you must address why this conflict started in the 1st month with you is now completely following the american dictate. europe has lost its independence to serve american interests in the geopolitical containment of russia and china. russia is foreign minister. thank you. is about the films of the us now there is conducting a proxy war against moscow in ukraine, also head on the program today. beijing blames washington 1st stealing oil from syria, saying 16 concord levant companies, top resorts being looted by the u. s. forces just this low, a recent survey shows that people in india, c, the u. s. as

a military threat to the nation coming in 2nd only after neighbors, china and south africa thinks a substitution to the american dollars dominance thing to the bricks group of countries for this solution with around the clock across the world. this is our take, great to have your company today for the news our. my name's, you know, the european union has lost its independence to washington and the nato military alliance. those direct where it's coming from russia's foreign ministry during an annual news conference. where he summed up the events of the past year. you want to say use the e. u is now completely following the american dictate. europe has lost its independence. in

a joint declaration explicitly states that europeans are subjugated, nato's essentially continuing an obligation to serve american interests in the geopolitical containment of russia and china. one of the main points it seems to be that 2022 definitely showed a tendency that has been developing for many years to create a development to bring to the forefront. that the west is trying to impose its way of thinking and its imperialist views on the rest of the world. for example, as her gay elaborate mentioned that nato has been fighting russia through you crate . and that even an academic study that was published in the west has shown facts and details revealing that and also that would that help all that's proxies and it satellites. they've been developing this for years to a new in the states for the u. s. has now ship to coalition, including virtually all european countries about natal member states, and you states and others. and now they are waging

a war by proxy against russia using ukraine as a proxy in order to solve the russian matter. just like hitler wanted to find the solution to a jewish problem, they're doing the same right now. sir gallagher of also mentioned that the sanctions that are being used by the wes are aimed at not only weakening russia and trying to get it to play along to what it wants. so russia to do comply, but also with rushes. i lies and other so called undesirable nations, trying to force them to follow suit and do the same thing, follow washington's rhetoric. there was an interesting question at some point when the journalists asked, how can russia claim to respect the un charter and international law. when it started this a special military operation and the journalist asked, how can the russia accused the west of doing something that itself has done now? just women is that the mortgagee europe, there is an opinion among europeans that russia did not show its best side by deciding to take military action. while the rest of the imperialist countries that

have bombed half of the planet, or violate an international law in the same way in order to cease territories with them, we are victims of disposing greece. we have a threat from turkey. how would you argue with disposition of those that a she had russia has not shown its best qualities. an interesting formulation of about 300 times after the end of the cold war of the united states invaded some one else's territory, lay up with you. their goal in places like central america is the liquidation of threats to the world. and they were offended. for example, by saddam hussein and gadhafi in yugoslavia, they simply decided to destroy the balkans for the sake of germany. but there was no question of any tribunals or a decision to investigate crimes. they said we will put you under sanctions. we defended our security from ukraine after they made a spring board for an attack on russia. and secondly, the humiliation of russians and the could tar in 2014, when the west sided with the anti russian regime without an attempt to dial back

the bombing of la ganske in odessa no one investigated, there were no tribunals that minsk agreements was just to give you korean war, time and weapons, years ago we were the only ones who saw the implementation of the minsk agreements . all the others were cheaters. another to some point was that to us regular ross about western globalization is collapsing, and washington is trying to retain that top spot by. going as far as a legitimate means to achieve that, any means possible, trying to create a rift between countries to make sure that the majority is stick to it's a rhetoric. i also understand you were there among many, many journalists from all around the world. what's it, was it just ukraine, but what are some other topics that level of touch down on as well? no, it was not just the crane. we also heard about the standoff between us that of i, john and our mealy up there with questions about japan. but we could see that there

