i'm see a section of the person because you want to change the behavior of the government because cruise them why that hasn't happened a sanction testing function with as the west claims rushes, peace efforts are not real key as openly admit it. a piece. cox with moscow last march to buy its military time to re arm and regroup. also, this our we, as africans need to resist, is this impulse of wanting to direct the double standard. the international community is obligated to support the paths african countries have chosen for themselves. russia and south africa, how their independent decision making and partnership. i'm in washington attempts to woo africans to hop on the western bandwagon against moscow. brazil

and argentina agree to aim to ditch the dollar as a south american nations. i a common currency road map with plus the turkish president says he will not support sweden's nato bid in response to the sanction burning of the koran. out of protest in stock or a coming to live from the russian capital. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories of the our welcome to the program. he had pretended to see peace with moscow. shortly after the conflict began in february, using cease fire talks as a ruse to buy time to regroup its troops and wait for western weapons. that's according to the chief of ukraine's main intelligence directorate. as he explained

how one of keeps negotiators, dennis key re, was executed by ukraine security service and march on suspicion of colluding with russia. the main task we set for mr. cray as was to delay the process in order to buy time since he personally knew to people in the negotiation process, who represented the russian side, ukrainian presidential adviser me how pollock also said that dentist, kiera as death, was due to a lack of coordination between ukrainian security agencies, russia and ukraine sat down for peace talks in late february, just days after the special military operation was launched. both sides even reached a draft agreement with russia pulling back some of its troops. but the deal was never fully implemented, as he had received western weapons and kept fighting. moscow says the u. s. and his allies persuaded ukraine to resist a peace deal. however, the was claimed,

it was russia that wasn't actually seeking peace since the 1st months of the conflict. despite moscow being the one insisting on cease fire talks with kiev. i am extremely concerned how russia has been acting at the negotiating table. actually, i don't trust what russia is doing at all. any negotiations needs be real. that needs to be a meaningful, a call. just be a fig leaf, full russian re armament and for the recruitment of soldiers. back in 20142015 during the 1st outbreak of conflict and on bass, germany and france mediated, the men steals, signed by moscow in kiev. however, the western leaders who guarantee those agreements recently admitted they weren't actually meant to bring peace, as the real goal was to give ukraine time to prepare for war with russia. to 2014 minsk agreement was an attempt to give you crane time ukraine use this time to

become stronger as you can see today. the ukraine of 20142015 is not the ukraine of today. since 2014 ukraine has strengthened its military posture. it is the merit of the minsk agreements to have given the ukrainian army this opportunity. thus the time that prudent thought was an asset for him turned out to be in fact an opportunity for the ukrainians russians were of the place were waiting for us. ukrainians announced to come they delayed, then for hours 4 days saw that the ukrainian part was playing for time. this is nothing you we have this, this map who thing from a, from, from a chance le america, which she opened. he said that, ah, with the risk agreement was only 2 by time. the medical story was an interview in the german side, but no german news outlet. after that asked questions, put this topic on the, on the rule. nobody did it, and this is the same. um, western use will not come with this. what he said about what playing on time,

and they will still say russia is the one who doesn't want to talk. but what we see right? no, they don't what they don't want to negotiate anything. and we see from the past that music agreement was only 2 by a time and whatever they proposed to russia end of march last year. anyway, we, we saw whole march that if you will order the groceries that they will always claim . and other developments south africa, top diplomat has underline the countries independence and good relations with russia as the to foreign minister is met in pretoria to plot a course for cooperation beyond western influence. we as africans need to resist, is this impulse of wanting to direct a double standard form of international convent toward us that what i do is okay for me, but you cannot do it because you are developing country or you africa. that is an

abuse of international practice. unless you do, you live in your school, africa itself must determine the ways to solve problems on their continent. we share a partnership for accelerated growth and wish south africa speedy development. and the international community is obligated to support the paths african countries have chosen for themselves. during survey lab, rob's visit both foreign ministers, highlighted key points of cooperation crash. it will help peacekeeping missions in south africa, also teaming up to lose the countries atomic energy grid. and other infrastructure, after wrapping up talks in pretoria survey la moved on to a neighboring s with me. now this comes as the u. s. pushes its own agenda and africa with washington to send it's un ambassador to the continent for talk. after a recent visit by the us treasury secretary to zambia and cindy eagle, where she attempted to portray russia as a troubling issue for africa,

which is more in with initiation of food, his exacerbated food insecurity and caused untold suffering. and the global economic head winds caused by the actions of a single man, president who is creating an unnecessary dram on african economy. ortiz africa, corresponding corolla delves into the details of the international scramble for the continent. africa has become the must fly to destination point for diplomats of global powers. last week, all eyes were cast on china's new foreign affairs minister who stop by for a 5 country tor. and while he was here, so to where his french and german counterparts, who made a visit to ethiopia and this week kicked off with russian foreign affairs minister,

