algeria by rights is considered to be a country of martyrs. according to the calculations of historians, the french colonists are responsible for the deaths of one and a half 1000000 algerians. a need to resist this impulse of wanting to direct a double standard form of international con, toward south africa, stresses its independence and addresses relations with russia as a to foreign ministers. of course, for cooperation beyond western and boards also ahead in the program. findings are so be returning to the all my vehicles all sealed amongst the building. guy, news releases quoted showing signs that ukraine places troops and combat vehicles near buildings and civilian populated areas. meanwhile,

the west remains silent on the violation of international law. ukraine security service launch is a corruption investigation into its own ministry of defense, falling accusations of grossly in plaiting food prices in a recent contract with hello, good evening for martine or national studios in moscow. from wherever you are, welcome to the hour's top stories from all around the globe and girl isabel, during a joint press conference with her russian counterparts, south africa is foreign minister, has underlined the country's independence and addressed its relations with russia. we as africans need to resist, is this impulse of wanting to direct a double standard form of international conduct toward us that what i do is okay for me, but you cannot do it because you are developing country,

or you are africa. that is an abuse of international practice. wellness, have you lim, union to africa itself must determined the ways to solve problems on their continent. will share a partnership for accelerated growth and wish south africa speedy development. we talked about conflict resolution in african, for example, in countries like molly, sudan and mozambique. the international community is obligated to support the paths african countries have chosen for themselves. russia will contribute to the resolution of conflicts in flash points across africa, including the training of local peacekeepers. a few responsible artes down of quarter was at the conference, separate, tory and shares his report. at the beginning of this meeting between the 2 foreign ministers, one of the things that the south african foreign minister mentioned right from the get go was the i actually, the neo colonial,

the anti neo colonial rather legacy of the soviet union. and the amount of aid that the soviet union gate africa throughout the 20th century. she said that she wants warm relations between russia and south africa and african south africa to continue to develop in the way they have since that time as well. we also heard of this press conference about what exactly they are going to do to deepen cooperation. we heard that specifically in the sphere of atomic energy and infrastructure. those are 2 areas that russian south africa are going to deepen their cooperation in the future lever. i've also mentioned that russia is dedicating itself to further helping peacekeeping efforts in conflict zones across africa as well. now, another thing we heard what that was mentioned here were upcoming joint military exercises between russia, south africa, and china. this is something that washington has taken issue with. it's called it provocative, but both foreign ministers basically said that every sovereign nation has the right

to decide who it's going to conduct a joint military exercises with. so obviously, that's that stance that washington has taken on these upcoming join military exercises has displeased these 2 countries as well as likely other other countries who find themselves in the same position. let's take a listen to what they said this. william, certainly we do not violate any norms of the law of the sea, so i don't understand the mixed reaction from the medium. america believes that only its forces are allowed to conduct exercises anywhere in the world. so they are engaged in exercises within the framework of indo strategies, right next to china. and this does not cause a mixed reaction in the media. our exercises are transparent and russia, china, and south africa has made all the information public was closed, asked them about these claims by the united states that russia is somehow weapon ising food, and that the actions of russian president vladimir putin are somehow ah,

harming the african economy, i was able to ask both foreign ministers about that as well as the kind of pressure that washington has been putting on african countries that dare to say that they're going to have warm relations or even cordial relations with the russian federation in terms of on the south african foreign minister, she focused really on the grain deal, the ukraine grain deal. and the fact that i'm, that most of that grain is not even going to the countries that need it. the most is actually going to western europe. so the south african foreign minister actually called on journalists to find where exactly that grain is going. she said, it would be really nice to see some sort of investigative report into that. to understand why that's happening. as for sir gay leverage, he laid the blame squarely at the feet of the west, slits at the west. let's take a listen to what he said for a minute. it's them good. we have repeatedly provided confirmed facts, proving the problems in the food markets began long before russia's military

