we witnessing the end of globalization as we have known it for about the last half century. it would certainly seem so the wes ability to shape the world in its own image also appears to be on the way. as a result, should we expect noon regional and block globalization ah, the u. s. u, the summit with african countries to criticize washington chinese activities in the region. well, washington and shipped from africa, the cute issue this plums, by china's foreign ministry of africa, is not an arena for big public games, let alone the target of all the treat prussia from any country or person. washington should respect the will. the african people accuse as the self proclaimed were public. of course though of the thing a majority 3rd center and the regions north to 1000 to christina officially apply for a membership. we report from the ground plus several m. pay the

4th to step down and made an unprecedented corruption pro, but seeing a number of top european parliamentary parliamentarians arrested with very welcome from all of our team here in moscow. this is our t international with the latest. well, news updates good to have you with us. now, with the usaa africa summit in full swing, washington is already pushing gets narrative accusing russia and china of the stabilizing activities in the region. as the 3 day event hit, the 2nd day, the u. s. defense secretary sets out his own priorities. we're witnessing the peer to expand its footprint a on a continent on a daily basis, and that creates problems that will be eventually the stabilizing, if they're not already. or we see russia continuing to puddle, cheap weapons,

employ mercenaries across the continent. and so the combination of those activities by those 2 countries are, i think, are that bears watching. and certainly, i think their influence, again, can be the stabilizer, is really disappointing to hear these kinds of warnings. still being lamented when american president joe biden, from is a relationship of mutual respect with africa and one that will be different. but there are to, rick is still pretty much the same. the comments by you as a defense, she really was almost expected by african countries. i mean, african countries have only as for one thing, and one thing only can you, can you let us make our own decision when it comes to who we want to trade with? who we want to be friends with? because only we are the custodians of our own development, but there is not america and true to american form. they cannot engage in much

without necessarily dictating terms. now is true that america has lost much of its ground here on the continent, particularly economically. you know, to, to the likes of china who move it in one of the americans created that way. but it's kind of rich for the americans to start talking about things like that. when you know the immediate acute needs of the continent are still there within their reach and within their grass. i mean, you look at countries in this a hell that are going through really difficulty in terms of, in terms of conflict in terms of people being displaced. and food insecurity is really acute in areas like that. but that is not what you're finding, what you're fine. it is that america did not invite their leaders to this washington shindig, where they will be at availing their new relationship with africa is pretty much the same old, same old and very, very conditional. i was a bit surprised when i,

when i saw, especially the kinds of comments that have been leveled to what's russia and towards china? the rush of the comment is that the are peddling, she weapons on the continent and being could lead to a civilization. and one don't really know, one written one, there's just how long the american memory is. i mean, ticket situation like libya, libya was a stable country, and dom warmer godaddy come 2011 denito led coalition, which was during obama's administration. you look at libya, now. no posts conflict funds, no post conflict plan, and has really been left in ruins and china. on the other hand, i guess it came with the territory that it had to be accused and accusation here is that china is lending african stains money and an unsustainable debt and sustainable range getting them in a debt trip. but another does not, according to death justice, the u. k based organization,

there's other than african states. oh, more to west then banks, asset managers as well as oil traders than they do to china. in fact, almost 3 times more that says something about the, the open temp that the west then banks and institutions have head to as africa with china and righteous entry into africa than is allowed the continent to move on to look is to explore other friendships and not only be tied by friends that hold and know where your finger only to tell us what we can't and cannot do. but here is the chinese official. responds to that accusation about easy and available chinese money for sure me. you see what we hope the u. s could view china africa cooperation with an open mind. africa is not an arena for big power games with the loan, the target of arbitrary prussia from any country. all person, washington should respect the world, the african people,

