ah ah, the headlines right now and r t international advisor to ukraine's president zalinski says it was expected that the iran would be attacked from it claimed that it provided support for russia's military details forthcoming on. also, italy signs an energy deal for billions of euros from war torn libya, despite the nato member said, having contributed to the destruction north at north and african countries just about a decade ago. and we hear from local was about this new potential partnership and almost other 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. and after all those years,

they want us to think that they care about us. know, the southern african nation of zimbabwe gets a significant economic boost from che trade with china despite crippling western sanctions. we hear from zimbabwe, information minister on the possible motivation for those western policy we're, i'm the, with an attack will be in the in feet in the analysis that i wanted to can miss newton a kick off the work week with your stories taking center stage. this is our team international tie from moscow and from all of us here. it's a pleasure to have your company. so iran has confirmed now that one of its military facilities was targeted in a recent drone attack, though, without disclosing a potential suspect. though an advisor to ukraine's president zalinski said it came

as no surprise that iran would be targeted and made claims. it's been providing support for russian forces. explosive nights in iran drone and missile production oil refineries. ukraine did warn you. well, one skill that the ukranian officials can be denied as their spectacular ability to take any event in the world and link it to the events and ukraine, while in particular when it, when it comes to these attacks on iran, there has been no indication whatsoever that these events are connected in any way to the ongoing war in ukraine. in fact, very little information about the incidence available at the moment. so far. what is known for sure that during the overnight attack on the town of hon, it's the town to the south of the capital of ron. a military complex came under a drone attack. and again, since the pictures released have been published, they suggest that the damage to the complex has been very, very minor. i mean,

according to iranian officials, only the roof, it was kind of damaged by the falling debris of a drone that was carrying something very explosive internet has been very unstable in the country. during the attack, there have been media reports that it went down all together. and the iranian foreign minister has nonetheless condemned the aggression hello, sorry kid. that was following efforts by the enemies of iran's nation aiming to make you run insecure in recent months. this cowardly action has been taken today. our country security will act with maximum potency to provide national security in the country. and such actions must not affect the will and intention of our experts in order to progress in the field of peaceful nuclear plants. now of course tensions between the west and to ron, they have been skyrocketing in the past months, mainly over the iran's nuclear program. then over the reports of iran supplying

weapons to russia to help prussia in it's push in the ukraine. and so this has really put around on the bad side of the western diplomats and politicians, but, but interestingly so far, both sides, i mean the unknown assailant and to run they have restrained themselves from making any accusations or from stepping forward because no one has yet claimed the responsibility over the attacks and iran to run in turn has not accused any, but it is, well, we've heard reports that israel might have been behind it, but so far, no confirmation of that information. you say that, i mean, you said earlier that there was like attacks in those drone and the debris made some damage on the roof. iran downplayed, i suppose, but israel media, they've called and live me. why? the 1st of all, why they commenting, what's really behind it. do you think that they're just playing for position here?

i mean, we always know that iran and the us and is not the best of friends. no, not at all. and of course, in the age of hype, when hype is so important, and so well as being a kind over sold to journalists all over the world. i mean, of course, this is a big, this is a big event for the region, possibly for the well, the 1st, if it escalates any further. but of course israel being the main adversary overall that's, that's, that's a big story for israeli media. so, but interestingly enough, most of the attacks they came on iran on the information front because come, if you compare as to how it was reported, one initial 1st, it was 1st bits and pieces of information 1st crumbles. really were reported. it looked like it was in all our blue, a full sloan was like r a, b, as reported that israel did nothing short of but started a on the ground military operation against iran, that it invaded ground troops invaded iran. this is,

this is what was ported initially. there have been reports that the had courses of the iranian islamic revolutionary god, but it also came under attack and so fight looks that those were false reports as well. so it looks like that whoever spearheading this information campaign, they are looking to cripple iran, but maybe not so much militarily and on the ground. but rather on the information front, italy has reached an 8000000000 dollar energy deal with one of 2 rival governments in war tone libya. but while the native member assistant does not want to have a predatory rolled in the region, local residents on mildly concerned why not the memory of the nato bombings of libya roughly a decade ago, and including by that of, with italian military forces memory. so those bombing campaigns well, they've not faded away fast among the local populations. will you give em in?

