ah, with your headlines right now with our feet there she is, the us treasury secretary, she touring africa, although it is widely seen as an effort to upstage russia and china is growing influence on that continent. india's tech minister accusers, us pharmaceutical giant pfizer having attempted to bully his government into providing legal protection from any side effects to with russian game along the river area. drones to become

a major component of the fighting for don bass. and what has become an essential means of more than bay warfare. senior correspondent remains embedded all along the front line with up to 5 pm on saturday. here at moscow, this is alta international from the entire news team. it's great to have you with us. so washington has dispatched its treasury secretary on a lengthy tour of africa that seeks to strengthen its ties with the continent. or agenda so far though, appears focused on de riding russia and china, and basically blaming them for troubles, up and down the continent. 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, president poon,

is creating an unnecessary drag on african economy. we believe that the international community, including china, needs to provide meaningful debt relief to help countries regain their funding. della dylan did not men's how was, as she is trying to portray a counterweight to the influence that the americans the see as the chinese having on the continent as well as the russians. she said that she blames russia and therefore trying to solicit the same kind of emotive emotions from her captive audience that she blame for. i shall fall africa's exacerbated food shortage problem. she also says that the continent mustn't be weary about unfettered chinese loans, which she says are highly collateralized and can presented

a dead trip for their said countries. and she has presented the case of zambia as a, as a cautionary tale if you will, to other african states that, that the chinese are dragging their feet 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 push 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 size movements and sites rhetoric from the americans. is that why is it only happening now that the multi lateral bangs should focus on one, 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 that wouldn't be hosting a american top senior officials coming into the continent that didn't take it seriously. i also understand that among some of the visits that we should be expecting this year is that of american president, mr. joe biden. of course this visit by jenny dylan builds upon 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. that like 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. this visit

by jana dell and thought to the synagogue and also taste down in zambia as well as here in south africa. so there is still more to this story and want to come india's tech minister who's accused the us pharmaceutical john pfizer, of having pressured the country's government to ensure legal protections for pfizer in case of deadly side effects from its covert vaccine. and allegations spock a strong rebuttal by an indian parliament member. and it claims that he had supported the western injections over locally produced ones. just to remind all indians that pfizer tried to pull the government of india into accepting conditions of indemnity. and jerome romesha kept pushing the case of foreign vaccines during cupboard. this is total. mister minister. let not your ambition to climb the greasy pole. make you more of

a liar than you are. 20215. it was among the 1st vaccine producers to apply for an emergency use authorization in india, but it withdrew the application off of the countries. pharmaceutical watchdog requested a clinical study to confirm the safety of the job. later that year, india said it would not by the pfizer job with a report saying the company's demands for legal protection with a main issue in the world economic forum in davos this week. 5 as c o. attempted to evade commenting about the jobs, safety and effectiveness. you said it was a 100 percent effective, then 90 percent and 80 percent, then 70 percent. but we now know that the vaccines do not trans saw transmission. why did you keep that secret? revenues good? i won't have a nice day until i know the answer. why did you keep it a secret that your vaccine did not stop transmission?

meanwhile, would you be surprised to learn that recent studies by european n g o. s of claim that e u covert vaccine deals including the ones with pfizer, prioritized colossal financial interests, far above the main issue of public health. his aunty contributor rachel marston, jerry cove, it the european union rolled out a block y q r code system as proof of vaccination for travel leisure. and in some cases a condition of employment. even as reports started raising doubts about how reliable the shot actually was. when it came to stopping infection transmission and even death, it's like there was this interest in brussels to move fast and getting shots into arms as quickly as possible. and getting this digital identity system linked to the job status into place as an incentive for people to take the shots. now for months, skeptical members of the european parliament have been demanding to know what kind

of deal the blocks leadership actually signed with the manufacturers of these injections. we're talking here about 11 contracts, 4600000000 vaccines and 71000000000 euros of public money transferred to big pharma. and so far, neither the citizens who paid for all of this nor their elected representatives have been able to get full transparency on any of those deals. here's what new research just published by french and g o, global health advocates and by the u. k based health, non profit stop aids, has to say about it. the you signed agreements cloaked in secret and resisted efforts to disclose any information. protecting commercial interest, we argue, came at the expense of transparency around pricing, delivery schedules, those transfer clements and intellectual property commitments that could have helped increase global access to vaccines. secrecy. in short, hurt public health with an unaccountable driver. the public have been taken for

