what we're facing, which is fashion with we have always sought to resolve all arising disputes via peaceful negotiations. but unfortunately, the other side functions differently, vladimir putin accused of moscow counterparts of refusing to talk peace over the ukrainian conflict. adding that the west has long sought to divide russia. china calls out the us as a direct threat to international order, saying washington is behind regional turmoil and many countries. the era cameron's royal dynasty, whose ancestor was hanged by the german colonial administration,

speak to r t about the impact of european colonialism on africa with family suffering a lot. all right, great grandfather died and we kept from that period what we call the syndrome. because our family suffered from direct consequences. latonya family, there were darn it consequences for the whole world. sala, with hello, from our pay, international studios in moscow, and from wherever you may be watching. welcome to the hours top news stories from around the world. i'm carol isabel, in his latest interview, vladimir putin accused western countries of trying to tear russia apart. the russian president also noted that moscow has never shied away from peace talks with ukraine, which are being prevented by its western counterparts. we seek dusty mealer scum.

we have always sought to resolve all arising disputes via peaceful negotiations. but unfortunately, the other side functions differently, it began carrying out harsh military measures and we were forced to defend the people living in these territories. i believe that we are acting in a justified manner and we are provided no other choice even so we are ready to negotiate acceptable solutions with the inclusion of all participants in the process to see. this comes as turkey's president accused the west of provocations, instead of mediating in the ukrainian conflict. however, former italian prime minister mario groggy recently claimed it's the kremlin which is unwilling to de escalate. while nato's chief accused moscow of making trying to take advantage of any proposed ceasefire recent weeks, have seen a number of top western officials attempt to persuade care. and that is not the right time for negotiations with russia. it's our job to continue to

sustain our military support to ukraine, so they are in the best possible position on the battlefield. so that if and when diplomacy is right, they will be in the best possible position at the negotiating table. that moment is not right now. we have no illusions that to a 2 piece negotiation that would be possible in the immediate future. we must be clear that any unilateral coal for a cease fire by russia is completely meaningless in the current context. i think it would be a false call. it would be used by russia to regroup, to reinforce the troops. meanwhile, the chinese foreign minister has defended his country's position of neutrality in the ukrainian conflict, saying beijing aims to deepen ties with russia in the coming year. it comes as moscow continues to strengthen cooperation with multiple countries in asia, africa,

and the middle east rushes foreign minister survey live, rob said the world is now moving toward multiple issues. multiple arity with a majority of states, not sharing the west, anti rush and st. reduce loss uses blown the runcle, we have plants within the framework of the eurasian economic union, the shall high corporation organization and also breaks. certainly the overwhelming majority of the world's countries done off mimic their aggression, illegal sanctions, blackmail and threats to. so the dominance that the united states and this western allies during the international arena, nobody likes it. the u. s. as a destabilizing force in the world creating disruption in other countries for its own gain. that's according to the chinese ministry of defense. facts have repeatedly proven that the united states is a direct threat to the international audit and the driving force behind regional

turmoil. the united states stubbornly pursues its own interests 1st and the willfully wages worse and creates conflicts with other countries for its own self interest, causing the large non, both in the sense civilian casualties and displacement. the resolution of the taiwan issue is the chinese people's business, and china's eternal affair, which does not allow any external interference and the u. s. has no right to make a responsible remarks. the strong statement came after the u. s. authorized up to $10000000000.00 over the next 5 years to modernize taiwan security capabilities. the islands defense ministry says the decision shows. washington is committed to defending its allies, us arm sales to taiwan, have continued to grow. despite the issue straining beijing's relations with washington. nelson wong, vice chairman of the shanghai center for international studies,

says the u. s. use is taiwan as a tool in it's multi level strategy with china, where i think it's quite apparent that the taiwan strait is not had peace at the moment. and the main reason we all know that it's because the u. s. is making use of this tie one issue and trying to to, to play this card so hard as to, to irritate china. but on the other hand, the government has repeatedly said that they respect the one china policy that they do not seek taiwan independence. they won't assist taiwan independence, but what they do, what they say they don't actually match. so of course the chinese government is quite happy about this, and we're already seeing spokes person from china's defense ministry making our

