ah ah, from being a to post malignant influence in the middle east, fueling the ukraine crisis to run the found itself. today, glazing 1st, stirring up trouble all across the world, at least according to the u. s. secretary of state. and israel for talks with the countries prime minister with helms in the wake of a drone attack in iran. iran has reportedly some of the ukrainian diplomat for questioning after a topic key of official said, an attack on the western asian country is expected. i made claim it's supporting rushes 1000000 also ahead on the phone for other countries. right. expect them not to interfere in the bilateral relations between pakistan and russia. august downs,

foreign minister at sais, continued partnership between islam above and moscow will include new plans for an oil pipeline. the concrete faces to be your energy shortage is on the hunt for lithium, the german chancellor tourist attempts to secure supplies of the strategic material is berlin. too late with wherever you're capturing the news hour from today. welcome to moscow on to r t international. i'm you know, moving around find itself as something of a punch bag. now, as the u. s. secretary of state, touch down in israel on monday. anthony blink, and it's been holding talks with prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and both were quick to assign blame to tehran for all sorts of alleged reasons. it's a time where many and international community i would say,

most of the international community have seen the true face of iran. we've seen the barbarism of this regime against its own people. they've seen how it exports regression beyond its border and beyond the middle east. and i think there is a common consensus that this regime must not acquire nuclear weapons. we discussed deepening cooperation to confront and counter a rance destabilizing activities in the region and beyond. just as around as long supported terrorists that attack israelis and others. other teams now providing drones that russia is using to kill innocent ukrainian civilians temperatures. i certainly rising as we hear these statements from these rarely prime minister in the u. s. secretary of state, just days after an iranian military facility was attacked by drones to her and did not blame anybody officially, but they were careful reports and both american and israeli media that israel with

the u. s. support may have been behind the so tag mcfall coming here to israel blinking said an interview that all options are on the table regarding the ran in threads including military. so very, very bowling moment. but i have to say that the ra tensions even closer blinking came to israel at the time of a major escalation and a dramatic tweet in these rally palestinian conflict that he himself called as circle of violence. america's top diplomats said that washington is committed to the idea of 2 state solution and that anything that contradicts this idea could be harmful to ease railey security in a long term and could damage israel's identity as a democratic jewish state. he also said that both sides should work together hard to try to deescalate the situation and to ease the tensions. but unfortunately, so far we have only been witnessing the opposite. last thursday was the deadline day for palestinians in 2023. as 9 people were killed in the idea of the military

raid of the camp of jeannine in the northern part of the occupied was bank, including police, one civilian. it was followed by a deadly pair attack in east in jerusalem, but took the lives of 7 jews, a group of washer for as was attacked by a gunman at the time when they were coming back from a suburb prayer. after that, we heard a number of harsh statement from both of palestinian authority and israel with ramallah announcing. but they now cut security cooperation with jerusalem and israel expressing its firm determination to counter terrorist. and after jerusalem, lincoln is expected to reason both the west bank and gaza, where palestinian prototype, only an hour against washington is doubled. send a policy. so the world is now watching closely whether this visit will be able to is the tensions on the ground or rather make it worse. well, as maria mentioned there around has reportedly some and

a senior ukrainian diplomat. it follows controversial comments by an advisor to ukraine's president after a drone. it's called a military facility in central, around in a post on twitter. the key of official said it was, quote, no surprise, around with attack because he claims the country militarily supports russia in the ukraine conflict. my colleague, jewelry through shay and eager to sit down. talk through this statement earlier, more than once ukraine warned a rom, the consequences if supporting aggression against crane will be far larger than the benefits from cooperation with russia. we don't know reason for the explosions at the reigning facilities, but as persian folk wisdom says, don't hum others and you won't harm yourself. we're logic is inexorable and murderous. it builds the authors and accomplices, strictly explosive night in a rum drawn and missile production. oil refineries. ukraine did warn you. the

stories kind of weird and the details aren't really just in there yet. so we have to, we have to tread carefully here this what i mean to say, unlike what the ukranian advisor to the president to zalinski did when he went on twitter and just rambled on twitter and openly gloated about this attack against iran. and so really, it's no surprise that right now, apparently the deputy ambassador is being summoned into iran for questioning because look at it from the following perspective. like iran is not attributing any blame like iran is not blaming anyone for this just yet. nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack too, but really hardly a surprise that right now to iran is apparently summoning the deputy ambassador to do some explaining because they're saying, well, look, maybe they go like, well, do you know something that we don't know who is behind it, why did you say that it was a long time coming or stuff like that? so in terms of detail, again, they're very various costs. we do know we've seen pictures of a military compound in the town of is for hon. it's

