ah, with 2023, the brand new year has already arrived in most parts of the world, the country across the globe, celebrating with stunning fireworks on spectacular life. looking ahead, we discussed the main social, political, and economic trends that will define for future with the will the new year bring a new world order. as more countries look to where would they shed multi polar structure and relations on the 2022 thought proximate from the long sunday, unipolar world with

unwelcome in a very happy new year to you. it's 10 am on the 1st of january here in moscow. salty international. well, let's start the, our with the new year where most of the world is on to the new calendar. now we've seen countries around the globe, celebrating with light shows on spectacular firework displays. stunning pyrotechnics. a paid in the u. e. reportedly breaking to getting a speck of world records. also, the brazilian capital was celebrating with thousands of spectators watching the night sky from the beach. meanwhile, china has celebrated the new yet with a spectacular light show. also, celebrations was seen here in the russian capital where thousands of people flooded the streets, congratulating each other. and despite many rounds of western sanctions, posing economical pressure on moscow, russia was able to stabilize its economy. martinez, it's steve sweeney brings us this report from the capital we will seeing the sensation as headlines moscow's ground to a wholesome, completely shut down life in russia will never be the same again. and the country

has once more retreated behind the iron curtain. oh i'm here in the capitol. i with the opportunity to show you what life is really like have on the ground. and a spoiler is very different from the so called iron curtain portrayed in the western media. first of all, no, we are not hit by some kind of social media blackout cut off from the outside world . a good vpn, get you everything you need. i'm even up to speed with the latest goings on in our square of the february, the 24th. the news came flooding in about shots and businesses leaving the country in some kind of mass exodus. if you believe the headlines there were no shops left in russia at all, but that's not quite true. many of those that did leave, did so at great cost, but more than 1000 foreign companies are still doing business have in russia. starbucks has simply rebranded itself as stars. and mcdonalds has a new owner and

a new name. but it's pretty much the same. i, we're still loving it. we spoke to people in the streets and asked them if they'd noticed any difference is, nike been indicate that there are many lem conference at unknown waste and the horn . once we found a placement for them, we started to support russian brands that maintain quality. coca cola double to las coca cola is gone, but we have a replacement of the local brand, aubrey called a lot of beverages. good once have appeared since coca cola left russia and i almost see no difference without mcdonald's either. i don't expect that brand to return, and i think the russian version, tasty, full stop is quite delicious. did you see that we managed to partially substitute for the brands that left for furniture, for example, ikea. we've replaced a portion of their products, they will be sydney to deny the impact to sanctions on the russian economy. of course, things aren't quite as they were before the special military operation. but at the same time is not quite as the west hope as it ramped up the pressure. remember

biden as a result of these unprecedented sanctions ruble almost immediately reduced to rubble. well, soon after the military operation began, the rubel did indeed tank 30 percent to the dollar hitting record lows. but the situation is stabilized. it's now $65.00 to $70.00 roubles to the us dollar, meaning that russia's currency is now stronger than it was before the military operations began. in fact, according to bloomberg, the rubel is the best performing currency in the world this year. but now, as the situation has stabilized, so has the west realization that it's overplayed it's hand. take the economists, for example, back in february, it was reporting dubin gloom, that the collapse of the rouble was continuing and compounding the isolation of russia. yet just months later in august, it was asking the question,

how does the ruble continue to defy expectations? well, maybe the answer is a simple one. perhaps those expectations shouldn't have been lowered in the 1st place, but not to say that there's no awareness of what's going on in the conflict though . it's a topic this not just disgust 80, but also exists in the public spread. across the city you'll see billboards adorned with as ed logo. posters like this one, declaring glory to rush in heroes. different pictures, different faces of different folders, of all run, a q, r code, how to find out more information. but there are serious discussions about how best to support those on the front line. this new year will look different for many russians. a lot of towns and cities have scrapped their celebrations altogether. here in moscow, a compromise was reached, a citywide boat was held, the outcome well atone down celebration without fireworks,

