ah ah, the headlines right now, one altima international, russia strategic opponents have a long time goal of disintegrating and trying to separate russia. that's being said by president vladimir putin during today's address to the ministry of defense china leaders that this country is ready to boost relations with moscow for a more fair world. that's as the deputy head of russia security council dmitri med via that meets with teaching thing on a visit to page it with the u. s. back tracks on its previous criticism of beijing lockdown policy, stating instead, the global economy could be hit hard by china's co good situation

with . so it's been an interesting afternoon in moscow today with the russian president, addressing the ministry of defense. welcome to the program. it's on the international by the way. so vladimir putin says the west has been using all available means to disintegrate. relations with russia since the 2014 coo and ukraine food and also adding there is no chance of rebuilding ties just to preschool against the thank you. what's happening right now is a tragedies are no common tragedy, but this is not a result of russia's policies. it comes as a result of the policies of some 3rd countries that wanted to say it isn't a great us and undermine us. and so they pushed us to this limit. let me remind you that in 2014, 3 ministers of foreign affairs of ukraine,

others bowlens of france and germany. they all came to keith and signs. they made us realize that no rush and people, no russian, because public officials or public figures, or journalists or whatever that were in any way raising their voice to, to try and persuade people that russia were. the russians were their friends. these people that believed in russia in ukraine, they were just murdered. so a, during today's ministry of defense addressed by both the russian president and the defense minutes or so ago short ago, a correspondent donal court, who was on the sidelines monitoring everything they had to say. here are some of the highlights side from focusing on the threat that ne nato and the u. s. are opposing to russia's national security. russian president vladimir putin also focused a lot on the need to keep the russian military up to modern standards. one of our potent focused put specific emphasis on the use of combat drones, both aerial and land based. he said that the special military operate operation has

shown that drones are used everywhere on the modern battlefield. and russia has the industrial capability to kick up their production. we also heard boot and say that it's very important to continue to supply russian troops with the latest modern combat. basic equipment like uniforms, boots, medical equipment, as well as rightful from the latest generation. after all, russia, as president said that the russian state is willing to give the defense ministry as much money as it needs to accomplish its goals. and that goes also for making sure that the countries intercom, continental sar. matt missiles are at the ready, as well as developing, cutting edge hypersonic weapons in the immediate future for the 1st time. and we are going to use intercontinental ballistic myself. sar martin comp beauty. the troops received miss alt complex's jars white in the beginning of january, and next year we are going to put in columbia comp. do t free. got you got

a call from you? we the cutting edge g new, like i said, that has no equivalent in the word hypersonic, missiles and systems there. naval base lydia sir, cons. now, after vladimir putin speech, we heard from the country's defense minister sir gay, shy goose mon, mainly focused on the special military operation in ukraine. he said that russia is there to defend the people of don boss who were attacked by the key of regime after the euro. my don qu data in 2014 and he said, as always, russia is open to negotiations, but the west has been making the situation worse. day by day. he said that the west has been supporting ukraine in every possible sphere, specifically, and propaganda. in terms of the way that the west has helped ukraine make war criminals and neo nazis out to be heroes in this conflict. now, we also heard that despite enormous casualties that ukraine has been suffering on the battlefield, the west continues to send on an unlimited,

practically unlimited amount of weapons to ukraine, which are by and large, falling into the hands of international terrorists. let's take a listen to a more concretely what shy who had to say at this meeting? the post of your orders ukrainian letter countries and the u. s. have ah ramped top military held in ukraine over $97000000000.00, which is more than the u. s. has spent in afghanistan, some of the equipment that so it was abandoned by the american forces in afghanistan is now spilling out to other areas across the globe and used by terrorists. the u. s. is helping ukraine with organizing information, operations and propaganda operations against russia at the command from washington, thousands of fake messages of being posted every day. at the same time there, glorifying the crimes of neo nazis in the ukrainian regime on terms of plans for 2023. the defense minister outlined 3 goals. the 1st one is that russia will