sergey lover of who stopped by in south africa as the 1st up of his grand african tore. and the treasury secretary of the united states jenna deland, is also on the continent at the same time. and the u. s. ambassador to the united nations is also fair to be on her way next week. so what's lead africa? the global frenzy for diplomatic meetings in recent times is because africa remains attractive. and who those who want to manufacture ah, the equipment that is important in the global economy. whether it's stir, the natural resources that you need for cellphones or for i tick or for computers, or just to keep the engines going, we have, we have what it takes. and in fact, and these are important to prerequisites because of economic reasons. the united

states has made no secret that it is desperate to woo african countries. washington host that the u. s. africa summit in december with rumors rumbling the president biden himself may be accompanied by his vice president. come on harris. later on this year. as the final christian due to the are quite shipped with africa. but washington's message will face of competition yet, considering that prison, she and president putin will also be in south africa in august for the brig summit . washington is well aware of the self created chasm with the continent. and it's been that way since last march vote in the united nations general assembly, when majority of african countries refused to condemn russia over the ukraine conflict. and for month, the west has that everything in his power to isolate russia, but in africa, nothing comes that easy. you can't be neutral for wrong car. and right now the

evidence is showing clearly with the evolution of the ward freight on that right. so africa is clearly know showing signs of choosing site. i mean, meeting with the russian foreign minister. and so africa as one top country. now there's also sending a signal to the rest of the countries that my goodness, we have to be able to to take a stand. well now, if the standard for this is a neutral stead, it can evolve into a choice partnership. but still africa is trying to balance out as much as the partnership between the old west will know western nations and in new partners like russia. china treasury secretary genet. jaelyn arrives in pretoria on tuesday and she will be welcomed by south africa humming sound of generated. yes, south africa, the continent,

most industrialized economy is grappling with severe power cuts. and unlike jaelyn, they, i hate to stay there so africa should expect some backlash. there's no doubt because when you are loaned that kind of money, 8500000000 zone, lot of cash. and anybody who gives that to you, or it's not a gift practice around a cultural conditions in the backlash, going to be into those fine prints of those conditions. and sir africa is going to have to play very carefully about that. and i think i'm telling you, because so as a young man working for the world bank in your environment and sustainable, good luck with washington. i knew, wow, the seats worked so. so africa is going to have to be very careful not only on paying back that when they're also for having accepted too early and quickly the terms of wood and africa, everybody's called the climate change. secretary jaelyn will travel to the ford

motor company assembly just outside pretoria. a place does create that much needed jobs in an economy that's far too used to economic growth without jobs. but on friday, yelman's last day here in south africa, she will travel to implementing the had lend of south africa's cold belt. it is day where she will need men and women who have built their livelihoods on coal. and she will tell them about the commitments made in the just elegy transition plan, but she will hardly tell them how fickle those commitments are or what they can do to their life. get up on the chat for oddity and pretoria. turning to south america, nat where brazil and argentina are planning to establish a common regional currency to vis bilateral trade and shift away from the u. s. dollar. the move was announced by the brazilian leader after talks an argentinian

capital you. if it were up to me, we would always trade with other countries and national currencies, so as not to be dependent on the dollar and why not make an attempt to create a common currency for mercosur countries or bricks countries. i believe that over time we will come to that. i believe this is necessary because many countries face challenges buying dollars, brazil and argentina. we'll discuss the details of the plan at the upcoming community, a latin american in caribbean states summit. they're also expected to invite other countries in the region to join the currency blog. artes managed correspondent camelia lozano delgado has more in i'll let me know. the leveling went out in the 1st meeting between louis in nashville of silva and automatic. hernandez was held in an encouraging atmosphere among achievements in the field of diplomatic relations. the brotherhood of the 2 nations was one topic and touched upon in particular, as well as the countries desire to become economic leaders again and moved towards

integration of the continent. in addition to ministers of the 2 countries, st agreements in the field of science in the economy, as well as integration and financial and energy spheres, mitochondria is an argentina will exchange its gas for electricity from brazil in london, their agreement signed touches upon corporation and antarctica. finance also mentioned the challenges that both countries face after the stepping down of governments of a completely different kind lose they, they left behind a trail that is expected to erased its strength. union of the 2 states that a b re meadows have you, our 1st task is to console the democracy and state institutions. could you dear friend, i want you to know that argentina will always be with you and we will not allow some crazy man to attack the democracy and state institutions of brazil got here. we will not allow some fascist to come from above to attack the sovereignty of the people. as during my brain turned the brazilian president, thank his counterpart,