was a particular focus more on asia and not a natural because as we'll see in russia has been shifted more towards a used, especially after the special military of operations began. and we saw the reaction from the west with the sanctions and tried to restrict russia, and so we can russia. so there was a particular emphasis in particular on and china and the rosters relationship with china. the shuttle sure news, which little news publication are relations with china are going to the best times in history. the leaders of our country say the same thing. china characterizes relations like this. the alliance is not an alliance, but in some ways even stronger. our relations are respectful, based on a balance of interest. there is no need to look for information about the west attempts to bring discord into our relations. they don't consider us an immediate threat. china is considered a long term challenge. they understand that their forces are running out in opposition to the historical trend of the formulation of the multi polar world. we

see that the west is trying to bring the score between us. they are trying to defeat us in order to then convince russia to become partner of the west that has forgiven sanctions and will not interfere and ideally helped to restrain china. i do not know which of their analysts develop these theories, but they are out of touch with real life marine across forever speaking to my colleague, rory sushi earlier and as you heard, many topics were touched upon by sir gale of ralph on his annual media conference this wednesday, if you'd like to dig deeper into that r t dot com. as he covered china's foreign ministry spokesperson has slum the u. s. for quote, stealing syrian oil, saying washington is interested in reaping the benefits of its actions regardless of collateral damage, may will to should. we're struck by the blatant see an egregious news of the u. s. plundering of syria. the level of u. s. greed and stealing resources from syria is

a striking as its generosity in giving out military aid, whether the u. s. gives or takes. it plunges other countries into turmoil and disaster, and the u. s. reaps its benefits for its hedge. ammonia and other interests may wonder. beijing also accuse washington of ruthlessly trampling on the lives of the syrian people. so the mosque essays more than 80 percent of its daily oil i put, was smuggled out of the country by us troops in the 1st half of 2022. while already this year, just a few weeks in official state, the u. s. has use 60 time period to ship or on wheat of syria. the u. s. sounds being present in serious in 2014, leaving a coalition focused on regime change involving the military's of most nato countries and regional allies. and made accusations of stealing syrian oil in 2021 . the pentagon said that american troops were there to protect syrian oil fields, except on rare occasions when civilians were involved with syrian the american

journalist on political commentator. steven, so who may say washington's actions are stripping them off because of the resources that the country needs for it to recover? they are so busy in the city, people from having added to the fuel on earth for a warming to houses in the winter for tourney, on the factories for the rebuilding of syria. and that is particularly what a washington d. c wants to a country like celia, that is a huge amount of money that is there. that could have rebuilt year to 2 or 3 times . and the doctor, we could have got a medication medicine. we could have got there 6 up our hospitals in syria. it could have got fuel for the cars. are our schools and everything we have a shortage cd is getting one out of electricity every 24 hours, the ceiling people i'm talking about the student average people. they cannot and they don't have fuel. it don't have electricity to warm their houses. there's some

areas in syria like allah po, damascus, homeless, palmera, hammock. in the central of syria, the temperature are below 0. they have no way of the warming to houses. okay, turning attention on the program to india, where a recent poll among citizens has thrown up some eye opening results, including the u. s. taking 2nd place among what people view as the top security threat to the nation. ortiz, india corresponded region sharma is across story. firstly, very, very interesting ball there, as you suggested rory, and now the pool is seeing that u. s. is considered as a 2nd top thread going ahead of focused on and boxed on. remember, in the shares of history of military conflict with border disputes as well. induct ever since the creation of focus on $947.00, india had trouble diplomatic relationship with the and us. in fact, interestingly,

comes ahead all boxed on and in this particular so the ordinary citizens from across the country was interviewed. of course, they saw china as the top thread, but 22 percent saw us. the 2nd most threat, as far as this ball is concerned, while the world's 2 largest democracies would seem to make for natural partners, especially given their mutual mistrust of china, indians have strategic reasons to be wary of the world's western superpower as tensions between washington and beijing increase the indian public may be worried about getting caught in the middle of a us china conflict that the stabilizes regional security. putting india at risk. now it's interesting considering india has rather warm relationships with the west . also us as india's top trading partner in the world and you and then when you look at this, so be of people are seeing that us as