continue to strive to accomplish its objectives in the special military operation. the 2nd one is that russia will, can tenure to maintain peace in the regarding a car box region. and the 3rd one is that the defense ministry will continue to strive to curb nato expansion. so that's basically a rundown of what circ, a chicago and vladimir putin spoke about at this meeting. china says it's ready to boost relations with russia to build what it's lead a calls, a just world. the remarks came during a visit by the deputy head of rushers, national security council to beijing, where he met with the judging ping dmitri about via the force or brought a special message from plotting a putin. and this is where are the seeds marina cause a river has more details. they discussed a number of international issues and they agreed once again there reiterates the fact that their approach is very, very similar on

a number of these international issues. also using things said that china is ready to move closer to ross. so for a fair global governance, they discuss their strategic foreign policy cooperation, including within the u. n. as well as other multilateral platforms, like the as c o bricks and the group of 20. also, of course, they touched upon the ukrainian crisis, the ukrainian conflict as user and things said that he express hope that both parties will maintain restraints, that they will maintain rationality and hold a comprehensive dialogue. there was also a letter that was passed on from the meeting with a diff on behalf of latter me up who intrusion thing. and in that letter, it expressed that there was an unprecedented level of russian chinese relationships . and when it comes to political dialogue, practical cooperation than those also expressed confidence in the continued progressive development of and to states and into party ties. now with the new

leadership of the communist party of china. and also what's interesting is that choosing things said that the relationship between russia and china has the test of time for all the international ups and downs. they remain close and they're moving towards one direction. and once again, like they said, they're reiterated the fact that their approach is similar. now that we're seeing that the west is so eager to make it seem like they are the ones who are in charge of the world. and we're seeing now that we are talking about a multi polo world. it's not just the western charge. so we're seeing now that russia is pivots and more towards the east. something that we've been seen actually happening over the last decade, really. so now there are cementing those ties, it seems and trying to find more ways that they can cooperate and again, cementing that friendship and that unity. well the discussions took place as the head of the russian space corp. ross cosmos said that moscow and beijing will work together and out of space. in fact,

they plan to build an international luna research station. and we spoke to china global tv network reporter soon. ye, who said that beijing's major principal and international cooperation is respect and opportunity for all who are china? china is talking about our to space as a common community. and china has always said it's open for all kinds of co operations, not only with russia, but with a range of other countries, including, i think, with middle east and other countries, and talking about the moon pro. it's a long term strategy for china. and it's aiming to be an international ah, science research base, i think by the year 2030. and that is the project. the china has always said that that's not for its own before the benefit of to entire humanity. and this again, open jewel, unmet. yep. had delivered

a letter from clinton and china has said that chairman of that russia united potty russia party has also about more cooperation of the 2 parties and the 2 nations, especially in areas in trait energy and agriculture. and promote that partnership. as we talk about that on the full name of that kind of ship is china. russia, comprehensive, strategic partnership of coordination for new rock, new era to next level. i was discussing all of this with a ross, find golden asia, political risk analyst. and he says that countries are now leaning towards, well being more interested in maintaining ties with the east asia rather than with traditional partners in the west. i've been listen going back. several us presidents, for example, not just bided or, or the truck and ministration, but obama talked about a rebalance or repeat it. i think george w bush also attempted to put more effort into us relations with,

with asian gooding, with china and the you countries and britain famously with its golden era relations with china, which is now ended. but i think a lot of the parts of the world, not just the middle east or the us africa, they're looking to use asia because that's where the economic growth has been for a lot of the past 20 years. and one of the traditional economic towers is in this part of the world. japan and korea is a rising economic power in different industries as well. so a lot of countries talk about it and we've been talking about it for a while. so it's not a surprise that countries continue to do so while the us wraps up, it's on supplies to ukraine. and so deputy ambassador to the united nations is expressed dismay of the organizations refusal to investigate, alleged iranian drone shipments to russia. the u. s. claims the un secretary general is yielding to threats from russia,

moscow's envoy dmitri pollyanna. he says that such a problem would be a breach of the un charter, even comparison to some sort of blackmail. i think that reflects just irritation of our western colleagues. with the fact that the secretary general and the secretary of indeed doesn't move in the direction that they want them to move. but the secretary general and the secretariat, if they acted this way, they would have violates a few in chapter. and this is absolutely, it will be s o l t regis situation. we indicated this several times. it has nothing to do with the sufferers of the matter is the question of procedure and the respect for us chapter. maybe they just extrapolate the tactics that they usually using when they want to achieve certain results from the m. o. u. n. members face my twisting their hands sound like mailing them. we do not use these kinds of methods . we are just referring to the charter of the united nations,

