an engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves will depart. we choose to look for common ground. ah. in 10, i think they're in session gunfire as a russian troops at bonds. and one of the most significant battle grounds to date of that have the ukraine conflict of germany are against sending military 8 the key f. according to a recent poll, as many say, those supplies will only prolong the conflicts they try to achieve peace by supplying war machines. and to me, that's a perverted logic. i don't want the government to simply ignore that people. they should also take the opinion of the people in so count on the program,

the u. s. strengthens it's military presence near china's orders. as a top commander says, washington has been following a ukraine style. facebook for ramping up operations in the asia pacific region and crowds take to the streets of brazil's major cities, just the 4th. president lula still following a violent attempted cruise in the national capital with them. so as the world turns and finds itself increasingly conflicted, we are here to set the record straight. welcome to your new zonati international. first up now straight to the news, our latest news, the conflict in ukraine. as we understand intense fighting reported in the donated republic as russian troops advance on strategic areas in that region of the head of the republic says that the town of sola dodd is close to being under full russian

control. and just a short time ago, i was discussing this and other recent developments with our senior correspondent, guys, df. now why the units are on the fringes on the west of the city? so ukraine has school, but lots that you have prominent ukrainian journalist coming out and say, look, it's, it's over, we're going to give up solid on the point these if they give up solid duck, the road to credit comma taurus and slowdowns to key cities in easton, ukraine, that road will be open about the ukrainian, the fed slide, and that is from buffalo to solider and then on to the city of save if it is all entirely a natural defense of light, which is why does taken the russian forces so long term to break through and they're on the, on the cuff now of breaking through. it's a natural defense of law because only a eastern side throughout this geographic area. the ground, the, the,

the geography such that solid dotted buckled and said of, ah, are above so that they're high up. and the ground gently, slopes away and the russians have be forced to assault from the doubt up. and that is in solid, on the case of solider that has been almost exclusively the wagon, the group in bottom with their also incredibly active. and i was there, i was a inclin, the boy vladimir of cub, which is the outskirts, basically just be on solid. and that is as far as we will able to get because the, the situation is such that ukraine would just roll tags out and shook is, could see everything down below and shoot at anything that move. and you had small groups of wagner at 89 people. a so troops, basically making a dash 100 meters finding a crater somewhere and hunkering down. they could be there for a deva,

for 2 days without any supplies. just hunker down up front, so close up with ukrainian troops and it just be a need. grab that, that. take one crate. then the next that find that you say ukrainian troops. you talk about a meat grinder, you've spent so much time down that you thing down definitely several months moda. is it all ukrainians that russians are fighting down the? no, it isn't it, isn't it? it used to be but snaking criminal for example, which is just just north of, of service there and tar sectors of the front line. good. the troops there that give us the radio captured radius trophy radios at captured from, from, from enemy forces. and we'd listen and that have all sorts of buttons of pre coded encrypted radio. you click on one channel and you don't hear german speech. you really hit german speed, you click on another and you don't hear polish speech and polish speech was predominant in ta sexes. of the front live that would only be polish speech. there

weren't any ukrainians that we knew also that the troops knew of on the other side, ukraine's losses in solid are in button would have been they've been catastrophic. they've been ukraine, admit so itself. president zalinski has come up, tom and tom again and said it is hell on earth. what is happening there? but to give credit where credit is due, the wagner group has proved to be a lot formidable force and absolutely formidable force. the, they, the, the strategy and tactics that they use are designed to, and half succeeded in depleting the best of ukraine's units. and we're talking here special forces. we're talking, well prepared mercenaries, or all foreign forces that have arrived to help you grant a. we're talking about foolish regulars, which is which is what they are regulars on leave sent in in the entire units attachments or severely depleted on the solider and on the bottom line which,

