and that is the reality of what we're facing, which is fascist. the headlines on off you entered optional rushers. pop diplomats. ok, live for up says he received a message from us secretary of state, anthony blink, and delivered by his gyptian counterpart who is right now, visiting moscow. russian forces take over a village near the embattled city, all out of trouble closing off one of ukraine's and the military. they're their main supply route. this follows intent fighting in the area because we understand ukrainian forces suffering very heavy losses. the president of iran is expected to speak commit the u. s. and israeli accusations that its country is stirring up trouble around the world despite a drone attack on, on iranian military facility that some media outlets of accused us under israel,

of being behind the war. certainly a busy to stay here and moscow is recover your news from all around the world. it's so good to have you with us for this hour on our students. and so the ukraine conflict should be resolved peacefully. that's the message from the us secretary of state, which was passed on to russia's foreign minister from his egyptian counterpart during this shed, press conference to the wrapped up today here at moscow. however, according to so, okay, laughter off, it's not entirely that straightforward. he says that message actually means the conflict should be resolved peacefully that his off the russia is defeated, the secret or brim chemical re book answering the previous question. the minister said that he passed on a certain message from the secretary of state lincoln who visited cairo recently. and i can confirm with you as we have always said that rushes ready to listen to any serious proposal that would be aimed at settling this entire issue. and in this

regard, we heard, once again, via the minister, the statement, the russia, the daughter can withdrawn leave and then everything will be fine. this is the 2nd part of the social mr. blank and didn't talk about. this is what the secretary general of nato show. we're visiting the republic of korea because he said in one of his speeches that russia must lose russia should be defeated in the west. can't allow ukraine to lose this meets and comes just a day after the egyptian foreign minister meds over the u. s. secretary of state and his lincoln, which is why and how he had that message for surrogate lab work with sergio lab said is incomplete, cuz what the was would really like to say is that if you pray loses, that means the world will lose and they took some time, etc. so discuss the cranium prices that were there a little bit longer. we're expecting them out much earlier and they were delayed for about an hour regular. rob did say that the spoke about the ukrainian crisis at

length, and he explained to his egyptian counterpart about the minsk agreements. for example, how no one was ever planning to implement. and the one i say, no one, i mean the freight ukraine. and also the last that they were using it to buy time so that they could prepare for a full scale escalation of the conflict. now aside from this issue, are they also discussed of course, bilateral trade, which we've seen that this time, the trade turnover has increased significantly to now $6000000000.00. let's hear some more about this in here. mostly, our trade relations have reached historical levels to further we've worked hard to reach the possibility to traded national current and are doing everything to increase those value. but he of russia is a key supplier or grain to the world market. and we look forward to further deliveries and we are satisfied with our trade levels and aimed at increasing the pace of deliveries and expanding of the range of trade. we are looking for new ways

to expand our leashes rasa is also currently building and financing egypt for us nuclear power plants is also upgrading their railways. and there's so many more projects update touch support. they also discussed so not only international conflicts like ukraine, but also regional conflicts and the need to ensure the stability in the region. they mentioned iran dimension, or israel and palestine and the need for all sides to get back to the negotiating table as soon as possible and find a solution. libya was another country they spoke about, the political instability there, and the rival factions and the fact that the need to ensure that no selection, sarah take place and that there is no interference from outside sources. the russian defense ministry says the village of black gold. dat noise in the doughnuts republic has come under russian control, and the location is very close to the strategically important city of our trauma. also known as back move, where there is currently intense fighting remaining in the region is our

correspondent romance casa for russian armed forces are indeed edging closer to the town of r tell mosque in the occupied part of the nest republic, which was written named as a board by ukraine a few years ago. according to the defense ministry, the settlements of blog, o dot ne, a, was cleared from the ukrainian troops as a result of a successful offensive operation. now defense been as free credit. so volunteers off of various assault detachments who made it possible with the fire support from operational, tactical, and army aviation miss out troops and artillery of this saturn group of russian troops. now the report stated that up to 50 ukrainian soldiers were killed in the area of the last 24 hours. also, a french made a caesar self propelled artillery mount u. s. maids and triple 7 artillery system. and a star b harvet sir, were destroyed in the area as well. now once again,

