ah, ah ah headlines this our senior us diplomats in blogs on the trip to asia during which she is expected to take issue at russia. substantial export? well, the india, but as i was in the re iterate that is fine with russia are in this part of italy, signed an entity deal for the billions of euros with water. libya this quite the native member state having contributed to the destruction of the northern african country just over a decade ago. we hear from a local about the controversial new partnership and almost like the europeans care

about their own interests. first, they don't care about us. they only want oil and gas, but we need investments. when you occupied us, you left nothing. and after all those years, they want us to think that they care about us. no. other african nations in broadway get significant incoming clues from trade with china, just like pulling question faction. r t is from zimbabwe. information minister about the possible motivation for those western policies. we are under with an attack for being alone. food and i was on the rise of funding african with good morning i welcome to all the international costs in life for moscow. i'm right mommy and it's great to have you with us. let's take a look at today's top stores. senior us diplomat victorian newland has said,

washington is working with india to lower the south asian countries supposed dependence on import the russian military equipment. she made that statement before embarking on a tour of asia. she is 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 nail 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 with toria newland will be in new delhi in the evening today. she is here to hold the annual india u. s. foreign office consultations, which is going to cover a range of biological and global issues. now, just before her was a to new delhi, victoria newland said that the united states wants to help india wean away

from russian arms and oil. but here's a question. was asked for this help and a fun fact of india as i were found itself in difficult thought pertaining to oil or annes. that's good to see united states. now in fact, that's one reason india give to defy western sanctions again, law school and to continue buying oil from moscow. is that uni natural sanctions in india as experience don't work. for instance, united states against yvonne for countries like india eat, in fact, could not import oil from iran and it had shrink india's option of importing oil from iran to winters willa all under sanctions. and now suddenly the u. s. wants to help india. so the united states has problems not just with oil, but also in the us defense partnership with russia. now as far as this partnership is concerned in dead stop to the cold war. and the reason this partnership became

so deep as also because for decade the west refused to supply arms to india when india needed them. and india else took leadership value, was this relation emitted up within during this common political journey, the president, putin and i have had the journey of friendship and co operation 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 delhi is rather happy with each defense partnership with moscow, which is driving in fact and as far as oil is concerned in, there has been very clear that bind discounted oil from russia has been helping the country and its people. but suddenly the united states wants to help india, but the big question is this india,

i really need this help. we heard from defense iceberg dinning harper in said the u . s. is unable to tolerate even the middle ground, but india has chosen as washington twice increased. the pressure on moscow is also a day where didn't india and the u. s. in developing just dance and reaction the water in your grade. so that's well known in just aren't as well known the the middle bob issue on the colored or the nasdaq and is a, has been very well articulated at different levels. this is a be not ongoing us or us lead western foot to get all the rest of the major major countries including india, on those in the us. yeah. and she on trying to get more countries on board as things get tougher on the west, is trying to ramp up regular sharing terms of sanctions,

giving robinson in the background that they would want differently more pressure to support for their moves. italy has ration $8000000000.00 energy deal with one of 2, rival guns in war torn libya. but while the nato member and former colonial power insists it does not want to have a predatory role in the region, local residents have expressed that concerns the memory of nato, bombings of libya over a decade ago, including by italian military forces appear to have remained ever present among the population will you give em in? they any welcome. and i thought 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 gal anal history with us and you know, and they didn't bring us the benefits that they should have brought in the past. oh, for the and almost like the europeans care about their own interests. first,

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. they made it even worse. they didn't support a true political solution, they only make statements and nothing else. one law, he who was alex, we don't want anything from the italians. they should leave us alone. we have our 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, serbia, to the rescue. while italy has replaced russia with al 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 libby as 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 seen disagreements within just one side. activate in the investment agreement is illegal, and lex parity between the li, been and italian sites. this is the state of affairs in the country a decade after nate's us 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 in 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 raises taxes for foreign companies, operates in libya and mama. 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. to go commentator stevens sir, who ne says the us, i'm, it's worse and i was in liberty thought was, i believe in governments in the arab world, so they can rob the region of as well since 2011 until today, the lebanese says separated and they're a broke up in from inside and all of the on of the contracts and on of the oil. it's not going to them to be people and they are not there. there is no benefit to the libyan people. it's all been stolen by pro western. now, militia has pro western air politicians who are only employees for the west, and they had that big rule in destroying libya. so that is the main question, is this contract who signed it on with site, dana, that states and nato,