the international law. we're saying that any investigations by the group for $20.00 to $31.00 would be legitimate in the light of international law. because this is not a group of experts and for us to conduct any investigation, they need a clear mandate from the whole of the security council and not the instructions from some of their members sound so far. there is no special mandate. on the contrary, there is an understanding insecurity counsel that especially will be highly controversial to mildly and we think that's it would be absolutely contrary to the un charter. so i think that the situation is absolutely clear from this point of view. the us says, china's corona virus policy is of a global concern because of its potential impact on economic stability. washington has expressed hopes that china can get its cobit situation under can troll. let's,

despite, it's only a repeated criticism of beijing and it's locked down policy. the toll of the iris is of concern to the well, given the size of china's to be given the size of china's economy. it's not only good for china to be in a stronger position because of the kobe, but it's good for the rest of the worlds as well. we, the united states continue to be a leading force for countries around the world, and the provision of vaccines and helping countries overcome the phase of the virus. we certainly hope that will be the case of the log in as well. ned price, the spokesperson for the us state department, and he was criticizing china and talking about how at this point they hope china gets their numbers in order because the impact that co good rising in china could

have on the global economy. and people are noting the irony of what's been set as his boss, the head of the us state department, us secretary of state anthony blank and was just recently calling for 0 coded policies in china to be listed and calling for the release of protesters. let's review what's been said by us officials. china has to figure out a way forward on dealing with what's covered away for that answers the, the health needs, but also answers the needs of people. i think we're seeing the chinese people speak up for more freedom against the co lockdown policies. i support that the a, a lockdown is not a policy that we're going to support here. so when china had stringent anti coven policies that was declared to be repression. we have the u. s. government speaking out, a guest is describing china as the repair. and now that those restrictions have been lifted and cold in cases in china are rising. we have china once again being can

down. now, the claims and the condemnation, china from us officials are laced in hypocrisy. one will know that the united states leads the world in terms of coven related deaths. whereas china, despite having the world's largest population in 98 in the world, in terms of cobra, dest, nowhere near the united states, in the number of koby related gas. so it's quite, quite hypocritical, for us officials to be criticized in china, recovered related gas. i'm talking about it, but this all fits a pattern with how the united states covers china, no matter what china does. china is condemned when kobe 0 coded policies were put in the fact they were described as brutally authoritarian. and then when those coded policies were lifted, we heard that this was a sign that present she's in pain, was weak guy. and that this was, that was a sign. and he was giving in and didn't have authority and power that no matter what the u. s. media and the u. s. politicians look for any excuse to condemn china

and can damage policies and portrayed in a negative light. and this latest statement, this latest flip of the script, if you want to call it, that is just a really blatant example of how hypocritical and nonsensical us narratives are the usa does not like a particular government, no matter what they do. they find a way to spin it in a negative way. well, it's good to have you with us for this program from moscow. a former english football, a ton t v commentator came with the british government and criticize the one sided approach concerning the cut out a world comp coverage. got a coating government in our country with demonizing rail workers, ambulance workers, and terrifyingly nurses. and she's not going our country on this is nothing to fight for an extra pound or 2 pounds. le gary levels. frustration comes as some $10000.00 nurse is planning to go on strike this wednesday in protest, low pay the u. k. prime minister ratio student. however,

hit back at the former manchester, united players comment claiming sport and politics should not mix. i think when most people are tuning into what gary level, they want to hear about the football and watch the football that he wants to discuss politics. well, that's the very same very soon. however, who sent an openly gay sports minister at the cutter as england's official representative for the world cup that is despite strict well known could tardy laws on l. g b t support the minister war rainbow tie in a so called one love arm band, which had actually been banned by fee for the tournament. we discussed it with independent journalist shabbos, who says it's blaze and hypocrisy from soon act on his morality is ala carte. the term here is gross hypocrisy. and i think most people who saw gary levels common some u. k. would absolutely support. and you've got to remember and that, you know, there's another card attitude right now in the u. k to many things. immigration,

