and whatever you do, don't watch my show stay mainstream because i'm probably gonna make you uncomfortable. my show is called direct impact. but again, you probably don't want to watch it because it might just change the way you think . a headlines this our senior us diplomats in box on a trip to asia during which she is expected to take issue at rushes. substantial export from orland arms to india. but as india reiterates that, it ties with russia are indispensable into the signs and energy deal for billions of the euros with water. libya this by the name to remember, states having contributed to the destruction of the know the african country. just over a decade ago, we hear from locals about the controversial new partnership with the europeans care about their own interests. first, they don't care about us. they only want oil and gas,

but we need investment. when you occupied us, you left nothing. after all those years. they want us to think that they care about us know and that the south african natives in broadway gets a significant economic boost from trade with china, despite crippling west infections. oxy isms involved ways, information about the possible motivation for those western policies. we are under, with an attack for being a point in african with good roy to welcome to all the international broke off in the life from moscow. i'm a mommy and as always is great to have you with us. let's take a look at today's top stories. senior u. s. a. diplomat, victoria newland has said. washington is working with india to lower the south

asian countries supposed dependence on impulse of russian military equipment. she made that statement before embarking on a tour of asia. she's expected to arrive in india later on monday. these dependencies as they've created, and make them more vulnerable. in the case of the oil price campus, you know, which india was quite skeptical of their no major beneficiaries. because the oil that they're buying from russia is, is so much cheaper. and we are now working with them on ways to diversify away from russian russian weapons. i'll be in india, praetorian. you, linda will be in new delhi in the evening today. and she's expected to leave the us india and was a for us office consultations, which is going to cover a wide range of issues including bi lateral and global issues. so the statement that she's made is just before her wizard to india,

saying that the u. s. wants to help india lean away from russian arms and oil. the question is that does in there really need this help and a little background yard and l. f i i for ms. newland said if india has had any difficulty, that's good to see the united states. and that's the reason that india had given to defy the western sanctions again moscow and to continue procuring oil from moscow. that is, that uni latrell sanctions in the past have not worked well for india, for instance, united states against iran. now india as avenues all getting and no g. how will me shrink from when, as well are to iran all on bill sanctions? now, india has been buying discounting oil from mar russia and, and there's been a pretty happy about it. and also very walker about it are. but for some reason the u. s. wants to help india to their problems with not just oil,

but also in the us partnership with dom was school as far as the military partnership is concerned and india has been very, very clear that the reason india has such a thriving defense partnership with russia is because of history, that is for decades, we didn't daddy that hell, well, when in the i needed military equipment, the west did not supply to india. russia big and this timing partnership between new delhi. and almost cool in fact, has been based on that history as well. now suddenly the us warns to health, but india with death weaning away from russian military have. but that in fact is not true because india is very happy with its spot in a ship with moscow. in fact, it oh relationship which is valued by india, stop leadership emitted within, during this common political journey, the president, putin and i have had the journey of friendship and cooperation between our countries has also moved forward at a very fast pace. president,

putin and i have taken this relationship to new heights of co operation on the basis of trust and partnership. so new daily, the other happy with it. so our defense partnership with russia, in fact, or even as far as oil is concerned in dallas, and very vocal about buying, discounted or from russia and how it's really suiting the country. so the question is, who's asked for this help that the u. s. is offering we heard from the fans, i spoke, didn't car perry who said the u. s. is unable to tolerate even the middle ground. the india has chosen, as washington tries to increase. the pressure of moscow is also a dead deal within india and the u. s. in developing just dance and reaction, the water in ukraine. so in that is well known in your started as well known, the the middle bought issue under collard or the nasdaq and it has

been very well articulated at different levels. this is a big not ongoing us or u. s. lead western afoot to get the rest of the major major countries including india and those in the c, r a. trying to get more countries on board as things get because on the west is trying to ramp up regular and russia in terms of sentence giving robins in the back room that they would want differently. more pressure support for better moves. entity has reached an $8000000000.00 energy deal with one of 2 rival government in water, libya. but while the nato member and. busy for colonial power insisted does not want to have a predatory roland and region, but who listens are have expressed that concerns the memory of nato bombing libya