had the city over to almost which was the renamed by ukraine in to city of barbara . back in 2016 is afar us paramount strategic importance, both to russia and to ukraine. it's only thank kilometers away from the recently liberated city of solids are, and when on the battlefield there will allow the russian armed forces to advance further towards the cities of slowdowns and chroma tor scan. that's another major stronghold of the ukrainian military currently and occupied territory of the dentist republic. iranian president abraham ratio is expected to speak to day in reaction to the statements coming out of talks between the us and israel. it made a recent drone attack on iranian infrastructure, washington and jerusalem, accused hereon of what they call exporting aggression. it's a time where many in the international community, i would say, most of the international community have seen the true face of iran. they've seen

the barbarism of this regime against its own people. they've seen how it exports aggression beyond its border and beyond the middle east. and i think there is a common consensus that this regime must not a quarter 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 seems not providing drones that russia is using to kill innocent ukrainian civilians. now all of this being said is the iranian military confound that one of its ammunition storage facilities was targeted in a drone attack. on monday, several media outputs blame jerusalem and washington for it. meanwhile, iran has summit, a senior ukrainian diplomat to explain comments by a high ranking official and key f. the advisor to ukraine's president said it was no surprise iran would be attacked amid claims,

has been providing military drones to russia for use in the ukraine conflict. russia insists, however, as drones or old manufacturer domestically now as tensions are high between israel and palestine. anthony, blinking a day after his meeting with israeli prime minister netanyahu a heads to the west bank tuesday to hold talks with palestinian president mahmoud abbas lincoln's expected to discuss the polishing authorities decision to stop security coordination with israel. while i was talking earlier to a political analyst and professor of the university of toronto site mohammed mirandi, now he says that if the drone attack on a rod was carried out by an ally of the west, they will be silent. i think it's become the new norm where western countries and their proxies like this, or any regime, they carry out attacks and then they blame the victim. i mean, of course, iranian intelligence would have to tell us, ultimately,

what exactly happened. the drug strike was a complete failure. there was no real damage cause and it was, it was a flaw, the attack itself. but the important thing is that there's really regime carried out an act of war and which it does regularly in syria, which it doesn't got yet. as you rightly point out, there is complete silence in the west, and that is the world order that the americans and europeans want to preserve just by hitting tempest down here at moscow. so get this. so the united states is ready and willing to use nuclear weapons. that's the message from us defense. secretary lloyd austin, as he pledged that america, will defend south korea with what ever it takes our commitment to the defense of your okay remains. our employer, united states stands firm and it's extended deterrence commitment. and that

includes the full range of us defense capabilities, including our conventional nuclear and missile defense capabilities. the secretary of defense arrived and sold for security talks as washington 6 to reassure the key asian ally emit alleged growing threats from north korea. are this, while officials from both the u. s. and south korea of warm the pyongyang may be preparing to test its nuclear arsenal for the 1st time since 2017. now when the united states on the south korea conducted at joint military drills and late december, north korea launched to ballistic missiles into the sea of its east coast. in response. john yang reportedly seized those drills as a provocation and preparation for a possible attack. however, washington and sole describe their jewels as purely defensive in nature. this led more live now to a don mclean guild director for south and southeast asia, the philippine middle east studies association. a very welcome to use our thanks

for coming on the program you've been listening to the story over the past couple of minutes. the statement from the us defense secretary saying that america is prepared to use nuclear weapons to protect south korea from his northern neighbor. how do you interpret that? well, 1st of all, thank you so much for having me. and this is, in fact a very interesting discussion topic. you know, we have to understand that, you know, while the us south korean bilateral treaty land, you know, it remains generally stable. you know, the growing challenge is remarkably, you know, it's remarkably pronounced, particularly with a difference in the level of perception that these 2 states have in contrast, and in the context of the bilateral alliance. so while the u. s. material capability is far beyond north korea's, the divergence has caused a public opinion decrease towards the u. s. and it's extended the parents, including the nuclear umbrella. you know, as north korea, nuclear stress continues to increase. so, you know, in the, in the past few weeks,

