the russian federation of mac. welcome sir. thank you very much. fiorella pleasure . it's a pleasure to have you. and so what is the current scale of the cooperation between south africa and russia and how do you evaluate? the recent developments in the relations between the 2 states extremely, extremely huge. and we are reaching milestones by the year. if you recall, last week, minister. so gala rove was invited to by, i will minister for international relations and corporation, dr. my lead the ponder to visit south africa and know that on the 23rd of january, with a huge delegation from, from, from, from, from, from a, from russia, a very successful, a visit. indeed, milestones have been reached in discussing the, the, the,

the key strategic objectives that we are looking forward to, which we, i'm sure we will talk about later. yes. so you mention the foreign minister that was the 1st destination and point south africa was how do you evaluate the outcome of that visit visit? i would come fury and i was quite great in the end of the visit itself was successful. and if you recall the minister of rove v, the ted, the northern part of the continent in july last year. and we're looking forward to, for the minister to visit our region. and it was for that the reason that to both countries agreed that to the visit of the minister of ro should not only be to south africa, but should touch

a number of thought the country. and that was the reason why the minister visits the visit had south africa, visited a sweat d a v. the ted waller. those were the 3 subject countries that he visited. well, you talk about all these visits. the western media has been writing not stop about the possible russian influence. i'll be negatively growing and africa. what do you make of their statements? a funeral. i would not one to go too much into the statement that is being made by 3rd countries. the key thing for us, it's the relationship between the 2 countries. how do we see it? and there is no doubt in our assessment that to their bilateral relationships between the 2 countries is great. and of course, you understand that to 3rd parties will have their own opinion,

negative or positive. how do the people that on that note in south africa view president vladimir putin? does he have anything in common with president ramos? so stuff. yes, there are quite a number of things that are in common between the 2 presidents. one of the commonality between the 2 precedent is that both of them are members of the brakes group of countries. so that was not us number one, but also number 2. the commonality is because of the historical and the peasant relationships between the 2 countries. one recall of that to south africa was the 1st country in 1991 that the recognized that russian federation, the 1st country in africa not to recognize. so as a result of that, the relationship over the past. what 30 years between the 2 countries

and of course, between the 2 presidents is great. the to have talked about what, 5 times in the past, 12 to 18 months. now going to an important topic, how africa in general has been effective, but how has strongly south africa been affected against from these western sanctions against russia, especially the ones in the agricultural sector? do they create certain obstacles for their relations? no, it doesn't danica and i can assure you for your ela that to there are no obstacles to their relations. and to us from the department of international relations and corporation, in terms of our relationships with the, the russian federation. it's business as usual. it continues, not the single program in that relationship has stopped. but what about the

agricultural sector of the country has not been affected negatively? no, it has not been affected negatively, but remember fiorella. oh, green. which in particular, it's not a safer food in our part of the world. con is the staple foods. if there is sha page of corn, it cause con, is the main staple food of the majority of people in our country. so it has not affected us. the way it has affected, for example, the market of countries. egypt in particular, which imports about 98 percent of the grade needs from russia. so with us in south africa, no, we have not. well, following reports on joint military drills,

there have been discussions on further cooperation between russia and south africa . how are things going within that sphere? again, they're one that joined novel exercises that are going to take place between the south africa, china and russia. it is not a new thing, fiorella as we are, as we will record. and i would expect that to it will still continue in the coming years. and again, we have to stress that. so the guy has got such exercises with almost all the countries, the u. s. france, a number of african countries. so again, those joint exercises between russia, china and the south africa will continue. well, speaking about multi lateral cooperation,

you mentioned the bricks group earlier. and the bricks group of the countries was in the international spotlight throughout last year, with talks of new members and an overall strengthening of cooperation within the block. how do you foresee the future of this group? whether, whether the, it's not even the future fiorella, the peasant has already started, as you would recall in january. so, africa, offended as champ, person of the break group. and we are having the, the big summit, which will be in south africa in august. her a number as activities. our breaks team, for example, is already busy now into acting one the preparations for the for, for, for the summit. it's important also to note to that, to already an invitation has been sent to president vladimir putin to attend the summit in august. and are there plans for our cooperation with russia in

the energy sector and moscow help the energy crisis that south africa may be battling? again, as i was saying earlier, fiorella it's, it's business as usual, and it hasn't been so we in the, in the mission here in moscow have been seized in, into acting with a major players in the, in the, in, in the russian federation. gasper on ross hydro and a number of them just now as we speak. we are in touch with the number of these, the, a, a and i she and her energy companies on corporation with south african energy companies. so business as usual, you say south africa is going to reinstate flights to russia in the near future. how will this affect tourism? do many people from south africa visit russia?