decade ago, including by italian people's have remained ever present among the population. will you give em in? they any welcome, a nice idea that we try to make deals with companies from neighboring countries, but in a way that ensures our rights and liberties development. how we know that we feel is our closest neighbor different, but it had a girl in her history with us and you know, and they didn't bring us the benefits that they should have brought in the past only for the and almost like the europeans care about their own interests 1st, which they don't care about us. they only one toil and guess, but we need investments ladies. yes, ed. this is the policy of european countries like italy and france and blaming each other in the media. but behind the since they grew on everything and just divide the world for african countries among themselves, european countries didn't help soap liberals crisis that made it even worse. they didn't support a true political solution. they only make statements and nothing else. one law, he who was alone, we don't want anything from the italians. they should leave us alone. we have are

educated young men and new companies about to be established soon. we want our youth to work in the oil and gas industry without any foreign intervention, shall we tell them. thank you, but stay away from us. we don't want anything from them. go. when you occupied us, you left nothing. and after all those years, they want us to think that they care about us. no, it said the outside of the rescue, while italy has replaced russia without jerry as its main energy supplier. it's now banking on libya, said boost gas supplies to europe. it's just signed a landmark 25 year agreement. that's considered the most important new investment in libby as energy sector in decades is see a doily valuable here is where italy wants and complain. important role also in order to help african countries to grow and become richer, a cooperation that does not want to be predatory. that wants to leave something to the nations. well, this corporation may be short lived because of libya's political conflicts. and

wyvil factions where one man signature means nothing to the other. the country has been split into a government in the east and west, but in this case, we're already seeing disagreements within just one side activate. and the investment agreement is illegal, and lex parity between the li, been an italian sites. this is the state of affairs in the country a decade after nato's invasion was supposed to fix everything where italy played a significant role. italy has decided to increase the operational flexibility visit croft with targeted actions against specific military targets selected on the libyan territory. with the aim of helping to protect the libyan civilian population with their same participating on an equal footing and allied operations, italy always remains within the limits established by the mandate of the operation . and by the resolutions of the un security council, italy had no problems and business with gadhafi before becoming one of his largest

army suppliers and largest buyer of crude oil. all that stopped after the so called intervention, which just happens to come after gadhafi had proposed straigten oil for gold instead of dollars. and recent taxes for foreign companies operates in libya, mama them there is a conspiracy to control libyan oil to control the libyan land. and to colonize libya, again, this is impossible, impossible. and we will fight into the last man and woman to defend libya during the western bombing campaign. italy's foreign minister said that his conscience energy giant ian, i will have a number one roll in the future of the north african country. and on the day, tripoli fell the new york times. had a headline ready? the scramble for access to libya's oil wealth begins and did. the largest oil reserves in africa were up for grabs. with sources on the ground reporting that

some natal countries even took some crude for free. and here we are now in a new scramble. it seems with countries talking about how much they want to help africa. while of course, helping themselves well in libya's case, we're seeing the european support for the tripoli based government. now, you know, the ones are closer to the oil fields. well, if history taught us anything, it's that today's friend might be tomorrow's enemy. we've seen what happens with those who don't play by the western rules. the game is the same and so are the players, and the price is the natural resources at any cost. put who commentators see. we'll see who me says the usaa is worse, analyzed, liberty, star wars, i'm the we can governments in the arab world, so they can rob the region of its oil since 2011 until today, the lebanese says separated and they're a broke up in from inside and all of the, all of the contracts and on of the oil,

it's not going to be people and they are not there. there is no benefit to the libyan people. it's all been stolen by pro western man militia has pro western air politicians who are only employees for the worse. and they had that big rule in destroying libya. so that is the main question, is this contract who signed it on which site? dana did states and nato when they came into libya in 2011, they destroyed everything. not only this stored energy, but they sold. the gold is thought everything from the beer is seen as what they did in iraq in 2003. so they funded this war and because this chaos theory, the europeans and the americans, there no one who got their airplanes, and they bonded, they took out gadhafi and his government after libya was stable. and then it be in people or where they were there. it's just there people in the arab world,