which has caused ukraine to pull units out of other areas such as up north there came in that a smuggler and throw them into the meat grinder that is solid up. but yesterday, in solar dog, we had fighting in the center of the city around the, the, the mayor's office. the city in the spacious russia is fighting the best of the west right here. these soldiers, these mercenaries, they're getting the latest technology from nato and from america and from england as well. and, and yet it, it's not going in their favor right now. let morale let, let's bring this back to the russian side here. sort of the show again, the russian defense minister as announced reforms to military operations in ukraine and syria. so shoot them over it's, i knew i my parents in taken into account. our experience in the special military operation to supreme commander in chief has set a number of tasks for us. the main one is to take measures for the qualitative renewal of the armed forces and increased their combat capabilities. we must

constantly analyze in system a ties the experience and actions of our groups in ukraine and syria. the issue here is that, yes, russia is saying that we've, we've amassed a huge amount of experience. we've seen what works, what doesn't mean we're not only talking about military vehicles and the houses, and the more doesn't the air helicopters and fly control systems radios. we're also talking about taxi, you know, in the future, in this mass mod more, what russian needs to focus on, what we need less of, what we need more of. and all of this is coming together to define rushes, army rushes, military going into the future, make, make their mistake. what miss the shy? do? said western leaders or generals out know so say, let us take the british army, for example. both a few tens of thousands of men, they would be incapable of acting as an independent porcelain at any major

battlefield. the lessons of this war or such that modern war is incredibly expensive. he, these incredibly bloody and that all of these, a doctrines that we've had from, from the last century, all of these military doctrines that they are out of date. or meanwhile, as the press reports are, ukraine has been complaining, but the west is not providing enough weaponry in the conflict. ukraine is grateful to partners for their military aid, but we should remain honest with one another. no one has done enough, as long as russian boots remain on ukrainian ground. arming our country for victory is the shortest way to restoring peace and security in europe and beyond. there are now report that the u. k. is considering sending a number of challenger tanks to ukraine, the u. s. plan to deliver striker armored vehicles and that's adding to last week's

news that her, the u. s. and germany would provide 50 bradley and 40 mondor armored vehicles respectively. france is also promised to supply an estimated 30 reconnaissance vehicles. la germany also has not ruled out live deliveries of that of the heavy leopard tanks to key of let's despite a recent poll showing that 49 percent of germans are opposed to providing tanks to ukraine and other 11 percent of respondents were unsure. so we hit the streets of berlin to gauge, local reaction. also shows a lot of this is a load of, especially since it's coming from a government that claims to be green and to have green values or left wing values. central piece and things are that make peace with our arms above, but instead they try to achieve peace by supplying war machines. and to me, that's a perverted logic of people who think like this. who think them or weapons help anyone but the arms industry. i don't know what's wrong with their brains and

what's happening inside of their minds, sort of an industry as which fin. okay, well, i'm definitely not a fan of the way germany is handling the shield arms supplies. i know that there is a huge market for this, but i don't like the fact that we are supporting it in such a strong way. i think that money might simply be more important than the opinion of the people like it is often the case. unfortunately, let our get us, i don't want the government to simply ignore that. people, you know, maybe they should give better explanations for their reasoning. but they should also take the opinion of the people in. so count we did hear from one german lawmaker who says that with the continued pumping of western weapons into ukraine, peace talks will inevitably remain a long way off. the ukraine has been calling for increased western military supports for almost since the beginning of the conflict. initially

that support was more limited, but the west is down. step equity debit to blair. i hard to you grades attitude. so if what is interesting did a peaceful resolution piece for the quick piece for resolution about this conflict, bio dependent is that the west and that if you get the west and the increase in west ability to support is not helpful. the best be the recent pull, which shows that 49 percent of the job and population opposed to any kind of military support for your grade. why is the government but chris to get ahead of the less? well, it shows that the government is obviously not responsive to the popular desire for peace. unfortunately, for my point of view, job,

but the political establishment has changed position as they've got a lot further than the previous top us commander says, washington successfully prepared for the ukraine conflict. and now the us should follow the very same playbook in the asia pacific region. as it run its positions all around china. why have we achieved the level of success we've achieved in ukraine a big part of that has been because after russian aggression in 2014 in 2015, we earnestly got after preparing for future conflict training for the ukrainians. pre positioning of supplies, identification of sites from which we could operate, support, and sustain operations. we call that setting the theater, and we are setting the theater in japan, in the philippines and in other locations. the situation has drawn parallels where

