claims the 3rd world war has already started at the center is of course, ukraine. it's a western war against russia and china. if this color is correct, then we can expect to be living in a very dangerous world for a very long time. a presidential office admits the ukrainian participant in peoples with moscow last year was murdered by mistake. off the report said he was killed by you claim national supervision. services being over pushing us interest over china song. the size of the africa about how the content media is described in the us treasury secretary, 11 day visit to africa. a over a 1000000 people take to the speech. problems to protest against my calls,

one to raise the national retirement age by. she is a good boy. i will go to international rural crossing live from moscow. it's just past the hour. it's great to have you with us. i'm rud. huh. let's take a look at today's top stories. ukraine is a presidential of this, says i lack of coordination in the ukraine security services lead to the healing of a heave, delegation member after the 1st one of peace talks with moscow last year. that's a report by the wall street journal said the ukraine national security service, the s b. you murdered dennis? here on the claim that he was a traitor. but an advisor to ukraine's presence zalinski has affirmed he actually

wasn't one well, you have use not of russian agents. his mother happened due to the fact that there was no unified coordination between the law enforcement agencies. there was certain claims against him that was not enough time to settle these claims in a dialogue format. they shot him dead in cold blood, dumped his corpse on the side of the road in the center of kiev and accused him of spying for the russians. this was how you cranes security services rewarded denise kit iv in march of last year for is invaluable help as an informant. before and right after russia launched its military operation in ukraine, s b. u agents pulled up and ordered the military intelligence agents. and mister korea body guards to surrender their weapons. mister korea was directed to a mini van, his security detail lay prone on the street as the van drove away. but 19 minutes later, the military intelligence agents were summoned to the spot where they found mister korea's body. turns out though it was all a big mistake,

days after he was killed. as a trader, k of was buried as a hero, next to ukraine's 1st foreign minister. after all, the guy helped keep negotiating team big time at the bellows cease. fire talks in march of last year as they stalled rushes offensive with the illusion of good faith negotiations. ukrainian forces prepared for all our combat, according to ukrainian general today of even credited with chipping off key of about rushes, military operation. the apparently told ukrainian intelligence that russian forces sought to capture and tone of airport outside of kias and to use it to bring in reinforcements that heads up gave key, have enough time to prepare. the airport was rendered useless and the in suing battle. and this tip off is remembered as a moment that could have made or broken key as war effort. if it were not for mr. curious, most likely keith would have been taken extra judicial murder dumping the body in

the street and not even bothering to conduct a small investigation. he definitely has an interesting way of saying thank you to it's most willing collaborators. the ukranian intelligence service is a force onto itself. it's not fully controlled by the korean government. vladimir zelinski, therefore, is not the person who's totally in charge. the b u seems to have a higher authority. and the case of dennis cure korea, if it killed him, executed him on a street at point blank range without any kind of trial, without any official inquiry on, on, under its own starting. they killed a man who the government of the crane now says, was actually a national hero, a suggest that that far right forces are operating as they please. in the ukraine, the government has only limited control over their activities and is afraid to exert its authority. is afraid to bring such forces to heal. meanwhile,

a heavy fighting continues along the dumbass front line russian troops and coming closers. taking the key strategic city of our to mosque, also known as bachman. russian soldiers, including the dumbass established ghost brigade, are fighting to take control of the heights surrounding the village of sport. and maria, seizing those heights, would open the road to service. and later on to mosque mo, cities post key strategic significance for any future push to overtake the remaining dumbass territories. all t arabic senior correspondent are going to have dia has been observing a russian tubes as they use tactical drones in the fight for sport, naya, kill her with her hiding continues on the don bass front line. the village of spore . noah is under the cross fire of the russian forces. taking this territory opens

the way to the city of savor ski. as you can see, ukrainian troops located 1.5 to 2 kilometers from us. here's an open spot, so i have to move fast so that the ukranian artillery doesn't fire at us. and we're not spotted by drones, as there are many here. so what we provide our troops with surveillance and artillery support, and together we slowly and steadily move forward. by europe when we say europe trans will play an important role in spotting the movements of ukrainian troops. the identification of targets allows artillery to show the enemy's fortify positions, which gives the russian assault teams an opportunity to move forward a bit longer. this way, the artillery achieves great results with enemy trenches cleared and our guys are entering them when the enemy is suppressed. now we just hit the targets. this planned elmira clears, fighting goes on here as well as across the whole front line. but we were foreign

