this is faith in the world corrupted. you need to descend a join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. ah, the chinese president is that arrive in saudi arabia, 1st limit to asian goal. always comes to both countries. strange relations with the u. s. lead washington side line crania strikes, hit the city of done yet overnight, leaving at least 6 people dead and 9 feet with no oversight of washington's billions in miniature, 80 ukraine. as democrats say, it's not the right time to get an audit. walking the resolution to investigate the amend flows of cash

with the with the international moneys pizza. scott and these, the top stories at 10 am go time this wednesday. welcome to the program. how seeking new partners, chinese president, sharing thing is set to go to the toll of saudi arabia for chinese, our summit to boost the strategic partnership. and the vision comes as relations between both countries on the us have solid over oil production and influence in the middle east ortiz. 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 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 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 will not walk away and leave a vacuum refilled by china. russia ram will shoot to bill on this moment with active principle. american leadership and riata appears to be just fine with finding new allies. i made 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 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 was promised, joe biden continues your promise consequences that never seem to come to pass. going to 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'd 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 what, why would we have troops defending a country that, that behaves this way towards us? it would expose them but, 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 mass and 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 warnings 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 or going underground show host option returns the says that the upcoming film, it could be a significant step towards a multi polar world. is it the most important meeting of the century so far as perhaps it is in the context of a war in the half 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'll 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 that to 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 about

china's working on gaining you partners in the gulf region. washington said the count, the beijing in the, in the pacific lines of both states, military presence in australia at over to r t dot com, our website for all the details on much more and up the latest from the dumbass region where ukrainian rockets of types have left at least 6 people dead in the city of daniel on tuesday, according to local authorities. ah, footage you can see here shows the latest stripes continuing overnight. local authority said a 6th grad rockets were launched at the city by ukrainian forces. the attacks followed 3 stripes that took place on tuesday. earlier that day, the center of the nest was heavily shelled by ukrainian forces leaving only 6 civilians dead in 19 injured. one of the strikes hit a residential area heavily damaging pot cars on a multi story civilian building. another strike also had

a local electricity sub station leaving smoke billowing from the building as emergency services battled the blaze. local markets was also hit, leaving it in flames. 60 russian prisoners of war have been returned home from ukrainian controlled territories, falling negotiations between moscow and kiev ortiz sophia nunez, was there to meet them at the airport. 60 russian service man just landed at the military airport near moscow as a result of yet in neither successful prisoner exchange between russia and ukraine . these time, under the 6060 formula months in captivity have taken their toll. and many of the soldiers, like those who have been released before their 1st stop, will be a military medical clinic in moscow where they will get the physical and mental support they need to go. i see, i think the worries when we crossed the border and saw the russian flag, it was like a weight of our shoulders. i was really happy for it. now the most important thing

is to heal and get better. i hope all will be ok. the 2nd prisoner swapped so far this month. it is the latest in the growing series of exchanges. the soldier sold, as they couldn't believe they would be released, but kept their hopes alive, even in the darkest hours. dreaming of seeing their families again. because the meal and elizabeth lena while waiting for the exchange, ukrainians told us that everything would be bad. it was very difficult, psychologically. we did not see the light. there was no fresh air dust everywhere. the place was very crowded in these difficult times. hope for the best helped us to hold on. the belief that your family is waiting for you, that your motherland will not abandon you both. is social susan, which i don't know. i feel very well. i can't wait to meet my parents and friends whenever we have already been given phones. i have already called my parents and my best friend, the stories of survival and hope. i often overlook not only by foreign media,

but by international bodies, but to the soldiers and their loved ones. their release is nothing short of a small christmas miracle. staying with the war in ukraine, us democrats have blocked a resolution calling for an audits of nearly $20000000000.00 of miniature $0.08 ukraine in the u. s. house. hearing this past tuesday, lawmaker behind initiative has slammed the votes results as in saudi 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 seem 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 as 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 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 and 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 and 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. this 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 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, grain and others that indicated that they may change this policy and we may be getting some answers and the flow of cash from the united states to kiev may not be as generous as it currently is. the latest chance of casual care if it was announced that the end of november and it includes an additional $400000000.00 to meet ukraine security and defense needs. idaho states representative barbara hard things that every son should be accounted for as this 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 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 is supposed to be fun, 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. now, i am turning to africa now where 17 countries have agreed to a landmark trial agreement aimed at stream on streamlining the constant civil aviation. the single african transport market is the 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