operation. according to the us, we turn everything into weapons, oil, gas, sports, and so on. i handed over a text today that sets out the situation in the food markets. after the you and head proposed the initiative, we immediately agreed. and now we've implemented 2 agreements about the grain deal, which is somehow being implemented. but everything goes to the you and not to poor countries. as for russian, fertilizers and grain, the un didn't help the west remove obstacles to our exports. and indeed, there is no line about food and grain in the sanctions. but there are points about bands for ships to enter ports where a ban on our banks using swift. but the west continues to insist that food is not under sanctions. all the important issues are being sidelined, those now and surprisingly on the number of topics that were discussed was of course, the ukraine conflict, which russia said it's always open to negotiating an end to war, at least a ceasefire. and it's actually a key of that live rav explained, which has

a flat out rejected any sort of negotiating. and he pointed to the fact that vladimir zalinski had a made it so that it would be illegal in ukraine for ukrainian officials to actually have any sort of negotiating going on with the russian side. so we heard a bit about that, but that's basically a rundown of the main topics that were discussed at this press conference here in pretoria. in a bit this way, african opinion, the u. s. as sad to send its u. s. envoy to the continent. this announcement follows a recent visit by the us treasury secretary design via an senegal, where she attempted to portray moscow as a troubling issue for africa. which is war and within the station 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 put is creating an unnecessary drag on

african economy. america, government right now is trained to rescue journalists here in the african continent, and sometimes to change the opinion of the grand countries in about the war in the ukraine. this is the 1st thing. we see mozambie, curry and kenya and other countries are good quality for countries are part of the members of the security council of the united nation. so this is the 1st reason, the secretary, is it mozambique to mozambique and other countries to, to try to change? did you opinion african government trust in the russian or russian government? this is all right. can say right now because the western countries are coming here are coming here in the have to confirm

a few years ago and tried to make things a development of the piece and etc. but we don't see anything under jeremy receive always wars in some parts of the african continental shield. so this is the 1st reason we're, we are looking for the other friends, the fact that the united ukraine's army is intentionally hiding military targets behind nuclear power plants to provoke a russian military strike. that's according to moscow's foreign intelligence service, which says care has taken such dangerous steps with western support. our teeth are among closer have has the details. according to the director of the or russia for intelligent service, they receive reliable data that the ukranian armed forces are storing weapons and ammunition provided by the west on the territories of nuclear power plants in ukraine. now the head of the service, again,

a risk and claims that the weapons in question are some of the most expensive that ukraine received from nato. a countries on the statement also mentioned some missiles for multiple launch rockets, systems from the united states called a high mar sub various foreign air defense systems, as well as large caliber artillery ammunition, or the warning issued by russia's for intelligence service clearly states that the forces of the key of regime are employing terrorist tactics in using civilians as shields. take a look. the ukranian military command hides ammunition depos behind nuclear reactors. if a large scale detonation of warehouses and the destruction of a nuclear power plant happened due to another stray ukrainian air defense missile than such, a tragedy can always be blamed on moscow. kiev is absolutely convinced of this, given the silent encouragement by the west of ukrainian artillery strikes on the zap, hiroshi nuclear power plant had the foreign intelligence service as that. so what

key of is doing right now is a method often used by international terrorists. the only difference is that the hostages are not individual civilians but sense and even hundreds of thousands of residents of ukraine as well as neighboring countries. now the claims a maids are not unfounded. as ukraine had already shelled easter europe's largest nuclear power plant in supper. roger region, where a nuclear catastrophe was narrowly avoided and nuclear facilities are not the only location where kiev is hiding troops and artillery as sky news has published footage clearly showing ukraine placing military personnel and tanks alongside buildings in densely populated civilian areas inside the city, ukrainian force is all making full to potations, ah, lines of soviet era tanks and armored vehicles all concealed amongst the buildings