when they came into libya in 2011, they destroyed everything. not only this stored energy, but they sold, the gold is for everything from the b is seen as what they did in iraq in 2003. so the funded this war and because this chaos theory, the europeans and the americans, they're the ones who got their airplanes, and they bonded, they took out gas off he and his government after libya was stable and then it being people are where they were the richest their people in the arab world, so they wanted to break up those counties sneak him ma'am week and steal their oil . mile from northern africa to the south, the president of south africa has rejected war some cold for the country to phase out its use of coal in a push for galena energy. so this is the country has been faith in every day. struggles and keep the lights on with more than 200 days. rolling blackouts reported lost it on

t course on the encounter wooten the tappa picks up 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, doesn't become life 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. there was a initiative by russia to actually install 810000 meg, almost 9600 megawatts or a nuclear power blind in south africa. that didn't happen because there was a push against nuclear. the major controllers of policy in south africa on any to be is the green lock. they have lots of money. they are international. they are funded by big, big banks, internationally. now we are 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 we're held once with miss expensive. just so like the self here in, if he's in a valid solar panels just so she sean lessons are love for the 1st who can afford to are talking about given the poor. good. so so why should we abundant cold? now as we are aware that this in our call is been exported to other countries, there you case of those who are saying we must go. great. so, so with the politics must not play with us, where we need to be seamless about something that low cheddie also affects things like the legal system, quads, me, computers, the needs, 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 results 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 cuts. alex, tell me how, how do you navigate locating, especially when it's extended hours, like 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, once 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 below jenny? yes, we bought this machine specific. fairly 4 follow 7. and then you have it. that's 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 offices of state utility escal because people have had enough and it life has not been easier if everything else flows down from cellphone reception to traffic because traffic lights also now just for waste ops, but some way this low cheddie must also stop. economic prosperity is on the rise in the southern africa nation of zimbabwe. boosted by relations with china, dislike decades, long western sanctions against the country. so my ways trade with china, with

a policy surge more than 30 percent to record high around 2 and a half $1000000000.00. the u. s. the u. k. and the you impose economic sanctions against, as in bob way over alleged you, human rights concerns that measures have caused international banks to cut tides with us of an african country and fermented public unrest, zimbabwe government, as acute western powers of seeking to cripple the country. while the usaa said the couric hardship was due to local corruption, many african leaders have stood up. those in, by way in recent years with cools at the un for the sanctions to be removed. we heard from zimbabwe, the information minister who says the country is open for businesses despite what she described as weston attacks. she said africa as future must be based on a quality between its partners, not on economic pressure these

illegal sanctions. they're just not functions like when you talk a function is actually called a mix. translation sub footage and threats of military envision which have been incessantly been manipulated. disgrace, our territorial integrity sanctions, if it's economy. but some bob was innovative policy genius, his replaced the minister of functions with the engagement and re engagement policy of our 2nd republic. as in bob, was open for business policy. so for a 2nd to public or this has been done to make sure that we don't sit there can cry over functions. but we do the best with what we have in by, with now being attacked for being a sailing 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 application open to engage with any part of the world. as long as the exchange is appears them fairness and equality. look at our relationship is a country with countries like china, 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 tab africa is willing to exchange ideas and innovations with any progressive global force. after all, humanity is one. now as soon to the crane conflict, local authorities say a miss so far. one air defense system has hit a residential building in the country, 2nd largest city hospital. this footage,

circling on social media, shows the off them off of the incident. a local official said, the miss i was fired by an es 300 defense system. media reports specify that it was ukrainian, an error attack alert has been declared in the city. meanwhile, and don barza intense lighting has persistent despite increment weather conditions . are these one garcia reports from the frozen ground of the gas republic? the weather has current for the worse snow and freezing temperatures have returned . made changes, little. the war grinds on it. you're with your pollution but up doubling up. good bill. but boy, him told him in the sector, the conflict is largely 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 and the snow presented its own to its own challenges against enemy position work in a field if either in the still regard, virtually invisible. at 1st. quickly, the downsides emerge. tracts and dog camouflage become a give away. see here, this is a fortified ukrainian outpost with a u. s. supplied humvee onsite tracks and movement m rather in the weather. drones monitor, the impacts corrections are made and the barrage tightens day in day out. the grinding war of attrition, while somebody is 1000000 indicating 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 that in bach moot ogle a door and to nest. there are constant russian assaults efforts to break through our defenses. what those defenses are breaking. after losing solider. there are rumors of a ukrainian retreat from bachman and russian forces are already in glendora, all spelling serious trouble for kiev. and it's nato sponsors. or i'd garrity, of archie from le ganske ah, burske and outside is really journalists and rights activists have taken to the

