going on the ground, you very soon. ah ah, [000:00:00;00] a 2nd treasury secretary uses a lengthy africa, so to push back against russia and chinese brought rising an influence on the continent despite her visit officially being all about developing corporation. ariel grows, have become a major component of fighting for don boss, a means for modern warfare. our correspondent reports from the front light burning remains to fight against louis. for now we'll send advanced times to keep for

a native tools. the ramstein community base in germany. a welcome to international broadcasting alive from moscow is just post the hour is great to have you with us. i'm right, molly. let's take a look at today's top source. the us treasury saying 3 is on a lengthy tour of africa, washington to strengthen its ties with the continent. her agenda so far has appeared focused on the riding russia. i'm trauma blaming them for troubles in the region, which is war and weapon ization of food is exacerbated food insecurity and caused untold suffering. and the global economic head winds caused by the actions of a single man present in poon,

is creating an unnecessary drag on africa's economy. we believe that the international community, including china, needs to provide meaningful debt relief to help countries regain their funding. de la dylan did not. mens her words as she is trying to portray a counterweight to the influence that the americans see as the chinese having on the continent as well as the russians. she said that she blames russia and therefore trained to solicit the same kind of a motive emotions from her captive audience that she blames rush hour for africa's exist debated food shortage problem. she also says that the continent muslims be weary about unfettered chinese loans, which she says are highly collateralized and can present

a dead trip for their said countries. and she has presented the case of zambia as a, as a cautionary tale if you will. 2 other african states that, that the chinese are dragging their feed when it comes to talking about that reform in that country. but china only holds a 3rd of zombie as that. the real question is, who hold the 2 thirds? and that is western multi lateral institutions that have continuously not lead the way either because they haven't been a reason why they can't pushed through on this agenda. jenna dylan says that america is here and it's back and is going to impress upon africans as the pardon of trace. she says that they will be making invest into the continent, but they will also be demanding transparency from the said government and accountability. and she says that her government and the g 7 as a whole will try and impress upon multilateral banks to look more failing towards

developing countries, specifically in africa and to have and developing agenda in mind. now, a couple of things that come to mind as an observer of such movements and such rhetoric from the americans. is that why is it only happening now that the multi lateral bangs should focus on when the development agenda of africa when it could have clearly happened such a long time ago, there was nothing stopping it for shore. and another thing is that the americans are really worried about the influence of china and russia on the continent. and you can really see that they're trying very hard to impress upon these economies that the petro dollar should survive because they fear that a, in this multi polarity world, that africa might not necessarily side with them. another part of this re, of this visit, of course, is to impress upon the states than would be hosting

a american top senior officials coming into the continent that they take it seriously. i also understand that among some of the visits that we should be expecting this year, if that of american president, mr. joe biden. of course this visit by jenny delane bills appoint a visit that we had last year in august by the u. s. secretary of state, mr. anthony blinking, who also try to present america as a, as a country that is very much interested in africa and no one, none of these top officials from the united states have ever dared to mention the fact that they have been absent for 56 years. the fact that there hasn't been any meaningful american investment on the continent, and that african countries would not be where they are without the support, without the trade, without the investments that they received from china,

as well as russia visit by janet d l. and part of the synagogue, and we're also tied down in zambia as well as here in south africa. so there is still more to the story and more to come. germany has been defined against us pressure and assuming no decision about sending advanced level levered to battle tags to train. even though keith has been asking for them for a long time and need to meeting was held at the ramstein military base in germany. many of us thought that today we would have a breakthrough in the a discussion about heavy metal tanks. you didn't mention that at all. i don't have any announcements to make on your want. and you heard the, the german minister of the french say that, like, not made a decision on leprosy. so no shiny new toys, just a lot of the hand me downs that had already previously been announced. now all eyes