a ride. the reports also draw attention to the lack of interest on the part of certain big pharmacy. yo's, when it comes to accountability towards their customers, their and clients who received an ultimately paid for the jobs being average european citizens to make matters worse. phases seo, albert buller has twice refused to appear in front of her pin parliaments cove committee to answer questions about how the contract negotiations were carried out . an old decision for a company who claims to be very transparent. it turns out the pfizer, c. e o. busy borla is also the same one who was exchanging private text messages with european commission present. ursula vander line the month before the pfizer contract was negotiated. now, how do we know that? because vander lined, said so herself in april of 2021. and those texts have magically vanished, and wagner line doesn't really seem to be too interested in making an effort to recover them forensically. so earlier this month,

european parliamentarians on the blocks coven 19 committee, expressed their interest in having fonder line answer to their committee. on these contract negotiations by peering in person, but of course she can just decline just like burley dead, which has now led the committee to request that berlin access privileges to the european parliament be revoked. and access to you. politicians for corporations and their lobbyists is pretty much priceless between january 2020 and september 2022. senior european commission officials and pharmaceutical lobbyists had close to 100 meetings, with 30000000 euro spent on you lobbying in a single year. that's according to the ngo's reports which also touch on the lips service that the e u paid to global unity against cove it. while at the same time gate, keeping it cove, it technologies and practicing as sort of medical apartheid by keeping the jobs out

of the hands of countries that perhaps weren't in a very good position to pay big pharma as much as what europe was a bathroom lobbying and shady deals have made their way into the spotlight in the ear recently with the rest of officials and personnel, accused of corruption over linked to lucrative, had tory and murat in lobbying efforts. and now with this report suggesting that's just the tip of the iceberg. if the e u is serious, about transparency and lisa, serious as wagner line says she is in the wake of had target. then she really should be the very 1st to set the example along with her big pharmacy e o bodies. instead of hiding from the people she's actually meant to serve the russian ministry of defense has reported that his troops have taken control over another settlement in the donetta republic. officials state that the

settlement of veronica near full adar in the dawn, its grip public has come under russian control. this as the ministry added that ukrainian forces in the area suffered approximately 50 casualties and the fighting is russian. troops destroyed a 2 arm at combat vehicles as well as a, a number of artillery pieces. meanwhile, aerial drones become wallet major component in the conflict. they used for both conducting recognizance operations as well as a destroying enemy. positions are senior correspondent has more on the story. these close to the front lines. roots are a mortal hazard. artillery is trained on every stretch. only trees also cover even that scott aah! valesh 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. our boys are there to their rotating to day. 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 that 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 flaw, support team, armed with an automatic grenade launcher, was ordered to dissuade the enemy from trying anything. some of the most intense rising he's underway, ukrainian units are desperate to reverse russian gains

along the river. here through the rotation was the success. but as the drone flew back, it noticed something unusual. fresh fortifications and 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 the orders went out to nearby artillery m l m i l blue bay. the mission had changed. they were now to keep it a distance and correct artillery fire.

corrections were relayed the next barrage struck home. although i'm on my list, i'll fight this is biker, right on the target. repeat. this is modern warfare. this is the dominant form of combat across the front lines artillery and drones, in a seamless lethal 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 ad gazda of r t from le ganske. croatians, president had some rather choice words for e u foreign policy chief joseph burrell. like choosing the blocks leadership of having a condescending attitude towards certain members, states, burrell, st. crecia memo last month,

filled with lies in which he treats us as if we were retarded. excuse my language, as if we had special needs at some point enough is enough. this kind of treatment is deeply irritating. to day they do this to hungary, tomorrow it will be some other bigger country. they want to bring into line. they did it to poland until recently to poland now gets a past due to the situation in ukraine. but their turn will come again to morrow. if the e u wants to progress it has to accept this diversity. the christian president made those comments during a press conference in budapest with his hungarian counterpart. a. both of those countries remain opposed to the anti rush sanctions, which as they say only her europe, the croatian leader, accused the use leadership of failing to acknowledge the individuality of each of its members. states. when i raised the issue just a short time ago with the head of the euro continent thinktank pierre emanuel tama,

