my last so thought a lot you need to sell dentist, so he's and we're not even fun theater that i got a ah, the u. s. u. the summit with african countries to criticize washington chinese activities in the region. well, washington and shift from africa as acute issues. it's slums by china's foreign ministry. in contact with africa is not going to re enough, a big public games, let alone the target of all the treat prussia from any country. old person. washington should respect the will. the african people belgrade accuses the self proclaimed, were public, of course about the thing a majority substance and the regions north to south on christina officially applied for the membership. we report from the ground. plus several emmy pe,

the 4th to step down and made an unprecedented corruption pro but seeing a number of top european parliament parliamentarians arrested with very welcome from all of our team here in moscow. this is our t international with the latest world 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 purity expand its footprint a on a continent on a daily basis, and that creates problems that will be eventually destabilizing if they're not already. or we see rush or continuing to puddle, cheap weapons,

employing mercenaries across the continent. and so the combination of those activities by those 2 countries, i think for 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, he 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 that is not america and true to american form. they cannot engage in much

without necessarily dictating terms. now it's 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 was 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, i still they, within their reach and within their grasp. 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 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 towards china? the russian comment is that the are peddling, she weapons on the continent and they could lead to a civilization. and one don't really know, one written one, that's just how long the american memory is. i mean, ticket situation like libya, libya was a stable country and am warmer godaddy come. 2011 denito led coalition, which was during obama's administration. you look at libya now. no paused, conflict funds, no post conflict plane, and it's 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 shrimp. but a lot does not, according to death justice,

the u. k. based organization has other than african states. oh, more to weston 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 thin banks and institutions have had to as africa. what china and righteous entry into africa as 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 engine or do. but here is the chinese official response to that accusation about easy and available chinese money. for sure me. you see what we hope the us could view china africa cooperation with an open mind. africa is not an arena for big power game, so let alone the target of arbitrary prussia from any country or person. washington should respect the world, the african people,

and take concrete actions to help africa's development. but 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 live, taking turn, or the least they look at africa in separated means and in their engagement even the renewed, again, and if film freely, much feels like the same mode fail mode script. americans have been devoid of the continent the they've left the void here that has been filled because it will eventually had to be filled. they still didn't seem like the people who recognized a 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 and law professor andre thomas house and told is that 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. people in many countries are 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 or trade with russia or with china. well than, obviously, that is their sovereign choice. america shouldn't complain about russia being available to those excluded countries like marty central african republic about them having invited private military companies from brochure actually private security 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 it seriously as 54 sovereign nation states that have a voice internationally tensions, a spiraling in northern casa, i was a 3rd being representative to the region has acute pristine of governments of thieving power in the majority. 3rd area of mit reveals that 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 blow kit, or to contribute at nicolette, which reports from the ground to find flows, doors to dogs, any la visits or with respect for their own laws and in the new city council seats, the new members and there saw this war. and also they were like the power without

any dental practices. so basically, a month ago and all the sort of left disappears in the service cost, those positions the election elections were held and left early to share a new city or forces. and they did so by bringing in from the side their own on the patients who are now the city council and amongst, amongst them there is one sort of in. so just a multi cultural perspective. and as i said without any, any law or respect for, for this standard which can be implemented. and that came as a shock local service because they feel check again. they feel that they are, they are again being played out because they said new election games occur in the are now being governed by people. nobody shows and they were elected basically by

boot before since the launch of police and army securing this whole event in the center of nuclear in 7th, mostly by serves the russian ambassador, serbia told us to call for those the membership with apparently sanctioned by brussels in advance you received sheehan sterner trim the you would like the sco sales prisoner. not all members of the european union recognized casa oak as an independent state. that means the e, you 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 or 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 i'm but let me pass on the socialists block have also been asked to step down, admitted the investigation are to contribute to rachel. marston, hansel, the blast radius of the scandal seems 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 tech 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 over all this and pointing out how it's directly touching darlings of the 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 has 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 title in a vote. all this loose cache has been tied to had tore 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 guitar, a 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 handouts to cases full of cash or wives of cash or anything like that. if that's going to happen, it's generally what middle man and cat out. so 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 found a to protect the ranks of journalists worldwide, has refused to support rush and media outlets and individuals and made reports of blooming eve sanctions asked by our see if it would support russian report as 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 that assets frozen in e u countries. while we're see one that 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 continues actively supporting global pro western media outlets. early this month that demanded a band be lifted on us funded broadcast at radio free europe radio liberty, and i've gone a stone last month. the group demanded access be restored to the western board. cause podcast is website for care 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. christine 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 does 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 our taste german language channel uses 3rd party outlets and youtube channel sport information. journalists who publish so called pro russian information said to be connected to moscow affiliated media. i spoke with independent dutch journalists, sonya vandals, and he say, some european states are trying to distract their own public from problems at home by focusing on russian media outlets. i think apparently it's fucking down on freedom of speech. this is what a western countries are doing since it started off the military special military