potential. the market is also set to contribute to africa, economic growth by creating new jobs, as well as allowing free movements around the continents. a local correspondence that says this report. 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 economy growth in africa. but that may be about to change the single africa air transport markets initiative was this cost for approval and batter vacation by international and african civil aviation leaders. in short, airlines unconscious will now collaborate as unprecedented levels in africa. we are here to allow states an opportunity to negotiate with each other to a now want to can hate economies of scale airlines as well as consumers to be able to, to, to, to, to, to have to social listed on the business to business is one is to allow states to

get returns on the, in the investment at the make in the infrastructure to make education work for us in africa. all parties agreed that these level of corporation benefited africa. passengers and economists. many delegates now see the potential of aviation industry in africa. so come from a bull jack moore. 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 great to 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 strategy of dr. harvey ishall growth on the continent. lillia we spoke to international airlines experts. anthony council for explained the 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 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 staying in africa, students, military and civilian leaders have signed a preliminary deal that would see the army stepped back from political dealings. the deal is in response to last year's military cruise, which led to the ousting of the country's government. the framework agreement between civilian and military factions was broken with the help of un officials and diplomats from saudi arabia, u. s. and the you a, some protesters refuse to negotiate with the military, doubtful of a deal success. the agreement aims to create a 2 year transitional civilian rule led by a prime minister elective by the revolutionary forces. there is no alliance with the military. we are clearly speaking of an entirely civilian government from the head of state to the legislative assembly to the smallest administrative unit. each

position will be under the control of civilians. our primary requirement is the civilian nature of the states. the sudanese army is one of many state institutions and of course its role is to be defined by the constitution. this role will include striving to prevent threats to state security, protecting the boarders and democratic institutions of the country. as for those opposed to the framework agreement, some are protesting for the sake of protesting itself, summer supporters of the june 30 coo and others, are supporters of the october 25th, who others want chaos, including those who will call themselves supporters of radical change. but we have sent them clear signals that they must show humility for the good of the fatherland and examine this agreement. and if it doesn't meet their demands or the aspirations of the protesters in the streets, or the aspirations of the youth, or contain any quotas or dividends for certain parties or individuals,

they have the right to not accept the agreement as it stands valley. and moving on now, the white house has labeled the twits of files, publication, destruction. despite the documents revealing st. john's decision to suppress the hunter by the 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 would also have passively 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 of eli mosque fired twitter attorney james baker, who was not only involved in fencing the hunter by the laptop story, but the russia, trump collusion hopes as well. james baker and f. b i. employee turned with the

lawyer was investigated for falsely claiming russia played a role in from 2016 presidential victory prior to the tech companies big change management. baker argue that the information should be removed as part of the company's policy not to disclose hearts materials. when platform execs inquired whether the lot of truly fell under this rule, baker chose to earn 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 or former. and while you professor michael rex and wall believes that essentially parts of played a crucial role in influencing the 2020 elections. many people would have switch their vote, had they known about this, the scandal. and so that it's cover up was pretty, pretty significant. it's 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 and did deeming anything counter to the narrative. and that was not flattering to biden, to say, the least as this information, and then blaming 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 who were killed by us forces in bagdad buck in switzerland, seats. so 2007 could have been mistaken for legitimate targets without the

arguments of a prominent u. s. national defense lawyer speaking, it's a panel on the case of julian, the sons' sponsored by a think tank founded by former say i directs at mock as i aid the didn't know who they were shooting at. they thought they were shooting at rescuers of enemy, and you can under laws of war, kill the rescuers of the enemy, cause their looked at as being the enemy. the grey zones at its own chief max blumenthal was also 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 as the enemy. and in this case, he was arguing that julian assange and wiki leeks 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 insurgents that was marked as aids justification for declaring that this massacre was actually legal and within the laws of war. and further, he declared that julianna's sons' should have simply gone to the u. s. government and registered a complaint about this. a pair, an 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 center, to argue for julian, the sanchez continued legal persecution by the u. s. government. the conference blumenthal also brought soaps a good, a thought, a son, a key witness in the case against assange in 2021 for us, and confessed to lying in the indictments against the wiki leaks. founder amongst blumenthal pressed mac zayed over that issue. unvil 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 through 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 a 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 a 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 china, our nation is still an emerging economy. we cannot afford a standoff between our trading partners. o papa and new guinea doesn't consider the u. s. a significant tre part, and that's what the country's prime minister said to biden during his visit to the u. s outing 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 align 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. earlier we spoke that i writes a of the sensor 4 counts a hedge, a monic studies him understand. he says that papa new guinea doesn't want to 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 the sort tommy and not get drawn into that big power politics. i mean, you as influence in this part of the pacific is largely through its proxies or sometimes called a deputy sheriff. so 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 the, 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 original position or that's a rock for they saw i'm pizza scott's. i'll be back again at the top of the hour though. the latest news views analysis rights here on oxy, thanks for watching. ah,

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