so they wanted to break up those counties. nick, him ma'am, week, and steal their oil as go from northern africa to south. now, the president of south africa has rejected western goals for the country to phase out its use of coal in a push for green energy sources. the country has been faith in every day struggle to keep the lights on with more than 200 days of rolling blackouts ripples in last year. i've seen correspondent caribella cutler as the story. this is the soundtrack of south africa. it is the humming sound of generators that represent the source of life for businesses, big and small. this have become live yet for some 6 or 7 hours in a 24 hour cycle. businesses have to survive somehow, and that is the only way they get to keep the economy taking. this is more than just a cosmetic problem now. is become real politics in this country. no other he needed

to buy, right? you have to actually install 810000 megawatts, 9600 megawatts of a nuclear power plant in south africa. that didn't happen because there was a push against nuclear. the major controllers of policy in south africa on needs to be is the queen log, they have lots of money that international. they are funded by big, big banks, internationally. now we have the same offices. these offices don't seem to have a backup generator. so what happens to government social services that people actually need when the time comes? the climate change from canada avoid if we have to be going green, we have to but should not be something where were held last. what mr. expensive. just saw in the self. there in, if he's, there is a valid solar panel said just to see john license are on for the 1st who can afford you are talking about given the pro good. so, so why should we abundance cold?

now as we are aware that there is in our call is been exported to other countries. there you case of those who are saying we must go. great. so, so we, the politics must not play with us where we need to be serious about something that low cheddie also affects things like the legal system, quads mean, computers. they need, you know, life, they need to be able to access records of those that appear before them. it depends on the type of cases that we dealing with at the point in time. as the cases need to be recorded, then we cannot actually record them. you understand also the law chatting itself. it actually affects the recording machine, which results in court cases being postponed, of course, which in turn resolves in the backlog of cases. and the difficulty of that is felt most from those that rely on that electricity. i mean, bothers, for instance, they have to really dig in there to make sure that what they do is able to finish

the job despite the challenges of having power cut. alex, tell me how, how do you navigate locating, especially when it's extended hours at 2 are 2 and a half hours, 5 hours. how do you know we have a check up on my since the cordless ones like this ones, one of them can even take about an hour. so i have about 4 of them. so if electricity goes for 4 hours, i can really work. yeah. did you buy these machines specifically velo jenny? yes, we bought this machine specific. fairly 4 follow 7. and there you have it. that the daily grind in south africa, the electricity shortage has really made some people numb. but some people angry enough to vote with their feet next week as they march to the head officers of state utility escal because people have had enough and it live has not been easier

. as everything else flows down from cellphone reception to traffic. because traffic lights also now just always stops, but some way this low shedding. let's also stop. ah, economic prosperity is on the rise in the southern african nation of zimbabwe, boosted by relations with china, despite decades, long western sanctions against the country symbol always trade with china. the past year serves about 30 percent to record high of around 2 and a half $1000000000.00. the us of the u. k. and the impose economic sanctions against him by way of and legit human rights concerns. the measures have holes international banks to cut ties with the southern african country and fermented public unrest. zimbabwe government hasn't used western powers of seeking to cripple the country. while the us has said the economic hardship was due to local

corruption. many african leaders of sit up foot zimbabwe in recent years with cools at the un for the sanctions to be removed. we heard from zimbabwe information, mr. he says, the country is open for businesses despite what she described as western attacks. she said, africa as future must be based on equality. twin is part partners, not on economic pressure. these illegal sanctions. they're just not functions. like when you talk of function, it's actually economics translation sub what age in threats of military envision which have been incessantly been manipulated? does chris, our territory integrity sanctions if, if the economy but some bob was innovative policy genius. his replaced the minutes of functions with the engagement engagement policy of our 2nd republic, as in bob,

was open for business policy for a 2nd to publish. or this has been done to make sure that we don't sit back, can cry over functions, but we do the best with what we have timber was now being attacked for being assailing example of a fast developing state outside neo colonial independence. in other words, we are under with an attack for being a stand alone fit in the analysis of the rise of what in african nationalism africa is often to engage with any part of the world. as long as the extent is appears them fairness and equality. look at our relationship is a country with countries like time with countries like russia. this is mainly because we have displayed policy attributes of equality to one another, more than anything else. this is what the world needs. north sanctions and head