you know, there was a start disagreement or misunderstanding, if you will, between the presidents of south korea. and the us regarding the extent to which the us will effectively turn north korea and conduct exercises with south korea. visa, visa, nuclear acid. so this simple disagreement a, you know, as an example, that reflects the big factors involved in the bilateral alliance. so, you know, the us defense secretary visits, you know, comes amid these the spiraling factors to alleviate cell 3 is concerned. and to really ensure the east asians stay the veracity of us commitment towards the alliance. so as you rightfully mentioned, you know, secretary lloyd austin has mentioned about the iron clad commitment. and of course the robust exercises and the expensive exercises that are in store. however, i know south korea is growing press perception,

and it's acknowledgment of the limitations of the traditional extended to parents of the us, you know, reassurances are not enough to really alter public opinion to a significant degree. was to i was going to ask you mr. gil, when you have, let's say, the foreign defense secretary, let's say you're in sole, you're in south korea and you have the defense secretary from america. fly. what? 5000 miles all the way to your town. and then he says, i'm going to protect you. and i'll even nuke your neighbor just to protect you because we want to bring peace to this region. does that sound like a peaceful proposal to you? well, you know, it goes beyond the rhetoric of the statements. you know, countries like south korea are well aware of the realities and the inconsistency is when it comes to us foreign policy in asia. we've seen most recently the withdrawal enough going to stop what is happening right now with the strategic ability and taiwan. all these things factored in. in fact,

japan has gone to the extent of being trying to be self sufficient. it's really not depend too much on the alliance to be able to address security concerns in south korea is doing the same thing. in fact, there's a growing number of scholars and public opinion within south korea that in fact, tries to be viewed away from the u. s. alliance. we're more self sufficient. south korean made solution for the situation. but the up to understand that that, that particular concept regarding the u. s. a big with the but then again, because of the very, in that perception level between the u. s. and south korea against north korea. you know, it's not as simple as, you know, just nuking your neighbor or nuking and allies neighbor because of the nitty gritty complications that are in store within that context. so that is where the questions come. so, but you know, it takes, it takes a sort of jump in here, but it takes 2 to tango, right? i mean, unless, let's pay the other side of the field here,

showing yang. it's not exactly helping me out as is it, i mean, firing off ballistic missiles into the sea of japan while when america and south korea are doing drills right there. i mean, wouldn't that in fact, i mean with young young's ballistic missile tests, wouldn't that? in fact, confirm the fears of its southern neighbour and america. right? you know, the security dilemma is in fact escalating from both sides. you are absolutely right. and the, the slightest miscalculation of the slightest misperception can lead to catastrophic results, particularly for the stability and security of the korean peninsula. and this is what south korea is trying to do, is try to look for a middle ground in order to really alleviate the escalating situation. but at the same time trying to spearhead areas where it would be more secure. so it does not want to escalate the situation further, but however, because of the reality on the ground, there's really not much of an option for south korea to do or for north korea on

the other side. to really simmer down attentions rather we could expect that the tensions look into need to escalate of the duplicate configurations. remain the same. don mclean, gala geopolitical export, joining us life or on the international. a great pleasure. thank you for your time . thank you. and thank you for joining us as well. of the indian industrial conglomerate, a donnie group has lost more than $72000000000.00 in market value interest. a few days after a report by new york based hindenberg research accused the company of agreed with market manipulation and financial fraud, the group has denied the accusations and said the u. s. research firm was targeting not just that company, but india as a whole. lot more now, with ortiz, runjun shar, the donnie hindenberg control oversee, has dragged on. remember the you as this investment firm had said of that the

a danny grove, which is owned by shells, richest man and indian billionaire gotham with arnie, had pulled the largest corn in corporate history. now all fresh and rather lendy rebuttal by the a dining room is equating the hindenburg report to a direct attack in there. this is not merely an unwarranted attack on any specific company, but it calculated attack on india, the independence, integrity and quality of indian institutions. and the growth story and ambition of india in the $413.00 page document that danny grove rejected the $88.00 allegations made by group saying that they had clear intent of profiteering of the cost all their public investors and shareholders. not one of these 88 questions is based on independent door journalistic fact finding. they simply selected regurgitation of public disclosures or rhetorical innuendos, coloring rumors as fact,