a town to the south of the capital to iran, and it is also this is where the site producing iranian unmanned drones is in military drone as and they have been kind of boosting the production as of late. and we've seen some photographs with some very minor damage done to that particular compound and the rainy and saying that a bunch of drones were shut down by the air defenses. and just one just happened to crash on top of that compound. and again, a lot of lots of that has been coming out on the story has been well just for it was fake news. and so we have to really tread carefully. but anyway, we do know that iran has, of course, condemned the aggression and has said that well the, this, these attacks, they will not stop iran and prevent iran from following its own diplomatic route. hello, sorry kid, that my height 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 to our country's 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 and see iran gotten the wrong side of the west in so many in so many areas and aspects as of late like it has been expanding its nuclear program, it has been accused of supplying military drones to russia, to a russia in its effort, in its military effort in ukraine. so really, that has been plenty of speculation as to who's behind these attacks. maybe it's israel, you know, the usual suspects when it comes to that part of the world. and iran, maybe it's the united states. both nations have explicitly denied their involvement . however, listen, pentagon spokesperson brigadier general petri cry and i said, no us military forces were involved in strikes in iran, but declined to commend further. so you guys were saying that the facility was only

slightly damaged to look pretty minor. frankly, the israeli media is called the whole story, essentially a lie. and when you talk about potential culprits behind this, this drone attack and iran, ok. you say it could be some sort of clandestine israeli thing. could be the codes as well. it could be any kind of us sympathizing group in that part of the world, frankly, and the fact that iran hasn't singled anyone out. and yet it's only right now, reportedly summoning the ukrainian ambassador in the country that i mean there are angles say we just are not getting a clear pitcher on, but what do you think is actually happening? well, it is difficult to make a judgment on that without being on the ground and watch and seeing it with your own eyes. but definitely it looks like the information attack against iran. it has been more of a, it has had a larger scale than what has been happening actually in terms of physical violence and physical damage. like initially when the 1st attacks happened, the reports that poured out of the region had been all over the place. some sources

suggested that israel had begun a ground operation of all things in iran, just stopping just short of will, you know, mewling whether or not that was the start of the 3rd world war. and so there have been all sorts of claims that there were multiple missile attacks against multiple military compounds and to iran, in iran, again still oil refineries and oil facilities. and all of that were under some oil facilities. they were caught on fire that were all videos of them being a blaze. but again, iran has blamed the aftershocks of an earthquake for that. so again, it looks like the information campaign against iran and against iran has be in full swing right now. and by keeping silent by not jumping to conclusions and to just, you know, dishing out accusations by refraining from that. it seems to iran is trying to douse this whole hysteria and so that everybody has time to come to senses and then

figure out what to do and would sorta retaliation. and more importantly, who will have to bath? well, their ties have been in a dead long for as long as i can remember, but around on saudi arabia are planning a fresh start. according to our rocks. foreign minister who said his counterparts from tyrann, andrea will join them in baghdad for talks. while the move follows a space of recent bilateral initiatives between the countries aimed at putting relations back on an even keel around foreign minister, previously expressed hope that both countries embassies could reopen his saudi counterpart. also recently outlined up the dove. all 2nd, i'll make for him the intention to quote, find a path to dialogue with iran. the nation severed the relations back in 2016 following attacks on saudi diplomatic missions in around will not also come of period and has been stepping up dialogue with other partners across the meeting.