were also on nato defense ministers as they met at this ramstein airbase, near frankfort tom on friday. secretary lloyd austin, basically just used the opportunity to ask america's allies to toss more cash into the pot for the u. s. military industrial complex. oh, i mean ukraine military support spoken like a true board member temporarily. recused for 4 years by the way. and stockholder that he is now canada actually did that. by the way, canada bought a u. s. made miss hubbard beg system as a gift to ukraine. so they're basically throwing money at the u. s. military industrial complex for ukraine. and now austin announced all the western allies that are also donating their old us patriot missile systems to ukraine gas. that means that the u. s. needs to make more to replace them for their allies. how about that? i had this meeting there. is there been a lot of pressure on berlin,

notably from ukraine and from some of its european allies to cough up leopard 2 tanks, which no country can re export under german law without berlin's permission and berlin's position has been that it won't budge on the issue unless washington sends its abrams tanks 1st. so germany is basically been telling the u. s. i won't jump unless you do and the u. s. is looking at germany and saying no, you go 1st. so they're both just kind of staying there at the edge of this cliff with no one willing to take the leap on this tank issue. now as recently as this week, there were report citing senior pentagon officials, including under secretary for defense policy calling call, who said that washington simply wasn't ready to take that leave of sending tanks abram tags to keep citing maintenance and training issues. now even nato supreme allied commander, europe, or u. s. general christopher can volley said this week of western tanks, quote, there is not a particular weapon system that is

a silver bullet. a balance of all systems is needed. so these statements by actual u. s. military experts clearly diverged from the ideologically driven take of politicians who keep framing western tanks as some kind of magic solution for military victory for ukraine over russian forces. on friday, zalinski made a direct request for the new tanks to the nato defense ministers meeting in germany . poland prime minister, mateus moore wiki even said that either warsaw gets berlin's permission to send its leopard tanks to ukraine. or they'll just go ahead and do it calling consent, a quote to secondary importance. nice example of european unity there when it comes to being careful about potential escalation. apparently it's okay to run around off leash as long as their hearts in the right place. it's like the drivers slams on the brakes trying to play hero to a pedestrian waned across the street, not realizing that he's going to get

a whole lot of people run over and kill that this chivalry act. by the way, what exactly is this all this talk of tanks, world war one, if only describe could see fit to put as much time and effort into resolving the conflict peacefully as they are in serving up word salad and paying lip service in response to whatever demands key if tosses at them. ariel jones have become a major means of warfare in the fight. some dumbass, mia roth, are used for conducting recognizance of operations as it was, destroy enemy positions unties. athenian correspondent, mon garcia, report from the ground these close to the front lines. roads are a mortal hazard. artillery is trained on every stretch. only trees offer cover, even that scant. ah.

vulnerably less the closest they are is 700 meters away at 3 o'clock through in a total of 3 directions. also a 10 o'clock and 12 o'clock and our boys are there to the rotating today. they're doing well in this area, buzz recently ceased from ukrainian forces. they know every path, every clearing troops heading out to relieve those at forward positions. must be extra careful. drones guide them along. ah, we're scouting ahead to make sure that the way is clear. and then our boys will get there safely. these soldiers are all volunteers of the act, my battalion answering to the church and president rams, and could thereof, to ensure everything went smoothly. a flash support team armed with an automatic grenade launcher,

was ordered to dissuade the enemy from trying anything. some of the most intense fighting he's underway, ukrainian units are desperate to reverse russian gains along the river here. thank the rotation was the success. but as the drone flew back, it noticed something unusual. fresh fortifications and the enemy troops concealed under the tree cover, or espana we've discovered enemy positions at a distance of 450 to 750 meters away from us. their group targets enemy fortifications, armor and vehicles. within minutes coordinates were reported to h q, and orders went out to near by artillery m i

l. the way the mission had changed. they were now to keep it a distance and correct artillery fire. corrections were relayed the next barrage struck home on i'll fight this is biker, right on the target and repeat. this is modern warfare. this is the dominant form of combat across the front lines, artillery and drones, in a seamless lisa link on the front lines. soldiers have learned to fear drones. they always watch and listen for the characteristic buzz that harolds a barrage of iron, fire, and shrapnel, or add gas d a r t. from le ganske. the top american general has