last weekend and bird published it's court and court investigation. my knew this was just 48 hours before the attorney group was to attend a huge stock market fundraising drive. and therefore, lots of questions being raised on the timing of this report. a system is broken when corporate behemoths like a dana group. so mabel, to run an intricate fraud in broad daylight, and when odorous citizens are terrified to speak out against those who use their poland wells to suppress criticism we hold. this report marks the beginning of a change by hindenberg, says that it looks for man made disasters such as accounting irregularities and mismanagement the hindenberg or shot fellows for that matter are known for try recon, confusion and panic. they're also known for placing bets against big companies in hawk, to turn profit on their demise. but for now, it looks like allegations counted allegations,

the hindenberg and danny's either will continue. there are also u. s. business interests emerging in ukraine. in particular, there's a talk about how using ukraine's vast natural resources as an alternative for replacing previous imports from russia. ukraine has really significant deposits of breath minerals. and if we play our cards, right, could actually be a really attractive alternative to russian and chinese results is, which is where a lot of dependency currently is over. now thought that you could have that off expanding how ukraine's natural resources of all of a sudden figured info weston business plans for him. bottled ukraine, for an average soldier in the ukraine. the war smells like many things, gun powder, dirt, fresh blood. but for ceos in the us, it has only one send over chris b dollar bill. hundreds of millions of them as the fighting on the ground shows no

sign of losing momentum. america's big business is conceiving big plans of reconstructing the post war ukraine. incentivized by president zelinski himself. it is old years that american business can become their local motive. that will, once again post 4 of our global economic growth. we have already managed to attract attention and have cooperation with such giants of the international financial and investment war as black roll g, p. morgan and golden stocks. one company, eager to accept the burden of rebuilding war 2 and ukraine is black rock. it's one of the world's leading hedge funds, its acids valued at more than 10 trillion dollars. it show looks like give, can put it's mine to tease whatever the fool out from the fighting. american friends will fix it all. i do believe emotionally. those the true belief in the

capital a system will be flawed in ukraine with capital. it can be a beacon to the rest of the world. it's about the power of capitalism, the power of capitalism. well, too bad for ukraine, that capitalism is never driven by altruism. and always profit, it just so happens that black growth has tens of billions invested in lockheed martin re ethan northrop grumman and other major us arms manufacturers. ukraine is the major market for that produce as russia has to respond to washington's deliveries more aggressively. you see where this is going, right? black rock puts fortunes into companies that are literally used to add fuel to the war in ukraine, which only leads to more devastation and more for black rock to rebuild and ingenious plan devised in the highest echelons of power c. black rocks managing

director, has been hired by the us treasury department, specifically to shape us economic policy on russia and ukraine. but rebuilding is just the very tip of this capitalist ice bag. the real profit lies in ukraine's soil. the country is a gold mine, or rather, a titanium mine, and ukraine happens to be quite rich in titanium, just like russia or china, washington's key rivals and potential enemies altogether. ukraine said proudly in 4th place globally, in terms of total assets, the value of natural resources, including natural gas, with black rocks, expertise on deregulation and privatization. it's only a matter of time when these treasures will get new foreign owners and from the standpoint of american executives, every ukrainian life last and the war is totally worth it. the weapons

manufacturers are making tons of money. i'm sure there's several, le, non profit non governmental organizations that are, that are making a lot of money as well. and ukraine, which has what half a percent of the land mass in the world has about 5 percent of of minerals deposits that are certificate. they're wondering the top 10 as far as titanium, which is critical for our weapon systems and our aircraft and everything else. the interest is not about democracy or, or independence. it's about resources. it's about containment of russia, but access to resources to and the flow of money. i mean, right now we've got just the war alone is, is making a lot of people, a lot of money. and it just flows out of the, out of the government coffers. and into mostly the, the military industrial complex. currently hundreds of protesters have hit the

