a lot you then to sell dennis with on the ceiling fan theater. the layout with the chinese president is set to arrive in saudi arabia for summit to boost beijing . gulf ties that says both country straight relations with the earth. leave washington fly line with no oversight in washington's billions in miniature 8 the ukraine. as democrats say, it's not the right time to begin. an audit blocking the resolution to probe the men flows of cash with ukrainian strikes, hit the city of done yet overnights, leaving at least 6 people dead and nights with

your life, from our headquarters here in the russian capital. you're watching all the international and pizza scotts, and these the top stories at 11 and moscow tiger seeking new partners. chinese president sheeting thing is set to go on a tour of saudi arabia for a chinese, our summit to boost their strategic partnership. and the bit it comes as relations between both countries on the u. s. have soured over oil production and influence in the middle east ortiz. rachel blevins takes us through all 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 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 shoot to bill on this moment with active principle. american leadership and riata appears to be just fine with finding new allies and 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 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 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 your promise consequences that never seem to come to pat, 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'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 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 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 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. the host of ortiz going underground ocean returns the says that the upcoming summer could be a significant step towards a multi polar world. is, is the most important meeting of the century so far as perhaps it is in the context of a war in the heart 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

continues to ramp up the numbers of soldiers surrounding china in a myriad other 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 due to failure. about china's working on gaining new partners in the gulf region. washington that's accounts of beijing and the endo pacific plains of balsa, its military presence in australia. do you head over to r t dot com, our website for all the details on much more? and at the latest from the dumbass region where ukrainian rockets, the tires have left at least 6 people dead in the city of daniel on tuesday. that's according to local authorities. ah, yes, this voltage you can see it shows the latest strikes. continuing overnight, local authority said a 6 grad rockets were launched out, the city by ukrainian forces and the effects follow 3 strikes that took place on tuesday. earlier that day, the center of done yet was heavily shelled by ukrainian forces, leaving 6th civilians dead and 19 injured. one of the strikes hit

a residential area heavily damaging part costs under multi story civilian building . under the threat hit a local interest, the sub station leaving smoke billowing from the building as emergency services battled to place. local markets was also hit. the vance inflamed was 60 russian prisoners of war, have been returned home from ukrainian control territories for negotiations between moscow and jeff artesia, sophia nunez, was there to meet them at the apple. 60 russian service man just landed at the military airport near moscow as a result of yet in neither successful reason, their exchange between russia and ukraine. these time under the 6060 formula months in captivity have taken their toll on 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 was a cover. i see, i think a warrior when we crossed the border and saw the russian flag. it was like

a way to fall shoulders i was really happy with now the most important thing is to heal and get better. well, 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 me a little girl was saying while waiting for the exchange, ukrainians told us that everything would be bad and it was very difficult, psychologically. we did not see the light. there was no fresh air dust everywhere. the place was very crowded. well, 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. you bought it. so just as a magician, i feel very well, i can't wait to meet my parents and friends sooner than we have already been given phones. i have already called my parents and my best friend. the stories of

survival and hope 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. was staying with the war in ukraine. us democrats have blocked a resolution calling for an old. it's of the nearly $20000000000.00 of military aid since ukraine and a u. s. house herring. this past tuesday, lawmaker behind the initiative has slung, the boats. results is 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 listened to the foreign affairs committee meeting, and when they discussed this resolution in 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 it's been described by the new york times, and other outlets is notoriously corrupt. they just seemed 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 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 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 the problem of where weapons have been ending up and on

answered questions about all the minds dumped into kia. instead they made it a personal attack on marjorie taylor brain. 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. we know that you can keep track of panica and inventory is going to ukraine, that you're not sending them stuff. and then coming out, you 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 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 ukrainian, 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, and indicated that they may change this policy and we may be getting some answers and the flow of cash from the united states to kia may not be as generous as it currently is. let's is chauncey of cash for keith was approved at the end of november and it includes an additional $400000000.00 to meet ukraine security and defense needs. idaho state representative barbara e hobbs says that everything should be accounted for this taxpayer 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 foreign aid to whom and for what? there's a lot of questions on here where this money is supposed to fund. we absolutely need to order 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. unsettling to africa now, where 17 countries have agreed to a lot more trial agreements aimed at stream on streamlining the constance of civil aviation. the single african and transport market is a flagship projects of the african union. the main aim is to interconnect the constants 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 continent. locals, correspondent sensors this report. 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 transport markets initiative was this cost for approval and batter vacation by international and africans. civil aviation leaders in short, airlines on countries well now collaborates 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 for airlines as well as consumers to be able

