a with joe, by imposing these sanctions on russia has destroyed the american economy. so there's your boomerang self. ah, china as president is set to arrive in saudi arabia, some it's a boost beijing gulf ties. us as both country strange relations with the us. leave washington 5 line. mm hm. you couldn't strike hit the city of done yet, overnights leaving 6 people dead and 19 with no audit of washington's billions of midsummer military aid. the ukraine, as democrats say, it's not the right time. walking a resolution to probe the immense blows up with

lose time on wednesday in the russian capital line. peter scott, and wherever you're joining us from, welcome to the program. seeking new partners, china's president is set to arrive in saudi arabia for chinese arab summit to boost strategic partnerships. the visit comes as relations between both countries on the u. s. have soured over oil production and influence in the middle east ortiz, racial 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 has to sign off on nearly $30000000000.00 worth of agreements between the 2 countries. while china is saudi arabia's largest trading partner with bilateral trade nearing 90000000000 dollars

last year, we can't forget about the geopolitical significance here, which is why this summit has attracted so much attention. the beijing is going into this visit, emphasizing its desire to continue to work with arab countries and citing their shared respect for sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity, mutual non aggression. and most importantly, non interference in each other's internal affairs. china has always believed that there is no such thing as a power vacuum in the middle east and that the people of the middle east are the masters of the future and destiny of the region. china has always played a constructive role in the region and never seeks any geopolitical self interest. and while they don't mention a country like the united states by name, it's no coincidence. so this summer comes just 5 months after joe biden made a visit of his own to saudi arabia, where he specifically voice concerns about leaving a power vacuum in the middle east. that could be filled by a country like china. let me state clearly the 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 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 due on, well, if that does happen, it would mark the 1st time the country turns away from the petro dollar in nearly 50 years. but rather than turning the saudis into a quote pariah, as he once promised,

joe biden continues your 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'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 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, 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 or going underground show host option returns. the says the upcoming summit could be a significant step towards a multi polar 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 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 a shang. i cooperation, organization the widening of bricks. there's no doubt that the top read 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 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. ah,

china is working on gaining new partners in the gulf region. washington is sets accounts of asian in the, in the pacific region. findings of both states, military presence in australia. do you head over to r t dot com, our website, all the details on much more and now to the don bus region where ukrainian rockets attacks left at least 6 people dead in the city of them yet can choose day according to local authorities. ah, this footage you can see strikes continuing overnights local authority say the 6th grade rockets were launched. the city by ukrainian forces its acts follow 3 strikes that sort of place earlier. the sense of donetta was also heavily shelled by ukrainian forces, leaving 6 civilians dead and 19 injured. one of the strikes hit a residential area heavily damaging pot cars on the multi story civilian building. another strike hits a local electricity sub station, leaving smoke billowing from the building as emergency services baffled the blaze.

local market was also hates, leaving not in flames as well. democrats have boats and audits of nearly $20000000000.00 in military aid. washington, since ukraine lawmaker behind the initiative has slammed the results of the us house votes on the proposal. us completely political democrats on the foreign affairs committee refused to support an audit of ukraine because they are blinded by hate for me and made the resolution purely political pathetic. you're hearing 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, the possibility, the democrats seemed to give the idea that they were open to some kind of transparency about all the money the united states is provided to a country it's been described by the new york times, and other outlets is notoriously corrupt. they just 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 leave 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 now people

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

u. s. congress. so marjorie taylor, green and others that indicated that they may change this policy and we may be getting some answers and the flow of cash from the united states to kia may not be as generous as it currently is. the latest chance of cash for keith was announced at the end of november, and it includes an additional $400000000.00 to meet ukraine security and defense needs. idaho states representative barbara harts thinks that every sentence should be accounted for 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 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 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 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, over to africa now, where 17 countries have agreed to a london long trial aimed at streamlining the constant civil aviation. the single african and transport market is a flagship projects of the african union. the main aim of which is to interconnect the continence nations by relaxing existing regulations and allowing aviation companies to work together to maximize potential markets is also set to contribute to africa is economic growth by creating jobs,