on washington's elites that the us needs to step up his game. he may, those have also a view of the growing president, russia, and china in latin america. this is very concerning to me, to see the tentacles of the people's republic of china in the countries of the western hemisphere. we are very much in a strategic competition in the western hemisphere. a total of 9 countries have ration equipment in them and we are working to replace that russian equipment with united states equipment. we have a lot at stake. this region matters. it has a lot to do with national security. we need to step up our game, gerrell laura richardson haines, the u. s. southern command, responsible for security incorporation in central and south america. it also includes the protection of washington's military assets there. this is not the 1st time that rich richardson has emphasized the streams, its strategic importance of the region. for the us especially, is rich resources. 3 genesis,

so rich and resources. it's off the charts, rich. 60 percent of the world's lithium is in the region. you have heavy crude, you have light, sweet crude. you have rare earth elements. there are adversaries, there are taking advantage of this region every single day, right in our neighborhood. and i just look at what happens in this region in terms of security impacts our security, our national security, i in the home land and in the united states. or is it is release is a some of his latin american neighbors have been particularly strange since last year when it refused to invite the needs of cuba, venezuela, and nicaragua, to the summit of the americas, that it was hosting. meanwhile, china and russia have been increasing investors in the region, including for critical infrastructure as well as providing military equipment. we heard from prison expert who serves the us dance of hedge. a monic rule over the

western hemisphere is no longer fits with the rising multiple real world. well, i think that for most americans, their interests are not the same as the interest of the pentagon or the interest of wall street. so in my view, american people have and have a great influence in latin america. it just cannot be in the, in the form of oppression or in the form of a subjugation of the peoples or the plundering of the natural resources of latin america. so we should worry, is gone, is was street because what they want is to maintain that relationship of dependence from latin america towards the us, the all on the road doctrine to call latin america. it's bad yard or as president biden said, it front yard, ultimately, latin america should be free and indeed is becoming more and more free, being able to think its partners, its allies,

its relations throughout the world. and russia and china are 2 great powers that one cannot help, but to have some relation when there is no country that do to ideological preferences can afford to ignore russia or china and american tech firms, as washington has also to bypass into essentially ship iran off the government, restricted access, i mean protests. the company and ceo made the comment that the world, the current forum in dallas and i got a call from a senior official in the white house. who said, can you do in iran, what you're doing in russia? and i said, no, i said why not? and i said, because sanctions prevented us from ever putting our equipment in iran. and so the same way that we can help the russian people bypass center step. we're unable to do that in iran, and they said, what if we give you a license that is too late?

a lot of the us as opposed to the requested that the company space that's provided my internet services in the wrong, particularly with a view of assisting anti government activists in the country for just irritated law in iran last year for the death of a woman who was taken into police custody for religion need not complying with dress good relations of worry headscarf. yes, for joe biden and other western ages have express support for the anti government protests in iran. the us on it's close, middle east ally is well, have reported the been discussing joint efforts, encourage more of those demonstrations and ultimately undermine iranian leadership . r g 's, maria from russia as the story prime minister netanyahu an us national security advisor sullivan discuss further joined steps to deter iran. the prime minister

expressed his gratitude for you as president biden's commitment that iran will not obtain nuclear weapons. that's been declared openly what is rather quando stein, israel and the west have long joined efforts in a well coordinated information war against iran. the most recent and a remarkable example, last falls anti government protests in iran. after the suspicious death of a 22 year old female demonstrator in police custody, iran was boiling on the streets and on social media. but that is the number of pro demonstrator is an anti government hashtags used from outside iran that blows one's mind. take israel, for example, according to tweet a trend, an archive on just one day 22nd of september. they were 9000000 tweets with the woman's last name, written in farsi from israeli user as well. quite a lot for a country was just a bit more than half a 1000000 twitter users in just 4 days between september 21st and september 24th accounts based in israel,

