i have for a very long time and across all the parties are considered that they don't want to be drawn into this cold will politics. and they want to be able to have relationships with old potential development partners. while the prep, the prime minister has stated that the u. s. is not a key partner of his country. what is papa? you get is fans on how you as influence, how us influences the region. i mean, us influence in this part of the pacific is largely through its proxies or

sometimes called deputy sheriffs, lieutenants, australia, new zealand, australia, new zealand have exercised a lot of influence in the region, particularly through the pacific, all in form which they dominate, but also through the programs that they have to effectively smooth the pathways for investment in the very rich resources of the pacific allan countries. so the u. s. it's true, they're not directly involved, but rather they use a straight or new zealand as proxies. ok, well what? well, in the region, looking at this year graphically who are the ideal strategic partners of pop? when you get a, if the country is to pursue a more neutral stance? well, their position is, we don't, we, we look in all directions. we don't accept the enemies or other people as our enemies, basically. and you would find the same thing across the political spectrum and p injury in the solomons, inventor watts, that they want to have developed and partners from other parts of the world. the

silence some years ago, ditch taiwan in favor of the people's republic of china. and because the relationship with taiwan was really just basically went on by some money, everyone saw that the, the role of the p r c is a far more important one in the longer term in the pacific. and of course, the, the chinese in the, in the pacific in the southeast pacific, like in africa, like in many countries, major investors, these guys in infrastructure, in resource industries and so on. now what the pacific islands want really is not to destroy their traditional relationships, but rather to have equal dignified relations from other countries. and i think that's quite a reasonable position. what other spares of partnerships are important for the island nation economically with neighboring countries and also in reference of multi polarity? yes, good question. i mean, the potentially the, the ideal relationships would be through the pacific island on forums themselves.

that is to say through the middle nation spearhead group, which is i, m, l, a nation group. there's also i civic, all and group which not specific all in for a much as i say is dominated by australia and new zealand in terms of multi polarity. it's not something that's discussed enormously there, but it's certainly the case that they want to maintain this or tanami and not get drawn into big power politics. the solomon islands has been particularly strong on this because they had an experience with a strategy intervening at a police and army level some time ago when they had some serious problems. and so it's the solomons that is doing the police and security corporation with china, where as the injury is held back from that at the stage saying that they are happy with their strong relationships there. but the chinese investment in the n g has been infrastructure in mining. up until now, what about in terms of the petro dollar? do you see them shifting away towards an alternative monetary of form?

i don't think they have the capacity to do that. the latin americans have certainly been talking about that, but there are australian and u. s. investments in the very rich mineral and oil and gas resources in leon g in automatically. and she's made a move in that direction as yet director of the center for counter had demonic studies. tim anderson. thank you, tim. thank you. welcome. turning to africa. now we're 17 countries have agreed to a landmark trial agreement aimed at streamlining the continent, civil aviation. the single african air transport market is a flagship project of the african union. that main aim is to interconnect the continents nations by relaxing existing regulation and allowing aviation companies to work together to maximize opportunities. the market is also set to contribute to

africa's economic growth by creating new jobs, as well as allowing free movement around the continent. local corresponded poem, david reports. it is common knowledge that the costs for flights between african cities is of the most expensive regional travel in the world. many airlines, how to route to europe, to connect back to africa, which has negatively impacted economic growth in africa. well, that may be about to change the single africa ad transports markets initiative was this cost for approval and gratification by international and africans. civil abuse shall leaders. in short, airlines and countries will now collaborate as unprecedented levels in africa. we are here to allow states an opportunity to negotiate with each other, to a now or to can hate economies asking airlines is when it comes to most to be able to, to, to keep, to, to have to social listed or business to business is one is to allow states to get