and take concrete actions to help africa's development art, instead of concentrating its efforts on smearing and attacking other countries. and that is really ally in that america this i large uses who they used to dictate internally. they still look at africa in separated means. and in their engagement, even the re, utilization is still really much feels like the same old, same old script america have been devoid of the continent the they've left a voice here that has been filled because it will eventually had to be filled. they still didn't feel like the people who recognize the potential of africa, especially youth demographic, to come into the fall and be a real force over the next couple of decades that was seen by friends in the east attorney angelo professor andre thomas house and told is the washington should review its priorities when it comes to respecting the choice of africans. america is just trying to distract from the fact that for the past 8 years,

they have actually done nothing in africa that they haven't been present. and they shouldn't complain that trade with china is now 4 times the amount of the trade with us. this is the continent of poverty, or people in many countries or surviving on a, on the equivalent of $1.00 per day. and, and obviously they are trying to, to, to jump out of that situation if they ought to work together with russian companies, use opportunity of trade with russia or with china. well, then obviously that is their sovereign choice. america shouldn't complain about russia being available to those excluded countries like marty and central african republic about them having invited private military companies from brochure, she private charity companies because the, the inventor of mercenary activities of cost america their entire war in iraq and kuwait in libya. has been fought with private military. america really should

reflect on its priorities whether they want to continue to think that this is the dark continent, or whether they begin to take a seriously as 54 sovereign nation states that have a voice internationally. tensions a spiraling in northern casa, though, is a 3rd being representative to the region has acute pristine of governments of thieving power in the majority. 3rd area of mich, with id said, with help from local police. this comes with ours. off to the officials of south proclaimed cause applied to your membership. with belgrade condemning the move and urging brussels to blockhead are taken tributes at nicholas if its reports from the ground. to find flows, doors from florida to new la visits or, or you can find their own logs and was in the new city council seats, the new members. and there saw this war north,

and they were elected to power without any democratic procedure. so basically, months ago and all the sort of left visitors in the service and got those positions the election new elections were killed and proceed unilaterally to share a new city or forces. and they did so by bringing in from the side their own additions, who are now the city council and amongst, amongst them they're able to serve in. so just a multi cultural perspective. and as i said about any, any law or respect for, for this standard which can be implemented. and that came as a shock local service because they feel checked again. and they feel that they are again being played out because they said new election games occur. and they are now being governed by people, nobody shows and they were elected physically by boot before since the launch

of police and army securing this whole event in the center of nuclear and chevron mostly by serves a russian ambassador to serbia told us they'd call suppose the membership with apparently sanctioned by brussels in advance. you richly in sterner trim the you would i p sco sales but is not all members of the european union recognized, kosovo as an independent state. that means the e. u does not have a unified position and cannot achieve overall consensus when it comes to this issue . however, if we take any country in the balkans as an example, even the process of submitting the application for you membership and a public declaration of such intentions was always agreed at the very political top of the you in brussels. this is not something that is done by the balkan states themselves, like other candidates for you membership. in this case, the european union does not allow any kind of independence. that is why we should

not exclude the possibility, but rather we should actually assume that some kind of agreement was already in place beforehand. brussels has not objected to this, and pristine air received permission to publicly formerly such a request to brothels. now where several south banks have appeared in court for a closed pre trial hearing over an unprecedented corruption scandal in the european parliament, which is already seen several high profile resignations and arrests and none. but let me peace from the socialists block. i've also been asked to step down and they do the investigation, or they contribute to rachel marston, hassle. the bless radius of the scandals seem to be growing by the day. the belgian prosecutor's office treated the hollow grounds of the european parliament like a giant crime scene this week. seizing tack equipment ostensibly to prevent data from potentially vanishing. meanwhile, right wing politicians who have accused the e. u. in the past of using corruption allegations as