and i, if you again, if you recall, it was on in 201720172018. when the free 90 day freed this, that waiver was agreed between the 2 countries. what was the intention, what was the intention, the intention year, while to allow the free movement of people? that is why today. so africans will want to visit the russia, do not need to go to the russian embassy for visa. the same is with russians who want to go to south africa. you can go by your ticket now. go to south africa, stay there on a visit of visa for 90 days. now, what was the intention of this vis waiver, vis or waiver into action relationship between people, 2 people that is the russian people in the south african people include that in the

basket of objectives is to and copied tourism. you mentioned a briefly to the on the question of via the direct flight if you recall, it was in february when february 2022 when it was agreed that the direct flight would have stopped the following month. but unfortunately that delayed the odd discussions as we speak, teresa thought to the direct flight and we are, we are expecting as it was agreed last year, that there would be 4 flights, 4 flights a week to and fro 2 flights would be from moscow to johanna's bag and moscow to, to kate down. now that's going to be major because she has lab k down.

of course everybody lab gave them aids our hob for tourism. let us face one of our most beautiful city, strengthening and good relationships. continue. thank you. miss mac at the south african ambassador to the russian federation. thank you. i thank you very much, if you will. it's my pleasure and thank you to, to your view of the latest batch of twitter files has further discredit at the russian boss narrative revealing that most social media accounts were american falsely linked to russia by a washington based project. mainstream media in the u. s. went all out with numerous stories on the so called russian bots in recent years. but despite being officially called out, they seemingly have no intention of correcting the articles or even reporting on the story. outlets like the new york times and the washington post based or accusation, citing the so called hamilton 86 group. the group itself, however,

appear to have been given out false information about russian linked accounts r t has requested comment from the new york times and other sources on the articles containing the inaccuracies. asking if they will label them misleading. we spoke to people on the streets of new york who said the leading the articles would be the right thing to do. i think they should just sell enough to their mistake. right? you know, if you make a mistake, just sorry, we made a mistake. this is actually not factual. they should at least acknowledge that this was actually an error and just accountability all the way. yeah. but in the media would never do that because the media is bought by soros and, and that whole direction and they're not giving any news. media is one sided and only goes after you know, whoever's paying the bells over there or whatever their opinion is that they support at least that the main outlets were, i mean, just the fact that a lot of the stuff is based on fear is sort of more fear you put in the country to more people will follow. i mean that's, it's really that simple. i mean,

the more you can see the scary rushes are coming. they will let you do that. so our teeth kayla mop. it brings us more on the hamilton group revelations. the latest drop in the twitter files reveal some blatant dishonesty from high ranking u. s. officials pushing the russia gate narrative. so back when talk of russian bots and trolls was all the buzz in american mainstream media. an organization called hamilton 68 found its way into the headlines tracking accounts. they said were russian fake accounts. russian bots went to work feeding the opportunity to spread inflammatory messages on social media. russian electron interference traces back to a so called bought factory in st. petersburg, except now we find out they weren't russians at all. this is what matt t i. e bay reports after going through the twitter emails released to him by a law in mosque. there was a, an organization called hamilton, 68. their secret sauce was

a list of 600 accounts they said were linked to russian influence. well, in the twitter files, we found the list is full of real americans and what they basically did as a fraud, hamilton 68, wasn't just some random internet blog. it was a project of the alliance for securing democracy. on its board of advisors were many prominent people, including john podesta, who served as president obama's lawyer and the chair of hillary clinton's campaign . mike mc foul, who served as the u. s. ambassador to russia and on obama's national security council, prior to his ambassadorial position, was also on the a s d board, promoting the hamilton 68 claim. the explosion of violent profane tweets from russian trolls. as well as harsh reactions from some russian government officials in my feed today or striking a new assign that putin and his cronies are nervous. your thoughts. here's john podesta hacking the hamilton 68 narrative using it to try and de,

legitimize trump presidency. the bottom line is russia did interfere in our election. there were indictments for coming. they, they did try to help donald trump get elected president. the hamilton, 68 claims were all over mainstream media. so many outlets repeated the allegations about russia being responsible for right when voice is on twitter. but we now know this was not true, and there was no evidence to base it on. we have requested all the mainstream media outlets to comment on this. since twitter and other outlets have been known to label stories, misleading, or suppressed certain news items like 100 biden's laptop, we wondered if now they would take action against the many places where the hamilton 68 project was reported is accurate. no response to us yet from the mainstream press mop and artsy new york. meanwhile, western politicians have taken their campaign against russia to a new level with

