added alarming rate to learn more. we came here to help us to speak to victor a couple of years ago, geologist who devoted his entire life to the topic. it was a fascinating, at times dangerous, and very important job with african countries want to develop security relations with other nations. this leads to certain reactions the you applies the same philosophy and mentality anywhere in the world. brushes. foreign minister says western countries are applying a neo colonial list approach to africa by patronizing nations instead of cooperating with them. also this our judging by this wall and judging by these shrapnel holes, ukraine used for rockets designed to cause maximum damage and

maximum civilian deaths. we report from the done yet for public war. 2 civilians are wounded after the ukrainian military shells. a train depot using rockets supplied by the u. s. a wave of resignations by ukrainian officials grips with ukraine's deputy prosecutor and heads up several frontline regions on the list with good evening from our to international studios in moscow. from wherever you may be joining welcome to the hours top news stories from all around the world. i'm fiorella is about the foreign minister of as well. teeny has praised the african countries relations with moscow. after hosting russia's top diplomat for talks. this is, it is a testimony to the had to work and efforts they told her preventative

of his is put in it is an affirmation of a long history of cordiality in the kingdom of his sweating in the russian federation of the main activity today was the signing of an agreement that will establish a non visa regime for diplomats of both countries. but during the press conference that immediately followed the signing, the foreign minister said that their country's plan to increase cooperation in the spheres of agriculture, science and energy leverage specifically mentioned the need for supplying irrigation systems as well as russian grain to s watson. he also said that the countries officials asked about how russia could help their country conquer it's chronic fertilizer shortage. the russian foreign minister responded that russia has a surplus of fertilizer and has been trying to help africa in that regard. free of charge, but it's been european ports that are detaining around $280000.00 tons of that

fertilizer. and the foreign ministers have made an appeal to the united nations to rectify that situation. nashville, lou, but through the lou, our friends confirmed the problems with the supply fertilizers and asked how we could be useful as the country reported that the shortage negatively affects its agriculture. we talked about delivering our fertilizers, free of charge. last summer. president putin, in contact with the un, she said that 280000 tons were being held up in the ports of you countries. companies that own fertilizers are ready to transfer them to developing countries. but the u was trying to punish us and punish developing countries from considering that the un secretary general advocated for unhindered supplies. and due to we agreed that the governments of russia and us were teenie will send the un chief a proposal to use parts of the detained grain for the needs of s one, teeny rushes for men. sir, also expressed that russia's willingness to supply us what teeny, with russian grain may be able to stabilize the country's delicate food situation.

now lavish, i've also spoke about the french president emanuel microns claim that burkina faso decision to expel french troops. as a result of kremlin influence, he said, russia doesn't meddle in africa's affairs. it just works with countries that are ready to work with moscow. but apparently, russia was essentially told that africa was europe's sphere of influence. a pretty hypocritical statement when considering nato's activities, right on russia's doorstep, took you suckling a cookie while still trying to keep up the act. western countries became interested in why we're here in africa. i replied that we want to develop relations with everyone who's interested in it, but they told me that russia should learn that africa is a zone of european interests. earlier e u officials said that the balkans are also a zone of their interests and we should not go there. at the same time, the you considered it normal to work near russian borders. when african countries want to develop security relations with other nations. this leads to certain

reactions, we're now being accused of infringing on french interests and molly burkina, faso and the central african republic. the e, you applies the same philosophy and mentality anywhere in the world. the same vicious logic applies to the african continent. lever of explained the situation as one part of a larger western neo colonial mission to tell african nations which countries they can and can't have good diplomatic relations with. he said it's not russia's problem, that africa is ditching the west. and looking to moscow in many spheres of cooperation, another recent example took place in molly proposal. sure to assist lose a similar situation developed. and molly, a year ago when the countries leadership concluded that the decision to withdraw french troops and remove their military bases, would create security threats in the region. that is why they asked for help us, specifically our private military companies. we are not to blame for the fact that the french military and molly did not live up to their expectations. ultimately,

the situation developing in africa seems to come down to 2 different understandings of democracy. according to sergei laval, russia sees it as countries deciding for themselves who to do business with. while the west is stuck in a neo colonial attitude of bending other countries to its will. this comes as the u . s. pushes its own agenda in africa with washington to send it to you and ambassador to the continent for talks. that's after a recent visit by the us treasury secretary to zombie and senegal, where she attempted to portray russia as a problem for africa. which is war in wip 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 putin, is creating an unnecessary drag on africa's economy. we spoke to alice

