[000:00:00;00] a walk to a presidential office admit that he couldn't even participant in peace tools with moscow last year was murdered by mistake. off the report said he was killed by the 20 national security service of being over russian spy. pushing us interest over child strong ties with africa. that's how the continent media is describing the us treasury secretaries 11 day visit to africa. a 1000000 people

take the c throughout france to protest against my wells planned to raise the national retirement age is $64.00 and progress dollars petroleum minutes. the emphasizes the full terms of increasing his countries fuel input from russia. despite to western factions, if we can have the russian crew flowing through our system, it would be very helpful, a significant chunk with good morning and welcome dogs, international world costing life from moscow just bought the al. and as always, it's great to have you with us. i'm runtime mommy. let's take a look at today's top stories. a crazy presidential office says a lack of coordination in the ukrainian security services lead to the killing of

a key delegation member after the 1st front of pistols with moscow. lost him pass offer port by the wolf street journal said the cleaning national security service, the s b. you murdered dennis kitty if on the claim that he was a traitor. but an advisor to grant prism as he has affirmed he actually was the one when you have, he's not a rush, an agent. 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 careers body guards to surrender their weapons. mister korea was directed to a minivan. his security detail lay prone on the street is the van drove away. about 90 minutes later, the military intelligence agents were summoned to the spot where they found mister korea body. turns out though it was all a big mistake, days after he was killed. as a trader kid, a 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 tipping off key of about brushes, 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 me enough time to prepare. the airport was rendered useless. indian 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 mister 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 ukrainian government last years. the liskey, therefore, is not the person who's totally in charge. the u. s. b, you seems to have a higher authority and the case of dennis care, correct. 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 asserting. 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 it's afraid to exert its authority. is afraid to bring such forces to heal. meanwhile, heavy fighting continues along the dumbass front line motion troops come and closes and taking the keys from tinge at city of our tim mosque. opener's book, what russian soldiers, including the dumbass established goose brigade, have our fighting to take control of the heights surrounding the village of sport near seizing those fights. would open the road to serve, ask, and later on to ask both cities post key strategic significance for any future push to overtake the remaining dumbass territories. argy arabic,

senior correspondent sargon hud via has been observing russian troops as these tactical drones in the fight for sport, naya kilometer were fighting continues on the don bass front line. the village for noah is under the crossfire of the russian forces. taking this territory opens the way to the city of savers. but as you can see, ukrainian troops are located at 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 are 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 for iraq when we say you're a drones 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. with this way, the artillery achieved great results with enemy trench is cleared and our guys are entering them when the enemy is suppressed. now we just hit the targets as planned, and mari fierce fighting goes on here as well as across the whole front line were foreign mercenaries fight side by side with ukrainian nationalists. the store moved 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. and i list them aside, taking subordinate air and the high ground positions around. it opens the way to savers for russian troops. that is an important city, just like our chillman spark, 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, janski's and chroma torso, sorry, gone, ha, dia r, t to nets, republic,

russia. birth announcement as, as africa where the usaa greece, i u. s. treasury secretary is on a 11 day tour of the content, including seminal zambia and lisa, south africa. she has a scribe visit as a step towards further equal of incorporation. 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 loser . been saying the true purpose of the trip is to promote washington's interest over the already strong ties that the continent has with china and russia. ortiz, africa correspondent, terrible attack law as the details. the us treasury secretary jenna jalen, will touch down in the west african state of senegal. this friday it's all 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 blanket, 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 of the united states is a partner 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 themes, the growing influence of other superpowers, namely russia and 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 us relations with african peoples and governments. russia views the region as a permissive environment for paras battles and private military companies, often fermenting instability for strategic and financial benefit. the 3 country visit starting in seliger will also include zambia and south africa. and it comes fresh of the heels of the you with africa salad held early in december. president joe biden hosted over 40 african hands of things in washington. and during the summit, his administration main deals and commitments to the tune of some $15000000.00 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 its dead repayment in 2020. if one of many african countries to apply to the g 20 for is nearly $13000000000.00 worth of debt to be restructured. and the common framework mechanism of the g 20 china holds a 3rd of zambia debt. but despite that, the west, the 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 resistance economy is being further hampered by the growing intensity of power. despite south africa's was jaelyn is expected to push that old 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 cold from greener energy sources. but there's no such thing as

a free lunch and weary africans will be looking out for the preconditions that the united states government is so well known for government had for r t jennifer had to europe. now am all that a 1000000 people have taken to the streets throughout frogs to protest it is present in my new microns planned to raise the country's retirement age by 2 years to 64. ah ah, was president mcwhorter was slightly of friendship treaty with spain above and on

a public file full flight schools. i'm businesses throughout fonts were disrupted by a wave of labor strikes as well, who talked the jobs. several dozen people were reportedly dictate the mid crushes with police. all te contributor rachel muslin as well. so the opening act of 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 and michael wants to bump the retirement age to before 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 labour strike in france would not be complete with without some good old fashioned gratuitous ups were fair and rich bashing. no, what article 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 at 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 barcelona signing 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 coven head. and it's been shelves ever since, until now. right now on the other side of the atlantic,

