or remain in the shallows, ah ah, just with along the range of the weapons are being viewed by the key regime means we will have to push them further away from the territories that are part of our country. for minute 30, the moscow has all it needs to complete this military operation and is pushing to secure its own territory from ukraine. in fact, around accused israel of a drone attack on a military facility near the central city of 500. to run pledges to respond and says that the actions violate international law. on the south africans protest against the countries of the largest utility company, accusing it of variance, provide reliable power despite

a recent energy bill. hi. ah, thank you for joining us this thursday evening. i'm peter scott. here with all the latest news on our fee for my headquarters in the russian capital, thanks for joining us. her wishes, foreign minister said a gale of rob says that moscow has all it needs to complete its military intervention in ukraine. an interview with sputnik news agency law states that western supplies of long range weapons to kiev means that russia has to push back ukrainian forces further away from its borders. only sidney, so that violence right now we're trying to push the crane an armed forces and their artillery to a distance and that would not create a threat to our territory luscious. so the longer range of the wetlands are being a procured by the keith regime, at least we will have to push them further away from the territories that are part of our country does show lucian we will now have all the capabilities to,

to complete our special military operation, russia is in the middle of a front line. geopolitical battle with a weiss is trying to maintain its dominant position as it's seen that it's a so called superiority is fading. and it's trying to do whatever i can at any cost to make sure it stays on top. even again, as we're seen, employing dirty tactics and using democracy to make sure that it sees its values in all the other countries because it wants to retain that lead in position. and once again, we've seen that happen for ukraine and what we're seen in ukraine, according to sir gal average, is a proxy war aimed at weakening russia. see united states and load the western countries that are subjugated by the u. s. loops that have lost all the signs of independence was. it is well known that they are being democrats, that they understand democracy as being their right to impose on everybody else their understanding of democracy. because when you talk to them about the need for

democratic approaches, my international affairs, they show no enthusiasm, see they act in a totalitarian way. when you that is true. although the young charter doesn't mentioned the word democracy. maybe that's for the best because it mentions the main principal, that is the most democratic principle, all the us things that it's exceptional, which has why assert gillibrand says that we're seeing one set of rules for them. and they expect the rest to follow different rules, because once again, it's only their opinion that matters. and they want to make sure that their views on the world, whatever they say, this is how it has to happen. they want to be able to dictate the united states wants to dictate to the rest of the world, who they do business with, who they can talk to, and what rules they should follow. and now the west is also trying to get to roches long term allies, trying to get them to switch to their side, to support them. developing nations, for example, that been quite neutral so far and were seen once again with them. they're trying to get them to, to go basically to follow the u. s. is leads and sometimes even resorting to

threats are used to zillow shoe who looks course. there are already enough people who want to scare us. we're in china. every one is trying to prevent us from cooperating and coordinating together either in the economy or in international affairs at mom. we have no doubt that that land signed between us in china. mid the interested in both washing china. ne, they do not define the role of russia as a kind of subordinate. the push and everything is mutually beneficial. national, not only energy supplies to shine on you, but also the spheres, law, misplaced, and nuclear energy. so not only these, but many other housing areas incorporated, i want to remind you that the west has declared russia and china ultra is their main threats. russia supposedly needs to be strong and china needs to be fought with in the long term. the west doesn't want china to help us militarily the liquid . so as we can see, there seems to be only one possible outcome for the west. and that is not a peace deal, or a peace agreement with russia. they want to make sure that russia is defeated,

because if russia wins, that means they lose, and they're afraid for their beloved status, of course, that they will lose their sense of superiority and their ability to dictates the rest of the world. how things should be done. so basically what we're seeing as ukraine really is a means to an end in the news runs blamed israel for a drone attack on a military fart. fitness, central is for hon. that so place on saturday nights not to run has vowed to respond and sent a letter to the un said until of eve's actions are a violation of international law. they haven't been any official reaction to your runs accusations from these railey side that usually you have the policy rather not commented on particular incident. but i have to say that iran pointing finger as a rail following the drone attack on a military facility. the central city of han did not come as a surprise even before the un left of the day. happy numerous publications in these

rally media indicating that israel with the support might have been behind the attack. it doesn't no surprise that the 2 countries see each other as bitter enemies. israel has long said it is willing to strike around and targets is diplomacy fails to deter the countries nuclear and miss all programs. israel also has repeatedly calls on national community to have no mercy when it comes to iran. the illusion of distance can no longer hold. nato must take the strongest possible stands against the iranian regime, including through economic, legal, and political sanctions. incredible military deterrence. these operational plans extend from or until the a 3 strike, an iran that will be unrelated to the nuclear issue, didn't taken out of the ran a nuclear installation and auxilary sites in the project. and if the situation eventually escalates into full fledged campaign, then these plans also include the targeting of males recites and other assets. the