operation. even before that, even before the syrian war was in iraq, afghanistan, livia. 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. busy said in favor of russia or just neutral being about russia is straightaway bennett bents, 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 offices on dis, information go ahead is it's not going to come for free as a given that the present economic upheaval, people are struggling across the, the e you. is this an expense that your average german would see worth it every monday night there? so call it 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's huge people cannot make and smooth anymore. 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 then they have no life. i mean they have no, they cannot pay their normal bills anymore. they can not say what they want. so i think it's really, yeah it's, it's a total dictatorship. but you 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 what this is, they don't want to let this come out, but surely, but surely 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 plants that at 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 of announced bipartisan legislation to been a chinese on social media platform. take talk. the american politicians came, the app 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 use 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, fits pretty closely with the details that are now emerging regarding how twitter and meta facebook and other outlets have interfered in us politics. take for example. busy the hunter biding laptop story, and this was a scandal regarding the son of the president of united states and his business deals and his relationships with his father. and. and we'll recall on how it's been admitted that us social media giants worked to suppress it in coordination with the f b i. here's what we heard from mark zuckerberg. the distribution on facebook was decreased, but people were still a 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, as twitter, we just kind of thought, i look if the f, b i, which i still view is a legitimate institution in this country. it's so very professional lawn for spent,

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 biden laptop story may have changed their vote and could change the outcome of the elections 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 owners of tape talk accused of news suppression. let's not forget that social media outlets have dand r t. all throughout western europe, rti is being widely suppressed. it's been shut down from youtube, et cetera. and, 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 snowden 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 individual has increasingly gone up. this is the information that's been revealed, and we also know what they can to use this information for david's description of what you can do with metadata. and quoting a mutual friend steward baker is absolutely correct that we kill people based on metadata. so the hypocrisy in us condemnation of sick talk allegedly suppressing new, allegedly interfering in 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 africa. now, where the armed forces at the democratic republic of congo have held confidential talks with members of the n 23 rebel group. this footage obtained by r t shows that some of the military officials arriving for the meeting which took place in the city of goma. in the d. c. m. 23 group has confirmed the negotiations of happens, but declined to mention any of the details. the officials are also expected to make a statement about these developments which follow months of deadly conflicts between the governments and rebels will keep you updated a majority of the european union supply, 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. exports and crew to asian. reportedly we staggering $3000000.00 barrels per day in the week to december, the 9th,

most 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. the data shows that china and india are the main recipients of russian oil with the volume ship to the 2 countries, increasingly, more than for fall to the 1st batch of western sanctions against russia. in late february, let's come to some developing asian countries, including pakistan, talks to important more fuel from russia, the head of the pakistan, how things, taxes, 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 are over spending now to i'm sure you of course has missed the bus definitely facing challenges domestically and also financially as well. i mean,

we have to look into the social perspective into another dilemma of the printer is the biggest dollar my men. someone was asking that the dark winter who is responsible for that. of course, your clean union itself is responsible for the dark and the expense of winter for the citizens. it's nothing to do with the russians, never refuse to supply oil to european union and especially to germany in 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 oil prior to this, had managed to buy oil, 35 to 40 percent, or 30 percent discount. you can follow all the latest news that date on our website, r t and dot com. and thank you for joining us. an international with

only 41 percent of us. it does have enough savings to cover a $1000.00 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 debt. in america, we do have a welfare 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 a 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 every $1000.00 a month, no strings attached to this i have out. i would like them me, i don't know how 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 just that virtue of your being here. ah ah

ah ah, with in the summer of 2022, italy, along with all other nato member states effectively sided with ukraine in the armed conflict with russia. rome in coordination with the u. s. approved a military assistance package for keith to help ukrainians defend themselves and fight back. looking glad, i'm not jealous, father of lilyanne will spin. this is dan, you'll need you on your job site on the same nato and the u. f with you

on the one that people will die just for make money. there are those who oppose their decision at various levels of government. as one of these is the members of the parliament that showed them. yes, the panels. italians also protested in the streets a across the ocean in the united states, their voices, i'm not heard. italy holds the record for the number of usaa nato military sites. there are more than $120.00 american weapons. even atomic bones are hearing that. there are more us soldiers here in italy today than the work during the war against not just this is the italian f h 70. how it so the ukranian army is already using it to target, not only russian soldiers, but also civilians. if the civilians are here,

it'd be more craft. yeah. it's a progress story to perform a near boldenall. it is your, it is a celebrity in the world of street art is work is well known in north and south america, the middle east, europe. and finally, russia, it was, he who painted the portrait of johnston, escaped in naples after an italian university. the scientific cancel its course on the great russian writer because of the events in ukraine. look you just so yes you get from them. i mean, get damage of it if we're not sure this is why little fun to the conflicts. ledesmond was still names for the lead, a little bit actually stuff. i sure will. i will go, you know, i don't see bible the will just that will be monday was offline anywhere like a judge.