mercenaries fight side by side with ukrainian nationalists, toaster bloom. but from my experience, when we faced both mercenaries, nationalists mostly prevailed. you can judge by the fact that i am standing here and talking to you with, and i leased a, me a say taking sworn i am the high ground positions around. it opens the way to savers for russian troops. that is an important city. just like are shown with spock. moot, we're fighting intensifies as well as solid are, which was recently taken by the wagner group. it will further lead to striking ukrainian troops in the direction of love, yancey. and chroma tours sorta gone. ha, dia r t dynette republic. russia meanwhile, in africa, the u. s. trophy said a 3 is ana am 11 date sir of the continent including senegal, zambia, eiletha, south africa. she has described the visit to the step toward further economic cooperation. the united states is committed to building on africa,

significant progress in economic development over the past few decades. africa successful means success for all of us. and the united states is here as a partner to help africa realize its massive economic potential. african media outlets have been saying the true purpose of the trip is to promote washington's interest over the already strong tires. the content has with china and russia, or sees africa correspondent code in the title as the details. the us treasury secretary jenna jalen will touch down in the west african state of senegal. this friday. it's all. 7 part of jo biden's intention and campaign promised to give more focus to africa over the next 2 years. yelman's message will mirror that of how colleague u. s. secretary of state anthony blinking, who was on his african safari last year in august, yolande will highlight the strides that the continent has made over the last couple

of decades. well, also emphasizing that the united states is a pardon i and a friend to the continent. the irony here, of course, is that the african continent has developed in spite of america's absence and neglect. africa would not be weighed, is today without the massive chinese investment in infrastructure and mineral resources. but the visit is also part of a larger context of influence on the continent, the us government sees the growing influence of other superpowers, namely russia in china is a threat to american interest. here the view of the official u. s. africa strategy. the people's republic of china, by contrast, sees the region as an important arena to challenge the rules based international order. advances own narrow commercial and geopolitical interests, undermine transparency and openness, and weaken u. s. relations with african peoples and governments. russia views the region as a permissive environment for paras startles, and private military companies,

often fermenting instability for strategic and financial benefit. the free country wizard, starting in seliger, will also include zambia and south africa and it comes fresh of the heels of the you with africa. solid held early in december, president joe biden hosted over 40 african hairs of stains in washington. and during the summit, his administration main deals and commitments to the tune of some $15000000000.00 over the next 2 years to the continent. which pales in comparison to the chinese quantum. like many african countries i above ambia is struggling with debt and is defaulted on is dead repayment in 2020 is one of many african countries to apply to the g. 20 for nearly $13000000000.00 worth of debt to be restructured. and the common framework mckenna's them of the g 20 china holds a 3rd of zambia debt. but despite that,

the western line has been to vilify the east the giant. even though the majority of zombie as that is held in western institutions in africa, southernmost country, a growth resistant economy is being further hampered by the growing intensity of power. despite south africa's was jaelyn is expected to push that old. i'm a pause in his cabinet on the pace of transitioning from coal to clean energy sources. the united states is one of 5 countries. that's promised south africa $8500000000.00 to ditch coal from greener energy sources. but there's no such thing as a free lunch and weary africans will be looking out for the pre conditions that the united states government is so well known for government has had 4 r t jennifer sticky to europe. now, more than a 1000000 people have taken to the streets throughout france to protest against president maria macros planned to raise the country's retirement age by 2 years to

64. ah, was president micron with sonia friendship treaty with spain in barcelona public. charles, who flights schools lam businesses throughout france were disrupted by wave of labor strikes. workers, whoops, off by jobs. several dozen people will report to be detained them. it crashes with what these all think wanted me to rachel, muslim, a bus her side on the issue. so the opening active union lead protests over french

pension reform on thursday. saw protesters clashing with police in riot gear and tossing firecrackers at them near the by steve, where the 3 hour march, wrapped up. now at the beginning of the march, there was also a group qualified by the french press as black blocks who tossed smoke bombs at the police and got returned volleys of tear gas. now union organizers estimate 400000 participants were in paris and about 1200000 in the region. now, of course, the has to be tempered by official interior ministry figures, which usually tends to be a lot less and down. we'll see what they come up with. and usually the reality is somewhere between the 2, transportation came to a virtual hall in paris and across much of france about 70 percent of teachers walked off the job and energy sector workers halted delivery of fuel to gas stations. now, there were even threats of cutting power to french officials,

