ah, with name rejects accusations that responsible for a myth all strike on a residential building, a lengthy advisor, blame the deadly explosion on the result of ukraine's own defense. meanwhile, the correction president, south side, need those ongoing support for keep calling. it's washington's proxy war against russia. also, this, our india hit the historic peak of $1000000.00 barrels of russian crude oil per day, $33.00 times more than a year with

moscow to the world. this is the international line, peter scott. and these, the top stories are welcome to the program. now russia maintains that it doesn't targets civilian infrastructure in ukraine, not false accusations from kia that moscow intentionally stroke an apartment building in the city of the near po. petrovic. volume is, the lensky has also condemned russia what he calls moscow, silence over the tragedy. however, the criminal has been quick to point out that one of the ukrainian president's own advisors admitted that the country's air defenses were in fact, responsible for the tragedy. the russian armed forces do not strike residential buildings or social infrastructure facilities strikes are conducted against military targets, either obvious or camouflaged. you yourself saw the conclusions of some representatives of the ukrainian side who said that this tragedy was the result of the actions of air defense systems, or pasco. there is a reference saying reports that 36 people were killed and dozens injured. after an

apartment building was struck in the city of napa troughs. now this comes and made a wave of russian strikes, targeting ukrainian energy infrastructure with moscow, saying that they did not target that building. at the same time he ab is insisting that russia must be responsible. but one of ukrainian presidents zalinski is, own advisors has spoke out and said that the building was likely hit as a result of the response from ukraine's air defense systems. where you'd be, you'd be no, no pull in the beach. the missile was shut down, but it fell on the building. it exploded when it fell down. now that adviser has since apologize for his comments after they were met with strong backlash from other ukranian officials. we should also note that the ukrainian military's initial response to these claims was to insist that their air defense systems could not have been responsible saying that they were not capable of targeting that caliber of missile. while at the same time in the past, they have claimed to have done just that. indeed, no also reaction been so far in the press on the line,

richer or the western media was quick to put the blame on russia with articles claiming that moscow was specifically targeting civilian infrastructure. however, when it came to those comments that were made by zalinski advisors, there was silence. and that's especially notable when you look at the fact that when it comes to ukraine's air defense systems, we've seen a number of issues with them. especially when you look back at that incident from november where ukrainian missile landed in polish territory, killing 2 people. now at the same time, this isn't really anything new because as we've seen, the western media has a tendency to overlook a number of cases where you crane has specifically targeted civilian infrastructure and killed civilians across the don that dating back to 2014. so a lot of statements being made here and will continue to follow as latest updates become available. ukraine, syria and guest transits were at the center of a conversation between the russian and turkish presidents who spoke on the phone on

monday. let's get more on this from our correspondent, steve sweeney. steve, tell us more about this phone call between the presidents and what was discussed? well, naturally, as you'd expect, the pam exchange views on the ongoing conflict in ukraine. they focused on a recent meeting in the took his capital and cro, between the ukranian and russian human rights commissioners. and also they discussed prisoner exchanges, which turkey has previously mediated. vladimir putin highlighted the destructive roll of the key key of government and also the constant flow in the increasing flow in fact, of western military equipment into the country. he also criticized the rejection of a sci fi proposal during the orthodox christmas, which was rejected again. bye bye bye kiev. did they touch upon the grain deal during our conversation, steve?

yes, they did. they discuss the grain deal, which was again negotiated mediated by turkey, which saw the blocking of black c port to allow the shipment of grain and rushing fertilizers. both leaders have been very critical of the progress of this people so far saying that most of the cargo has failed to meet the, the poorest nations which was the intention of the day in the 1st place. now we also know that the, the 3 and conflicts was part of the agenda on our phone conversation. what development of the thief was, it's been some quite significant develop in turkey relations. recently they discussed the future of the country within the framework of the ongoing this, donna talk also, of course being taking place for a number of years involving russian and radian counterparts within the, within those tools. now, turkey is accused also of supporting opposition groups in northern italy,