position very fun. so let's see. let's see. but i hope during the meeting of us a secretary of state to blink. and when he visits china matters like this will be discussed in contrast to the sharp rhetoric toward washington, the relationship between beijing and me also has been praised by china's top diplomat said his average among, with a car put in the china, russia relationship, which is based on non alliance, non confrontation, and non targeting of any 3rd party remains rock solid. such relationship is free from interference or any attempt to so discord between the 2 countries in is immune from change in the international environment. to nelson wong again told us a strength of russian chinese relations lies in their common vision of the world

order. where i think the year the target audience is, of course not only the 2 countries, people over russia and china, but also to the rest of the world, actually shows china's resolve to seek for a better understanding. it was the rest of the world was this announcement that china believes in peace. china believes that there are the relation was, russia really reflects the core interest respecting of the core interest of the respective countries. so this is something that i think a lot of friends in other parts of the world need to understand that when it comes to relations between china and russia, are our 2 countries do have a lot in common, not only in economic, her, you know,

dependence interdependencies but also are about our view towards the future of a multi polar world. ah, the great grandson of cameron's to allah community king executed by the german colonial administration in their cameron campaign a century ago. has spoken to r t about the impact of european colonialism on his family as well as the african continent. a camera campaign took place during the 1st world war when british, french and belgian forces invaded the german colony in 1914, most of the campaign took place in cameroon, but skirmishes also broke out in british nigeria. when germany was defeated, britain and france agreed to divide con maroon despite the conflict lasting just 2 years, and taking place a century ago. descendants of the king of the duel us,

people say the consequences affect modern cameroon to this day. good sir. when was it moving? there are 3 things that are very important for me. the 1st one is that, as i often say, and we're family suffered a lot after our great grandfather died. and we kept from that period what we call a syndrome because our family suffered from direct consequences, but not only our family. they were direct consequences for the whole world sala, for the entire katya's community. i think in the sense that it was a moment when the 1st elements of our decadence, he appeared before the period of to all a manga. and in the intermediate period, the dollar, the sour in general, but especially the dollar. they occupied the entire region and live in great prosperity. the prosperity and expansion were extraordinary at a commercial level, at exchange level. and since this particular situation,

the history with germany and the tragic end of rudolph dwell among a bell, there is a decline. the whole sour world suffers the consequences of this historical situation . and one of the consequences today is the poverty of our community. the poverty means that to day, even in cameroon, our community does not occupy its place in the sense that to participate with its status in the evolution of our country. i want to say that the history of the hanging of drywall among for us is something extremely painful. we do not express a direct hatred towards the germans, but we have a desire to simply rebuild our community. the sea, the sick it is, 1st of all, africa has a lot of resources except that very often these resources are no export directly at national level, but by international companies, powerful countries are shifting their interest towards africa. why? because it is how to say a lot of interest, not only at the population level,

africa is a densely populated continent, it means that it is a market for consumption. besides, the africans are improving in quality, and consumption takes road to v big dimensions. it is something that corresponds to the interest of the northern powers, as they are called, because they are interested of course, not only to have a relationship with africa in the present time, but also in the future. us intelligence agencies aggressively pushed twitter to sensor anti ukranian narratives, dismissing them as part of a so called russian propaganda campaign that's according to the pandora's box of leaks published on christmas eve artes. marina close. everybody takes a closer look. the west has long been the accuser rush of lead in an elaborate coordinated effort, a line with its bots and schrall, form spewing kremlin propaganda or, and c, ukrainian views twisting facts and spreading misinformation. the social media

platform is trying to focus on the false rumors that are spread during times of crisis. this can be, for example, armed conflicts like russia's invasion of ukraine kremlin is actively deploying misinformation and this information, i guess we already knew something like this was coming. we knew that they were out there spreading all this side, dishonest information it. and once the russians infiltrated the online community, they would slip in other messages. manipulative was 13 russians who allegedly tried to influence the 2016 presidential election using social media. ah. parts when push comes to shove, the evidence is nowhere to be found. foreign meddling had been the ostensible justification for expanded moderation. since platforms like twitter were dragged to

the hill by the senate in 2017, the hash tag twitter files show exec sir under constant pressure to validate theories of foreign influence. and unable to find evidence for key assertions. and if you can't try and try again or does bad everyone with an alternative points of view, which is exactly what they did using foreign meddling as an excuse. so accounts which post that valid concerns about neo nazis in ukraine or reports of human rights abuses committed by the ukrainian army were simply dismissed as russian propaganda. these people might exist, but if a russian person is talking about it, it must be deleted as it doesn't fit the narrative. instead of looking at to the validity of the claims, the f. b, i instructed sweater to get rid of such posts. switzer, executives who are apparently under pressure to validate government claims of a russian meddling campaign bots often came out empty handed for my checks. i could