a potential sledge hammer in an effort to marginalize them, are now having a pretty good laugh of all this and pointing out how it's directly touching darlings of the e establishment. and not a bunch of, for i is the european union loves to give lessons to the entire world. it would do much better to start cleaning its own house. the european parliament is not a transparent institution and support for socialists like eva kylie exposes the values of the european parliament and ridicules this e. u. institution bellville authorities are now talking about 20 separate searches and 750000 euros. seized, including several 100000, just sitting around in a suitcase in a hotel room in brussels. who, how intrigue and dramatic it sounds like somebody involved in this fiasco watched a few too many hollywood dramas. and decided to become the main character in one of their own european commission. president ursula vander, line house now proposed an independent ethics body for you institutions where there are quote, very clear rules. yeah, like how vote use

a bank and not your luggage to sore massive wides of cash. if you're an elected official, she said that it would be quote, a big step forward. yeah, it would hold european union officials to the same high standards as teenagers who might be tempted to dip into the tail during their shift at the local fast food restaurant and take on the proceeds. since authorities also said that a $150000.00 euros were found in a euro deputies apartment. there are now 6 people arrested in this whole affair, including 4 members of european parliament. most notably former you parliament, vice president, eva kylie who was just stripped of her tail in a vote. all this loose cache has been tied to had tare lobbying efforts, but doha denies having anything to do with it. the state of guitar categorically rejects any attempt to associated with accusations of misconduct. any association

of the contrary government with the reported claims is baseless and gravely misinformed. it's probably worth pointing out that state officials don't usually carry around and hand out 2 cases full of cash or wives of cash or anything like that. if that's going to happen, it's generally what middleman and had outs are for here in france. for example, there have been countless bribery and corruption scandals and they almost never ever bring down the highest level officials an organization founded to protect the rights of journalists worldwide has refused to support russian media outlets and individuals. and made reports of blooming eve sanctions asked by our see if it would support russian reporters. they committed to protect journalists that it does not view them as unbiased. and would therefore do nothing to help. c p. j protects journalists facing reprisal for the journalistic activity . as long as they adhere to the principles of unbiased objective reporting,

when we looked at the names of people associated with the media outlets you mentioned in your e mail and who can be included in the new list of sanctioned individuals. we found out that they did not follow this rule of unbiased journalism. therefore we cannot protect them. a drop off the e u blacklist reportedly includes r t as one state television and radio company v g t r k, which could potentially have the assets frozen in e u countries. while we're see a walnut, ren tv, and other channels could lose their broadcast licenses. over $100.00 russian media personalities, including popular tv present, it could also be sanctioned. meanwhile, the committee to protect journalists continued actively supporting global pro western media outlets. early this month that demanded above the lifted on us funded broadcast radio, free europe, radio, liberty, and honest. on last month the group demanded access be restored to the western bull . cause board cost is website focus, gets down for the committee's failure to live up to its international promise comes

as a member of germany's main opposition party attempts to start her own campaign against russian media. kristian social union representative andre lyn holds, has proposed the creation of a committee to control the spread of russian media influence. the danger of russian propaganda and as information in germany should not be underestimated, especially now when everything is getting more expensive, there is a risk that people will become more receptive to pro russian fakes. according to some media reports, art, a german language channel uses 3rd party outlets and youtube channels to spread information. journalists who publish so called pro russian information said to be connected to moscow affiliated media. i spoke with independent dutch journalists fornia vans and he says, some european states for trying to distract their own public from problems at home by focusing on russian media outlets. i think apparently it's cracking down on freedom of speech. this is what a western countries are doing since the start of the military,

especially military operation. even before that, even before the syrian war was in iraq, afghanistan, libya. but now it intensifies a lot and we see every day new things coming out. and they clearly want to control the media is what they do already and everything. what is said in favor of rush out or just neutral, being about russia is straight away. bennett vance, everywhere. and so it's control, it's her freedom of speech is really gone in, especially germany, but also my country, the netherlands. so it's horrible. oh, shut this, that this proposal to create office is on dis, information. go ahead. this is not going to come for free as a given that the presence economic up people, people are struggling across the b, e. u. is this an expense that your average german would see worth it every monday night there? so call it the walking on the streets everywhere in the big cities,