streets in a german cities of cabinets. and nuremberg demonstrated declaring de other red lines to stop weapons deliveries to ukraine. we can show you purchase as marching, waving flags with slogans like cabinet says, waking up truth, freedom and peace in nuremberg, people voice that protest over germany's participation in the ukrainian conflict. in fact, just for a moment here, let's have a quick listen for what the locals to the ukraine won't be able to pay. we will pay for it. and if we germans get involved in the war, we will have a war with russia. yes. then for us, germans based on history, this is probably the war signal we can never send. no war must go through germany, neither with arms deliveries nor anything else. because otherwise, germany will be in the middle of it again, which ultimately only america wants deutschland health. i have the terrible feeling

that it go on like this. i don't know. we will consciously maneuver ourselves into a 3rd world war. i know which most people here in the country don't want. i don't want to do much about it. honestly, my stop. because like, well, the germans are not alone in their bed as world leaders. this time, brazilian president lulu silva says his country has no intention of sending ammunition to ukraine. the german chancellor left schultz has been trying to enlist international support for ukraine during his 4 day visits of south american countries. the brazilian president turned down the german request to send a munition to kia. in fact, here's what the president has to say. they did issue brazil has no interest in passing on the ammunition so that it will not be used in the war between ukraine and russia. brazil is a peaceful country the last time we had a dispute was during the paraguay war and therefore brazil does not want to have any participation even indirectly. but why these conversations about

am requesting ammunition was not only are to brazil, but also to argentina, to mexico and colombia. and are the presence fernandez loftus or reload and bethel . they said no, we're going to do that. there's no reason for south america. latin america countries center mission ah, to this war, the history of our region, as you know, is a region, or is the history of interventions of united states. countless number of cooper dobbs that were organized or supported by united states. so, so we know that the history says that we can not have a sovereign politics policies in our region with the pressure from the west, specially in our case from washington. so there, that's why i initiatives like breaks and even like silicon owners sure are so critical for us because we know that each of our countries individually we,

we are not strong enough to resist, are the western aggressions invasions and, and, and boycotting, et cetera. and sanctions, but if we are able to establish dispatch forms as a real, are political power and canonical power, then maybe we're going to be able to do with this challenge. as for us, the most important thing is that the south american governments are pro south america massive protest erupting across france, softer the government's decision to reform the pension system which are set to raise the retirement age by 2030 a. please use a tear gas and water cannon to dispose thousands of protesters venting their rank. ah the several major french labor unions have called for

a nationwide strike with approximately half of all school teachers refusing to work . for france, the largest national airline has been forced to cancel some services with railways and metro stations. they demonstrate his claim, the reformers, unjustly hitting the working flux. so there being demonstrations in france against the raising of the retirement age also against the economy. also anti conflict in ukraine as well. they don't like more weapons being pumped into ukraine at a time. when am i know mac ron is open now to sending fighter jets to ukraine, something the american president said he would not do more details next hour. this is todd tianomarsh from aah! with me!

a loan welcome to wells apart. as the father of greek tragedy escalated a remark more than 2 and a half millennia ago. truth is always the 1st casualty of war. in the case of the ukrainian war over this unprecedented levels of censorship and delivered distortions in truth had been banished even before the interstate hostilities began . but maybe 2 or on the ring reality could paved the way to peace. well, to discuss that i'm now joined by nichol. i petra, professor of political science at the university of rhode island, an author all the tragedy of here praying. what classical greek tragedy can teach us about conflict resolution. professor petra is great to talk to you and thank you very much in advance for this the rather unusual and pretty intriguing look at the ukranian conflict. well, thank you. i look forward to discussing it. now,

given your focus on the greek g, 2, g, dns, a, let me quote one more of them, sophocles course certain that all men make mistakes with a good man yields to. when he knows that his course of action is wrong, repairs the evil, the only crime, according to sophocles, is pri, isn't. what's your book is all about that that this conflict essentially rose out of hubris, of hubris, of the political elite, which, by the way, asian greeks considered as one of the biggest things. yes. but not just this tragedy and not just this war. all wars arise out of hubris, which at the beginning and as i say, the middle to the end of the 20th century, we had a number of realist political thinkers, international relations theorists. people.