around foreign minister, earlier underscored his nation's intent to continue reproach more efforts with rain while around and he waits, return their ambassadors to each country's capitals, really and political communications specialist food is of a believe surrounds efforts to open up dialogue in the region. will benefit piece neighbor will be neighbors for many, many centuries has been enabled for many centuries. there is no need for confrontation between 8 and in the last number of iran has tried to make sure that the relations are known. what the problem we have had is that the saudis, and there's us fish in the united states besides to increase pressure need on one basis they utilize. so if you don and we

can have a normal relations then yes, in that region. no thanks. without this confrontation between the 2 sides. so peace, it's renewed on it's how do we open, how regional implications as well for the bit ah, k. want to bring you news now really of carnage and pakistan. this monday, at least 61 people have been killed and more than a 150 wounded. in an explosion of a mosque in the north west of the country. early reports said a suicide bomber had targeted people during afternoon prayers and peshawar. the pakistani taliban militant group later claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the blouse was, quote, revenge for the death of a t t p member. last year. the mosque is situated inside a police compound on these, mostly attended by law enforcement officials,

local reporter, nestor, dor ascentis, this from the ground, the immediate aftermath of the boss. he took the memo to humphrey. i'm standing in front of the main gate of the head office of the provincial, my lease on betcha wouldn't let them go with today a suicide bomber attack worshippers during afternoon prayers. inside the masa health authorities see they have declared a red alert in an emergency and have asked people to done they'd blood onto them all the local emergency services rushed to the area to rescue the people. after the explosion, the front part of the morsel is collapsed and some got stuck under the debris. heavy machinery has arrived to clear the area. officials here see the media is not allowed inside until the error is cleared and the rescue operation is over and they will provide the final figure of casualties and more details later. rushes foreign minister as sir gale of ralph, expressed his condolences on that deadly attack to his pakistani counterpart during

a meeting in moscow this monday by law frilled. it was the focus of the face to face with pakistan's top diplomat stating he expects other countries not to interfere in trade between islamabad and russia. he had this to say in response to a media question on potential us encroachment in that regard. deed, we've had and continued to have detail conversations on energy, cooperation, between buxton and russia. as you may be aware, pakistan faces, severe and energy, are crises and problems and as far for them other countries, right? expect them not to interfere in the bilateral relations between the pakistan and russia. we absolutely will do whatever is necessary to provide our people with the necessities that they to, they require, or both parties reiterated their commitment towards developing an enhancing

relations between the 2 countries. especially now as russia is seeking alternative markets as we know, and also pakistan as we heard from the foreign minister rick country right now is facing severe energy crisis and also severe economic challenges to little something else he touched upon. so this is of course, perfect timing for both countries to help each other out. and this is something that started 75 years ago. this may oh, pack us on russia. we'll celebrate 75 years of diplomatic relations. and let's not forget that in 2015 park is on m. russia agreed to build a multi $1000000000.00 gas pipeline tax, soon to run through pakistan transports, and russian liquefied natural gas from karate sula, who was supposed to start in 2020. but it was put on hold because a western sanctions and this is the status of the project right now, a process for your sources, but i do not have the issue is that as an advanced stage of development, and i'm sure that further progress will be done on the near future in this regard,

i would like to dwell on what was said to my pakistani colleague regarding the u. s . guarantee that they will not interfere with our energy deals. of course, they will interfere, sir, do you, night at states literally publicly without embarrassment, was quite arrogantly declares to every one than it is impossible to make deals with russia, but to prevail. a majority of countries including our colleagues and because tanza are guided by their legitimate national interests. both parties expressed a desire to continue dialogue for the shanghai corporation organisation was sergey land rover. reminded us once again that it is more of a reflection of the world right now the reality because it's a multi polar platform. a pakistan's foreign minister also said that develop relations are currently suffering through the negative consequences all the crisis in ukraine. lots of the threats of western sanctions will not intimidate them and will not stop them from continuing to do business with russia. the i g seat covered

a white gender encompassing a car, economic trait, and especially energy cooperation, pakistan views. russia is an important player in the west, south and central asia, pakistan and russia have good cooperation on over on his thumb. we aimed to continue cooperation with our russian friends and realizing our common goals of peace and stability in a varnish stop. we also just discussed bilateral cooperation at multi lateral 4, especially within the united nations and the shanghai cooperation. so mainly right now we're really waiting to see one pack swing. we'll get going. and also when the 2 countries will switch to national currency, something else that we heard about. so national currencies, when it comes to doing business, some interest and development. okay, to latin america and mexico, where hundreds have gathered outside the presidential palace demanding the