let her have it also been persistent mass protests and perused them. the faith is cool for the recently nobody at present to resign present. dina balrog, her was foreign in last month after the previous head of state federal ally, pedro garcia was ousted for attempting to dissolve congress protests of a robinson throughout the country. and more than 40 people have been reported, killed and made, crushes with police. whatever fate has have largely express support of a previous prison castillo, who was taken into custody after he tried to strip house away from the governor's judicial branch on corruption allegations. energy news, our russia's energy miss on a visit to pakistan as its 1st readiness to move forward with the development of a major gas pipeline project pakistan stream. he made those comments amid a meeting where the parkside prime minister about increasing rush and fuel supplies

to the south asian country r t has heard directly from pakistan's, petroleum is about the growing energy ties between moscow and islam. about we have a long standing conversation, ongoing conversation about park street. so the discussions are about that project, removing 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. so if we can have the russian crude flowing through our system, it would be very helpful. a significant chunk of 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 to what part 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 oil, taking gas from, from russia. so if europe is okay to take energy from the russian federation, and if i are neighboring countries are quite okay taking energy from russia than i don't see any serious concern. we are about 220000000 people and we are poised to grow to become about 349000000 people by the year and 2050 um right now

in the region we have lowest energy per capita utilization that energy, but 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 uh, increase our g d p by 4 percent or 5 percent every year, which is what our target is than we need to grow. our energy needs by $7.00 to $8.00 mission minimum a year on year. so that just gives you a sense of what kind of energy needs we have and therefore, how important a strategic energy partnership is for us. ah, one of us says he lost thought atrocities against hungarians after ritual actions taken against ethic, hungarians, living in western ukraine. we don't understand exactly how anti hungarian decisions and measures help ukraine in the war against russia. we

call on the local leaders to immediately and the atrocities against the hungarians . if ukraine wants to be a member of the european union, the continuous and systematic harassment and deprivation of rights of a national community is unacceptable. the whole game also reports that our local hungarian school director was science in the city of chicago. in western ukraine is the latest in a spot between what a person thank you, which interrupted in 2017, when ukraine's new education or restricted, the teaching of minority languages. more cut, chevelle has a significant hungarian minority living there. media reports also framed hungarian flags were removed from settlements. mila media reports claim that hungary has brought 500000000 euros with emer, few funding to ukraine. we got insight from european jupiter expert,

george germany. he says, each member of state hungry is in a tight position as it tries to assert its own rights regarding ukraine, despite pressure from the block. lee hungarians are really between a rock in our place. they wanted every which way on the one hand, hungary is on board with the use sanctions policy. it's on board with nato. and yet, at the same time, it has to see the reality that you have a extremely nationalistic xenophobic regime that came to power in, in 2014 and is persecuting all of the minorities in ukraine, primarily the russian which are very substantial minority, but also the hungarian minority, it's country wine and it's been a long standing. this isn't just something that cropped up the other day. the

authorities in here have banned the instruction in schools by minorities in their minority languages. so they banned the secondary education to be taught in hungarian, just like a ban secondary education to be taught in russian and romanian and polish. i mean that it, all of them are, it is, i have been know repressed by the regime here. yes. authorities in miami have detained to russian national heads, the crypto exchange bits mulatto on. i'm a geisha that he help from on the $700000000.00. we heard from an industry expert who says that while the u. s. media villa, 5 russian crypto boss, another much more destructive to distribute to america one of the scandal,

right m f t x is why me welcome to give interviews all to contribute to chris ems. discuss the issue with my colleague in new jersey. we'd like a top lloyd piece, right. it's got out of the these or dashes claims it. it that you know that it's got all the, all the, all the qualities that you'd want. if you eat a good tabloid piece in a newspaper, drugs and russia, they even called him a 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 some bank and fried an s t x which they bought. so who do you guy for you go for the largest institution in the crypto? well, which is balance. the actual currency exchange itself, fab bits late. so what gives a sense of its steel? how important globally it is? yeah, it's relatively small in flags until today. you know, i'd not even heard of it, and i've been around this industry for quite a long time. figure 700000000 signs like a lot, but when you contrast it to others, such has been an exact clint of you. i mean for the, for finance, i think that would be that, that be not even half they trading volume on it on

a weekly basis. right. is how much is going through that? so it's quite interesting that the u. s. government making such a big noise about something that no one's ever heard of and how that's gonna impact the industries that relate is very difficult to say. i think the interesting thing is that they have tried to claim the finance was a com support 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 regulators and governments are going to now react by not because they've been named. it 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 to 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 in this occasion? yes, it's fair to see that start with that point he's. there's no way he can be with somebody else 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 this this case, they've 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 that you know, he was giving interviews, he's basically half his lobby run wondering on when that was clear evidence that he committed these, these really highness, financial crimes. whereas in this case,

this guy is basically known to no one who's now been sort of put up, put on this poster, is big russian super criminal mastermind villain. which, which is bizarre, really now up to speed. check out the next documentary which hunt in congo. we wrap this up with today, i'm authorizing the additional strong sanction foreign companies, quitting russia, numbers on to on thank you. this client atm card. so blantan banks disconnected from the international payment system, dysfunctional hoppey journal, donna and euro. the exchange rates follow up on a table up, or nickel, go more for those. so i would know what the committee met, that he woke up the bill of that is the current. can you say,

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