the u. s. actions pertaining to the ukraine conflict. similarly, the u. s. ramped up its military presence in former soviet, an eastern bloc countries within russia is traditional sphere of influence. now, western powers have imposed more sanctioned sanctions against russia than any other country. well, let sir. let's examine just for a moment, these points a bit more closely here on the program. we'll start with u. s. military activity in china's back yard. would you be surprised to know the u. s. has established a well huge defensive alliance is in the asia pacific region that includes an orchestra with australia and the 5 eyes intelligence group with new zealand. america has also set up numerous military bases in japan and south korea. naval and air force operations very far away from america, but very close to chinese territory. and the u. s. military conducts drills with its allies all along china's borders. so we spoke earlier with matt ropes and the former deputy foreign minister of new zealand. now, according to him, he says, washington's ultimate goal for china is to provoke that of an armed conflict. the

trying the same thing with taiwan and not to directly involved the united states soldiers on the ground at the stage, but to use other countries to be involved. taiwan itself. all the people who have a tie one embarked upon an aggressive strategy both against russia because of its independence policies and china buzz independent polls isn't because it also has a very strong position in terms of the, of all of those, the cycling governments. all of this could be resolved peacefully, cooperatively, countries could have the differences in box. they don't have to go to war for it. but unfortunately, the final step told the united states as in any launch imperialist country is to have war to get its way. and that's the big danger for the world. another

point is that over economic pressure or the u. s. has been pushing its allies to restrict high tech exports, the china, including discussions with japan, the netherlands, and south korea. that's according to the u. s. ambassador to japan, ahead of expected, further senior level folks in washington. you've got to work through no, just japan, but you've got to work through obviously, korea. you've got to work through the dutch, all the potty, sorry to table all the parties have mutual shared interest in the outcome. everybody has different aspects of the industry. the deal been sort will not be just bilateral. it must be multilateral. well, those 3 us allies are essential suppliers for china's high tech sector, or the netherlands is the largest provider of computer ship services. a japan is among the world's top supplies of equipment for semiconductor production. while both south korea and japan are the biggest exporters of computer chips to china.

again, matt ropes and says, america is ultimately backing china into a corner. there's a lot of concerns about the constant you as pressure on other independent countries, china, russia, all parts of the world. they don't agree with the governments, and they use this strategy to try and strangle, or industry to develop. and so it's not new, but it's disturbing. that has reached a new level and the country like south korea, which actually has a tremendous economic integration with the people's republic of china and even japan, which is more compliant with us to moms. of course, is military occupied by the united states. they is against their own, they can amik interests. but the pressure that the united states is putting on to take the step. china goes, as you say,

that they have no military alliances outside of china. anyway, can be perceived as threatening and then states. but the united states is creating this, this so goal, threat to the united states. ah, it's great to have your company today. australia has rejected an asylum request from an alleged chinese spy, despite expressing previous support for him with the media, even betraying him as a hero. let's shed some light on this. his marina cars. his name is lit, jung wong leitz young, but he's definitely no james bond than when you look at all the evidence. it's amazing that australia and the west fell for his act. so begin with. let's start from the beginning. this man 1st appeared on australian national and c v a few years ago, claiming to be a chinese spy. this is where he revealed that his mission was to further beijing's

interests primarily in hong kong and taiwan. among his claims was that as an undercover agent, he kidnapped booksellers, whose works angered the chinese government that he infiltrated universities and stole military intelligence and weapons. that he undermined the protest movement in hong kong, manipulates the election results in taiwan and embezzled public assets there. and of the west, a at it all up after all it fit their anti chinese narrative. so jackpots, this young double 07 was paraded on national to be and portrayed as a hero, a hero in need of protection. haven't spilled all this. he about his home country, australia and authorities also joined then initially ignore an issue such as his young age and the lack of the telling his story. and the fact that everything he spoke about was already in the public domain. i'm of the view that anyone who's