to, to, to, to, to, to have to social listed or business to business. it's 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 africa's passages and economists. many delegates now see the potential of abuse of industry in africa. so come from apple, 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 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 avi ation growth on the continent. earlier we

spoke with international airlines experts, anthony council, her 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 african 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 and staying in africa. sedans, military and civilian leaders have signed a preliminary deal that would see the army step 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 you and officials and diplomats from saudi arabia, the u. s. and e. some protesters refused to negotiate with the military, doubtful of deal success, the agreement and to create a 2 year transitional civilian rule led by a prime minister led by the revolutionary forces. the process when 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 examined 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 quotes or dividends for certain parties or individuals, they have the right to not accept the agreement as it stands filing. in the news, the white house has labeled the twitter files publication of the destruction left despite the documents revealing the tate jone's decision to suppress the hunter by the laptop story, just 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 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. all the statements comes along most fired with attorney james baker,

who was not only involved in censoring the hunter by the laptop story, but the russia trunk collusion hoax as well. james baker, an f b i. employee and twitter lawyer was investigated for falsely claiming that russia played a role in from 2016 election victory prior to the tech companies big change management . baker argued that the information should be removed as part of the company's policy not to disclose hearts materials. when platform execs inquired whether the laptop truly fell under this rule, baker chose the 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 or former. and while you professor michael rectinwald's believes that the censorship fights have 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 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 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. and so people including 2

journalists who are killed by us forces in bag dog buck in 2007 could be mistaken for legitimate targets without the arguments of a prominent u. s. national defense lawyer speaking, it's a panel on the case of joining a shaw assange. and the panel is sponsored by a think tank a founded by former se the rights at martin site but didn't know who they were shooting at. they thought they were shooting at rescuers of enemy, and you can under the laws of war, kill the rescuers of the enemy because they're looked at as being the enemy. on. the gray zones editor in 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 are 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. apparently in 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 thought us, and confessed to lying in the indictments against the wikileaks. founda marks

blumenthal pressed mosaic over that the issue on mo zayed had boasted on twitter that he had gotten security clearances for in his words, guys with child porn issues. whether the question was appropriate for him. did he think that the fact that the government recruited cd 3 doors and 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 that doing 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 u. s. officials and lawyers actually indict a publisher and journalist was just so full of irony was hard not to protest.

ah, and finally the prime minister papa, a new guinea has warned that his nation won't be taking part in increasing tensions in the pacific between us, australia and china. our nation is still an emerging economy. we cannot afford a standoff between our trading partners before new guinea doesn't consider the u. s . a significant tre partner. that's what the countries prime minister sets abiding during his september visit the u. s. i think 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 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 to the director of the center for counsel hedge, a monic studies to madison. he says the problem, new guinea doesn't want to get drawn into global politics. in terms of multi

palerose, he, it's not something that says gust enormously there, but it's certainly the case that they want to maintain this or tommy and not get drawn into the politics. i mean us influence in this part of the pacific is largely through its proxies or sometimes called deputy sheriffs lieutenants a stranger new zealand. australia. new zealand have exercised a lot of influence in the region, particularly through the pacific, all in form which they dominate. the chinese in the, in the pacific, in the south, a specific 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. well, that's all for now. debby schultz, checkouts all websites, all t dot com for the latest breaking news and updates. in the meantime,

we'll see you right back here at the top of the hour. ah, as the a you finalize is yet another round of sanctions against russia. there is a growing awareness among europeans, but washington stands the gate economically from the west proxy war on moscow. western sanctions are punishing europeans. is this what the europeans find out for a russian state will never be tied as on the northland scheme div. asking him then i'll send them up for a week within the 55 when. okay, so my niece madeline speaking when else with will ban in the european

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