from south africa who told us that for their continent, it's best not to be pushed by the west or the east, but rather cooperate with both coincidental visit between the arrival of the foreign minister of russia, serbia lateral. and then secretary of secretary genet. yep. it's really not quite a coincidence. we might probably think the court said no coincidence. diplomatic and geopolitical arena now, and i think the americans are realized that if they don't move fast enough, which they haven't done for the past 6 or 7 years, or 2014, they're now the last of africa as one top country next to the rest of the country that my goodness, we have to be able to take as bad. well now if the standard cruise is a neutral stead, it can evolve into

a choice. partnership with 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. i don't think it's beneficial for africa to be pushed by that, by the wayside, or by the east to take a position on the you claim. i think africans must work through the you and the subsidiary organizations take a watson, cedric, for example, to determine what is in the interest of efficacy in the suing a dialogue with both the waste and the artist. and in fact, mystery, i would argue that ethical will be very well placed because it's not it. many african states have not chosen the one or the other power block. ah, now to the latest from don boss where ukrainian shelling has left at least 3 civilians

wounded on tuesday. meanwhile, on monday 9 people were injured as ki, have targeted civilian infrastructure and residential areas. in the city of yellow vice, a local depot was hit with us delivered high marked rockets. arches room on call center have sent us this report from the scene. this is a grades are made by another artillery selling by ukraine military of the city of ill advised. great, now we are at the railway depot in this city that has been under fire for the last 3 days. now, according to local officials, ukraine have fired that tortuga missile a couple of days ago which was intercepted by air defense systems. and last night this area was attacked by multiple launch rockets system. maybe the united states called hi mars. the explosion was so strong that pieces of rails

were completely blown out. now i can't even pick, pick this one up with my hands. so you can imagine how strong this explosion was. now, these types of rails half the explosions, there were flying absolutely everywhere. and one of them caused damage to the person who's now had the hospital would been bocce. o 2 people were wounded. the locomotive driver and his assistant was they were towing a suburban train to this is the 3rd shelling in around the 1st came at 2 am and then at 10 p. m. and again at 4 am the next day. they are depot is still working without interruption. despite all the damage, there were at least so for high mar sir rockets of fire against this railway station. this is just another crater of many around here. fragments of rockets like these can be found absolutely everywhere. like i said,

as the result of this effect to people to real a workers are now in the hospital. the sick place had 4 o'clock in the morning. however, if that's actually place during daylight, there could have been many, many more victims, judging by this wall. and judging by these trout know, holes ukraine, he is rockets designed to cause maximums, irish, and maximum civilian death. human call for a hearty yellow voice. the nest republic. a wave of mass resignations among officials as gripping kiev tuesday saw ukraine's deputy prosecutor leave his post. the 3rd person of the day, the governors of sumi nap or his upper osha and her son, also left their post this week, sparking speculations that these resignations could be linked to reset military

blunders by the country is forces. meanwhile, the list is still growing. joining me now in the studio to discuss this further is our team marina coll, forever welcome marino. what's the latest that we know of the news coming in from ukraine? well, this is a huge shake up for ukraine because we're seeing changes in the government's original authorities, as well as the countries security services. and among the people who last, like you said, we have a key presidential advisor, the deputy defense minister. there is also the deputy prosecutor general. let's take it a little bit one by one and discuss with some of these people i've been accused of war involved. and for example, the presidential a to reload too much shanker, he was implicated and scandals over the use of expensive cars. and one of those cars was apparently a car that was donated to transport civilians out of a combat zones. then we have all x j simone,

then called the deputy prosecutor general. he went on holiday to spain during the winter holidays. and this came out of time when top government officials are not allowed to travel, leave ukraine, and that also go when it comes to law in forces. there are also included and not less prosecutors as well. anyone who works for the states basically was that the reason that he left, we don't know it wasn't explicitly announced, but this is why it's all of the mirrors. the landscape had to say about there was shuffling. i want this to be clear. there will be no return to what used to be in the past to the way various people close to stay institutions or those who spent their entire lives chasing a chair used to live. i think law enforcement officers who protect the law, the interests of the state, and ensure justice. and this comes a week after another, allow the exec by alex aristotle, ukraine's presidential advisor. now he left over some commons,