a 2nd most threat when it comes to india. also, when it comes to china, now the top that list in the so be 43 percent. the indians come to the china, the top military threat to remember india in the recent boss has had trouble a border situation with shy not in 2020 india on china. so one of the bloodiest commissions in history where several soldiers also had lost their life. and also last year in 2022, another class between india and china we saw now another interesting aspect of this particular service is that indians are likely to blame us allies and keep for the conflict in ukraine. and it's only around 38 percent. so less than 40 percent indians that come to the law school responsible for the ongoing conflict and ukraine. now it's around 26 percent people that say united states us to be

blamed and around 18 percent. people think nato is to begin. so 44 percent there compared to the 38 percent people think and leave me more school for the conflict. now another reason that people think in this direction is because indians have often been all to by the west by the u. s. a. for the constant threshold, it's bought on india to couldn't down the russia offensive, and ukraine also to not buy discounted oil from russia. now, 60 percent of people in india believe that the indian government should continue buying oil from russia and around 49 percent. see that india should continue its military exercises with more school. just to quickly underline that as far as new delhi and moscow friendship is concerned, it have withstood the test of time and also geopolitical jones in that sense, for example, in

a 971. when india and barcas on had gone to war or the manager and prices in eastern focused on countries, including the u. s. the all supported. they provided military as well as moral support to pakistan. and that's when india had sent out and with call and only one country came to india rescue. that was so with the union. so this ball in a sense, whole testimony of that people in india haven't forgotten history. the south africa is foreign minister, has called for a dollar substitute on this looking towards the bricks group of countries for the solution are to come to peter chris him spoke earlier with my colleague grease to share about what that could entail. we had always been concerned about the dominance of the dollar, and we need to look for an eternity to this. this is one of the reasons why we greeted the brakes, new development bank. i think what she's referring to is the fact that let's take

south africa, the largest economy in africa, which is, you know, in so many ways such an important concept for our entire well to provide us with 70 bitches and resources. but i think they just fed up the fed up with the fact that their entire economy is dictated by us fiscal. why, why do you think they set up, chris? because the dollar saves nations all around the world. is the king couldn't currency? why would they be fed the fact that this policy of most countries that trading us dollars really extracted well from that country as a place to pick? china is invested millions of trillions of dollars in the economies about the connection where it seems to be instead of extracts from that policy, seems we want to investment by winning the hearts and minds the way china is working in africa. building infrastructure, schools, road hospitals, clinics, these kinds of things. it's almost like winning the hearts and minds of the people that i play. i think that's totally the, the correct way to look at it. i mean that say we're, we're from town or a village in africa, and you'll down down the sound of mine or your west in some kind of mineral extraction. and in the past,

you've really seen this. western companies come employee and just to strike that well. whereas they see a chinese company coming, employ them and actually re invest that money in new homes. like you said, new roads, you infrastructure, new schools, new hospitals, and things that really improve your life. i think if it were you or i'd, i'd, i'd know which side i'd want to be on. but chris, talk to me about bricks, brazil, russia, india, china. the south africa potentially it's going to be saudi arabia, potentially, argentina, potentially iran. what are the implications that chris re bricks as it is right now, covers a far larger expense of the well population. that in the united states could ever dream a little bit different trade associations in different ways in which they tried to manipulate the world. the fact is, if saudi joined that organization who got south africa, the largest economy in africa, in that we've got china, we've got these big brazil, the largest country in south america, if the saudis coming there and all these other countries that are requesting now to join i mean, it's really helpful and i don't know the fiscal level,

which is probably more important, but i think this, it might be what the formalist of south africa is also referring to on a fiscal level, there's really nothing stopping in these countries coming together very similar to the year, right, right. the european union has its own currency, the euro. we could have the bricks, currency, right? at that point, that is incredibly powerful. and for me, it's very, very difficult to see how the united states federal reserve could ever counter a currency with that much power in rehab less than 2 months ago where they agreed to go essentially 2 national currencies. it's almost like by, by petro dollar. hello petrow, you one, and yet all these opec countries, they're all joining on board here. they're all looking to trade in national currencies. this is like, this is like a snowball, roaring down a mountain. i'm getting massively more and more bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger as every day goes past. here, it looks already to me anyway. it looks like the petro dollar, which is the spine of america's budget on foreign policy, is being shattered. yes, i agree with you entirely. i think we already had to see that as well from the last