homes. all of this is because french president, a major in my call, wants to bump the retirement age to 64 for a larger chunk of the french workforce. what he isn't touching however, is all the special regimes that still allow some workers to leave much earlier in their fifties, with gold plated pensions. in some cases, of course, a labor strike in france would not be complete with without some good old fashioned, gratuitous huffs were fair and rich bashing. no one on the call. can we claim that we no longer need billionaires in france? we want no billionaires in france, really a tough cell when workers are already paying one of the highest social security tax rates on the planet at 2223 per cent, and that doesn't even include the other 45 percent of the gross salary that's peeled off their paycheck by the employer and sent to the government of which they

see none at all. by the way my call was not even in the country today. he was conveniently down in barson and assigning a french spanish friendship deal. i guess that was lucky pension reform was one of michael's campaign promises way back in 2017. and he was just gearing up to tackle it in december 2019 with about 250000 protesters taking to the streets of paris back then. right up until cove it hit. and it's been shelves ever since until now. well, the other side of the atlantic, they have also been persistent, must protest in peru was demonstrators call for the recently in mo, good president, to resign. ah, ah

ah present. dina bolo, aren't there, was swan in last month, off the previous head of state of political allies, pedro garcia was ousted for attempting to dissolve. congress protests have erupted throughout the country. a more than 40 people have been reported kill amid crushes of police demonstrators of laws, the express support from previous prison castillo, who was taken into custody. awfully. he tried to slip powers away from the government's judicial branch on corruption allegations. we heard from a local reporter about the current situation on the ground. we only my right now. the amount of people is so big that there are many different groups of at least

1000 or 2000 people. each many, many groups in different parts of downtown crystals. medea lean say, right now we have a, the feminist articulation. over there, there was a policeman already already blocked them and already threw some tear gas bombs at them. he saw the people scattered right now because of the tier got bomb. and so yeah, many of the cars. yeah, well, we can really breathe right now. i know taken advantage of leasing actually breaking the group. energy

used out rushes energy missa on a visit to pakistan as express readiness to move forward with the development of a major gas pipeline project pakistan stream. he made those comments and made a meeting with the pack as i prime minister about increasing rush and fuel supplies to the south asian country. all she has heard directly from pakistan's petroleum, massa about the great energy ties between moscow and is all about we have a long standing, no conversation, ongoing conversation about park street. so the discussions are about that project or moving the discussions about the import of energy or ongoing. so really if you look at it, the, the projects are the big project that we're right now discussing is the energy security of pakistan. we import about 70000000 barrels of crude oil.

and so if we can have russian crude flowing through our system, it would be very helpful. a significant chunk of that europe is taking energy from russia. and if you look at the quantum of energy that europe is taking reg know, from russia and compared, what park is done even in times to come, may take, it's not even going to be a small fraction. our neighboring countries are taking energy, taking or taking gas from, from russia. so if europe is ok to take energy from the russian federation, and if our neighboring countries are quite okay, taking energy from russia than i don't see any serious concern. we are about 220000000 people and we boys to grow to become about

349000000 people by by the 2050 right now in the region. we have lowest energy per capita utilization. that energy per cap. not only our population is going to increase, but our energy per capita utilization is also going to increase. therefore, if we want to increase g d p by 4 percent or 5 percent every year, which is what our target is, then we need to grow our energy needs by $7.00 to $8.00 bits in minimum, a year on year. so that just gives you a sense of what kind of energy needs we have. and therefore, how important strategic energy partnership is for us. the world's biggest crip said, currency exchange, bananas has been implicated in

a scandal involving a small of named bits last the last is a russian born founder. and i told you to lead could dem of was arrested in the us this week on claims that he helps launder $700000000.00. 1000000 report say been working as a council policy for bits lasso. but crypto change company was created in 2016 and is registered in hong kong. the us treasury department says bits that says become a, quote, safe haven for criminals in connection with russian illicit finance. if found guilty, the founder of the exchange faces up to 5 years in prison. earlier michael in unit o'neill discussed the issue with our to contribute to chris ems who. busy says the best reference case has some parent knows with much reported f t x investigation saga. but with some key differences they just weeds like a tabloid piece, right?