a polish member of the european parliament, calling for the rupture of the russian federation. there are many possible solutions and strategies for a controlled, constructive, and non violent, dismantling of the last colonial empire in europe. the rupture of the russian federation will bring unquestionable benefits and security, including energy security and in the economy of europe and central asia. the ukrainian government and its supporters are not so suddenly floating trial balloons here at the heart of the democratic west. that risk becoming more like the hindenburg a disaster just a few days ago, polish member of european parliament anna for t gotcha. published a peace in the western press, advocating for the dissolution of russia. like she's talking about remodeling a kitchen. so basically, exactly what fatigue and her anti russian pals don't want to happen to ukraine. they seem to think that they're the masters of the universe picking and choosing

which countries aren't allowed to be countries any more. she sounds like a bad guy in a marvel movie who's obsessed with destroying planets like fan oser galactus from the avengers. but it doesn't stop there. together with my colleague, customers let off ski we're glad to host numerous experts, historians, journalists, politicians from both sides of atlantic, and leaders and representatives of more than 20 nations of the russian federation, who will gather in brussels in the european parliament to discuss prospects for the des, colonization and dean, purley zation off the russian federation. yeah. just come in and enjoy some tea and biscuits and fantasize about destroying a country since one did these become european or western values anyway. across the pond, a rutgers university professor mused last year about the notion of pinning quote, collective guilt on all russians for moscow's actions. russians could help thy cause by expressing collective shaman outrage at the putin,

regimes genocidal behavior. i don't seem to recall professor or any of his colleagues evoking collective responsibility for all americans, for any of washington's foreign invasions. so where is this anti democratic thinking coming from? while one source is a 35 page document that's making the rounds among ukraine's allies, authored by the ukranian government representative for crimea to mila. to shave a, it's a road map envisioning what would happen if keep retook crimea, which would include evicting, so called russian collaborators from crimea using information collected by ukrainian intelligence and digital surveillance tools. then settling ukrainians in crimea, d. russ, defying all institutions and infrastructure. and finally, destroying the courage, bridge that runs from like their crimean peninsula to post the russia,

which by the way, was already bombed last year in an act attributed to ukraine by the western and ukrainian press. citing a senior ukrainian official top french news network, etc. hosted a panel debate on this plan with experts from journalism, academia, and the french military. she, you live in la figaro, reveals to document that explains how the ukrainians would somehow the colonized crimea in the advance of a military victory. they're counting on this military victory. and they have already built their plan on how they will integrate crimea into ukraine. so what does this plan, what does it say? you will see that it's quite striking? well, just another debate, right? and while striking is one way of putting it, ukrainian president vladimir zalinski calls it quote, an excellent political tool for discussion. but casually discussing a proposal for essentially what amounts to ethnic cleansing on mainstream french tv,

even if the guests in this case treated it as little more than an intellectual exercise. nonetheless, effectively serves to normalize these radical ideas and legitimizes them as a viable option. there is nothing wrong with free speech and debate, of course, but there was also a distinct lack of outrage. hm. that french program, under the pretext of supporting ukraine or countering russia previously unthinkable anti democratic notions have now found their way into the spotlight. the center stage in western democracies and very few seem to have notice or to be too concerned about it. ah, somali is holding a summit with the leaders of neighboring nations to discuss a coordinated military offensive against all, shall bob, a terrorist group affiliated with al qaeda? a tops them all in official said countries in the region are ready to organize joint operations against the group. agreed to join to the plan and organize

a robust operational campaign at the front line to state level of search and destroy us about on multiple front lines aiming. and the keys are strong codes across south and central somalia. the time sensitive campaign will prevent any future rating elements into the way the ridge on the summit comes up somali as government increases, pressure on the group with around $250.00 bank accounts, linked to also bob shut down in the country. also, bob responded to the move saying it will defend its income warning local banks against exposing their clients. also, bob is still able to carry out massive attacks in somalia and neighboring countries despite a long running african union offensive against the terrorist group. 5 civilians were recently killed after a blast at the mayor's office in boca de sho. in october,

i'll show bob organized one of its deadliest attacks, killing 100 people in the capital city. as a result of 2 bombings at somalis, education ministry. all sure, bob has been battling somalis government for around 15 years. the group controls much of the southern and central regions of the country, but has also been able to extend its influence into areas controlled by the government based in mogadishu. those are the hours top new stories from all around for more to the minute updates head over to r t dot com. thanks for tuning in. we'll see you again soon. oh,

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