willing to assist us in defending our sovereignty deserves our protection. i think he deserves our protection and our support. hostile foreign intelligence activity continues to pose a real threat to our nation and its security. i have no doubt in my mind that he would be the subject of severe consequences. were he to return to china? china was adamant that the west was being conned by this camera. happy spy. their version was that this, the factor was actually a fugitive. who was under investigation for fraud in china? actually, the facts are clear for these fraud who became a spy. this is a totally absurd loophole ridden screenplay concocted by anti china forces. they even release footage of one leads young in chords in china face in the fraud charges where he seemingly admits to being a liar on earth cor. documents and witness statement seems to corroborate china's version of the story. bots may be this intriguing fairy tale was target to pass up at the time for the western media since it was during

a period of really tense relations between australia and china. their lowest points in almost 50 years with accusations of election meddling human rights violations. and china allegedly weaponized in trade. sometimes it really is a case of wishful thinking. but it seems that finally australia and the west half caught on, wang has not only been accused of committing fraud against an australian citizen. but he was also denied asylum. a decision that was upheld by the australian appeals tribunal, partly because they now have doubts over his claims. and how, if at all this tribe you nor can safely find that wang was engaged in espionage activities. it will be interesting to see how much coverage the spy force would get after it has back wired on the west. but it just goes to show, once again, how sometimes ideology overwhelms you and you just can't say nodes. her good spy

thriller, even if it is a bunch of fiction. we heard from political experts him anderson in sydney. now he seems to believe that washington actually has some involvement in the alleged chinese espionage saga. mister wang, it seems as a little bit too far out on a limb, even for the australian authorities and the background that wasn't 50 years ago in schools, we were told australia as part of china. and we were all encouraged to learn asian languages and, and of course, the economic relations with, with se, asia and china grew and grew in a china has been australia's biggest trade partner. and this was the case until 4 or 5 years ago when washington turned around and decided, or, you know, with obama's pivot to asia and trump's economic war against asian companies. and then nancy pelosi is trip to taiwan that are a stranger. unfortunately, the, the, the clutch of politicians are extremely weak. they can't really resist joining in

with the washington campaign. but it went wider than that. it was the media promoting these things. that's true. the corporate media that promotes all of these are the latest campaign from washington. it's also academics. we had a number of academics coming out early on saying this man was credible and, and added to all of the what was known about china and so on. of course, what really upset the story was back at the beginning 3 years ago. there was already opponents of beijing who was, i know this guy as a fraud. he is a lawyer. there was taiwanese intelligence or officer, retired one people in hong kong was supposedly the victims of beijing who were saying don't believe this guy, he's a fraudster. so all of all the wanting sounds were out there from the beginning. but nevertheless, the story proceeded. the chinese national currency is about to get a big boost in latin america and that a major trade deal with argent. tina china is already one of washington, has main economic partners. and the currency swapped deal for about roughly that

a $20000000000.00 certainly has good timing. south africa, excuse me, in south america, not sure if the country it's actually been looking to increase its foreign currency reserves in order to fulfill economic guidelines as dictated by the international monetary fund. a china is argentina, 2nd largest trade partner behind brazil. it's also the 2nd biggest destination for argentinian exports. currency exchange deal is to facilitate payments between the 2 countries in chinese. you one, we heard from economic expert if $1.00 cost now to learn more about this, china has a stable money and monetary policy, as well as the world's biggest international reserves. so china is promoting a monetary policy towards optimization of its resources and richness. looking for an autonomous,

a locally very bred dominant monetary expansion where it will be a benchmark for the world. when you have a strong money, everybody goes after this strong money. it's called the gresham wall. it's natural that the r continuance will look for more activities towards china and with a chinese strong you one. the merging godfrey's, such as brazil, russia, india, china, south africa. i have with more and more time with in these last years better, higher, stronger presence in lots of forums. so to big part of the bricks is really very important for our current dina, and are in dina because of its enormous political and economic crisis to look for