. ukraine has denied these claims despite a report by amnesty international made in august of 2022, where it was clearly stated that military bases were sat near schools and hospitals and attacks were launched from civilian areas, the report on calves war crimes, outreach ukrainian officials, and the organisation subsequently apologized for causing distress. but western media has ignored evidence of kev's crimes instead waging a campaign of russian hate this month. a times article described how ukrainian drone operators for 3 hours filled the wounded dying russian soldier suffering in a trench. it noted the video was recorded and replayed for visiting journalists the following morning. the article also provided the intimate thoughts of one ukrainian soldier on the matter. they aren't humans just, it's a totally different feeling, shooting an enemy in front of you and when working from

a drone. but after the 1st time it's like your hunting. you have all this hate inside of you. i look on the monitor and it just becomes a question of hunting them down. to further discuss the issue, we are now crossing lived a thomas roper author and war correspondent, ah, welcome thomas. happy to see you again. what's your take on the recent video released by sky news showing ukraine placing forces in tanks alongside residential areas. yes, but interesting. i'm a media and we had this also in german media to where they reported this kind of stuff in some story. and then never again, remember about that. so seems to be so more for them that just just report about it or when use it, then say you are using did she look at as human shields? they said no, this does happen. so this is quite, quite interesting how they do this,

but it's not the 1st time i've seen in germany in free examples already. well, in august of 2022, amnesty international issued a report on ukrainian war crimes and received massive criticism. why is the why silencing the truth when it comes to keep them? why such a lot of international outrage to their actions? well, the west of that, this is geopolitics, the west, one store when against russia. so the west has to show you that your cravings are a poor victim and the, and the good guys. so all this negative stuff which is happening. i wasn't about 7 or 8 times. and the people that told me that their stories and cities like mario, so all this stuff it's been hiding. and so they're still hiding it from the western public. so that's, that's what they're doing. because if they would tell the stories of the people in the west would ask, well why do we have to pay taxes where we have to set our things like that?

the gas is so expensive and so on to what these questions they can tell the story. and from the beginning, moscow has stated that ukraine is using civilians as human shields. now with the release of yet more information, do you think this is going to shift the perspective? of course not. as i said, this is not the 1st time we have this already in march, april monday, but we have this report from the russian side. i was there when they were still fighting and the people just came out of the other houses and then told me the story. so it's nothing you and the west. the media always does look at it. and even if we have, let's say it accidents like this one where they report about it, they will in the next night they, they will ever will. they denied that this happens. that's the funny thing. that's what i said, i money to of this nearly a year already. so i think nothing's changed. well and now the times article

describes how ukrainian drone operators filmed a dying russian soldier for 3 hours. what is the aim of this act from the ukrainian perspective and also what does it say about western medias? reaction to it the fact that they covered it but and how they covered it. well, what this says about the ukrainians, you have to ask these country, draw up or i don't what's, what's not right with him that he is seems to be happy to watch august 3 hours and you know, it's hard for me to answer. but what, what does that in the, in the, in the brain of these kind of journalists and western media who cover these kinds of stories? because well it's, it has nothing to do with humanity even if they think rush as even if they think this is a bed war. and anyway, the soldier as a human being and watching him 3 hours suffering to suffering to death, to death. this is, well, i don't have word to describe it,

so you have to ask this joe lewis and the operators to do this. what's not right with them back to their psychology. yeah, i mean talk about a lack of international are just solidarity with humanity, but the times our article really put thought to perspective, now western leaders have repeatedly said the conflict has entered a decisive phase. what does this actually mean? well, we don't know really what, what's, what's up in the, in the, in the, in the comments of the army and you created russia, we know only what, what we can see in the media. but even if we look at this, we see that upper russia, russia's right now, quite successful with the you see what's happening buttonwood or your moscow, you want to call it that russia is going forward, certain dumbass and stuff, but also russia is going forward so that seems to be that your grades have problems . so from the western point of view, once some how you create your victory,

i think you measure how this can happen, but anyway, they want it. so for them, yes, this is quite critical movement right now. assume that russia is constantly going for author and war correspondent, thomas roper. thank you. berlin must agree to send if leopard tanks to ukraine, unless it wants to faith international isolation and the weakening of its role in world politics. a polish politician has warned germany not agreeing to send tanks, risks, internationally isolating them and their position will be very weak if they continue. for more on that, we go to our take contributor rachel mars, then a rachel. what are the latest developments on the e used by over sending tanks to ukraine? so this is interesting, poland, calling the shots over germany now way better. send those tanks, berlin,