the comments of her christian new president reflects the huge struggle of power between a member states, nations and or european bureaucracy. european union bureaucracy would like to or use each crises in europe, internal and external to add more power and or to we're impose its own views on the european project. and some member states are resisting, especially are now hungary, for example, which is refusing over your interpretation of a rule of role of european union and do or so it's approach on ukraine and no croix shaw is siding more with the home gary, these 2 countries corporation hungary think are european union should better up so

boat, or europe, europe as cbd ish, and, and not as appendix of nate to on washington. jupiter got objectives well, in spite of increasing pressure from washington, europe is dragging its feet and not shipping enough weapons to ukraine. the u. s. defense secretary was in germany at the ramstein air base on friday, but even after the meeting, berlins still will not commit to sending it to leopard to main battle conked to ukraine. or the swallow french politician is wanting of the dangers of sending such heavy weapons. under pressure from american hawks, e. u. countries are going into total delirium over the delivery of increasingly heavy weapons. tis a lensky macro, mave, and donate la clerk tanks. american hawks won a world war in europe. of course, not a political analyst, nicola markovich, always great to see you welcome to the program. so at this point, 3 countries are essentially dangling tanks, just out of reach, refused to supply

a heavy weapons until the others do. so do you think nicola has the western narrative that they're ready to support ukraine to all the way to the end with whatever it takes? i mean, all the cracks appearing do thing. yeah, it's a bit are definitely cracked with it. just be seen different european countries, hungary, croatia close to them serve. yeah, they're all saying what was going on and why are the western european countries nato countries sending these weapons it was successful. this would have been a done deal already. we've been seeing that every month, every month there's the you countries sending more weapons. it's not working. and now we've got people like audrey was there who is the chairperson of the german armed forces association, which is telling the german government to stop sending weapons because it's depleting its own stocks. and we know this throughout nato. nato countries are deeply in their own stocks for i would say a policy which is,

which is not working in different countries. the small countries, i would say courageous countries like hungry and croatia are voicing their concern and saying, why are we doing this? what is, what is the use of this? this is pro, tracking the war and, and it's driving us further into it which can at the end be extremely dangerous for us. so i definitely think that this is something which is interesting. this in the smaller countries, i think that they don't believe in the war mongering rhetoric coming out from the the nato countries in the color odyssey, germany is supposed to be essentially america's biggest ally in europe when it comes to the main backbone of the industry. of the entire continent, but sholtes the german chancellor. is he pushing back? why do you think he's been holding out and saying no to sending the leopards until washington sends its abrams tanks 1st. what's, what is reasoning? do you think what something's really going on in germany? we've seen this, i think there's a strong pressure from the german military who properly know the terrain better

than the german politics, politicians. and they're telling them that if we continue like this, germany will have no, no weapons whatsoever to defend itself. so i do think there's a lot of pressure there has been a lot of pressure from the people in the streets. we saw a demonstration at before the north stream to north stream. one pipelines were, were destroyed in a, in a terrorist attack, we saw the germans going down the street to their government. they didn't want the more they wanted to have access to the gas. so there is strong pressure on the government within germany, from the military. i think on one side that is one part of the military, those who understand what's really going on the terrain, and people in germany who just don't want this war and understand that the further germany gets involved in this war. the further, the consequences will be for germany and the german people. i think more and more are telling their governments that they don't want these consequences an ethical one of them just don't want the war because they see that this is not a solution to send a weapon if we want to stop the war. well, i mean,

i was reading an article, a car member now from our is from in the past 48 hours or so, but some, some u. s. official than us state department was saying, what we're here, german, he's making a sovereign decision. they're going to be independent with their idea of not sending the leopard tongues, but i want to ask you because in that same article, somebody leapt a chat from the white house where they said, show has got us over a barrel. washington doesn't seem thrilled to be idea of sending the abrams tanks to ukraine. they say it's a jet engine as a jet engine power tank. it's very high tech, it's very expensive. it goes through a huge amount of fuel should we, should we just take that at face value as to why the pentagon won't dispatch the abrams times to ukraine over. so i think that the u. s. is also defending its own stocks of concern in the us about why the american government is sending so much money in so many weapons to, to the ukraine. they definitely want to send the top notch tanks. they've got, they don't want to send their best tanks out there because they don't want the