problem province, and president, i've had, has been very critical of that. and he's asked turkey to cause an occupation and support for a terrorist. but this new process has been initiated. russia and there are hope that this can develop further with talks eventually between the foreign ministers of those countries. and finally, with the discussions with the to present quite a significant development in those told me i thought i said before, i let you go. what was discussed about the overall states of bilateral relations between russia and kia was, again, oversee the 2 leaders discussed and reaffirmed their commitment to the deepening bilateral relations. they particularly focused on the energy sector, which was the turkey or the plan is to see her become a regional gas home. and this, of course comes at a time when the european union and other countries have play sanctions on, on turkey, and particularly the ample of, of turkish guy. so what we feel was

a very wide ranging discussion between the 2 leaders, a wide range and a phone call in the does our thesis, steve sweeney. thanks for breaking down for us. thank you. nato tanks. well ben, well that's the kremlin spokespersons fiery respond to the latest the western ministry . a package to key if you can read this story and a whole lot more. busy on our web sites are dot com the wild nato aid for ukraine has be met with some criticism by croatia with the country president criticizing on serious and sanctions as well as what he calls the u. s. as attempts to dictate his country's policy. washington, washington and they tell of asian the proxy war against ross show the help of ukraine. the plan cannot be the removal of russian president vladimir putting law sanctions there. absurd hungry will not achieve anything with them. they simply go from wall to wall. what is their plan, and what should i be? a slave for america?

european officials had been running around here cheering about the relatively warm weather and acting like it's an ally. an actor deliberately siding with the you against russian president vladimir putin and russia. but you know what, we're on whether i isn't doing absolutely nothing to bring the cost of living down for the average person. so there is a disconnect between this optimistic attitude shown by european government officials and the costly reality that the average citizen is still facing here. and i'm gary and prime minister victor or bon has just pointed out that it's looking increasingly like europe and not russia is set to bear the brunt of western anti russian policies. the victims of the wrong sanction policy and war of the europeans in the war america definitely winds. europe definitely loses at the moment. it is debatable whether russia wins or loses, but they do not news up much in general in economic terms,

it's safe to say that europe has the so, or rather, the biggest loser in all this ongoing conflict. there's also a new survey out from china as global times a 13 european countries plus turkey that just found out that 29 percent of respondents are satisfied with relations between the u and u. s. so that's not too many. and almost half 49 percent of europeans believe that the u. s. response to the russia ukraine conflict will negatively impact the european economy. frank protesters were back out on the streets again over the weekend as well. a weekly occurrence now in what shaping up to be a revival of the yellow, vast protest. those now seem like the good old haze compared to the cost of living challenges that are piling up now and people are quite aware of that was doing, i'm well, yeah, it's way on the average citizen and the ordinary citizen to day realize the relevance of the demands of the yellow, vast today we what we have a salary,

but despite the salary, we can't meet our needs because we are in fact more inundated with bills and we have almost nothing was 0 money left to live on. we are in perpetual survival. this week, overture or po box, if they called the mid of and we cannot accept that in 2023, there will be people who are looking for food and garbage cans and the people who have housing problems. i think we are entitled to demand better to achieve the, to hope rest of the history of humanity, of evolution of humanity. but so that's why we are here in fact, because the problems are not solved with whom i am completely opposed to the politics that have been conducted for several years and are accentuated as much about geo politics. and an international level is at the level of what is done at the local level. that is to say at all levels. so it is also dawning on some of the more lucid politicians here in europe, including some who initially supported the anti russian sanctions as a means of punishing vladimir putin that they really aren't serving the intended