exact, for example, most of the, for a fortune people who are trying to make their way across the english channel are in europe because of the, you know, the aftermath of british or american interventions in the middle east, et cetera. so the, the overriding sense is that it's policy and gary never had a been praising richie. so next policies, i'm sure she said i wouldn't have that posted his response, which is a quick note on a, a former football player and tv comedy had a gary never despite criticizing that, the plight of british workers, he did also assign a lucrative deal to work with a cut out a broadcaster during the world cup, a nation where as you may have heard many migrant workers died well preparing for the world cup event a here he is being grilled about that on you. k television. you gosh, i think haven't. yeah. what going on, not going oh, my view always as being that you either highlight the issues and challenges in these countries and speak about them or you basically don't say anything. you stay

back home and don't go. and i've always said we should challenge. there's another option you start home and highlight your pieces. you don't have to go on to the guitar is money, people knew what our stance was on the l g b t situation. they knew that long before, and these great debates occurred. of course, you know, so again, you know, it's the idea that this is a surprise to people who are either doing business there or who selected guitar for the world cup and allows get her to spend, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars to create what was essentially, a fantastic world cook, it's about saying, you know, if you're going to be right, be right for the moment you get up to the moment you go to bed, don't pick and choose your morality as you go to west africa. now west 6 civilians. and at least 2 soldiers have been report like killed in a series of attacks, but can a facile, a local reporter in omega duke who sent us this. this report so low though,

330 kilometers long way of looking at possible out of government control for 3 months now is back to the country. both sides are waving again on the roof of public administration, of the c o, a military operation called the rail. hell, which means in local language to recover your belonging militia, the what are the motel creed gel and we got their freedom from the public official and busy with the back to get to congress the years on the gone. i'm the stuff g major, debbie talbert. it was in the last weekend too late. the good job of the victory. welcome by bill. can i be here in work? i do full position in which around 40 said already will kill and one for

the army site. we found an important quantity of logistics, of calories where the flight or sees by the army before the good news of the thing . one thing is to kick out, the other thing is to keep the area under control of government troops. or if there is a love to do to come to the goal, we want it for me, it's clear that the army is moving forward with more power because this is the 1st time since 2015, that a territory is recovered and officially announced by our authorities i think that morally, this is good for the people of burkina faso. and as we can see, the interim leader abraham trial ray is committed. he is giving his all to convince people who think this is not true, that it's their imagination. you can't force someone to believe in what he doesn't believe in, but those who are on the ground eye witnesses, they see what's happening. lubbock kenneth, ourselves enter in prime minister,

a pullin at um, bella spoke to archie. he said that good trading relations with moscow is crucial. adding the burkina faso is seeking to import more goods from russia. you also supported moscow's role in helping to feed the continent during a global food crisis. good afternoon, mr. prime minister. welcome to rash and my 1st question is, what is the status of the bi? let your relations between moscow and oh, good, do great, now alert right now, the relations are not particularly well developed. they used to be more consistent in the past, but later took a turn for the worse we would like, however, to make them stronger moving forward. this is the reason for me being here in moscow. west pacific period, i referring to the time to the soviet union or after the collapse, healthy ussr. yes. and then after the break up of the soviet union, and also after the regime change in berkener foss. so as you know, there were good ties between the soviet union and perkins far so during thomas and cars presidency, he came here with the visit and got a chance to see star city,

which i was unable to see back then there were negotiations between our leadership and soviet president mikhail gorbachev and air afloat. the soviet airline offered flights to wag a dog through all of that stopped. there was a soviet embassy and broken off a. so, and a soviet cultural center. and then it all collapsed over night, which meant our relations became almost non existent. and would you like everything to get back at least to that form a level a? do you see the potential far and even greatest cap of corporation, or is if you'd like me to run mess russia is a great nation. it's one of the greatest powers. and yet it almost has no presence in our country. we would like to see russia being a great nation, that it is to assume its rightful place and burke enough, ah, so russia has a lot of history and experience and we would like to be a part of that can cause it is, is it what issues did you bring up during the talks with your ration colleagues here in moscow called wings are gonna we met with many people in the ministries and other agencies. they're really open. we would like to strength and cooperation in

all spheres, everywhere where it's possible between russia and burke enough. ah, so do you have some prayers? he though the security sphere perhaps we some yes, absolutely. security is a priority for burke. enough are so right now, and we discussed that, but we also talked about other things because security is a temporary concern. do we hope that after a certain times starting from now, we will resolve this problem. but we also need our relations to grow because all of us would like to see of victory. as good rush had been a lie of booking a fast. so any fight against an jihadists? we said yes, we would like that. we would like russia to become our ally, like all our partners. we know the rushes a powerful force, and it could really help us here if it decides to do so. what organ russia is planning to hust, russia, africa, stanley in 2023. is book in a fast had going to attend, or it could be allowed in that? yes,