especially in the eastern part of germany. so i think now because the gas price is so high and the electricity bills that have to pay it huge to people cannot make and smith any more. so i think i hope that they will protest more because, you know, this is the next part, freedom of speech is gone. so what is left and they have no life. i mean, they have no, they cannot pay their normal bills anymore. they cannot say what they want. so i think it's really a, it's a total dictatorship or to have the, this is what they don't want. they preach democracy and freedom and they do the opposite. so, and people in the west are to believe that it's actually about ukraine because russia in faded ukraine. so this is the terrible part. that's why russia is very bad. and, but this is, they don't want to let this come out, but slowly but surely it, it will come out of course because people are awake of it now. but this is what they want to. heights was actually, and also the grades. we said plans that are the guess actually the problem with the

guess is they don't want fossil fuels anymore. so blame it on russia that we don't a guess anymore. but actually it's their plan and it's nothing to do with russia. several us lawmakers have announced bipartisan legislation to been a chinese on social media platform. take talk. the american politicians came, the ap can be used to spy on us citizens. this isn't about creative videos. this is about an app that is collecting data on tens of millions of american children and adults every day. we know it's used to manipulate feeds and influence elections. we know it answers to the people's republic of china. tick tock is digital fentanyl. that's addicting. americans collecting troves of their data and censoring their news. the bipartisan anti social ccp act as a strong step in protecting our nation from the nefarious digital surveillance and influence operations of totalitarian regimes. well, it's very hilarious to listen to those words because what they're describing,

how they're arguing about how tick tock seems to be operating bits pretty closely with the details that are now emerging regarding how twitter and meta facebook and other outlets interfered in us politics take for example, the hunter, by the laptop story. this was scandal regarding the son of the president, the states and his business deals and is relationships with his father. and will recall how it's been admitted that us social media giant works to suppress it in coordination with the f b i. here's what we heard from mark zuckerberg. distribution on facebook was decreased, but people are still had to share it. so you could still share it, you could still consume it, but we weren't sort of as black and white about it as twitter. we just kind of thought, hey, look, if, if the f b i, which i still view as a legitimate institution in this country, it's a very professional law enforcement. they come to us and tell us that we need to be

on guard about something that i want to take that seriously. now a new poll shows that 71 percent of americans say that a truthful interpretation of the 100 by the laptop story may have changed their vote and go to change the outcome of the election in the united states. so the effort by facebook and twitter to suppress that story certainly had an impact. now, it's also interesting to hear the owner, the tick tock, accused of new suppression. let's not forget that social media outlets a damned r t all throughout western europe. r t is being widely suppressed, it's been shut down from youtube. ready cetera, and then you want to get into the other accusation that they make about data that look into the details they've been revealed by edward snowed about how data collected by us social media outlets and tech companies get handed over to the f b i. and how there is a coordination with the f

b i. and this information regarding users activities is provided to the american authorities without any warrant, no warrants or are needed. they simply go to the tech outlet and get the information. there's actually been a 260 percent increase in the providing of this data to us officials. and they've been getting it without war and the amount of data that they've been acquiring on us individuals as increasingly gone up. this is the information has been revealed and we also know what they tend to use this information for david's description of what you can do with metadata. and quoting a mutual friend, stewart baker is absolutely correct. we kill people based on metadata. so the hypocrisy in us condemnation of tick tock, allegedly suppressing news, allegedly interfering, and us politics, or allegedly collecting people's data for nefarious purposes. the world can hear

the hypocrisy and what the us lawmakers are saying. as they found the podium against chip talk to african. now, where the armed forces at the democratic republic of congo have held confidential talks with members of the n 23 rebel group. this voltage obtained by r t shows that some of the military officials arriving for the meeting which took place in the city of goma and the d. c. m. 23 group house confirmed the negotiations of happens, but declined to mention any of the details. they are, the officials are also expected to make a statement about these developments which follow months of deadly conflict between the governments and rebels will keep you updated. the majority of the european union supply of russia cbl and crude oil has been redirected to asia after the e u bands the import, early this month. that's according to data by bloomberg, as exports and crew to asia, reportedly research staggering $3000000.00 barrels per day in the week to december