fees of television in a show support for public broadcasting in the country that have been repeated governor threats to slash budget as an even felt the entire censor down, taking out the story. here is our middle east correspondent maria phoenician. i should help hearing teller on sunday. oh a direct oh in the government's. 0 i don't public broadcasting mandatory cables minute, there was no many more to go ahead and do a good cause to have increased the life long for in a direct attack on the country. we need it

as a result, democracy. they say they want to take off money. real reason is they want, it's the broadcast, con, their organization. they public radio and public. a broadcasting is very dependent and they want to control it. they try to shut the general to say, mouth. this is definitely an attack on free media. we don't know for really for just threats, but the threats by themselves are enough to heard before the free press. i think there's a new government. they want a majority of ultra orthodox conservatives, and many people from the right wing. and they are of, you know, fight with the media in order to generate some sort of an enemy that closing down all public broadcasting is not a good idea for a healthy democracy. the threat to close the con, broadcasting corporation is a war against the entire israeli public, against the millions of citizens of the country who watch and love the content of con lunch to learn what gary, hello, mr. kerry. to let it be clear to you that if you try to silence us and closed the

door on us, we will go through the window. and if you try to close, the window will come through the feeling. well, whenever you want to shut down any journalist, it's an attack, it's unacceptable. local were supported by their colleagues abroad. they had of the news department at the european broadcasting union, sent her video message to the participants of the conference public service to analyze and plays a crucial role in all of our lives and a crucial role in democracy. we know that there is a very strong correlation between the strength and independence if a public service media organization in a country and that countries democracy as say the strength of democracy really relies on the journalists and being independent and free, and impartial and able to do their jobs and to be well funded to do that, that's not only under threat of closing the to local journalist to work in here.

israel, there are dangerous of another kind just a day before the conference and become arch kicked off. there was an attack on journalist from the country's leading channel 13 while they were covering the deadly terror attack that happened and and ultra orthodox neighborhood of easton jerusalem. the immediate community blaine's governmental reading these and t media rather make that pays attack on journal. obviously this is the atmosphere when when the government, he's talking again against the media 247. the media is responsible as if the media is responsible for the tour with ex. it's unlike a democratic country due to behavior like that. they blamed the journalist for a lot of things that happens to blame them. home not being objective for being left is for and anything. yes, it spreads the way they treat. the government treats new tweaks. journalistic shows . it's ok to attack journalists in the streets. israel a road

with hill mondays, we should not the day but they will have to oh, secure the b a in an exclusive interview on t's ok saw a boy who has spoken with iran 1st lady doctor jamila alamo holder who is also a professor of education and psychology at, and i hate best the university, the wife of present abraham racy, gave us her views about the islamic republics, often challenging relations with the us. you can watch the entire into the, on our website r t dot com. but it's a snippet it is for the very essence of american foreign policy is intimidation.

over the past 50 years, the u. s. has always sought to scare our people into submission. they've sent their navy to our shores is showing off their warships and their missiles. they've forced us into flawed and unfair agreements with them. this is a component of policy of intimidation that america has deployed and is pursuing against iran to show a skewed picture of our country to the world. i imagine that you 2 now have a similar experience of dealing with america as it promotes false narratives about russia to the rest of the world. america exercises its power through the media. mass media is used to push intimidating narratives and falsehoods. that's their modus operandi, or if you want to sell weapons, make a country afraid of something and no buy it off. you listen. so americans to bully our neighbors into being afraid of iran. they do the same to the global community.

they want people to be scared, both britain and america have been trying to infiltrate iran for years, infiltrating our society and exerting their influence, sewing discord between family members, setting them against each other. they're doing the same thing to the entire iranian nation. this is what the devil does. a mom khomeini called america, the great satan one. and it truly is america. so in the seeks to tempt and seduce. we have been living under the corrupting influence of america, britain, and their intelligence agencies for a 100 years now. still, we keep fighting back. it is because of this incitement and the pig like grunting of the americans and the british. that bad things happen. regardless. we do our best to defend ourselves as specially our unity and integrity,

our mutual compassion and sense of justice. they seek to so discord among us to divide our people and our country, and their goal is to break up our country. many times we've seen america and britain attempting this, but we too have learned much and are prepared to defend ourselves. miss jose. so the moon is a topic on the modus operandi with men, a china mics and will be back at the top of the hour. ah, no one else shows thing wrong. when all 3, just don't have any rules that you have to fill out is the, becomes the attitude. and engagement equals the tr.