opec class meeting. we've been biden's visit to jetta the cmbs prior to ccs. we saw in those meetings, we saw the opec plus count countries, which are obviously led by saudi arabia who chat. but through basically say no, they did that with oil pricing, they refused to lower the price. they said we can't do that because we're not going to gamble with our economies anymore. we're not going to allow you to be tight to off through the us dollar, which is exactly as you pointed out, how they've done it, to dictate how we run our fiscal policies and how we look after our own people in our own country. meanwhile, south africa is foreign minister has also condemned a u. s. bill designed to punish african countries for any cooperation with moscow, calling it an unlawful initiative. i believe the girl should really be killed because i think it's totally unwarranted. i think it's an intrusion that goes against international law, and we've made this clear to our colleagues in the united states. we even met with

the draft of the initial legislation and indicated our fence with which we view this particular proposed piece of legislation. it's called the malign russian activities in africa, eggs, what we in africa called the anti africa bill. and those were the words that have been used by several commentators to describe exactly what happened last year in the house of representatives in the united states. the bill got an overwhelming majority support in congress infected was bipartisan winning by some 419 volt to 9 and it was passed through. but the interesting part is what happened to that bill as it was slightly seem to be going through is way to the senate and then throw them up as a head, a working visit to the united states. and he and his father and his foreign

minister doctrinally to ponder poor, did squarely to the americans that this is an anti africa bill that they cannot force africans to choose, that africans have a right to determine their own development and determine their own partners. we have been lamenting that bill ever since it came, and before that trip by sorrow, i'm a pause, a lead. last year in november. it was said by some of the officials in the white house that, that president a joe biden will take as much time as possible to delay this bill to make sure that it never ends up on his desk to possibly try and stop it with in the senate, but it really looks at anybody who is potentially making friendships with, with russia and south africa, has a vested interest, especially when it comes to russia. if part of the briggs, membership and south africa has been really cheap to really leverage on some of the memberships that you find within briggs to make them come up issues that are rather quentin and white,

they've continuously encourage the chinese to invest more on the continent and being continuously looked towards russia as part of the military fortification of south african army. now, south africa is very much interested in taking advantage of russian military hardware and know how in terms of training and personnel and how it handles itself . in areas of peacekeeping as well as general defense of the country, but also to south africa, has a vested interest in this relationship because it, once it, once the africa to have a permanency on the un security because of something that south africa has been lobbying for. for the better part of 10 years, there is talks about whether or not that should not be the chair person of the african union, representing the africa wide interest. but there would not be that much. that is faction, if it happens to be south africa, that occupies their permanent seeds and is not only where the south africa stop

south africa continues to endeavor to progress the agenda of africa wise, especially sub saharan africa interest in development. and as well as breezing the gap in terms of technology transfer and learning trade from some of the briggs partners. and here is the lady ponder, speaking about what they hold to bring as part of their chairmanship, which they took over just at the beginning of this year. the chairmanship of bricks which they will be holding until the end of the year. we are lat, in many countries, want to become part of the organization because there is dissatisfaction in the world. the uni pooler structure were one or 2 regions or countries want to dominate in terms of ideology and political thought. bricks offers an alternative because we denote, impose ideas and anyone we discuss corporation and strive for universal friendship . we see more and more that russia is getting and traced on the continent as well.