not find any decatur to suggest that the account is russian. however, going by the contents of narrative coming out from the account, it's definitely pro russia i can brainstorm and see if we can dig deeper and try to find his stronger connection due to lack of technical evidence. so now rent, i've generally left to be waiting for more evidence. i think that all windows that is closing, given that government partners are becoming more aggressive on a tribulation, the f. b, i allegedly paid twitter more than $3400000.00 in taxpayer funds. since october 2019 in return, they had switzer employees analyze in domestic users. i. p data and phone numbers checking for any foreign connections, even to see whether her name was rush and sounding. there was even a foreign influence task force was held regular meetings, attended by twitter, f, b i personnel,

and virtually every major tech firm like facebook and microsoft. o g, a or other government organization can be a euphemism for the cia. and that's according to multiple former intelligence officials and contractors. and what was being discussed in those meetings wasn't restricted to just international affairs. they kill 2 birds with one stone in that one, burring the hunter by the laptop story and the presence of neo nazis in ukraine. so all this time that washington has been accused in russia or using social media to shape public opinion. and it turns out that they were pulling the strings of one of the most popular social media platforms. in the world. journalists, martin jay said some social media platforms are being used as a tool for western information warfare. you know, i think there is a very strong push from western leads to manipulate social media platforms. because

we don't forget that one of the war is going on on the ground. and ukraine was the greatest victims in mind. few, the humble ukrainian people was a big, a war going on outside of ukraine, which i think is possibly even bigger and more significant. which is an information in an american's wherever they go around the world get involved in local political scraps. they always follow this doctrine of notarizing issues dumbing down every think. and then following up with a disinformation campaign, i think, you know, the more we look at the social media platforms, we see that they seem to correspond more with that ideology with those, those morales. if it's the right word and objectives, i should say that anything else? so it's out there. you know, it's very, very hard to take west and social media platforms. as soon as you, when there is this real lucid objective to root house. anyone who doesn't really agree, who actually threatens to even start

a debate on how we interpret the news every day from c, n, n and nbc and bbc, etc. you can get more details on all the twitter files. we're evaluations including the hunter bite and laptop scandal security agents. are you considering of social media as well as the outrageous russian election meddling claims all on our website at r t dot com. a washington base palestinian journalists has been banned from twitter for reporting on the israeli armies. actions the last 2 he posted on his account before the band was a photo of to israeli security officials during an attempt to the rest of an arm, palestinian, who subsequently died side r. a caught himself spoke to us about his case saying his reporting on the palestinian conflict was the main reason behind his suspension. i think it's related to the palestinian israeli conflict. i definitely, you know,

i wouldn't say i'm a loud voice, but i'm a voice that speaks of what is going on to the house 10 years on the daily basis in the press briefing. and i think that may be a cause for annoyance or cause for you know, discontent no, by those who are constantly advocating for israel. i do believe that there is set, you know, maybe at some point to parents, maybe from israel, maybe from the way the think tanks and is read maybe the pro rated lobby and then i'd state. i never heard back from them. i know there was a few journalists, liberal journalist, they call them and because they were suspended because they, it, we did things about the musk and the issue was raised in the state department on the 16th of december. and you know, i, i said i was banned as well. i was suspended as well. and lo and behold the

following day, all the others were reinstated, but not the so i continue to be suspended. i believe that it is directly related to the power in the issue. there is no other reason. you know, the social media network has previously banned several palestinian news outlets without specifying any reasons. that's this fight. twitter is new c, e o e law mosque earlier calling himself a free speech. absolute is and accusing the platforms past leadership of using censorship to silence on wanted political viewpoints. the latest choice and could tarry corruption scandal which has in golf. the whole of the european union now has a moroccan spy in the center of the investigation. mohammed bella, rec, the a legit moroccan secret agent is suspected of corruption targeting european m e p's in recent years. and it turns out he's been on the european intelligent services

