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have russian group flowing through our system, it would be very significant with good afternoon and welcome to the actual real cost in lie from oscars just pops out . and as always, it's great to have you with us. i'm tomorrow. let's take a look at today's top stories. you guys, presidential office says a lack of coordination in the finance security services lead to being of a keep delegation member after the 1st on a peaceful with last go last year. last after a report by the wall street journal said the ukrainian national security service, the s b, you murdered dennis kitty f on the claim that he was a traitor. but by the t greatest present, as he has affirmed, he actually was a one. when you have news, not a russian agent, this,

his mother happened due to the fact that there was no unified coordination between the door 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, 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, 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 in the in suing battle. and this tip off is remembered as a moments 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

its most willing collaborators. the ukranian intelligence service is a force onto itself. it's not fully controlled by the ukrainian government. vladimir zelinski therefore, is not the person who's totally in charge. the 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 30, they killed the 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 russian troops are coming closer to day in the key strategic city of our team of schools are known as baltimore, russia. so those, including the dumbass established goosed brigade, are fighting to take control of the height surrounding the village of sport near seizing those heights would open the road to service. and later, our 2 meals, both cities post key strategic significance for any future push to overtake the remaining dumbass territories. all these arabic senior correspondent started on the hud via has been observing russian troops as these tactical drugs in the area who are hiding continues on the don bass front line. the village of se for noah is under the cross fire of the russian forces. taking this territory opens the way to the city of savor ski, but as you can see, ukrainian troops are 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 okay 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 europe. drones play an important role in spotting the movements of ukrainian troops. the identification of targets allows artillery to shell, the enemies fortify positions which gives the russian assault teams an opportunity to move forward. one of the this way the artillery achieved great results with enemy trenches cleared and our guys are entering them when the enemy is suppressed . now we just hit the targets as planned, and my 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. they're still blue, 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, and i leased a, me a say taking sworn i and 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 sought are gone. ha, dia r t dynette republic. russia allows africa where the us treasury secretary is on an 11 day tour of the continent, including seneca, zambia, and later south africa. she is this thought of the visit of the step towards further economic corporation. the united states is committed to building on africa, significant progress in economic development over the past few decades. africa,

successful mean 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 of is saying, the true purpose of the trip is a remote washington's interest over the old really strong ties of the content house with china and russia. oh, jeez, africa correspondent, cobbler tutner. 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 promise to give more focus to africa over the next 2 years. yellows message will mirror that of how calling 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, while 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 and china as a threat to american interest. here is 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 status 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 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 have 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. $24.00 is nearly $13000000000.00 worth of debt to be restructured. and that the common framework mckenneth them of the g 20 china holds a 3rd of zambia is dead. 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 resistant economy is being further hampered by the growing intensity of power cuts. despite south africa's woes, 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 promised south africa $8500000000.00 to ditch coal from green 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 set for our p. jonathan. now more than a 1000000 people have taken to the streets throughout frog protested prison in monument was planned to raise the country's retirement age. by 2 years. this 64 ah,

[000:00:00;00] ah, why prison law crawl was signing up friendship treats you explain in barcelona, public transport flight schools on businesses throughout france were disrupted by a wave of labor slight woke as wolf off the job. several dozen people were repulsively detained amid trashes, with police all to conjure reeds, original laws, them 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 at 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 we'll see what they come up with. and usually the reality is somewhere between the 2 transportation caves with her to a halt 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 64 for a lot, your 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 fashion. gratuitous hucks 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 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 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. on it, on the other side of the atlantic that have also been persistent mass puts us in peru some which is cool for the recently inaugurated president to resign. present like there was one in last month off. the feed is head of state where i live, pedro castillo was ousted for attempting to dissolve. congress protest have been more than 40 people, have been killed amid crashes with police. the demonstrators have laws. the express

support of these is who is taken into custody of the powers away from the government conditional branch on corruption allegations. ah, trinity news out rushes energy miss on a visit to pakistan has expressed readiness to move forward with the development for major gas pipeline project focused on stream. he made those comments. amid a meeting with the progress i probably missed about increasing rushing fuel supplies to the south, asian country artsy has heard directly from pakistan's, petroleum is about the growing energy ties between moscow and is, i'm a bad we have a long standing conversation, ongoing conversation about park street so the discussions are about that project are 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. so if we can have the 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 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 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, 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 gdp by 4 percent or 5 percent every year, which is what our target is, then we need to grow our energy needs by 7 to 8 percent 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 us authorities in miami have detained a russian national, who has the crypto exchange bit for the laptop on the allegation of the he help rhonda 700000000 dollars we had fallen in the c s for who says that while the u. s . media, villa fi is that russian crypto boss. another much more infamous america, one of the scandal, right for f t x is why be welcome to give interviews also contributed chris and discuss the issue with my colleague union. neal. they just read like a tabloid piece, right? it's got out of these, these or they. she claims it. it that you know that it's got all the, all the, all the qualities that you'd want. if you me to get a tabloid piece in the 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, they've got to find another food guy for the full guy that they,

that they had in, in sam bagman freed in f t x 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, what gives a sense of its scale? how important globally it is? yeah, it's relatively small. in fact, until today unit, 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 minute you, i mean for the, for 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 making such a big noise about something that no one's ever heard of and how that's gonna 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 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 to by naps because they've been 90. 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? 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 this occasion? yeah, it's fair to see that start with that point he's, there's no way he's going 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 this 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 that was clear evidence that he committed these, these really highness, 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, wow, that's all for me today. crystal is up next on my colleague, rory, so she'll be with you here, the figures. i'm rather mommy with me,

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there appeared atlantic slave dre. the slave traders from european countries started building forth on the western coast of the african continent to transport the african inhabitants to america, to be forced into hard labor. until the middle of the 17th century. portugal had played the main role in this atrocious business. then great britain, france and the netherlands took the leadership for the span of 400 years of legal and illegal slave trade. about 17000000 people were forcefully shipped across the atlantic. not including those who died on the way due to unbearable living conditions. modern historians estimate that for each slave ship to america, there were 5 who died while captured during transportation, and cruel obliteration of rebellion. this ruthless people tre practice by the leading european countries,

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friends think you're guilty because you'll russian much now the bomb so my doom was my mistake, little detail. glad to with being a by needful a specific struggle with a with hello and welcome to cross talk. we're all things considered. i'm peter lavelle in a recent interview. french intellectual emmanuel, pod claims the 3rd world war has already started. it's epicenter is of course, ukraine, and it's

a western war against russia and china. if this scholar is correct and we can expect to be living in a very dangerous world for a very long time. ah, the cross sucking global conflict, i'm joined by my guess, george semi well we in budapest, he's a podcast for the goggle, which can be found on youtube and locals in paris. we have john laughlin. he is a university lecturer in history and political philosophy and it needs to be cross to alex hello bridge. he is a veteran reporter and foreign affairs analyst or a gentleman cross type roles. and in fact, that means you can jump anytime you want. and i always appreciate it, let me go to john 1st in paris in la figaro, in the pages of figure we had the manual tod talk about global change going on. and the epicenter of that change, of course, is ukraine. but he characterizes it 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 told 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 for 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 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 so the spanish civil war is known as well known of calls for the intervention practiced by outside powers by the nazis on the one handed by the soviet union on the other. so the spanish will was a special was a proxy war much as we have in ukraine. and of course, to some extent it was a precursor to the 2nd world war. and so in that sense, i think he is right. the big difference of course, is that we're in the nuclear age now, and that's why you can't really compare the 900 thirty's to the present period