but the mer says that it important to keep those traditions alive. today, when thousands of men husband's fathers and sons are fighting for the independence of our motherland. when blood is being shed, when hundreds of thousands of civilians are suffering, we also face a choice in the name of the economy in the name of compassion, to abandon these holidays. or to spite the tragic circumstances to still remain human. people who adhere to their national traditions do not lose their spirit. they do not get discouraged. they believe in victory, not with tears, but with deeds. they support those who are on the front line today. so yes, there have been some hiccups along the way. or for many life will never be the same in roger again. but rushes, total isolation on it is collab. i predicted by the with a seemingly file to materialize. as the 2020 thing begins,

people around the globe are looking ahead till a positive year. as after 12 months, which so, protests, military, conflicts of a surgeon pandemic, and a deepening economic crisis. earlier i discussed the prospect for the new year with a panel of guests. i'm not being a pessimist, no pessimist is somebody who is irrationally negative. who is just always dower when there is no need to be just when i think i have figured that the human race has somehow exhausted, every possible means of destroying itself or its cultural origin. or its saturday, i'm disappointed because there's a new way. no, i think things are going to be much worse. and, but the only thing that will help most people is the diluted effect of the social media platforms which allow people to recess and to revert from reality and go into la la land and take pictures of their food. while society collapses famous,

the astrologer nostradamus, he made many interesting and unusual prophecies, as we know, he said, to predict the 3rd world war being on the horizon next year. what's your take on that? and does it look like tensions between some of the worlds and major powers are reaching that critical points? i say the possibility of potentially for a forefront war facing the united states, especially because it's out there with it's a gemini, stirring all of the sub has created the mess and in 2022. and i think it's, it, it just doesn't know how to help itself, and it's going to continue on that path. and it's going to create even greater tensions or in 2023. and we got to be watchful and any think and there can be something out of nowhere that could absolutely cause a, a catastrophic event, a cascading events that could lead to,

to this war front war that i just mentioned. they stem from the middle east to the, to, in, to in the pacific to, or of course europe, europe could in a 2nd war next year. and that, what is that war? that is basically coke casa, both serbia, nevada, can the world health organization, the world economic forum, the un, again, a reconfiguration and realignment of power structures that we've never seen before . and most people per usual have nary a clue. so watch carefully and be where there was a now it's been recently for example that like b tv bank, one of rushes, largest bank, has currently developed a new payment gateway that goes between russia and iran, allows people to lose money more or less instantly between the 2 countries, that's where we're moving the dominance of the financial system, which at the moment is controlled by a private company called swift,

which is basically how most move our money to and fro around the world. now that's gone. now we've seen that gone. we're going to see, i think, a whole bunch of new and exciting companies from china, russia, india, iran, or b as everyone thing or the new company. these new companies that will be stopped in this new multi poder waldo. that will start collecting really exciting payment technology that we've been stopped for in the financial industry for generations now. the times square just mars the new year about 2 hours ago. now let's rewind to some memories. americans will remember from the last one, president biden was able to make the highlight reel. it's a great asset. more inflation supercede. i know now the fry moves in no matter what their call to 101215 step one on the bus black.

anyway. i'm not concerned about with them concerned about it. i think the context is that whether or not they're pulling back from fallujah and the, i mean from the, the care sa inflations worldwide problem right now as a war in iraq and the impact on oil and which russia is doing distributed war in ukraine. and i think an iraq possessed my son. i guess we got a lot to do with i say hi to me. we go back a long way. she was 12, i was 30 but anyway,

a very much with his vice. got your bridges, my caps. what i say there's a man, i hope we're in the same side. you know, so he's russian with, i don't care who it is. got some real bisection that we call them guns. ah,