more participation. supporters of brazilian president lula to silver have hit the streets of major cities nationwide. the back up his government, it's basically following a violent, attempted coo and the nation's capital. oh, that some participants of the pro government rallies have gone as far as to condemn with the attempted crew was a terrorist attack. and his local reporter, michelle de mayo in south palo with more details about the investigation into that of the previous right. now as i look a little say to us were on one of the main streets of so paola, the largest city in brazil, and national demonstration is going on behind me. and now in defense of democracy and against the cour town that took place last night in the federal capital of brazil, err so far. 1500 people have been detained for participating in the court. and the

justice ministry says that these people could face up to 20 years in prison. the other charges are destroying the government headquarters in brazil, air, and the theft of weapons, ammunition and classified documents from state intelligence services. president lula. the silver has just met with $23.00 governors and 4 representatives of other subjects of the federation to develop a clear plan for all levels of government to prevent any further attempts and disability ation. all of this is due to the fact that in addition to the actuals of the purchase, their tax on federal buildings in brazil, there are camps of extremist groups that advocate for an armed intervention and a cool that have been working for 2 months already. all these camps are being liquidated in the capitol and in rio de janeiro, cell polar, and other major cities. nevertheless, these extremist groups are trying to set a barricades on the streets and commit other acts of industrialization. after

meeting with the governors, president lula, the silver walked with them around the leaders, official residence, clearly demonstrating unity. he said they will work together to protect the countries democracy. people say that they don't want amnesty for the violent protesters. they want all the people involved in the riot to be held respond symbol for the attempted. cool. let's listen to their statements. thought of some of the key. we're here to defend democracy and president lula who was recently legitimately elected. we were against the attempt to crew organized by a part of the population that is far from reality blow up in 2018 when both scenario one, the left to success to this. and now when lula one, we need to accept it. today's the day to fight for his victory hacienda. if people came out to defend democracy and speak out to gaze the cool attempt, brazil's capital will continue to remain in the state of emergency until the end of this month. see that justice ministry secretary at ricardo capella remains in charge of public order. while the governor over the federal district in bernice

russia was removed from power for a period of 9 to days upon a decision by the supreme court. this is the situation at the moment then uses constantly being updated. brazil is going through a very tough period because it has been only 7 days since lola officially became president. these attacks on the institutions of power are the most serious, says the beginning of democracy in brazil will monitor the development of the situation. are shifting gears now to peru, where at least 18 civilians have been killed and heavy clashes with police. a supporters of the impeach president pedro castillo, hit the streets to protest the current government, a hundreds, a reporter to be injured, including at least $23.00 police officers, as locals attempted to take over the international airport. the protest are aimed at our interim president, dina variety, with our citizens saying she has to resign and they feel like they are being discriminated against by the new government available here, i'm

a found the spot on the the police officers were shooting at us. why think there are 5 wounded and one that we call a president of perused the unable to water to resign because you are a murderer. you know, many people are dying because of you. you must accept that the people don't want you who is going to defend us. who's going to look after this, children who are traumatized, the children for becoming fatherless, motherless orphans. the state is not going to come to see us. we have wounded comb, race wounded villagers from hotspots all around the world to a place where they're just freezing. the temperature in parts of russia has dropped to minus $42.00 degrees celsius or minus 40 for fahrenheit. and with streets are covered mostly in ice, and a bit of sprinkled snow locals in the city of if you could go simply have, well, they used to the tricks to saying wall they just keep on moving. a layering up

though, they have to put on at least a wardrobe of clothes and they're even putting blankets on that cars as well. have a look at that in some neighboring villagers, the temperature fell just slightly below minus 61. the forecast says it's only going to get colder. i thought about it for now here on our team for national life for moscow, but this our program, i'm always to show the entire use team here. thanks for joining us. we're back soon at the top of the news. ah, transition surgery is being pushed in america right now as life or death. st. allowing a gender a for me here to be performed on teenagers will prevent them from committing suicide. but it's more doctors and hospitals advertise these procedures.