they any welcome and i thought it would 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 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 blame each other in the media. but behind the scenes, they agree on everything. and just divide the wealth of african countries among themselves. european countries didn't help soap libya's 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 alone, 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 said the add 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 is just sign the landmark 25 year agreement. that's considered the most important new investment in libby as energy sector in decades is c a. do any 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 problem doing 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 trade,

an oil for gold instead of dollars and raises taxes for foreign companies, operates in libya, 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 european support for the tripoli based government. now, you know, the ones closer to the oil fields. well, it's history taught us anything. it's that today's friend might be tomorrow's enemy . we'll see 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. so from a north africa to the south, all the continent of the president of south africa was rejected. western calls for the country to face out its use of cold and a push for green or energy. the country has been facing an everyday struggle just to keep the lights. dawn with more than $200.00 days of rolling blackouts reported just last year over now to office africa correspondent, catabolic cutler with details. this is the soundtrack of south africa. it is the

humming sound of generators that represent the source of light for businesses. big and small. doesn't become life here for them 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 a real politics in this country. no other initiative by right, you have to actually install 810000 megawatts, 9600 megawatts or a nuclear power plant in south africa. that didn't happen because there was a push against nuclear. the major a control as a policy in south africa on needs to be, is the queen low, they have lots of money. the intonation now they're 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 we're held once with miss expensive. just saw in the self here in, in uh, valid solar panels just so she sean license. i love for your 1st dog who can afford you are talking about even the pro good. so, so why should we abundant cold? now as we are aware that there is in our call is been exported to other countries. there you case that those who are saying we must go great. so, so with the politics must not play with us, where we need to be serious about something that lo, cheddie also affects things like the legal system, quads, me, computers, the means, 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. i, as the cases need to be recorded, then we cannot actually record them. you understand also the locating 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 images. 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, like 2 are 2 and a half hours, 5 hours. how do you do that? we have a couple machines like cordless ones, like this ones. and one of them can even take about an hour. so our for but 4 of them. so if electricity goes for 4 hours, i can really work. yeah. did you buy these machines specifically below jetting? yes, we bought this machine specific,

fairly 4 follow 7. and then 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 offices of state utility escal. because people have a love and it live has not been easy as everything else flows down from cell phone reception to traffic. because traffic lights also now just always stops. but some way, this low cheddie must also stop. the u. s. may well be the world's largest economy, but it is struggling to contain it's some mounting national debt, which recently surpassed 30 trillion dollars. the usaa treasury secretary has even warned that federal lawmakers don't raise the limit for those obligations or the so called debt ceiling with result. the result could be that of a catastrophe,

meaning another global financial crisis. well, there have been a rising cause for the government to tackle the debt simply by printing more currency. literally in the form of a trillion dollar coin. and prominent economists have spoken out against that saying it wouldn't actually solve the broader problem. so we put the issue to financial expert and artic contributor christians the idea that you just create more money out, the fin, and that's just going to solve all the problems. i mean, we saw during the, 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. 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. since reagan took the u. s. off the gold standard,

which basically been used to be the fact that 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 debt that they can actually print any poor money in order to sell, sell the 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. the only reason that people really accept the us dollar is became the global petro currency. that came 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 we can already see countries looking, even countries 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 presence they have princess and other trillion dollars worth of room and be

missing. okay. maybe it's a good idea that we thought exporting trading and other currencies that have fallen . let's see, it printed like a casino, where we have no control over that fiscal policy where we're biting can now go down to go to the congress, put a bill in front of the house and decide he can print more and more money. you know, the bricks, nations, 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, bricks with saudi, and we'll bring out, bring together a lot of the opec plus countries, which is going to be way more oil and gas than the u. s. has including russia 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, even the european union, which has been basically the bustle of the u. s. that basically, we saw in covey, they followed all the same fiscal policies. they nodded their heads, light, lovely, nodding dogs, that setting around now as well. and they're saying, okay,