looking back 2022 was a year there. so cracks form in the long standing, modelled unipolar world news world in every month they showed the balance of power shifting and a new a shed. well, daughter rising. well, no, no, she wasn't before our very eyes, the world is changing and really becoming multi polar. however, some countries are trying to preserve their teetering germany at any cost using a wide range of political, military, economic, informational, and other methods and means. since the end of the 2nd world war, it felt like the world was ruled by a very few power, seemed concentrated in the hands of the global north and represented by the g 7 group of economies, all singing to the same west than him. but this year and you, horace is rising, the biggest new block is coming up and with a tidal wave. this is briggs 25 percent of the world's t,

d p. that the court of the was gross domestic product and 40 percent of its population. when measured in land was, it is a quarter of the world, this is what you and i, and the rest of us have been waiting for. a multi polar world is rising. and along with it many more keen to join in african biggest country by land mars and the continents biggest guess export algeria once in iran is also king, and it was right here in south africa that president settled on the plaza, told us about saudi arabia's interest as well, egypt and turkey allured and pondered why it's the spirit driven in co operation and inclusiveness heightened in trade, finance, supply chain and smuggling fracturing here no one is more over another with in the

group. and there's no meddling in each other's business or the tasing how they should handle their own, a face each with equitable global governance. radio, not a new world is coming. 2022 was the ear the word dollars aisha went a beat of ira. just as the jail political asked about changing with new regional powers, emerging, the global financial system is getting rid of a make over to focus m hope baker, his painful rush energies of with national currencies and even 50 to 50 splits between global and new that and if the plans of shanghai corporation of an invasion come to life will only see this trend accelerate with alternative payment system also on the horizon, the reliance on the dollar as the instrument supporting the will determine.

this is not so very promising for him to speak. and that is not by use of them. more and more transfers are shifting through or using cur, alternative currencies, shifting still use national currencies more and more and then the lease process so we will be, will be gaining momentum. we have see how washington says to hundreds of billions of dollars of fresh assets. we know promised that there will be returned. i am of the day to show that trenice un, i counted for almost 3 percent to the highest level since the day to began in 2016 at the same time, the dollars share job to, to below 59 percent to the lowest level in 25 years, but who sounded honey to saw the momentum grow. tours break in his dominance and age are ringing a new fear word odder. when the conflict in ukraine started,

western leaders said that anyone who doesn't sign up for their sanctions will be on the wrong side. all the history, india did not pick sides and 5 index position has been cleared. the position of you trying to see, after all law school is been an old friend to new delhi and also all trading part. so what india did instead was started building new banking channels to be able to trade with more school in ruby's india as appetite for russian crew also increased from mainly around one percent in ports in february to almost 22 percent now, which is nearly $1000000.00 barrels of crude di now in the own going geopolitical shift as far as india is concerned, its view or more school is not defined by how western countries see it's we have to be confident about who we are. i think it's better to engage the world on the basis of who we are rather than try and pleased

a one visit the limitation of what this idea does define us somewhere and we need to get the approval of the waters. i think that kind of it all we need to put behind in the foreign policy has been very, very clear that is to promote its own interest. first, for despite western pressures and more of judgments, india has been very clear that it's not going to be dictated by anyone who goes also that it won't play by the western rules set to price. the cap of its energy and russia has bound to export of crude oil and petroleum products to any country complying with the european plants cap on russian oil exports. we are prohibiting supplies of russian oil and petroleum products to foreign legal entities and individuals provided that the contracts for the supplies directly or indirectly

apply a price kept mechanism. things are really not looking very good here in france right now. and moscow's response to the g 7 in european union's price cap on russian oil . that is to ban deliveries, to countries that abide by the cap. does even kick in until february 1st and the e useful embargo on russian oil also hasn't been fully felt yet. because there's also a grace period there until january, so ships don't get caught out at sea, but already there are some signs of trouble here. hey, you know the fairy tale of cinderella, where she had to be home by midnight, or else her magic carriage turned back into a pumpkin? well, french drivers have until midnight on december 31st before their own cars. risk getting bricked turning into pumpkins because of sticker shock at the pump. because the discount that a live drivers here in france weren't even aware that the government had built into the price of fuel for the past few months to help offset the rising cost of energy is coming to a crashing halt when the clock strikes midnight on january 1st,