it's got all of these, these or they, she claims it, it that you know that it's got all that all the, all the qualities that you'd want. if you me to give tabloid piece in a newspaper, drugs and russia, they even caught him at cook. that's what they say at the top. the platform was designed full crooked. so it's very interesting, it's kind of sort of like, you know, that got to find another food guy for the full guy that they, that they had in, in some back, been free to nasty act which they bought. so who g guy for you go for the largest institution in the crypto? well, which is finance, the actual currency exchange itself, fad bits late. so what gives a sense of at scale how important globally it is? yeah, it's relatively small impacts until today. you know, i'd not even heard of, it's not been around this industry for quite a long time. figure 700000000 signs like a lot, but when you contrast it to others such as finance, exact minutes you, i mean for the finance i think that would be that that beat not even half a trading volume on the on a weekly basis. right. is how much is going through that? so it's quite interesting that the u. s. government are making such a big noise about something that no one's ever heard of and how that's going to

impact the industries that release is very difficult to say. i think the interesting thing is that they have tried to claim the finance was a counterpart to this trade. finance is the crypt behemoth. now the f t x doesn't exist. finance really is the big boy in the industry. so putting their name in a document for such a very, very small that's a trivial exchange in the industry is very, very significant. and how at regulates is the government's going to now react by naps because they've been named. they will be very interesting to watch. just coming back to f t x that in criminal investigation, it was the headline stories for months. drilling. people might remember that the curly haired gentleman who the funder of it and he was released on $250000000.00 bomb to run a month ago. now, do you see differences? do you see parallels what, what's happening there? and indeed in terms of being released on bail like the f t x founder was do you think that's going to happen now? to occasion?

yeah, it's fair to see that start with that point he's. there's no way he can be long bail for one reason because he is not a us citizen. the other interesting thing is that they've made all of this noise on what's called in the u. s. a. criminal complaint, and that means that the authority suspects him, but he hasn't actually been indicted or charged by the offense in the us to be charged. it has to go in front of something called a grand jury, which is a load of people that, that are on a jury where they read, read the evidence that the, the prosecutor has, and then make a decision whether they're about to be charged. they haven't done that since case they just made all this noise. we don't even know if this guy will be charged yet, or indicted as they say that was in the s b f case. we waited for the indictment. he was allowed to pretty much wander around the bahamas. he was even doing press interviews to bloomberg. all these big financial programs at, you know, he was giving interviews, he's basically half his larry run, wondering on when there was clear evidence that he committed these, these brady, heinous financial crimes. and whereas in this case, this guy is basically known to no one who's now been sort of put up, put on this poster. it is big russian super criminal mastermind villain. which is,

which is bizarre. really? well, i wrote up this news. our pizza level is up meant some for folks that will be back at the top of the hour or so from now we'll see you ah ah ah ah ah

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a yes my thought or jane in that again, do you watch in pretty up my be a lot about it more than just financial so he's got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offense, bearing dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time. time to sit down and talk with

hello and welcome to cross talk for all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle in a recent interview. french intellectual, emmanuel todd claims. the 3rd world war has already started. its epicenter is, of course, ukraine, and it's a western war against russia and china. if this scholar is correct, then we can expect to be living in a very dangerous world. for a very long time. the, the cross trucking, global conflict, i'm joined by my guess george w l e. in budapest, he's a podcast or the goggle which can be found on youtube and locals in paris. we have john laughlin, he is a university lecture in history and political philosophy and it needs to be cross

to alex hello badge. he is a veteran reporter and foreign affairs analyst, or a gentleman cross type rules and effect. that means you can jump anytime you want, and i always appreciate it. let me go to john 1st in paris in la, figured out in the pages of the figure we had you manual todd, talk about global change going on. and the epicenter of that change, of course, is ukraine. but he characterizes that as already were in the 3rd world war because i think a lot of it's been watching the commentary ever since of february of last year that we could be going on the, on the edge of we could be all this kind of stuff here, this anthropologist if i'm not mistaken, he says we're already in if john your thoughts? yeah. i mean, i know a manual, todd, and he is mainly famous for having predicted the end of the soviet union in the 1980s on the basis of the falling to the demographics of the soviet union. and is it a 3rd world war? well, yes, there are some aspects in which is the 3rd world war, obviously,

as he says, it's as we know, america against russia. it's not rutter against ukraine, or it may be, he's right, that it's america against russia and china. that's an important aspect that he didn't mention, which of course is that there are, there is more than one front, which is what would make it qualifies world war. and the other front, of course, is syria. that front has come down in recent months and years. but syria was in a way the 1st front in this war, which is now of course being played out in ukraine just as in the 2nd world war. and there were. ringback earlier was which are not normally counted as part of the 2nd world war, but which, when you look at it probably were, let's say, early tremors which indicated the earthquake to come, i'm thinking of the spanish civil war. right. and there's a lot similarity between the ukraine war and the spanish civil war. both there wasn't an invasion of spain by a foreign country, as there is in the case of, of russia and ukraine. but the spanish civil war is known as.