but he maids. he said that it was ukraine, that shot down the missile that ended up killing 44 people in the city of neat, neat pro, he later on. i apologize. 2 days later saying that he spoke to soon, but it was already out there. and this is something that the key of resume was not very happy about. so he was gone that he was gone through. so we have, in some cases in one month and scandals, and another cases we have a corruption, the wrong comments that will get you out. so marino, what could be the possible reasons for the wave of resignation? we're all, we're seeing a range of theories of the theories range of from desperation and disappointments. everson that's happening on the battlefield to corruption. we'll get to corruption in a little bit. the reason why some experts are saying that this may have something to do with how things are going on the battlefield because the heads of 4 regional administrations have left and these are front line towns. if we can see the map

there, we have it. so the heads of those 4 regions have now gone. we have sue me, operation, need fro, and chill song on that list. plots. so let's don't forget that zelinski on sunday announced that the countries armed forces are building up their reserves, which of course is a sign that they need more men. the things are not going as well as they thought on the battlefield. that's one of the versions that we're seeing. and now the one is related to corruption. as we know, ukraine has been on the list of the most corrupt countries in the world in 2021. for example. transference international ranks at 120 seconds out of 180 countries in its list of core up towns. the cropped states i should say, which is why it's an interest in how we have the united states and the european union send in so much money to ukraine. we know in the past, what's happened and not only do we not, but just recently,

what's been happened in the country, some of the corruption scandals that we're seeing. let's take it. let's take it step by step. so. well, i mean, the lensky is saying that he's flights and corruption. this is what it's all about spot. if that's the case. why is all like to tar of deputy chief of staff still in his position because he apparently is a symbol of the landscape approval of corruption or tolerance of corruption, if you will, in the government. he was charged with bribery in 2020 this man. i put the chief of staff and his case was buried with the help of a protest is the lens, his procedure, who was in the prosecutor's office. so if that's the case was, is he still there? when at the same time, we know that the deputy defense minister is now gone. why is he gone? because he oversaw a controversial deal related to food supplies for the military. apparently they use an unknown firm to buy food at 3 times the market price. so we know what that says, then we have another one of us cielo zelinski,

the deputy infrastructure minister, another corruption scandal. he was fired after he was detained by police for accepting a bribe worth $400000.00 for help and secure equipment and machinery contracts. so we have a lot of corruption scandals there. we know that ukraine is not doing very well on the front lines. so is that the case? and also what's interesting is that we're not seen anything on this and mention loud statements in mainstream media. if this was shuffle was happening in russia, who will have hand lines like vladimir putin is losing control. he doesn't have a grip of the situation, everyone's leaving or everyone's resign and on his foreign people here. right now, the headlines are very hall and send out wallet, amir zalinski is supposedly dealing with corruption. when we're seen crop people still in charge. an interesting timing of events. indeed, thank you. artes marina close at ariba the turkish president says his

country will not back sweden's bed to join nato. the announcement comes in response to the burning of the koran outside on cars, embassy in 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 park severe backlash from the global muslim community with the malaysian foreign minister describing the act as blatant islam of phobia.

while pakistan stopped diplomat hauled it a harmful gesture for more than 1500000000 muslims worldwide, finland's foreign minister says that talks on his country in sweden joining nato should now pause as it would be best to wait until things settle down. hundreds of demonstrators gathered in front of the swedish consulate and he, some bull to vent their anger. people, inter kids largest city were seen burning. a picture of the anti immigrant politician who had a recent interview said he had no regrets for his options. rallies also flared up in some other muslim countries, tens of thousands took to the streets and yemen to strongly condemn the desecration of the koran. protesters were seed and burning, israeli, and american flags across and iraq clash as a rupture near the swedish embassy with local scuffling with police outside the diplomatic building. meanwhile, the u. s. has weight in suggesting that the koran burning act and stockholm could

be a ploy by foreign forces aiming to undermine nato. we are also cognizant of the fact that those who may be behind what has taken place in sweden, maybe engaging in an intentional effort to try to weaken unity across the atlantic . and within and among our european allies and perch. journalists use of aram says the scandalous incident in sweden means the nordic country has lost any support. a potentially still had inter kia for its nato bid. well, the domestic atmosphere right now surrounding sweden's need obeyed after the burning of the koran is very, very tight. cigar, 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 ah, 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 po lisa, the swedish for it. so the swedish politicians are, they are the ones that actually allowed this to unfold enough undermined their own data accession process. and no one at the end, the day force swedish police to approve this a very disgusting act than it the swedish laws are allowing for such a 8 crime that they place that i think that the sweets need to take very long, hard look at themselves in very long, hard look at their laws. why ah, they are allowing this type of hate mongering under freedom of expression. if this