becoming a member of, of preference, especially when it comes to issues of security, as we've seen around the for hell region with some of the numerous countries there that have been really, it taken over by the insurgency in his landless extremism that has been part of that region and is not surprising that the lady pondered pig this moment to give this interview because she's always been measured, always been deliberate and never gives an interview for its own sake. german chancellor, olaf shawl south urged allies to increase military supplies to key of vowing to embark ukraine for as long as necessary in the conflict. then order for the war to ent rush us aggression must fear. that is why we are continuously supplying ukraine with large quantities of arms in close consultation with all

patmos. however, the chancellor's words contrast of that with berlin's hesitation on sending its leopard 2 tanks to ukraine along with a statement from the defense minister on these countries in direct involvement in the conflict. that's as some german politicians have spoken out against washington pressure, saying the u. s is trying to force berlin some day stag deliveries are reminiscent of the wound. 1914. this means direct participation in the war. this seems to be the deeper reason why washington is so reluctant. on the subject of tag deliveries, beth force is its ally to make sacrifices like a vassal yet well, washington's efforts to get allies to send more leaf laid comes amid tough economic challenges in germany, which is facing rising prices and soaring energy bills. despite what we just heard from other lawmakers, the u. s. secretary of state denies his country,

is pressuring anyone to take action. germany suggested today that they weren't allowed tanks to be sent to ukraine, the less the u. s. and 1st i was your response to that. so on the question of, of tanks and for that matter, any weapon system. these are sovereign decisions for each country to make less cross live. now to emy, pay for the alternative for germany, party gunner back to hear his thoughts. you're most welcome to the program, sir. do unity concur with anthony duncan statement that come trees make their own sovereign decisions? is that what we're seeing when it comes to military aid to ukraine? well, countries take their own decisions in the sense that they governance will parliaments that decide. and of course, they do so subject to constraints. now in germany's case at these

vision faculty at a constraint, but it's very difficult to decide in each individual case whether these constraints are external or into by internal constrains. i mean, germany's desire to please b, e. u and nato is washington. is there a sense at least mister back that washington is pressuring other countries, the send tanks to ukraine, while it's not being prepared to, to do that itself. washington is certainly encouraging us to send tanks 1st or to send take tanks while washing isn't prepared to do so. that's correct. the german chancellor has vowed to support ukraine for as long as it takes, but we see hesitation from from other members of the the parliament law may occurs

over sending tanks. what does that say about germany's policy towards key? well, i think the german chancellor is not necessarily a whole. he's generally been reluctant at most critical stages, but they are hope that his government, especially the german greens and also the liberals so that they shrink him into sending offences. weapons that since supplies the situation in the german government and parliament is concerned as far as the german population is concerned . if the recent polls would show that the conflict ukraine was by

far the greatest, sorry, source of things from these people in germany around 80 percent and most johns, do not want to get involved in a war and your sense of berlin. then as a government, does it want to be so involved in the ukrainian conflict? i know you've said it, but the greens, etc. but people making the decisions up the top. well, i think there was a counter baby being made to add in analyzing john the foreign policy. i think one has to realize that pissed war germany has a history of not acting in her own national interest. we've seen this in particular over the last 50 years with the euro crisis and the migration crisis, germany or java government, i should say above all, seeks to the nato and the you i think that applies here

to the germans. a bible wish to fees. of course, sometimes they get into situation with situations where they cannot be everyone and i people the kind of situation. yeah, and i think that's. busy the case, the kind of the situation i think the job and the gauging a lot of wishful thinking. they are the virtual sickening and one to be seen to be supporting ukraine. but i say the germans, i mean above all, the german government, german politicians based john kitchens. but i think they believe that's what i would call wishful thinking. ready that they can, these nato, and the you and the friends of ukraine without being getting further revolt to this conflict. i think that's any dangerous,

wishful thinking. very interesting. just perhaps to get your thoughts as well on what london is doing. the u. k. defense secretary ben wallace will meet his counterparts from poland and the baltics. really in an effort to get berlin to authorize, sending leopard 2 tanks to ukraine. another sense perhaps of pressure coming from another aspect of this. what's your thoughts on that? well, i think the u. k has be one of the hawks in the ukraine conflict for a long time. so in a sense it's not a very surprising move. and the fact that there was a cold abroad. ready for germany to send tangs whenever there's a problem in the western world, others are calling on job a need to solve it. that was a.