as well as allowing free movements around the continents. a local correspondence of 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 economic growth in africa. well, 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 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, tu, tu, tu, tu, tu? to have to social with its own 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 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 decision. and is honored to be a part of the strategic drive for avi ishall growth on the continent. earlier we spoke with international airlines experts on sneak council or explains who was the benefits the program could bring. 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 and staying on the african continent. sedans, military and civilian leaders have signed a preliminary deal that would see the army stepped back from politics, us in response to protests across the country. some of the anniversary of last year's crew and demand for civilian rule. the framework agreement was broken with the help of you and officials on diplomats from saudi arabia, the u. s. on the u. e. it seems to create a 2 year transition to civilian rule led by a prime minister elected by revolutionary forces spokesperson for the local political alliance. calling for change says, the country is now on the right path 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 state. 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, 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.

moving on now, the whitehouse says labeled, that's what's a false publication as a destruction. and despite the documents revealing the st. john's decision to suppress the hunter by the love story, weeks before the 2020 election. we see this as a, an interesting or a coincidence. if i may, that he would still have hazard lee. so 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. law statements comes as a long mosque, fired switzer, attorney james baker, who was not only involved in censoring the hunter by the laptop story, but also the russia from collusion hoax as well. james baker, an f b i. employee turned twitter lawyer was investigated for falsely claiming russia

played a role in trump 2016 presidential victory prior to the tech companies big change management. baker argued that information should be removed as part of the company's policy not to disclose hearts materials. both one platform exacts inquired whether the laptop truly fell under this rule. they could chose to 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 why you professor michael rectum wall believes that the censorship parts are played a crucial role in influencing the 2020 results. 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 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 and did deeming anything counter to the narrative. and that was not flattering to biden, to say, the least as this information and 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 killed by us forces in bagdad back in 2007 could have been mistaken for legitimate targets with us. the arguments of opponents, us national defense lawyer who was speaking at the panel on the case of julian

assange sponsored by a think tank founded by former se there, it's a mock said i 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, cause they're looked at as being the enemy. of the gray zones editor in chief, max blumenthal was up. that's event mark said is arguing for the legality of attacks on i'm 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 sanchez should have simply gone to the u. s. government and registered a complaint about this apparent 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's center, to argue for julian, the sanchez continued legal persecution by the u. s. government of the conference blumenthal also brought up a cigarette, a thought, a center key witness in the case against assange. back in 2021 thought of some confess to lying in the indictments against the wikileaks. founda. max blumenthal pressed modestly over the fish. he was. well, zaid 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 threw 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'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 and former us 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 new guinea has warned that his nation won't be taking part in the increasing tensions in the pacific. between the u. s. austria and china,

our nation is still an emerging economy. we cannot afford a standoff between our trading partners of new guinea doesn't consider the u. s. a significant trade partner. thus, the countries prime minister sets abide in june. his september visit to the u. s. or the u. s. is well, very far away from this country. as well, so keep your fights and debates to yourselves. your enemy is not my enemy. that's ally and 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 center for counsel hedge a monic studied him understand he stays, the pup when you get, he 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 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. well, that's how the world is looking this wednesday long time. thank you very much for your company. i'm be just going to be back in about 30 minutes time, but do stay tuned for cross talk. coming up next with

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sucking 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 shock appear. he's professor americas at the school for advanced studies in social sciences. right gentlemen, cross groves, and in fact, that means you can jump in anytime you want. and i always appreciate why let me go to you in los angeles. you get 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 is a good at work and should rush should be worried. go ahead in los angeles. well, the west is throwing the kitchen sink at eurasian and west station monetary

integration. essentially, that's the bottom line. it's not going to be discussed obvious in western press, but those of the underlying stakes, like price capping oil as a flash at hail mary, pass t as a football analogy, just the whole concept of a quote unquote buyers. cartel dictating price caps against major energy producers, shows desperation against losing essentially obsolete monopoly pricing powers from dangerously over levered speculative market centers. mean london, not ensuring russian energy transport vessels as pointless as well. because moscow's already arranged for alternative asian ensure. so the stuff is just optics . immediately rush is going to simply call the west bluff and prohibit crude exports at any price lower than assign caps. or really at this point at any price, the mosque are deemed as floor. where will this make up of that cheap, russian oil or natural gas a supply come from all to.