russians getting their hands on their material and their technology. so and from the beginning we've seen this is, this is the american strategy, and we've got to give them credit for this with the us government. they're waging a war on european soil, getting the europeans to pay a property, a half the half of the budget, and send their own weapons. and the u. s. a. trying to stay and they're trying to push western europe. let's not forget that western europe is considered by brzezinski as an american protector. it, in that, that gives really a big insight on how the u. s. a. western europe. so the u. s. washington wants the europeans to wage this war because they don't want to spend their budget, they want, they want to europeans to wage the war, nicola, but they also want europe to be d industrialized, hence the cutting out of russian energy. i mean, what is the school for poor old europe these days? it seems like it's getting squeezed between a rock and a hard place. it definitely is. and that's, that's the position it's in, at the, in the european countries we'll have to buy

a new weapons and where they go to buy them from, from the us. so the american industrial military industrial complex im making lot of games out of this war and look at the, the prices of their stocks on the market. and they are skyrocketing. they're the ones who are thinking about this and in europe because it does not have a policy because there are no sovereign, they're who their, your conditions are losing their sovereignty. they're the ones we're going to be losing the most out of this. they won't have access to cheap gas from russia. they won't have access to lot of resources coming out of russia and they'll have to be by their, their. ringback military, their weapons from the u. s. who is more than 10000 kilometers away from from the war. so, i mean, this is deaf. a huge failure for the european union and it's dangerous. and that's why countries like creation, like hungary are saying, please wake up because we're receiving the refugees, we're close to the borders where we know we've been used to working with russia, we can find the deal. but the way we're going now is just war and we will get in

because when you set out all the weapons, the next step is sending your military and mean the full fledged war. and europe has been twice to world war. we were practically cross off the map after those tours and we lost a lot morally from. busy from a spiritual point of view, from economic point of view, i mean there would be a 3rd world war and you have this would definitely be the end of your day. political allison call america, by joining us live here on our international. always appreciate the chance to pick your brain. thanks very much for your time today. thank you. thank you. as we understand now, at least one person is dead and more than a dozen and wounded and while violent stand offs between protesters and police in peru. the freight is mostly indigenous tried to storm an airport in the nation. so 2nd biggest city, they were stopped by police. a classes have been sweeping peru now for more than

a month with protests demanding the resignation of president being up a lot of day. we took office last months off the her previous that that was ousted . the head of state says the situation is under control, claiming the unrest is being fueled from abroad. meanwhile, peruse future, and that of its natural resources has been up for debate. the us ambassador to the south american country who's also a former c i. a agent has met with peruse energy, minnesota to business. the ministry later released a statement expressing gratitute of washington for its support. minister vera thanked the u. s. government for its support on mining and energy issues and reiterated the will of the national government, whose priority is the massive vacation of natural gas, energy security and petrochemical development in the south of the country. of peru is a key global producer of copper. busy silver zinc, a, with

a claim majority of the countries exports roughly 58 percent coming from mining and extraction for the rest of the countries exports amount of just over 40 percent. now, the ousted president federal castillo, he says now that the u. s. has long tried to gain control over peruse, lucrative, mineral resources, have a listen for yourself. the visit of the u. s. ambassador to the government palace was neither unreasonable nor in favor of the country. it was to give the order to take the troops out to the streets and massacre my defenceless people. and incidentally, to leave the way clear for mining exploitation. while there is perhaps an intriguing coincidence to the story of alison here, the u. s. ambassador to peru least, sec kenna, who previously worked for the c i a reportedly met with the south american countries defense minister the day before the then president was kicked out last month. we heard from latin american geopolitical expert,

daniel shaw. he is suspicious where the overthrow of the peruvian later lisa ken is a long time employee of the b a. and now is the us ambassador to do . it's certainly curious timing to see her meeting nurses with the minister of energy and natural resources in to do a meeting with former generals who are now ministers in the. ready unelected government of being about why thing, but it's amazing how quick lisa kana and the rest of the state department officials in the biden administration were to rubber stamp the school and get behind it because it means the. the nationalization of peruvian resources rose. one of the biggest export is the gas. now because the european union in the u. s. cannot rely on russia for their gas because the sanctions, this is the same,

a playbook that we saw and some of the neighbors. this is what happened for new going in part of why is what happens is a lie, doris. and when any type of by national is anti imperialist true patriot, left leaning, president comes into power. the u. s. immediately sees them as the threat is the quote on must be very proud the posted on twitter. they're willing to qu anybody any time whenever they please. so it was the cia in lima peru the day before the previous proven president castillo was suddenly deposed. yeah, it was an a nation wide protest continue. people demanding the new president get out of town and we're back soon with. ah .