a joe biden imposing these sanctions on russia has destroyed the american economy distribution boomerang. ah, ah, the chinese president is set to arrive in saudi arabia for a summit to bolster beijing. gulf ties of both countries sprayed relations with the us. leave washington sideline. ukrainian strikes hit the russian city of don. yes. overnight leaving at least 6 people dead at 19 with no oversight of washington billions and military ac frame. as democrats say, it's not the right time to begin an audit. walking a resolution to investigate the immense blows of

a drive for cooperation and economic growth. 17 african countries signed up to a landmark air transport market initiative with hello, good morning for moscow from wherever you may be watching. welcome to this hours most pressing use stories from around the globe. i'm fuel isabelle seeking new partners. chinese president, 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 at mid relations between both countries and the u. s. souring over oil production and the influence in the middle east, our cheese, 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 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 is 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 siding, 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 that this summer comes just 5 months after joe biden made a visit of his own to saudi arabia. for he specifically voice concerns about leaving a power vacuum in the middle east. the could be filled by a country like china. let me state clearly that the united states is going to remain active, engage partner in the middle east. we will not walk away and leave a vacuum refilled by china. russia room will seek to build on this moment with active principle. american leadership and riata appears to be just fine with finding new allies. i mean, 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 it's key partner, russia, speaking of oil, it's also likely to be on the agenda as riata is beijing's top supplier of crude.

as her reports earlier this year, that saudi arabia was considering accepting payments and you 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. gonna be some consequences for what they've done with russia. what kind of consequences manenda says suspend all arms sales? is that something you'd consider? i'm not going to get into what i'd consider what i 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 behaves 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 i was for years we have looked the other way as

saudi arabia has seconds, shopped up, journalist 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, mid warning from the u. s. 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. going underground show host, i've shin ra, tom c says the upcoming stomach could be a significant step towards a multiple or world. is it the most important meeting of the century so far that perhaps it is in the context of a war in the heart of europe. and the fact that saudi arabia reportedly refuses to

answer jo 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 continues 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 of the u. s. empire . whether it will be seen the 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 lobbyist. what will they say after this meeting? will they even start to realize, let's make money? let's help the climate. let's ignore this idea that the washington hedge a monic project must be saved at all costs when it is now doomed to failure. while china is working on gaining new partners in the gulf region, washington is set to counter beijing in the endo pacific planning to bolster its military presence in australia, head over to r t dot com for all the details with. now to the latest from russia, don best region were ukrainian rocket attacks have left at least 6 people that in the city of don. yes, on tuesday. that's according to local authorities. the, the foot, as you can see, shows the latest strikes. continuing overnight. local authorities say 6 grad

rockets were large that the city by ukrainian forces the attacks follow 3 strikes that. so place on tuesday. earlier on tuesday, the center of don yes was heavily shells. apply ukrainian forces leaving at least 6 civilians. that 19 injured, one of the strikes hit a residential area, heavily damaging parts cars and a multi story civilian building. rocket revenue could be seen scattered across the street. another strike hit a local electricity substation leaving smoke billowing from the building as emergency services battled the blaze. a local market was also hit, leaving it inflame us. democrats have blocked a resolution calling for an audit of the nearly $20000000000.00 of military aid

sent to you. crane us house. hearing this past tuesday, a law maker 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'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 outages, notoriously corrupt. they just seemed 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 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 cut off all a 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 lead problem of where weapons have been ending up and unanswered questions about all the minds been dumped into. instead, they made it a personal attack on marjorie taylor, grain the member of the us 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 answer. the recent audit of the pentagon turned

down 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 simplistic right, but i don't want to give you a sense to chance to fix and 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 us congress. so marjorie taylor, grain and others, and 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. the latest money share set for cash was announced at the end of november, and it includes an additional $400000000.00 to meet ukraine security and defense needs. idaho state representative barbara a heart thinks that every sent should be subjected to audit, since it's all taxpayer money, even if every single cent of this money has arrived, 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, and food. and there's other things like other 4 and 8. what does that mean? other foreign, 8 to whom and for what? a lot of questions on here where this money has 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 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. no 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. the main aim is to interconnect the continents nations by relaxing existing regulations and allowing aviation companies to work together to maximize our per tooth cities. 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. a local correspondent