to prove that you are a real man. by the way, quick reminder, germany has been funding footing. the bills for the block has its largest contributor with poland, being the top recipient of that funding, which means that poland job is basically bossing around germany. over tanks, like the teenager making demands, were of his parents while living in their basement, taking a weekly cash allowance. and if that wasn't enough, poland has also been demanding reparations from germany for the 2nd world war. basically having a tantrum that berlin has blown off completely and now poland has been demanding that germany let it give its toys away to its friend ukraine. when the deal was that, if germany gave poland some tags in the 1st place, they wouldn't be allowed to leave the toy box without dad's permission. but the polish prime minister has recently told dad, you're not the boss of me, have a listen. who lost germany for permission bought this as a secondary even if eventually we do not get this permission. we within this small

coalition, even if germany is not in this coalition, we will handle our tanks together with the others to ukraine. ok, so in recent hours, german foreign minister and alina bear, bob basically signalled that they'd be willing to let poland give its tanks ukraine . so some of the playground kids have joined in to gang upon dad chanting free, the leopards now in front of german chancellor, olaf schultz, his office last friday, the leopards being those german tanks. so the pressure has been on former british prime minister boys johnson. remember him while he crawled back out from wherever he was hiding in obscurity for a trip to cave over the weekend, where he was hanging out with ukrainian president vladimir zalinski and talking about the need to quote, give the ukrainians all the tools they need. not so subtle, javin, berlin from one of the more meddlesome kids on the schoolyard. remember,

it was johnson who encouraged you cray not to negotiate peace with russia last april. that's according to western press reports, some in the us or even saying that president joe biden should send abrams tanks, which both defense secretary austin and joint chiefs. chair general milly are both reportedly against. but they're saying that binds should do this only as sort of a ruse to suck germany and to sending it's tanks directly to ukraine. are you arguing here for the us, sending abrams tanks to ukraine? 100 percent? we don't have to some very many. oh, we have to do soon enough to unleash what germany, how's, and what the 10 other countries and nato have. nato has to share the burden. yes, so you know, the announcement is apparently supposed to be enough to provoke germany and to may

be sending those tanks and jumping the gun. because remember, germany's position has always been up till now that unless the u. s. sens, it's abrams tanks to ukraine than it won't be sending any of its leopard tanks directly to ukraine. meanwhile, french president emanuel michaels seems to be trying to buy time to avoid being ganged up on like schultz is over the issue. michael is refusing to rule out sending the class tanks, but also saying that he quote, asked the army minister to work on it. yeah, well with francis 35 hour work week that might take ohio, and with any luck the issue will of blown over by the time paris is done working on it. all this drama is over tanks that have already been described by supreme allied commander, europe. that's u. s. general christopher rivoli and not even being a silver bullet for turning the tide in ukraine's favor. so

a lot of thanks germany is getting from it so called european allies for footing, the bills all of these years. and now being treated like a pariah, because it won't cave to their whims. archie contributor rachel mars then. thank you. rachel. ukraine security service has launched an investigation into corruption within the ministry of defense in what media claims to be the worst corruption scandal to engulf the armed forces. since the beginning of the ukrainian conflicts, ukrainian media accusing the defense ministry of buying overpriced food for ukrainian soldiers. having signed a deal, i prices $2.00 to $3.00 times higher than current rates for incense eggs, which cost around $19.00 us cents, and a shop having been contracted for $0.46. instead, the deal signed with a local firm in december is estimated to be worth $30000000.00. ukrainian defense minister alexi resident called denied the allegations,

but announced the ministry would launch an internal audit with an emergency meeting to be held today. meanwhile, it's not the 1st time ukrainian officials have been accused of corruption earlier on saturday, ukrainian deputy minister of infrastructure vazo lives in ski, was detained by national anti corruption bureau report, say he is accused of receiving a bribe of $400000.00 to procure generators from a particular company, according to the country's national anti corruption bureau, lazansky was bribed to sign contracts to purchase critical equipment and machinery at inflated prices. meanwhile, the ukranian president has admitted to the importance of taking the issue of corruption in his country under control. some us senators claim no audit of money provided to kev is needed. one of the things that i really was focused upon, in fact, i raised it was present zelinski himself. i said look, if you have