sent over 43000000 tweets about the protests. quite an achievement, given the only around $634000.00 is where you have a twitter account, an average of $68.00 tweets per account. the next day, the oh no twitter, ellen mosque confirmed on twitter, his commitment to help america change information landscape in iran by smuggling in special devices that allowed government restrictions to be bypassed. we took action today to advance internet freedom and the free flow of information for the uranium people issuing a general license to provide them access to digital communications to counter the iranian governments. censorship, activate and star link. an example of this free flow of information followed from an almost 100 year old to american magazine and use week story for we'll say, saying that the iranian parliament voted in favor of death penalty for protest. hers immediately went viral. even the canadian prime minister vowed to stay united

against a ron's heinous regime. 15000 protest his sentence to death. true, do hollywood salads, denounce iran on the base of a funny story. canada denounces the iranian regimes barberic decision to impose the death penalty on nearly $15000.00 protest. this the claim angered even if they show fact checker is normally critical to runs government following their disapproval, many rushed to delete their posts, claiming they were misled. but some say they were rather deliberately misleading. it's very obvious for me as someone who lives in the wrong and has been observing the manipulation campaign and how the twitter has played a very significant role into this many foolish and campaign. you see a very hyper bowling exaggerated coverage of iran and i think this is because, like always because the us one stu demonize

the population inside iran and other western magazine with a century long history that describes itself as a leading forum for serious discussions of american foreign policy openly called for g change and iran with america's help. and finally, the matter oversight board earlier these january refuse to remove facebook post, say death to the ready leader at a matter should do malta respect, freedom of expression in iran. keep this money oppression campaign. it has slowed down a lot because a lot of the misinformation and nutrition campaign has been exposed by a lot of people and they were, they were promising the world that the uranium government is going to collapse any time. but this does not happen, so they have to back off a little bit and but i'm sure they're going to come up with some other plan in the future. and dish to me looks like in line with the bigger agenda,

which to now push for more pressure on the iran. so the question arises when israel and it's trusted partner america, talk about the need to stop iran. do they mean hates nuclear program? it's cracked out on the protests or is or do they mean to stop iran, bean, iran reef in ocean r r t from jerusalem and in the writers ever heard of odds. he's guy on the ground with i've seen my fancy renown philosopher, our linguist, noam chomsky. joy is the program. he says light on the why the us media is so hesitant of knowledge is government war. grimes is a sneak peak. why is it, sir? do you think russia thinks it's fine? i think so gay lover of this week giving a press conference allowing western reporters accreditation, whereas in the united states, they obviously don't ban media in the u. s. because of the 1st amendment. certainly

in europe, obviously, there's mass banning of journalists and journalism what, what's behind it vat and that surely does depart some what from manufacturing consent where they didn't want to ban anything. they just knew that the blower selling outlets would fail to engage the populace in, in dissident opinion. well, i said for sewage coin no. oh, you look through the soon take a more recently, iraq, we're not that far back. anyone who dares to see that the iraq war was the major crime of the century, which it certainly was, is bitterly denounced and down. if you look at the discussion in the mainstream,

you'll be hard put to find any one who does, can reach the mainstream. who will say the elementary truths, industry, indisputable truth, that the iraq war was an example of what the number tribunal called the supreme international crime. and the aggression which differs from other war crimes only in the it includes all the evil that follows. so find somebody who says, prison bush, donald rumsfeld, dick cheney, we're guilty of the crimes for which people were aimed at nuremberg. instead, what you has is celebration of george bush, the great criminal who invaded iraq and afghanistan, and destroyed them. celebration of him as a lovely person, scalded,

goofy graham placement, his grandchildren paints pictures just a delightful person. well, that the record, ah, some news just in, before we go a flight from las go to the indian state of go a has been abruptly diverted to the central asian nation of it is on due to a bomb threat. there are importantly more than 200 people on board, the russian atlanta this come the week of the report said another flight from i'm also to go and conduct emergency landing in indian weston state of good jobs due to some concerns. well that also this news, our technology dot com for more interesting top stories will be back in the top of the hour. we'll hope you're doing

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