resignation of the country's president's entrees. manuel lopez abra door. the footage shows scores of demonstrators outside the building and mexico city chanting . you are fired and get out. they claim the country's health service has worsened and safety on the streets has too many are seen holding fly of the flenar organization and national anti lopez open a door front which organized around this investigative website. the grey zone has carried out research on friend aiming to dig into its origins and funders. they fund about the group was originally created to the president, also known by his initials and lo, and sought help from the u. s. in 2020. to carry out its activities of the dal further into that. i'm happy to say we can welcome onto the program. now . the greys owns ben norton. ben, you're most welcome. indeed,

you carried out this investigation, take us through what was uncovered about friend and its role in anti governmental protests and mexico. well, we should understand that this group in mexico is a fringe group. now, it does have influence outside of mexican borders, especially among republicans in texas and the leader of foot. and he's a millionaire oligarchy, mexico named gilbert of santa he has actually frequently visited texas and he has support there. but inside mexico itself, you've seen as a french figure, his protests are tiny. i mean, you mentioned a few 100 people. whereas just several weeks ago, the president lopez of, or had a rally. celebrating his 3rd after his 3rd anniversary. and there were millions of people marching in support of him, so we should keep in mind that perspective. but the fact that this fringe figure in mexico leading has supporters in united states is one of the reasons why we hear so

much about him and also the fact that the media constantly covers this guy. and he's done a series of photo ops essentially. and trying to organize these protests against look of a lot. of course, there are very small protests and let's keep in mind that little bit of a load is actually one of the most popular leaders on earth. he consistently has an approval rating between 60 and 70 percent, which i should point out is double the u. s. president pro rating joe biden as approval rating around 3334 percent. so anyway, we've seen that this figure out the final has done protests, including the originally would, would do protests with cars and people would go out in the streets and honk their corporate horns. and then he did a protest in the big plaza in the middle of next a co city where people would stay the night in, in 10th. but then actually people went up to the 10th and they found out that most of the tents were empty. and now he's doing his latest protest done, and all this is about trying to destabilize the government. he is

a multi millionaire. he comes from the base of industrial oligarchy in mexico, which is called month re in the north. and he is closely linked to texas. so mean this figure, everything he does is for media attention and he's very extreme. he wants to overthrow the democratic elected government and says that very clearly. we're looking at the protesters just a screen. now as you're speaking ben very well turned, i see a green, almost uniformly, dom in front of the palace is not. where is the money coming from that figure? you just mentioned the local wealthy figure, or we mentioned 2020 the organization appealing to then u. s. president donald trump for support. what kind of help was it looking for? what did it get there? well, get it done. a son was a huge trump supporter, and he did a p o for support from trump, but now that biden is in power. he still has appealed for support from united states. in fact, when joe biden and canadian prime minister trudeau and mexican president of the

recently met for a north america summit. in response to that, the leader of finance published a video on line in which he called for support from the united states. he said, our business partners in washington, you should support us to oust. i'm low. he whom you referred to as a suppose, a communist dictator, which is hilarious because i'm law is definitely not a communist. and he's definitely not a dictator. so he's constantly trying to appeal for support from the united states, and i mentioned that he constantly takes trips to texas. i don't know why he can constantly get in. he doesn't have us citizenship, but he clearly has a visa, where he can just cross in and out frequently. and oftentimes, you know, if you are a 1000000 or oligarchy, the u. s. will just allow you to do those kinds of things. so in the context of mexico, i mean, he has caused a lot of trouble, but again, i think we should keep in mind that just a few weeks ago, i'm had a rally in which millions of people came out and supported him. so i just want to

compare that the size of the rallies brochure about here, but the thing is, protest can grow count on 2021 was a year of large scale protests in the world from peru to iran. we've been going through it on the program today. are you seeing this then as more of a fringe that's going to stay in its box all most or do you see a similar scenario unfolding in mexico? what do you think? well, from the beginning of the term in office, when he won in 2018, the united states has been trying to de, stabilize them. and we've seen that through the u. s. or, or a government funded organizations like the national endowment for democracy and us agency for international development. they have spent millions of dollars funding right wing opposition forces inside the mexico who oppose president lovers of order and impose for instance, his projects like he's building a train network in the south of mexico called brain maia. and we've seen that the u . s. government has funded organizations also opposed to mexico's nationalization