returns on the, in the investment that they make in the infrastructure to make education work for us in africa. all parties agreed that these level of corporation benefited african passages and economists. many delegates now see the potential of a v should industry in africa. so come from a boucher, the more the skies are open, the more the benefits are here within as from africa and shed also to the world. i believe that the time has come when africa will seize the opportunity to make greater use of air transport as a vital tool to uplift and cross power regions and our continent and south africa support. this is a good decision and is honored to be a part of the strategic drive for avi ation growth on the continent. we spoke with international airlines expert anthony council who explained what benefits the program could bring to the continent. i think everybody understands that there are

fantastic benefits to be had from creating a single market. and remember, the single africa transfer market is not a standalone project. it has to stand together with the creation of the africa, continental free trade area. and it also stands together with the free movement of persons protocol, if they do manage to actually implement one of the key elements is to have harmonized regulatory and policy frameworks as well as tariffs and taxes and charges. and when they do that, and if they can bring down the cost of a travel, make it possible for greater competition. then you can stimulate economic growth, you can stimulate, you can make it cheaper and easier for people to do business on the continent for people to do trade, for people to, to travel, whether it's for, you know,

business or for leisure. you create more jobs you'll, you'll basically, you'll be encouraging and facilitating grace or social stability. ah, no white house has labeled a twitter files publication as a distraction. despite the documents revealing the tech giant's decision to suppress the hunter biden laptop, story, weeks before the 2020 election. we see this as a, an interesting or a coincidence. if i may, that he would so have hazard lee, twitter, so have, has a push this distraction. that is a, that is a full of old news if you think about it. and at the same time, twitter is facing very real and very serious questions about the rising volume of anger. hate an anti semitism on their platform and how they're letting it happen. the statement comes as a law must fired twitter attorney james baker,

who is not only involved in censoring the hunter bite and laptop story, but the russia, trump collusion hopes as well. james baker and f. b. i employee turn twitter lawyer was investigated for falsely claiming russia played a role in trumps 2016 presidential victory prior to the tech companies big change in management. baker argued that the information should be removed as part of the company's policy not to disclose hacked materials. when platform execs inquired whether the laptop truly fell under the rule. baker chose to or on the side of caution. i support the conclusion that we need more facts to assess whether the materials were hacked. it's reasonable for us to assume that they may have been and the caution is warranted. farmer and why you professor michael rectinwald's believes the censorship factor played a crucial role in influencing the 2020 election results. many people would have switched their vote. had they known about this,

the scandal. and so that its cover up was pretty, pretty significant. its electoral interference really? so we say the not only former f b i, agents like james baker, but current f b i. agents were actually involved in meeting with twitter or twitter employees. executives in the lead up to the election and telling them what to, to censor and what not to do deeming anything counter to the narrative. and that was not flattering to biden, to say, the least as this information and then blaming it on russia. because as we know, the f, b, i is really the enforcement arm of the democratic party, as we saw with the russian collusion, narrative, it is not the russians of course, that are doing this. this is actually the democratic party. so when they use the word russia, really it's a stand in for their own activities to read. sharing your opinion on certain

topics could land you behind bars in europe. in the czech republic, nearly 50 criminal cases have been opened for expressing support of russia. the countries, prosecutor general, has praised the move, saying that even freedom of speech has its limits. i am very pleased that the prosecutors and the police approached the case with restraint and reason. 49 initiated cases for propaganda of pro russian actions and opinions is not much considering how much this topic sites the public freedom of speech has its limits and a person cannot express his opinion indefinitely. those who publicly express support for moscow could be sentenced to up to 3 years in prison for inciting war that comes as law enforcement agencies report some cases of abuse against russian speaking populations of the tech republic. political commentator anthony rot, weber, says european governments have no justification for cracking down on freedom of

speech. it is actually a takeaway free speech. i think some of these governments take the view that a war situation and then title to control the media. but none of these countries, including the united kingdom hall, so there's no reason to send, so that the media, you've got this film of irrational dislike and hatred of anything, russia. and it's all designed to make people feel guilty if they speak up for the russian point. of view there's a lot going on but because the questions are not being able to be honest with the public or not getting richer basically he is and i'm free speech.