. the 9th, almost 90 percent of all oil shipped from russian ports during the period. it also follows e u g 7 countries. i think a price cap on russian oil of $60.00 per barrel of a day to show the china and india all the main recipients of russian oil with the volume ship to the 2 countries increasing by more than 4 phone to the 1st batch of western sanctions against russia and late february, let's come to some developing asian countries, including pakistan and talks to important more fuel from russia. the head of the pakistan, how think tank says the decisions about russian oil? well, definitely back fire this winter. you did not need to go to that far. i'm sure there is a political decision making, but it's just awful to take in consideration. the budget there, you know, they're always spending now. so i'm sure you of course, has, has missed the bus, definitely facing challenges domestically and also financially as well. i mean,

we have to look into the social perspective into and other dilemma of the, the printer is the biggest dollar. and someone was asking that the dark winter who is responsible for that. of course, the european union itself is responsible for the dog and the expense of winter for the citizens. it's nothing to do with the russians, never refused to supply oil to european union. and especially to germany and other countries. so i think it is a loss of the european union. and on the other hand, at the cost of they said the you, the developing countries who couldn't afford the russian audit prior to this had managed to buy oil, 35 to 40 percent, or 30 percent discount. you can follow all the latest news updates on our website, r t dot com. thank you for joining us here on the international news,

i ah only 41 percent of you has a don't have enough savings to cover a 1000 dollar emergency. we have record numbers of americans who are on the verge of having their cars repossess more than a 137000000 americans are facing financial hardship because of medical that in

america we do have a well versed system in place to help people who are struggling financially, but it's a conditional system you have to prove to the government that you truly need help. the simplest way, like explain the basic income, is that it's like social security for the rest of us. a basic income would be a monthly payments that would go to everyone, does a $1000.00 a month, no strings attached. i don't know, i just won't go crazy. the reason that i am a fan of guaranteed income because it is this idea that everybody is deserve it. and just by virtue of your being here, oh seemed wrong when all things just don't hold any world to shape out. this thing becomes the advocate

and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. oh, in 2022. the italian government approved a package of military aid to ukraine. coordination with nature to help ukrainians defend themselves and fight back about 150 1000000 euros. well, i make a week even i told me bombs are hearing all the same nato and the u. f with you on the one that people will die just for make money. the one that i have, i have been yes. care there a while you months, you got few on it if you're gone through now she thought completed. i mean there's water damage. you thought if you are doing your need to be done to get, i will put them in. those will talk more saw me, my show it bizarre tool or able opa, exec leila,

lesser opinion polls show that over 70 percent of italians are against military support for ukraine. allowed to can confront with the day rap laughter. the flap don't a lot yet. lisa. and more on a skid out and blissful man do not she then the the, the, the daily dazzling w c l. my last lot a lot you they've been a food and we're not returning fund theater. the layout ah ah hello and welcome to cross stock were all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle

. are we witnessing the end of globalization as we've known it for about the last half century? it would certainly seem so. the west ability to shape the world and its own image also appears to be on the way. as a result, should we expect new regional and block globalization ah cross sucking globalization, i'm joined by my guess arthur clara in toronto. he's a liberty advocate in a freelance editor in washington. we have thomas polly. he is founder of the economics democratic and open societies project. and in bristol, we cross to johnny brower. she is a spokesperson for the world anti imperialist form, as well as author of drive to war against russia and china high cross acros and the fact that means you can jump any time you want. and i always appreciate, are there. let me go to you 1st year. we didn't get a lot of coverage in western media, but there was a really big meeting between the chinese leader and a in real.