sure. i've received an invitation letter from president impudent for my president, captain ibrahim tory, and i will present it to him. in fact, if i'm here for a purpose, it's to make the relations between russia and berk enough are so grow stronger when you and what about state face? it's, could it be in a patina si fi status age? where is she like? yes, and i am here to establish contact. i am here to see if russia is ready for cooperation with my country. when you are ready and a lot of things are finalized, we can step up our co operation and organ i state visits, and then the head of our state may come. i'm in the head of my country can come here. and i may come here again. we hope for that to happen to swim this. one of the things discussed yesterday was trait which could also be potential area for cooperation between russia and we can, a fossil is that perhaps a product of booking a foss who could supply to the russian market says i would if it would be better if you answered this question, because as i said to the people i've talked to russia is a great nation,

but we don't see its presence in our economy. we don't see many russian goods, unlike french goods which are plentiful. but you can produce many things. pharmaceuticals, for example, you produce many medications that could be cheaper than other brands. we don't see russian drugs and burke enough us. so why doesn't russia open drug stores in our country like france does wire russian pharmaceuticals on sale and burke enough us, so like french ones, why won't russia open a production facility for drugs and pharmaceuticals in berkin office? so we have plenty of land for construction, and we are open. this means that it's up to russia to be willing, and we would like to have more russian products and berk in a far so in order to diversify our partnerships and to have connections. not only with western countries using them as likely, deleon does this also involve foot security. there is currently a foot crisis in the world doesn't work in a fast. so expect russia to provide support elicitation. yes, and that's one of the reasons why i'm here. as you know, we don't grow wheat,

but we do consume it, we need we'd to produce bread, pastry and so on. and we hope the russia will help us in the short term by supplying wheat in the mid term. we will be able to grow weed ourselves, and russia can also make a great contribution there with expert know, how being able to grow your own weed is a big deal. on the other hand, as you know, russia is a major supplier of fertilizers. and since we don't have them either, we would also like russia to supply us with fertilizers. so we have quite a lot of areas for cooperation, including agriculture. we know the russia has very good engineers, great experts, and it would be great to develop cooperation in that area too. early is only the think is that trash is unable to ship. it's fertilizers because of sanctions. the truth is that the russian government said many times it russia wants to supply some commodities free of charge to african nations, especially those in need of them. so russian authorities, i really larkin, on finding a way to start shaping commodities. again, in particular, fertilizers,

of course, we know that if russia wants something, it will find a way just like that, because as i said, russia is a great nation, both historically and as an economy and as a political and military power. so russia wants to ship us some commodities, i'm sure it can find a way to do so. and if it's not doing it, it means it doesn't really want it for that. i. so what about cooperation in the area of culture? you have probably discussed culture exchanges and possibly university exchange programs. haven't you? did you talk about a, during your visit to moscow? i said i will and i will. that's right. we discussed it with the deputy minister of education and we saw great interests in readiness for cooperation on the ministry's part. they gave us assurances and i hope our co operation will improve in this area to should i should say that back in the days of the ussr, we had a soviet cultural center in my country. when we were students, we studied russian literature. we read russian newspapers and so on. sometimes we watch movies and so we had an opportunity to immerse ourselves in russian culture.

unfortunately after gorbachev was out, it was all closed down. and there's no russian presence in burke enough or so anymore. me and people, daniel and russia any more? no, they don't. at the moment there's nothing russian and berkener faso except maybe some weapons. but besides that there's nothing at all. i really love a fresh experts like engineers and perhaps experts in other areas that to come to book in a fast. so perhaps there could be new culture centers and children could start learning ration. it's called preprocessing. why not? that's exactly what we want. you know, i'm here now and i want to learn russian too. so maybe russian language programs could be the next step right now. there were no opportunities to learn russian. i could see some writing on the signs around the city, but i can't read them because i can't read russian, but we all really hope that soon enough. those who come after us will be more educated and they will know russian. they will make our cooperation a lot easier. i would also propose to set.