a scandal, if you miss of mr. misuse these, these resources, it's gonna, it's going to sink the, the support in the u. s. and he got that. and then we had a later meeting with a lot of their defense officials and, and government officials. they're doing detailed software, they're keeping track of every spare part that comes into the country. we're sending over an inspector general from the pentagon this month. so i came away very impressed by the level of accountability. and the lady chief editor janice, the conan says that kids and now thing of probes into corruption is their way of showing western allies that ukraine can be trusted. this is a beautiful night burgundy trying to whitewash their, their problems. of course, the western propaganda uses this as an example that there is some kind of monitoring system and it should be you doing some investigation. they want to convince the world that they can be trusted. oh,

but i think and also in the same time window or i'm sure evolution started on the real corruption. we do the highest possible in a level the euro. all people knows just to grade. it was o corruption, ukrainian armies using their power to put these flat market please. this is going to, they're all pockets. and in doing but everything was done to used to meet or to both pick the prices and, and this is, this is also touching the very core of the conflict in crane. so what we see here is a show for the western audience that you can rely on. we will check that none of these will happen again until it happens to morrow. again, a swedish anti islamic politician who burned a koran outside, a turkish embassy, sparking backlash from the international community says he has no regrets. over the incident,

hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in front of the swedish coslyn is stumble to express her anger. people and her kids largest city were seen burning, a picture of the anti immigrant politician. now in the 2nd day of protest, searcy has slammed sweden for allowing the event to take place. deepening tensions between the 2 countries, that's as on car is still block sweden's bed to join nato. here's what some turkish locals had to say about the controversial incidents of a film. this is a huge provocation. this is an attempt to get a reaction out of turkey in the muslim world. this has nothing to do with freedom or democracy. if the bible or the torah was burnt, there would be an uproar. why is it acceptable when it is the koran that we have got to? so i cannot accept this attack on the holy book of my religion. this is not toleration and it will not receive tolerance and this is not freedom. this is vulgarity. this is unacceptable and it should not be forgiven with we don't want sweden admitted

into nato, it would be absurd. they should not be allowed in. they belittle our religious values. this shouldn't be done by condemned them. when did, maybe they shouldn't be invited and they shouldn't be supported because what they have done is wrong. this man has burned our holy book. now they are talking about visiting our country. they are talking about being accepted into nato. every one must respect each other's beliefs. as a muslim, i believe that this action should not have been allowed. artega responded sophia noon, as explains how the protests could affect the relations between the 2 countries. as sweden is desperate to get, your key is approval for its native bed. this demonstration is a flagrant violation of the commitment of sweden under the tri industrial memorandum regarding the prevention of the propaganda terrorist organizations. declaring to be bound by the commitments under the trilateral memorandum and

delivering on them are 2 different matters. the statement comes in response to the latest protests where rasmus bolden and infamous fire i fully teach and set fire to the koran. holy book near the turkish embassy in sweden, just one year after he is either caron burning rally sparked riots across the country, his official permit issued by swedish beliefs. these that his protest was held against islam answer keys at sam to implants, freedom of expression and sweden. not surprisingly, the fire ignited waifs of negative reactions across the muslim world. shouty arabia calls for spreading the values of dialog, tolerance and co existence and rejects hatred and extremism. this senseless and provocative is slum of foaming act hurts the religious sensitivities of a. we're 1500000000 muslims worldwide. the incident heads must have sentiments across the woods and amongst serious provocation in response swedish authorities as resorted to the usual virtuous words and no action. freedom of expression is

a fundamental part of democracy. but what is legal is not necessarily appropriate. but in books that a whole, it's a many is a deeply disrespectful act. i want to express my sympathy for all muslims who are offended by what has happened in stockholm to day freedom of expression as part of democracy. fair enough, but incitement of hatred, awhile and stalwarts, a particular group is criminalized and sweden, nevertheless, swedish police approved the permit. and it's not like they didn't know what would be going on there. as a prior, sir kia cancelled a planned visit by the swedish defense minister to ankara and salmon sweden's ambassador over their failure to restrict the protest. it was the 2nd time in just a month when sweden's ambassador has had to answer to turkish authorities 2 weeks ago. it's related to a stand during which a courage group hung a mannequin of turkey as president in stock hall, little judge did it in this way. we often watch the p k. case demonstrations on the st.