proliferation towards the south africa is willing to exchange ideas and innovations with any progressive global force. after all, humanities, one the u. s. may be the world's largest economy, but it's struggling to contain is rapidly escalating national debt, which recently surpassed 30 trillion dollars. yes, treasury secretary has even warned that if federal law makers don't raise the limit for those obligations, the so called debt ceiling, the result could be a catastrophe. another global financial crisis there have been rising calls for the government to tackle with that simply by printing war courtesy, literally in the form of a trillion dollar coin. but prominent economists have spoken out against the proposal saying it wouldn't actually solve the broader problem later this week. us present,

joe biden is scheduled to meet with senior officials to discuss potential raising the debt ceiling. joining me now in the studio is what i'm seeing, contributed chris and chris. great to have in this, you know, many people including the head of the us treasury of spoken out against this idea of mincing a trillion dollar coin. would you make it? i mean, what that mean was actually mean for the us, just print more money, more coins, more paper. seems a bit. i think, i think you're completely correct morality. you just hit the nail on the head with that. that statement that you've just given the, the idea that you just create more money out to finance, and that's just going to solve all the problems. i mean, we saw doing covert during the pandemic. we saw that strategy being implemented by a number of different governments, particularly the united states, and then most of the allies following suit. and what we saw is we saw this massive sort of boom on the stock market and equities and pretty much everything. but what

we've now seen, you know, over the past year or 2 years, even we've now seen the, the, the effect of doing that. and the effect of doing that is hyper inflation. it's making things way more expensive. it's great if you are, you know, a little math with tests as a stock trading on the stock market because you've made a fortune. and then if you're smart enough, you probably cast it out. but for the average joe, like you and i, and most of our, our views are home. it's absolutely catastrophic for our lives and being able to afford. they fair, essentially that we just need to survive. you know, it's, it's, i mean, how they can just print money when it's sort of create a false economy. i mean, the day isn't the dollar based on a certain amount of gold in the reserves or, you know, take this, this 1 dollar and i'll give you x amount in, in england, it's of sterling. but in, in the us it's dollars. so we're talking about, i mean if you just print money, what happens to the global economy like similar i'd that, that's the actual point actually. no,

since reagan took the us off the gold standard, which basically meant exactly like you said, it used to be the fact if i gave, if i printed one us dollar as the federal reserve, i had to show you that i had $1.00 worth of gold in this case, in the vault that's not true anymore. so in theory, they can print as much money as they like. the only issue that they've got right now is they printed so much money. they're in so much death that they can actually print any poor money in order to sell silva debt on and less congress to the united states ratifies that and says how you can print more, which is absolutely disastrous. but that's kind of what they're looking at doing. all right, so let's say they print them out, or they make a trillion dollar going. i mean, when we look at it, the other countries, when i was looking on the u. s, and they say, well, you just seem to whether you run out of money just seem to pop down to the printing press and print some more and, and they get it in global trade. or if we look at,

you know, well, the dollar be used to continue to be used as transactions throughout the world in global trade. absolutely, a great point. i think that again, you've hit the nail on the head that the idea that okay, if i, if i keep the valuing my current, the number one, you've got to have a currency that people want to accept. and the only reason that people really accept the us dollar is it became the global petro currency, became the currency for trading. probably the most valuable resource on the planet, really for, for us running allies, which is oil. the fact is, if you can already see countries or looking even like saudi arabia, they're looking at and looking at their partners in china, let's say the chinese women b, which is a currency which is very strictly control that isn't pointed like a massive printing press where the chinese government go down to the, to the preston's they have princess and other trillion dollars worth of women be missing. okay. maybe it's a good idea that we just thought exporting trading and other currencies that don't have this volatility that are printed like a casino, where we have no control over that fiscal policy. where, where, where, bite and can now go down to go to the congress. put