and at that point, the prices are set to go up by $10.00 to $0.20 per liter for everyone, except about $10000000.00 french citizens who will qualify for the help that's replacing it. in the case of workers who make less than $14700.00 euros per year, who will need to fill out a government form to get on all whopping $100.00 euros to cover the entire year of energy price heights for 2023. meanwhile, french factories are already planning to ring in the new year by not reopening after the holiday. citing skyrocketing production costs, one manager of the company that produces isolation material, told the french press that he seen. i 100 percent increase in material costs and 500 to 700 per cent spikes in energy prices. oh and get this. the french energy transition minister. i guess penny, who now she tweeted on tuesday that if you hear home with would in france,

the government will now offer you assistance of between 50 and 200 euros. the state acts against rising prices from this tuesday, december 27th. if you want timber to help you warm up, you can benefit from assistance ranging from 50 to 200 euro's. it was just so surreal. this tweet that you think you're looking at a parody account. but nope, and apparently the energy transition minister, i guess, is going to help friends transition straight back to the cave man days, hey, maybe the government can toss in a free bag of marshmallows so that at least french citizens can all feel like they're having fun, camping out home rather than huddling around the fire like they're back in the stone age. maybe we can even like, since production is troublesome right now because of energy cost me, we can like start bashing on rocks in the fire to hobble that. it's hard to believe that this is supposed to be one of the world's most developed countries, which at one point prided itself on its nuclear energy independence. earlier we

spoke with a number of experts about the matter. china and india were the main targets of these. these price gaps, remember usa, we secretary ellen, are traveling in asia, trying to convince beijing delhi to, to agree to comply by it. and both capitals made it abundantly clear that they will not because they both being for magic rather than political. and because both countries are huge, oil consumers and equally huge oil importance, they need the oil to survive. and for that, for them is really a question of gaping their economies going. it's not a question of politics, overt signaling. it won't make any difference to russia. russia has exposed already new mach case, and the increasing consumption all russian oil to china and india. and

also pakistan is the negotiating our with the russia on and paul called flourishing crude oil and trying to make good searches, necesary changes into a refined race. before we get to this, been the perception that when russia is being sanctioned, left right and center, i'm not able to respond. so this is the response from the russian president from the russian federation douglas center, quote, straits does not going to come in here and play your games as if now the oil and gas or the energy has control. it won't be in washington, especially the european countries have the ones that i have to suffer from just decreased by the ones that are, are really sticking to russia. i do to get them back from lunch is only the western countries that are more of an issue that i show you that we're benefiting from the resources of russia that are going to stop and count the conflict in ukraine. new

year, i saw the shelling of don't yes, by ukrainian forces. the wounded 3 people, including an infants, according to local officials. it's been verified footage posted on line shows massive fires near the residential areas. local officials say at least 25 shells were directed at the city center. reportedly, russia responded and talked to infrastructure in several ukrainian cities. the 3 new explosions were reported in kaz overnight. this is footage from the capitol, where parts of electricity supply have been knocked out and had been declared throughout the ukraine earlier sunday. meanwhile, some of the new territories that have joined russia, trying to regain a normal life mario paul, on the black sea coast, with a whole spots of fighting during the conflict ortiz contributor, if a bartlett has more on the efforts to rebuild the city. 2022 is coming to an end.