is a freedom of expression, one has to ask its 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. once and in the u. k. are edging closer to signing a free trade agreement. but there are strings attached on london's terms. the initiative comes amid growing cooperation between the 2 countries. their economic relations are on the rise with bilateral trade turnover reaching more and 29000000000 pounds last year, which is 33 percent higher than a year before the u. k. exports the india in 2022 amounted to more than 12000000000 pounds, while india's exports to britain reach more than 17000000000. however, there are some serious obstacles in the upcoming deal,

as it's not expected to include the free movement of indian citizens to the u. k, which was something london had agreed on earlier in a some were packed with australia. we have to make sure that each trade agreement with sign is tailored 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 new delhi based foreign affairs observer told us more about the contradictions in the upcoming deal, and shared his view on why the u. k. wants the agreement in the 1st place. what they know of us that more concrete have very different actually. we expect that some of this group would agreement if the if the india wants more of the related facilities. so

skilled workers in the long india. so you can go to, within, in loving them a larger number, then they will of i know they are looking for a new market for right there, right to being for if you see and employ diet and they, they, they implemented the big, you know, your so we've got some sub up they are, i think it's repercussions. so they are looking for a new market in the emerging market. india has a love, relatively large market, and many other parts of the world said. so they're looking for indian reachable indian. but it cannot be happen in unit $212.00 it. this will compromise also and alone. more indian

to who to fax if they are as you can smell it, speaking something that job opportunities for now, it seemed they are not ready for their turning to south america. now we're brazil and argentina are planning to establish a common regional currency to boost bilateral trade and shift away from the us dollar. the move was announced by the brazilian leader after talks in the argentinean capital. 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. why not make an attempt to create a common currency for mercosur country or bricks countries. so 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 of latin american in caribbean states summit. they are also expected to

invite other countries in the region to join the currency block. our t spanish corresponding camilla lozano delgado has more in i'll better me know de la we went out in the 1st meeting between louis scenario la desilva and automatic hernandez was held in an encouraging atmosphere and one could shipments in the field of diplomatic relations. the brotherhood of the 2 nations was one topic, touched upon in particular, as well as the country's desire to become economic leaders again and moved towards integration on the continent. in addition to ministers of the 2 country assigned agreements in the field of science in the economy, as well as integration and financial in 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 it remembers have here are 1st tasking for easter console, the democracy and state institutions shipper. 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 get us 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 colleague and but also to the entire people of urgent tina for the aggressive actions against their country. the 2 please. during the rule of the ball, sanara lou, if bush 3 we intend to restore peaceful relation unless aimed a growth in order to restart bilateral ties between our states. our entropy mirrors understand this idea, and they should also realize how significant argentina is for us in their turn, argentinean entrepreneurs should understand the significance of good bilateral

relations with brazil, 30 lamb when they are, but regarding currency issues, they're argentinean economy minister, sergio mazda announced that weren't going to stablish ing a single currency in argentina, and brazil will begin this week and it is end and listing regional trade and at 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 my moreover, the 2 hands of steed discussed the existing sanctions against windsor. ella, as well as actions that make life easier for the people of this country. but in that, if you want 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 is going to restore diplomatic relations with venezuela him. 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 the was a very productive dialogue between the venezuelan government and the opposition. the elections were held transparently time of all the rules were observed without any further questions arising, reputable resumed, therefore hm. we must encourage dialogue among venezuelans. the chief editor of brazilian news outlet alper a moon day says south america would only benefit from a common currency as it would help build a strong economy without dependence on the u. s. the great advantage of this measure would be the possibility, the possibility of carrying out all commercial and banking operations without the need for 40 x and without resorting to exchange rate in dollars or euros. another advantage would be the expense show of regional investments through

integrated finance. so institutions without the backing of the dollar or the erode in the same way that you made to stay in the early seventy's and link it dollar insurance front available, go reserve, south america would partially eliminate the dollar as an anchor off it economy activity in any case, it could be irrelevant, it's that for was in south american into ration in that range is part of the zation of the economy. and in that weakening of the dollar s, as in money currency. that's her up on this ours top news stories from all around for more up to the minute news updates on content head over to r t dot com. and don't forget to follow us on odyssey. rumbling up thanks for tuning in. we'll see about next hour. ah.