a bit in front of the house and decide he can print more and more money. so it was always saying that we're also saying we covered on the channel last week. morag, which was, you know, the bricks, nation's, you know, that's russia, china, brazil, argentina, soon we're hoping saudi arabia joining that saying hey, why don't we make our own currency where we're not going to treat the currency like casino, where we're going to go, you know, breaks with saudi and we'll bring out, bring together a lot of the opec class countries, which is going to be way more oil and gas than the u. s. has including russia and as well to create their own currency, which is sustainable, which doesn't have these massive fluctuations, inflation and doesn't give these massive, massive bailouts, these big institutions and corporations. all right, ok. let's hope that something like that does come out and be a new currency that people like you and i gotta have it easy. let's take a look a little bit about american policy though. i mean, jo button, is it joe biden? or is it, is it, is it the trend of the us? we're big brother. we can pretty much do whatever we want. we want out of money.

we'll go and print some more. this trillion dollar coin. why a coin for on because it's pretty heavy, i guess. i don't know or, i mean i've been the day leave with he said look, we've got they got the dev, 30 trillion, they got a d, v p of around 25. we talked about it last week, the country's going to recession, but this is gonna, domino's effect the rest of the world isn't actually. absolutely, definitely will, because the rest of the world still trades that he writes that mostly on us dollars, right. and that, that basically allows us to profit for own economy up on the back of everyone else's. right. so we've seen that in, in europe, right? we've seen, you know, all of the u. s. main trading partners or the feeling i would say a feeling the pinch, more than america is because always america can, can print more money initially. that's going to affect that domestic market. probably positively. right? because the cost of goods and services will probably go down and seeing is that every, every company, maybe they'll give debt relief, energy relief,

and all these things. but there's a lot more the government budget, if they don't give most of that money to ukraine, which they may do as well, which will make more money for us all manufacturers that are producing these weapons. so yeah, it will at that point, but you're right, and we're seeing now the countries are getting fed up with it. even the european union, which has been basically the bustle of the us. but basically, we saw in kobe, they followed all the se, fiscal policies. they nodded their head flight. lovely, not the dogs that sending around now as well. and they're saying, okay, this is not great. it's not great inflation reduction that we've covered here. it's not great that you're making every single european business have to move to the u. s. to trade with you. we've had enough, but it's probably too late. now, the u. s. is stuck in the mud, and unfortunately everyone else is more stuck in the mud than the u. s. unless they move off the us dollar big the global standard. we'll see how that finds out this year. 2023 seems to be going to be an interest when chris, thanks for joining me here in the studio was a pleasure to meet again. hi, mel placed her and to the ukraine conflict. local authorities say

a mis. i'll find why an air defense system has hit a residential building in the countries 2nd largest city hargrove. this that is circulating on social media shows the aftermath of the incident. a local official said, the miss, i was fired by an es, 300 defense system. media report said it was ukrainian, an error tac alert has been declared in the city. meanwhile, and almost intense fighting has the system despite inclement weather conditions. are these mod garcia reports from other frozen ground on the new guns region? the weather has turned for the worse snow and freezing temperatures have returned. made changes, little. the war grinds on it yet. will you please please please, please let us go up. a little

told him in the sector. the conflict is large, new positional artillery. does the fighting and drones do the scouting troops on both sides are at their mercy? the snow offers only the illusion of relief. fighting in the snow present. it's own its own challenges. i can enemy position. well, can a field about it in the slow regarding, virtually invisible. at 1st? quickly, the downsides emerge. tracts and dog camouflage become a give away. she here. this is a fortified ukrainian outpost. with a u. s. supplied humvee onsite tracks and movement him. we're thrilled with drones

monitor the impacts corrections made and the barrage tightens day in day out, the grinding war of attrition. while somebody is me and getting it. there isn't a lot of change, mostly positional warfare. the only thing that's changed is that we have to come flash accordingly. further, south, russian forces are on the attack. over the past month, ukraine has lost one city and stands to lose 2 more. even the ukrainian president has acknowledged how critical things are said, daughter dozer, raska, the situation is brutal and that in bach moot, google adar. and to next there are constant russian assaults. efforts to break through our defenses swap, those defenses are breaking after losing solider. there are rumors of a ukrainian retreat from bachman and russian forces are already in o glenda or spelling serious trouble for key f and it's nato sponsors more.