fernandez who he called his friend for his unconditional support and also apologized not only to his colleagues, but also to the entire people of urgent deena for the aggressive actions against their country. the 2, please. during the rule of the ball, sanara will do it. butch, 3, we intend to restore peaceful relation, was aimed a growth in order to restart bilateral ties between our states. our enterprise errors understand this idea. and they should also re lies how significant argentina is for us. in their turn, argentinean entrepreneurs should understand the significance of good bilateral relations with brazil, sir, a lamb whenever, regarding currency is she, is there argentinean, economy minister, sir j, a mazda announced that where you can establish a single currency in argentina, and brazil will begin this week i think it is and, and listing regional trade in the same time reducing dependence on the u. s. dollar . this question was also discussed by the president who touched upon possible participation in the initiative of venezuela and the presence of the countries

president emsella examined line. moreover, the 2 heads of state discussed the existing sanctions against minnesota, ella, as well as actions that make life easier for the people of this country. but in that a feel for them i am against interfering in the political processes and venezuela if the problem can be resolved through dialogue, not sanctions, or threats of occupation. brazil was going to restore diplomatic relations with venezuela. we want venezuela to have an embassy in brazil and we won brazil to likewise have an embassy in venezuela. were determined to restore civilized relations between the 2 independent states. in issue of yellow su b was a very productive dialogue between the venezuelan government and the opposition. the elections were held transparently. all the rules were absorbed without any further questions arising, approval presumed. therefore, we must encourage dialogue among venezuelans. the chief operator of the brazilian oper am monday night news portal says that south america would only benefit from

a common currency as it would help build a strong economy without dependence on the you ass. the great advantage of dis measure would be the possibility, the possibility of carrying out all commercial and banking operations without the need for 40 eggs and without resorting to exchange rates in dollars or euro's. another advantage would be the expense show of regional investments through integrated financial institutions without the backing of the dollar or the iraq in the same way that you might have faith in the early seventy's and link it's dollar insurance. front available, go reserve, south america would partially eliminate the dollar as an anchor off. it's economic activity. in any case, it could be irrelevant. it's that for was in south american into ration in that

range is 30 zation of the economy. and in the weakening of the dollar s. as in money currency, the turkish presidents as his country will not back sweden's bed to join nato. the announcement comes in response to the burning of the koran, outside on chris embassy and stockholm, during a protest sanctioned by local police. those who turn a blind eye to this outrage have undoubtedly calculated the consequences. it is clear that those who allow such blasphemy should not expect any support from us regarding nato, when someone dishonors us, when someone commits injustice, we let him know his place. if you are so respectful of rights and freedoms, you will respect the religious beliefs of muslims if you will not. i'm sorry, you will not receive support from us during the nato membership process. the

controversial incident took place on saturday when an anti islamic politician publicly burned a copy of the koran. this burgess severe backlash from the global muslim community . with a malaysian foreign minister describing the act as blatant as lama and pakistan. diplomat, calling it a harmful gesture for more than 1500000000 muslims worldwide. finland foreign minister now says the talk for the accession of his country in sweden to nato should be put on i as it would be, best to wait until things settled down. hundreds of demonstrators gathered in front of the swedish consulate and assembled to vent their anger. people and turkey as largest city were seen burning a picture of the anti immigrant politician who, in a recent interview said he had no regrets for his actions. rallies also flared up in some other muslim countries, tens of thousands trip to the streets in yemen to strongly condemn the desecration of the koran. protesters were also seen burning as rally and american fox. across

the inner rock, clashes erupted near the swedish embassy with local scuffling with police outside the diplomatic building. meanwhile, the u. s. has weighed in, suggesting that the koran burning act in stock hole could be applied by foreign forces aimed at undermining. may know we are also cognizant of the fact that those who may be behind what has taken place in we maybe engaging in an intentional effort to try to weaken unity across the atlantic and within and among our european allies and partners journalists use. if aaron says that the scandal is this, an incident in sweden means in order country has lost any support and potentially still have for its nato bid inter kia well the domestic atmosphere right now surrounding sweden's nate obeyed after the burning of the koran is very,

very toxic, i don't foresee any turkish politician trying to garner support for sweden because domestically it would hurt them. and this being in the election year, i don't think anyone's going to go to back sweden right now, so i don't know if it's a done deal. if it's up forever closing the book on sweden's nato bid, but not there won't be any type of support for sweden becoming a natal member. at least for the foreseeable future, most likely for the rest of this year is the, is the burning of a cron. in sweden, a attempt to undermine nato. well, we need to understand that if this was an attempt to undermine nato, those who allowed it the swedish police, the swedish courts of the swedish politicians. they are the ones that actually allowed this to unfold in undermined their own data accession process and no one at the end, the day force swedish police to approve this very disgusting act than it. the

swedish laws are allowing for such a 8 crime that they place that i think that the swedes need to take a very long, hard look at themselves and very long, hard look at their laws. why are they are allowing this type of hate mongering under freedom of expression. if this is a freedom of expression, one has to ask, it's ask themselves what's being express. i think very clearly 8 is being expressed in if hate is being expressed. this is that 8 prime, and as such, it should be illegal under any to any countries. walks india and the u. k. r. and in closer to signing a free trade agreement. but there are still strings attached on london's terms. this initiative comes in growing cooperation between the 2 countries. their economic relations are on the rise with bilateral trade turnover reaching more than $29000000000.00 pounds last year, which is 33 percent higher than year before. the u. k. the exports to india and