reports more. it is common knowledge that the cost 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. but that may be about to change the single africa air transports markets initiative was this cost for approval and batter vacation by international and africans. civil aviation leaders in short, airlines unconscious will now collaborate at unprecedented levels in africa. we are here to allow states an opportunity to negotiate with each other to allow us to carry hate economies asking for airlines as well as consumers to be able to, to, to, to, 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 official industry in africa. so come from a butcher, the more the skies are open, the more the benefits are here within, as from africa and shared 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 visit the decision. and is honored to be a part of the strategic drive for vacation growth on the continent. we spoke with international airlines expert anthony town, so were explaining the benefits of the program that i 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 that 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 travel, whether it's for business or for leisure. you create more jobs you'll,

you'll basically, you'll be encouraging and facilitating greater social stability. ah, no white house has labeled the twitter files publication as a distraction. despite the documents revealing the tech giant's decision to suppress the hunter by the laptop story, weeks before the 2020 election. we see this as a a, an interesting or a coincidence. if i made that they, he would so have hazard lee, twitter. so have, has really 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. this statement comes as a law must fire twitter attorney james baker,

who was 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 employ turned twitter lawyer was investigated for falsely claiming russia played a role in trumps 2016 presidential victory prior to the attack companies big change and 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 this rule, baker chose to err 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 for more and why you professor michael rectinwald's. believe that's 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 see 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, and 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. 12 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 assad's sponsored by a think tank founded by a former c i, director. i didn't know who they were shooting at. they thought they were shooting at rescuers of the enemy. and you can, under the laws of war, kill the rescuers of the enemy because they're looked at as being the enemy. the grades on the editor and chief max blumenthal was at the event. 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 is the enemy. and in this case, he was arguing that julian assange and wiki weeks 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 are mistaken for insurgence. that was mark zayed 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 apparent 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 sanchez, continued legal persecution by the u. s. government at the conference. blumenthal

also brought up. cig or dearth. order sent a man used as a key witness in the case against assange. that's the spice order since 20. 21 confession where he admitted to lying and the indictment against the wiki leaks founder. max blumenthal pressed mark zaid over that issue, and more zayed had boasted on twitter that he had gotten 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 ther dorsen a pedophile who admitted to lying about julianna's sanchez, a key witness, hindered the credibility of this case. it goes to the heart of the credibility of this case and the superseding indictment, which has no credibility and is built on lies. it was a lie asserting the join assange actually actually instructed hackers to infiltrate the devices of reporters. and that's what he is 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 and former u. s. officials and lawyers actually indict a publisher and journalist was just so full of irony was hard not to protest. the prime minister of papa and new guinea has warned that his nation won't be taking part in the increasing tensions in the pacific between the u. s. australia and santa, our nation is still an emerging economy. we cannot afford a standoff between our trading partners. papa new guinea doesn't consider the u. s . a significant trade partner. that's what the country's prime minister said to biden during his september visit to the u. s. adding that the u. s. is 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. we spoke to the director of the sen center for counter had demonic studies. tim anderson, who says that papa new guinea wants to remain neutral and not get drawn into global politics. 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 autonomy and not get drawn into big politics. i mean, you, its 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 forum which they dominate the chinese in, in the pacific, in the southeast pacific, like in africa, like in many countries,

are major investors, these guys, an infrastructure in resource industries and so on. now what the pacific islands walk really is not to destroy their traditional relationships, but rather to have equal dignified relationships with other countries. and i think that's quite a reasonable position. and that's a rob on this ours most pressing new stories from around the globe for more head over to r t dot com. and don't forget to follow us on gab odyssey in for to the end you again, next hour with ah, when i i

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ukrainians defend themselves and fight back about 150000000 euros. were i make a weep? almost even atomic bombs are hearing on the same nato and the you application and the one that people will die just for make money. i wonder if i had done yes. could provide your message as soon as leafy gone through and she thought complete, i mean there's water. damage with on going for them is we'll talk more sir, me, my show it was wrong tool or able offer. zach lila, lesser opinion polls show that over 70 percent of italians are against military support for ukraine, allowed to can confront with the date for that last or you flat out a letter yet levi and more on a skid out and go home and do not. she named the,

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cross trucking transit landing tensions i'm joined by my guess by in, in los angeles. he's a strategic planning consultant, a private equity advisor and an independent economic analyst. and in paris we cross the jug appear. he's professor americas at the school for advanced studies in social sciences. right gentlemen, cross roads. and if that means you can jump in anytime you want. and i always appreciate why let me go to you in los angeles, you got up early as for the program, we much will very much appreciate it. i want to start out with this news 1st here, this price cap on russian oil, but it has been sponsored by the g 7 and others. what do you assess it to be? because, you know, this is a commodity that a certain number of countries say that you want to control the price on of one particular producer isn't good at work and should rather be worried. go ahead in los angeles where the west is throwing the kitchen sink.