purpose. and anti iranian sanctions still seem to be hitting the target a year with iranian oil exports having gone up at the end of last year in that final 2 months of the year despite us sanctions. so what's the plan now for europe? well, france once a made in europe strategy for the block to offset, shooting itself in the foot on energy supply and also to offset the fact that washington is refusing to budge. big shock on new anti inflation measures that favor made in america, products to the detriment of made in ear appear in europe. items. i'm not sure how long that's going to take to come together, particularly when german chance are all i've sold said rolled out the red carpet for the u. s. military to train more ukranian troops inside germany over the weekend. so doesn't really look like he's ready to play hardball with us anytime soon. which is kind of bad news for europeans who are dodging one hit after another

while their leaders watch the game and seem unable to agree on any kind of a plan. china has lost out of the us, warning it not to middle initial ations with india. the chinese side is firmly opposed tracks where a 3rd country points a finger at a bilateral issue between 2 other countries due to geopolitical considerations. the border question is a matter between china and india, the 2 sites have the woollen capability of resolving the question through dialogue and consultation. thus, after us assistant secretary of states for south and central asia 1st, donald lou said that china has taken aggressive action along the border in india's northeastern states. instead of taking steps to resolve the stand off in the dark sector. he went on to reiterate america's support of delhi plus live now to the vice chairman of the shanghai center for impact and international studies. nelson

wong, nelson. good evening. thanks for joining us. now do me, 1st of all, i want to get your thoughts on this latest comments by that youth official. i'm criticizing china's handling of those tensions, the board with india. what do you make that? well, i think it's not in the us position to make any comments on that because it's a dispute. it's a border dispute between china and then dea and it didn't happen last night. it has been there for quite some time and both countries of being having a dialogue and communications quite frequently. and the recent speak speech by the indian military chief commanding officer of all already said that the disputes are bon large under control. and so it means that both sides are poking quite actively, but would these beams are easily solved and i always better to be solved between the 2 parties. but the us coming to point fingers at

china. of course this is not acceptable, it's 3rd party. it has nothing to do with us. so this is definitely unacceptable. and i think the chinese government is quite right to say that it is none of the u. s. business actually know how did the 2 countries view the relations between so if i'm not mistaken, last year, i think so record trade between india and china despite the territorial dispute is still ongoing. what does that say about the relations? well, i mean india's relation which china has always being going on like this, and it's not, i wouldn't say that this is a fantastic relationship, but both countries are not, you know, small kids were all ancient civilizations and we, we have a long history and these disputes over the border has been left over, you know,

quite some time ago and it can be solved, but it shouldn't stop the 2 countries by communicating with each other. and you have just rightly pointed out that the trade between the 2 countries are going on quite well. and also china and india all the to asian countries that with the big population and also economically, both countries are also doing quite well. actually, china is 2nd largest economy and the india is also catching up. actually, this is quite good. now, us as criticized china as covey to policy. what are your thoughts on, on, on that the obviously china has been very separate and it's covered both with 0 tolerance initially. but now it's, it's not relaxed that policy in the past couple of weeks that hasn't gone down to

well, in some of the countries that say that's on there obviously restrictions on chinese visitors to many countries. they have to provide cobra tests. well, i mean, every country has its own coven policies, and china has you know, dollars pot for the past 3 years, john has been doing extremely well by exercising a very strict restriction on people going out and for warring arrivals. so recently, china's government has decided that they should change the policy if you change the policy, because the, the virus, omi, called virus, is not that serious. and a more, and i think it's, the government has its own reasons for changing its policy is. so what's the point of, you know, other countries pointing fingers that china? because john us death rate has been controlled at

a very low level and like like other countries. but let's, you know, just mind our own business. while everybody to mind our own business, we have enough problems all over the world. indeed, we do. nelson wong, vice chairman of the shanghai center for impact on international studies. pleasure, as always to have you on the program. thanks for your help today. thank you. the india has broken a new record, importing more than $1000000.00 barrels of oil per day from russia and $53.00 times more than just one year ago. our seats, india correspondence renew sharma as the details in your relationship with russia. dates back to the call for, but the year gone by 2022 house particularly been an important one. the bilateral trade between new delhi and more school has triple the ad. russia has become india as a top oil supply or in the last 3 months of 2022. so passing its dominant,