of oil and lithium because mexico, it has a lot of natural resources. and in the previous neo liberal president and ripping in year thought he did partially privatize the oil. so when i'm low, came in, he re nationalize the oil, he nationalize the lithium reserves, and that angered the u. s. and angered a lot of companies in the us that want to get access to those cheap raw materials they need for their technology. so from the very beginning, the, the u. s. has been supporting these opposition forces, but the thing is, i'm low is so popular. and mexico is such a big country that they've been unable to do a lot of di, stabilisation like they've done in much smaller countries like peru right now. like they tried to do in nicaragua, 2018. i mean, mexico has over 100000000 people. it's a huge country in geographically and because i'm low has consistently enjoyed the support of around 2 thirds of the mexican population. and because all of the other

opposition parties united, including the pre the pond, and the p r d, the main opposition parties, they can be combined in an alliance. and they still only have the support of around 15 percent of the people. the reality is that they've, they've been unable to try to stabilize the president and not their research carried. i'd say ben by way can be read on the gray. so i'm, i'm sure, as well now, at thanks very much for getting into that with us for the explain or, well, we watch with interest how it developed investigative journalist spend norton live on our tea. thanks for having germany is interested in lithium production. that's the message from the countries chancellor on his tour a little bit south of their sites america. that's where he is looking for countries rich with this strategically important material. but will berlin have to join the back of the que german companies are very interested in expanding corporation, especially in the field of lithium. and we want to support chile on that path to

sustainable mining. schultz follows natural resources around the world like a group. he follows a rock band last year. he was obsessed with scoring gas, which wasn't a very good look for a guy who keeps openly found a sizing about ditching fossil fuels. so now he's in south america begging for lithium, which is needed to power his dream dreams as a key component of electric car batteries. for example, schultz is hitting up. she lay the world's 2nd largest supplier and argentina, which isn't too far behind the ra states that think that all ro, materials come from china. but this is not true. men, the raw materials in fact come, for example, from argentina or chilly, get shipped to china, upper says there and sold again. the question is, can one melt move the procession of these materials, which creates thousands of jobs to those countries where these materials come from? yeah, guys don't send it to china, process it generate on the pollution right here and then ship it straight over to me. come on, do you want jobs or not? jessie figured that talking about quote,

sustainable mining of lithium means that people won't notice, the extracting lithium from the ground isn't actually sustainable. when it comes to you, the water that depletes leaving the soil destroyed, or that each ton of mind, lithium produces a 15 ton carbon footprint that's occurring to mit researchers. so, why don't countries like germany use iraq, lithium? yeah, i mean, the fact that it's nasty to get out of the ground, well, it simply doesn't have enough to meet its needs as it pushes electric cars as the way of the future headlines all over the western processor and shelters visit to south america have focused on germany's lithium shortage and how the lack of supply negatively impacts berlin's ability to compete with china's electric vehicle industry. european greens don't want mining in their own backyard, even if it's for green cars. yes, it's ok to mine it in latin america though, because there is going to be my obviously green and sustainable shalt says unlike in europe, really, this is all about the use economic engine,

germany scrambling to secure supply of critical resources that they've been getting from china washington hasn't been shy about the fact that it wants its allies to cut trade ties with china, but that's a tall order for germany. and for europe, given that china produces more than 70 percent of the world's batteries and refined 80 percent of all critical minerals. and south america, trade ties with china are just expanding like with a new deal inc with bolivia, and that includes help to develop its lithium reserves, which are the largest in the entire world. so that means that germany actually end up having to deal with china any way to get any lithium in that place or in elsewhere in south america. that would be an awkward conversation. may i speak to niger in china, comes up. that would be a little weird, but european commission president, queen ursula vander line, is kind of acting like a character of a j. r. r. tolkien novel in the sense that she wants the precious da da china

controls the global process in industry. almost 90 percent of rare earth and 60 percent a fleet, him a pro sustain china will will identify strategic projects all along the supply chain from extraction to refining from pro, sensory cycling, oval build ups. her teacher cruisers to worry supply is at risk. so i guess it's bad when china makes resource deals but good when europe dies, because europe would never, ever consider. it's mercantilist approach. a kind of neo colonialism, even though it's foreign affairs chief, joseph burrell, literally compared europe to a garden and the rest of the world to a jungle during his speech last year. speaking of which beryl has also recently got off in blatant search of natural resources to africa, saying that he needs them for europe screen agenda. but the big question is whether these countries to which european leaders are going to happen hand are willing to play on the west term.