radar for some time. according to media reports, he is one of the links connecting former european parliament member peer antonio pens, area to the moroccan secret service pens ary, the former president of the n g o phi impunity, which was found to be a link between many keys suspects. now faces charges for money laundering and corruption, the former e u. parliament vice president of a kylie was also arrested and faces similar accusations other e you politicians involved with fight impunity. we're also investigated by police including major union chief luke, of the same teeny who was subsequently arrested and socialists, m e p. mark terah, bella, whose home was rated. here's how one of the board members described the situation. she found herself it, i feel extremely used, pans, airy has used our names,

our reputations. it's just such a betrayal. if this is now a big laundromat, which it seems to be, then it's so cynical because our vital human rights work. it is something that is so badly needed in the time where we are. in total belgian police have rated 20 locations in brussels, connected to the corruption investigation authorities seized phones and computers, as well as $1500000.00 euros in cash. the moroccan intelligence service has yet to comment on allegations of its involvement, while could tar has vehemently denied all the accusations labeling them. quote, baseless and gravely misinformed, political and financial analysts. angel juliano says the corruption investigation is evidence of a much larger problem. is that? yes, but again, we need to remember that they important case which we bigger is the collections can be changed from july and the t or pfizer. we are talking about the

a scandal of 35000000000. you low of transactions for the purchase of copays vaccines. corruption is something they widespread in the you. the only thing what is actually very allow me here is that it was not sophisticated the, this, this corruption was made with cash 1500000 euro in cash. she was very amateur, usually the way they do corruption. in d, u is by creating offshore accounts and i think maybe they felt untouchable. this is in the context of the labeling is being in this case it's a kid goals of the collective west. we haven't cut our gates. we need to ask the question, is because of composition is taking a more neutral positions between the collective west and these new multiple what that is the legitimate question because i was always in the hotness of the

you. this is the 1st time that actually going to cut our heavily. this may be the cause car you starting not to listen to the collective west. western media reports claim russia has been removing its gold from european banks as a result of sanctions. r t brings the details of moscow's plans to build self sufficient gold reserves instead of relying on the us dollar. after western sanctions froze, nearly half of russia's golden foreign exchange reserves, moscow is doubling down on its efforts to counter the increased economic uncertainty with the russian finance ministry now suggesting to replace foreign cash reserves with gold bars. the initiative has found a vocal support among lawmakers. you wouldn't, under the current circumstances, people do not have many financial instruments to protect their savings. therefore, this measure is aimed at allowing citizens to protect their savings and at

d dollar ice in the economy. especially since now there are various risks when trying to make exchanges for other bank notes that will be impossible to use in russia. gold bars are safer than traditional currencies of so called unfriendly states. the 1st steps on the way to achieve greater independence were made back in march. when new legislation scrapped a 20 percent value added tax on purchasing gold for individuals and allowed buying gold bars with foreign currency, the movies sparked a 7 fold rise and demand for gold on the domestic market with 30 tons being sold so far. this year. the finance ministry expects those numbers to continue to rise up. people have started buying more gold bars. so these are not necessarily bank standard 12 kilogram bars. they can be much smaller. i talked to manufacturers as well as the minting company goes knock. they said there are no problems and there is no shortage of gold. it should be borne in mind that russia is one of the

leaders and gold production. this is our competitive advantage. we have to use this, especially it's such a difficult time. and that's our wrap on the hour's top news stories from around the glove for more 247 youth coverage. head over to r t dot com. thanks for tuning in. we'll see back at the top of the hour. ah ah ah ah

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we choose to look for common ground. ah ah hello in welcome to cross top where all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle piece and ukraine seems essentially impossible. and there's a reason for this. nato wants russia to be completely defeated. russia and turn demands new pan, european security structures, protecting it's interest. as long as nato exist, there'll be no peace or security for anyone. i cross stuck in ukraine. i'm joined by my guess pet escobar in paris. he's an

independent geopolitical analyst and author specializing in eurasia and brussels. we have look rebate. he is an independent journalist and in kingston we cross who geral, 70. he is founder and director of trends research institute and publisher of the weekly trends journal magazine or a gentleman cross hoc rolls. in fact, that means you can jump anytime you want. and i always appreciate pepe. let me go to you 1st here. there's a huge aysa asymmetrical process in play here. the europeans, the west collective wants to see russia completely defeated. russia want security guarantees, and i have a solution to it. and it's a simple one. why don't work towards peace, and that's something that the west will never do. pepe, of course not. and they keep saying that every day, via still defining stole timbered by american generals via antonia will terrace. the sorry, portuguese i had of the you when i via a.