its traditionally while suppliers like saudi arabia is wrong in the us appetite for russian crude has massively grew one from one percent in february of 2022 and last year to 25 percent in december. so that's a huge jump there in the are now and boating over $1000000.00 barrels of crude oil . birdie a new were recall there. i'm pretty, it makes perfect sense for india considering india is the 3rd largest consumer or oil in the world. and that was one of the reasons given by india for do find these are sanction seeing that we want to prioritize the n no g security for a 1400000000 people. india has made itself very clear to the west and the wall that it is going to exercise it through teaching don't to me, what is meant is not only secure and you know g for its people, but also exporting more now leaders, ada, suggesting that india would be offering backdoor and bought russian oil to the you

here we're going to look at some d take for instance the job not good to find re in india best cost each imports of russian oil have increased used for time from 2021 to 2020 to the seem to find, read the john the go to find read, also supplies oil to the u. k. and look at the u. k. has imported 29 shipments of diesel and other refined products from job numbers since the beginning of the conflict in ukraine and compared to 2021. only 7 shipments. 10000000 barrels of oil in 2022. got to 2021, 4000000 barrels. so that's the difference and the data also with the question mark on what the meaning of all these sanctions really is. the u. k must close the loopholes that undermine support for ukraine by allowing bloody fossil fuels to

continue flowing across our borders. you see india has been under constant pressure threats and motor judgments from the west for buying discounted russian oil. it would be interesting now to see what the u. k. for all response to what you korean has to see about their imports or, or in from india or europe, struggles to diversify its energy supplies. energy minister is confident that europe will resume buying gas from russia. let's, despite the union's pledge to win itself off russian energy, the europeans today are saying there is no way we're going back to rush and gas. we're all blessed to have to be able to forget and to forgive. and i think things get mended with time. they learn from that situation and probably have a much bigger diversity, but trash and gas is going back in my view to europe. speaking at the global energy conference in doha, they could sorry, minutes, the warm that europe would struggle to replenish in gas storage. and so at least 2025. the official also added that gus is the realistic solution to achieving the

use. much promotes at green energy goals of without rushing gas on the market though energy prices will remain too high for europe to push forward. but this environmental plans are yeah, we spoke to bank and economics professor richard verna. this is the europe finding it hard to replace russian energy, the category and energy minister whose heading b a little gas company is really looking at the facts and the reality. and he's very much aware of, of the european demand and requirement for energy. and the reality is, as he points out, that the us supplies that everyone is now preparing for, do take time. i mean, there's not enough shipping terminals to receive it. and so there's, there's a whole number of logistics issues you conscious overnight switch to american or

the gas supply. so the reality is the gap that the gas from russia will be needed. and we really see in the m u. k. india, a case that adam, these indirect measures are now being taken where essentially russian gas is being imported. but it's just not admitted. that is russian gas because it 1st goes to it from russia to india, is refined there and then imported. so the reality is that until 2025, it will be difficult to replace russian gas. the winter has been somewhat mild this year. so it wasn't so far hasn't been a big crisis. fierro and but overall, the demand is significant. john is newly appointed. a foreign minister was in cairo and sunday for talks with egyptian and arab league officials mark in his last

stop on a multi like trip across africa that was aimed at boosting his confused ties to the continent. beijing's top diplomats has reiterated china's vision for multiple the wealth. are sure enough only chance shoot. we agreed to work together to implement the spirit of the react declaration which affirms multilateral international order and based on international law. and the dedication of common values for community represented in peace, justice development, democracy and freedom to each end of the rejection of the position with human rights issues and their use as a tool to interfere in internal affairs of other countries. divided by chinese foreign luther king hong is really to solidify his relationship with egypt, the continence number, one economy and china has poured billions into their economy. having invested in the suicide can now which it has a new economy zone, which is largely development. amy's manual and china has also been influential in