2022 amounted to more than 12000000 pounds, while india's exports to britain reach more than 17000000. however, there are some serious obstacles in the upcoming deal, as it's not expected to include the free movement of indians to the u. k, which was something london had agreed on earlier. in a similar pack with australia, we have to make sure that each trade agreement was signed estate to the specific country, the kinds of mobility, or if i can, to, to a country like australia is not going to be the same kind of ability offer. i can do with the country like india, which has good many times the population. and your deli based foreign affairs observer told us more of the contradictions in the upcoming deal, and shared his view on why the u. k. wants the agreement in the 1st place. see what they know of us, that what concrete have very different actually can we expect some of

this real food agreement, if the if the india wants more of the related facilities. so scale one curves in the long india. so you can go to within, in loving them a larger number, then they will know they are looking for a new market for right there, right to being for if you see and the employ dyer and they, they, they implemented the big and now you're still be political since they are getting it be public offense. so they are looking for a new market in the emerging market. india has lived relatively large market and many other parts of the world said. so they're looking for indian reachable indian

market, but it cannot be happen in unit 12. it, this will compromise also and alone. more indians to work to fax if they are as you can military houston and job opportunities for now. it seemed they are not ready for their the survey and presidents as he doesn't roll out the possibility of leaving his post in the interest of the country, have a great continues to be pushed to recognize kosovo. this is my last mandate. any way i know what my duty is, if there is a need to somehow save the state and when some time, i would not hesitate. i live for the country. i am a soldier of my country, and i will act in the interests of the nation. the president statement follows recent changes in coke about the worst flare up in years on monday and ethnic serve

was injured on a road because of both capital during a police raid. several or several similar incidents have also taken place in the area recently. president boucher has the west is threatening serbia with sanctions over. bulger is confrontation with christina and the countries refusal to join us let efforts against russia the trip. they told us, you must accept this plan of negotiations with christina. and if you do not accept it entirely, it will firstly face a halt in the european integration process. secondly, as topic and withdrawal of investments. and thirdly, comprehensive political and economic measures that will cause great damage to the republic of serbia. well, moralize, the situation was clear even before his statements about now things are that say out of the blue and the well known because now we have a recognition that the western powers neg degrade 5 as the will to show cause them

can, let's say more or less ultimate them and serbia saying that they should accept the agreement though it does on hostile otherwise they will do at least 3 things. as stated, 1st of all are further e. e. o. integration with serbia will be blocked. second, a foreign investments will stop and 3rd, and the most important answer been economy will suffer because they didn't say exactly sanctions economic sanctions. but they said that they have a mechanisms of punishing serbia for it. so this is funny, so not, not willingness to cooperate, less saying that god, he didn't mentioned the specifics of disagreement. he only said that it was arranged and agreed with all the you members on 13th of december, and that even though the member countries have been wrecked when as possible, said that they are okay with the agreement then that they are again go further with

the implementation week so now we will see what was the specifics of the agreement will be back to what she said that regarding the sentence side there is not much to be joyful about there. not much to be happier regarding the statement of the, of the agreement. so best to hear from the president, the m himself and the what he said about that topic. bring him a thoughtful, i'm concerned, there's no longer a rational approach to solving problems. i saw the said, the g 5 meeting, no matter what i sat, no matter what facts i provided, no one listen to me. intelligence no longer plays a role. they have their own agenda, which is the defeat of russia. and everyone who gets in their way will be purged, the pressure is everlasting and it hasn't stopped. basically, they said that the, even the barricades which service would stop as their means of self defense because their status and their security is being calm. that even those americans were seen

as a matter of these fabulous issues by serbia. and as i said, the pressures are here and are ever present, especially since the beginning of the russian, especially the oppression in that regard. as the situation on the ingredient front lines are getting heated up. so is the situation goes through basically have like a correlation of the 2 topics. and in that regard to do several days on the, on the training front and several russian successes, we can say we see that the brush on serbia basically it's, it's like a mirror perspective by looking at 11 problem. you see the reflections on the other and then the other way around. that's all for now. we're here to check out our t v dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see right back here at the top of the hour. ah

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