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, being the global standard economic prosperity is on the rise in the southern african nation of m bob way boosted by ties with china. despite decades, long western sanctions against the country. as in bob boy's trade with china, over the past one year surged around 50 percent to a record high of around 2 and a half $1000000000.00. to give you some, a context for this or the u. s. the u. k. in the you, they all imposed economic sanctions against him. bob boy over alleged human rights issues of the measures. of course, international banks to cut ties with a southern african country and not just fermented public unrest. bob boys, government has accused the western powers of seeking to cripple the country. and

many african ladies have stood up f, as in bob way in recent years with cold at the un for all the sanctions to be removed. we heard from zimbabwe, it's information minister. he says the country is open for businesses despite what she described as western attack. when she said africa, the future must be based on a quality between the partners not on the issue of economic pressure. this illegal sanctions there just not sanctions good. when you talk sanctions, it's actually called a mix translation sub footage in threats of military envision which have been incessantly been manipulated. disgrace, our territory integrity sanctions, if it the economy. but sim, bob was innovative, poor disingenuous. his replaced the minutes of functions with the engagement and re engagement policy of our 2nd republic. isn't bob with open for business police or

for 2nd to public? 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 done. but with now being attacked for being is sending example will suffice to developing sit outside neo colonial independence in other ways. we are under, with an attack will being extend alone seats in the annals of the rise of what in african nationalism africa is open to engage with any part of the world. as long as the extent is a based on fairness and equality. look at our relationship as a country with countries like time with kind of like russia. this is mainly because we have displayed police attributes will be quality to one another, more than anything else. this is what the world needs thought. sanctions and head

proliferation towards each other africa is willing to exchange ideas and innovations with any progressive global force. after all, humanities, one could have with us for this program is rarely journalists and rights activists to take him to the streets of tell of even a show of support for public broadcasting in the country that have been repeated government threats to slash the budgets and even shut down the entire sect up, picking up a story for us on middle east corresponded his maria for financial i can help hearing tell you on sunday. oh when. 7 has like a direct oh in the government's i don't public rooms counting monday, entry cables minutes. we said there was no have any more to pan and he wants

to go cost to increase the largest. oh, green, a direct impact on the country media. and as a result, democracy, they say they want to take off money. real reason is they want, it's their broadcast con, there organization, they, public radio and public. a broadcasting is very dependent and they want to control it. they try to shut the generative 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 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. they are of, you know, fight with the media in order to generate some sort of an enemy. that closing don 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 loved the content of con. lemme carly, hello mister carrie. let it be clear to you that if you tried 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 wouldn't affect the thought. well, whenever you want to shut down any journalist, it's an attack, it's unacceptable. local lists 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 journalism plays a crucial role in all of our lives on 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 at 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 that to local journalists to work in here. israel, there are dangerous of another kind of just a day before the conference and be march peaked off. there was an attack on journalist from the country's leading channel 13 while they were covering the deadly terror attack that happened in an ultra orthodox neighborhood of easton jerusalem. the immediate community blaine's governmental spreading. these antique media, raftery that pays attacks from gender. obviously this is the atmosphere when when the government is talking again against the media, 247, the media is responsible as if the media is responsible for the tour with dex. it's unlike a democratic country due to behavior like that, they blamed the journalists for a lot of things have happened and them not being objective for being left is for

and, and anything. yes, it spreads the way they treat the government treats. new tweaks general is to show it's ok to attack journalists in the streets. israel a hill monday. we are the lucian, not the day, but they will have to to secure their right to be able to work and see from this is often to national life for moscow. so in an exclusive interview on a boy who has spoken with iran 1st lady, doctor john malay alamo holder who was also a professor of education and psychology at the shock, he'd a hash, the university or the wife folk president ibrahim rice. he gave us our views about

the islamic republic, often tents relations with the united states. even watch the anti interview on our website, r t dot com. in the meantime, here's a small preview. 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, 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 as well. 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 it 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 are mutual compassion and sense of justice. they seek to so discord among us to divide our people in our country. their goal is to break up our country. many times we've seen america in britain attempting this, but we too have learned much and are prepared to defend ourselves. are this news adjusting right now here at all? she needs a national, as we understand the iran has reportedly some of the senior ukrainian diplomat in the country over a controversial common spinal. why is that ukraine's president the landscape of his coming in the wake of several drone attacks on facilities in iran, in a post on twitter, the key of official said it was no surprise that iran was attacked all amid western plains. the islamic republic has been providing support for russia's military. you

can learn more about that with getting the article up and running right now on our website r t dot com also, telegram channels. lots of them here for archie. you could always be up to speed with the latest information every hour. oh i, i, me, the, the, the, at this hour american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to france people. and to defend the world from great danger.