the development of a localized production of vaccines in egypt. having collaborated through sign of farm and the government of egypt is also putting in money into the new administrative capital. in cairo, there was also a meeting with the arab league, general secretary, which is seen as very important because china has been a big part of, of the middle east end. that multi lateral flora of corporation. as witness through the re add declaration, which was signed a couple of years ago. but china as a leading investor on the continent as a whole, the continent of africa was really here to, to reassure some of its pride. 9 countries that investment will keep will keep coming and that the road and belt initiative may have slowed, but it still has some life in it. as we move along,

foreign minister can also visit had been in angola, as well as, as one looking into infrastructure investment. and with countries like not, well, i've been in, we're looking to, to bend the export of raw materials, particularly soybeans in the next 2 years. and china is seen as an important member in establishing the localization of the manufacturing of that beam, which would be of benefit to the populace within berlin itself. but let's listen now to some of the comments that were made by minutes. the kin, as well as the e. u. chair person list them with a funky, pseudo shot whatever can nice is. so charity and corporation not confrontation, no country, no people have the right to force african countries and their people to take sides . africa should be a platform for international cooperation, not an arena for competition between major countries with africa refuses to be seen

as an arena for competing influence. we're open to cooperation and partnerships with everyone as long as their respect our principles, our priorities now interests. the partnership with her with china is built on this prince. so let's keep in mind that this company, following what the americans have been trying to do and the other side, which is also to reestablish his relationship with the continent following the december summit with joe by then head with over 40 african heads of faith in washington. throwing is of $65000000000.00 of investment over the next 3 years, which pales in comparison when one looks at the investments that have been made by china, which are data dead. estimates that china is of it out some $160000000000.00 worth of loans to african countries between their 2000 and the 2020

u. k. is set to announce legislation giving police more power when dealing with demonstrations. p. m ratios. do not claim that the cornerstone of democracy, the right to protest is not absolute. the right to protest is a fundamental principle of our democracy. but this is not absolute. we cannot have protests conducted by a small minority disrupting the lives of the ordinary public. the police asked us for more clarity to crack down on these guerrilla tactics, and we have listened. the so called public order bell will change the legal definition of serious disruption, giving police more freedom to choose. when to intervene, offices will be able to shut down, protest regardless of size, but rather unperceived impact. martha spurious, director of liberty group, says this amendment gives authority to excessive power to overreach. government attempt to clamp down on any resistance on any voice of opposition and instead to make it impossible for us to stand out to power,

the vice chair of the communist party of great britain jace bra says the legislation is hypocritical. richie c, like, took their about the threat of small groups holding the, the society to ramps and country to arrest them. in fact, the police already have massive paddle is to crack down on them with any type of demonstration, particularly small the one. if you've ever been a small group trying to arrange legally a protest in this country, you'll know just how hard it is to get police agreement to your protest anywhere significant. it seems to me that the protests or not i am the legislation is not aimed at small protests, but at the possibility of big protest movements arising, the government is preparing work because it's not prepaid to spend money on helping workers to survive a ramp and inflation prices, so it's preparing to deal with their anger while they want to crush real grassroots work because anger and dissent amongst their own population. when it comes to other

countries, they artificially manufacture it. they fuel it, they pay for it, they give it must have major exposure even if it's tiny it, but it fits their agenda. very often, my weapons to protest is to enable them to create publications that turn into the deeper unrest all in the aim of changing governments that they don't like. so it's a totally hypocritical dogs. and that should be really clear to anybody that's all from a p scald, supports ortiz, nicky, are and will be taken over to take you through all the top stories as we head into the evening this monday. thank you very much for watching the oh, when i went to the wrong room, just don't the room. yes. to shave out the scene because after

an engagement equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground in this me. hello, i'm manila chad. you work unions and modus operandi shows that dives deep in the global foreign policy and international relations to examine their methods and patterns. and it's history that reverberates in our lives. today. today, we will examine the wave of protests that have swept across iran in the fall of 2022, following the death of a young woman in police custody. these protests, however, looking a lot different from protests in the past were.