it was here of great sorrow for the people of the don bass. and especially here in mary ople mariel. paul is a city that sy massive battles to evict ukrainian forces and the nazis that were embedded with them. consequently, there was much destruction, but in contrast to what western corporate media would have, you believe the city was not destroyed. western corporate media also would not like you to know that. in fact, there are positive developments like massive reconstruction projects, including new hospitals, new and rehabilitated schools and new apartment complexes. this is one of them at that global official. this school existed for the last 40 years and has been here since 1982. during the war, the school suffered 6 direct hits, the offices assembly hall and the school was significantly damaged. but life is great, everything is being restored now. and as you can see, literally this school was restored in 2 months. plus this, it already has traffic lies, st. lighting, electricity in all houses, water supply and gas supply is already returning to many houses in the city. and

communications are working. there was work, but we will wait. we are happy and we like everything. oh douglas, there are big construction projects happening. life is getting better slowly. everything is fine for yourself with your clothes that are sitting we've of course, after the destruction it was difficult, but now you can see the massive construction going in the city. this can be called the construction of the century and life is getting better. life is becoming more interesting. it's even easier for you to breathe. everything is great. it feels good to know that we're under the care of the russian federation for which our thank you. in syria and late 2016 after al qaeda and other terrorist groups were expelled from the city of a lap o, a leper residents erected a christmas tree in christmas decorations and celebrated the new year and their freedom and their future. so to our residents of mary, up already to celebrate their futures now that the city has been restored to calm during have new years speech, chinese president champagne address one of the most pressing issues. his country

faced in 2022 the cove it pandemic, uns cold for unity king or jim who georgia the nor the from our colossal efforts. we overcame unprecedented difficulties and challenges which were not easy for everyone. now the prevention and control of the epidemic has entered a new stage. everyone is working hard, persevering, and the dawn is ahead and in persistence. and unity is our victory. those recently china, our case western media outlets of misrepresenting the situation in the country and soft a strict anti cove. it measures were lifted. now, a number of nations that previously paging to remove those barriers or imposing travel restrictions on chinese nationals amid reduce phase of the renewed phase of the virus spread, a marina closer. if i take the deeper look into the issue, it's the case of dams. if you do this and if you don't know the china is relaxing, it's shred, 0 coal, with policies after 3 long years,

which had 1st and foremost as the expense of its economy bought for the sake of its people, was for me the are having a field day with headlines like to be for did you know that as of may this year, more than 1000000 people have died from call it in the u. s. we learn that more than 1000000 americans have now died from the disease a milestone. we didn't want to think about, but new was coming in a pen demik that's far from over. that's more than any country in the world. now, did we see the same hysteria in the media as we're seeing now with china? of course, not as the us took the headline lead in the number of deaths and cases during the pandemic where americans singled out and forth to be tested more than other world travelers. no time is asking how come a small number of western media have deliberately hyped up and even misrepresented china's covert policy adjustment. and yet avoided reporting on the deficiencies and

heavy price paid in their own countries called response. this is nothing but double standards and is clearly against journalistic ethics. just a few weeks ago when we saw dozens of protests across various cities in china against the country strict cove measures what's your leaders were keen to push beijing to compromise and meet the protesters, demands calling fusion ping and also a terry and dictator. china has to figure out a way forward on dealing with was covered a way for that answers the of the health needs, but also answers the needs of people. locked down is not a policy that we support here. but obviously there are people in china that, that have concerns about that and their protesting that. and we believe they should be able to do that piece for i think we're seeing the chinese people speak up for more freedom against the coven lockdown policies. i support that, well, what happened? you got what to wanted, didn't you? and now people are a change in their tune,

applaud in china's original success in containing the virus and saying that now it's a disaster. even japan, which was asking china to relax. it's quarantine measures just a month ago is now afraid of chinese travelers and in america. as always, the double standards are comical. remember when the by the administration will smear in trumps china travel back at the start of the pandemic as racist. no republican president nor democratic president, we have racist and they've existed, they tried to get elected president. the 1st one that has and mom was like this, this is were a credible your president is most need, as he explains what we should and should not do. this is no time for donald trump record of esther xenophobia historical xenophobia. fast forward to this if you've been to china get ready because the cove its ass are back.