relations between the 2 have never been easy, but recently tensions surround iran and israel have really been boiling in the last 3 months. they happening to massive israeli military drills, imitating trist against the red in military facility is missing here in jerusalem with the us secretary of state, israeli prime minister has been again pushing very hard against iran, with american say all options are on the table regarding the reading threat including military when benjamin into the i was asked about the the 100 that he gave. and as basis answer, i never talk about specific operations. and every time some explosion takes place in the middle east. israel is blamed or given responsibility. sometimes we are, sometimes we're not commenting on that. iran condemned israel's numerous and repeated threats of using force and urged the un to pay attention to that. and he slasher to the united nations, they ran in a basset. i also mentioned another provocative and an justified statement. that

followed these, the 100 attack from a ukraine, an official explosive nights in a run drone and miss al production oil refineries. ukraine did warn you. ukraine has repeatedly warned her on the consequences of supporting aggression against ukraine will be much larger than the benefits of cooperation with russia. iran called it a violation of international law and urged the un to condemn item to stop tolerate in it. then again, it asks a international organization to make israel b finally held accountable for the attack. and for the escalation in south africa, hundreds of people have rallied against the country's largest utility company over his failure to prevent widespread public health. not even despite a recent energy bill hight ortiz, africa, correspondence trouble, a toddler is that it has come to this, believe it or not, south africa's they'd own. the electricity company, escal was one,

is voted as the best power company in the world by the fi, me shall ties 22 years later, it is easily south africa's most reviled most frustrating, reliably, unreliable at keeping the lights on. and this image is struggle has been going on for the last 16 years. and what these people hit, who represent the feelings of millions of south africans, they quite literally cannot see the light and the end of the low shedding tannel escrow. and it's all the help they can get from the citizens. so when we provide solutions is because we have got whole that it can be resolved. currently, we understand what the management issue that is called. why should we not ahead? was management to measure that. is it a sort of a come report? so the $400.00 south africa has a shut fall of $18000.00 megawatts of energy. and this,

by building to new coal fired power plants, they continue to perform well below expectation. and allegations of sabotage. continue to pin has gone down 2022 was the worst year since power cuts begin the country and toward well over $200.00 days of blackouts. and since the new year begin, not a single day has passed without the power cuts and displayed the best efforts to clean up the ramp and corruption and escal little funds was set aside to do housekeeping on the same power blood and defending ask them as been privatized to launch, buying diesel, as well as by no, i p piece in the independent power producer electricity. so the technician, maintaining the power plant, has not been top priority. and money has been moved away from maintenance management, as well as renewal of the plant to was buying out electricity from independent

suppliers. south africa is also in a tug of war as one of the big 20 pollutants in the world. the country is intent on reducing its carbon emissions, but it is also well endowed with fossil fuels like coal, and uranium, which makes the power had a bit of a slap across the face, but settle them up with us government. it's intent on prioritizing renewable energy and the country was the 1st to enter into the just energy transition partnership with the govern of the west for $8500000000.00. but renewables would not be able to contend with the countries high voltage credit. and that means that they would not be able to feel the energy shortfall and advert this power crisis. and some commentators fear that the declaration of the national state of the vast them

would mean an end to state own power generation. as well as the use of fossil fuels . we've got massive unemployment, we've got many challenges in this country. and so energy is a necessity. and therefore we have to try and balance, you know, fossil fuel use as well as renewables. also from a cost point of view, we want to make sure that whatever form of energy we're using is affordable to our people. look, i think renewable energy will probably be the way to go. but at this point, we just went to new tricity. i'm very green person, so yes, but at the moment we've got no power. no sun, no am coal. it's going to just let us down competing as a whole, as a country. and so we pretty stack to add, sold to a gaping wound. energy regulator knows that recently granted as gum, an 18.6 percent tariff increase on electricity prices and the res goes power to the people. but what of the people when there is no power?

the severity and frequency of the power plans breakdown as many in the country wondering if government is interested in fixing the problem at all. that is reality is that these targets are going to be with south africans for months to come. if not, yes, got it out of our v joiner's work. but i'm in the global energy crisis. south africa's ambassador to russia says it in hunting cooperation between the 2 countries, has bright prospects for both sides. 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. 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 russian federation. it's business, as usual. it continues not a single program in that relationship has stopped. it's business as usual, and it has been so we in the, in the mission here in moscow have been seized in interacting with the major players in the, in the, in the russian federation gas, ron ross, hydro and a number of them just now as we speak we are in touch with a number of these. there are a lot sheehan or energy companies on corporation with south african energy companies, lucia and we are reaching milestones by the year. if you recall last week, a minister sir gail of rob was invited to by our minister for

international relations and cooperation. dr. my lady ponder to visit south africa and it, 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 south africa was the 1st country in 1991 that the recognize the russian federation, a 1st country in africa and not recognized. 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. ah, the us has increased this military cooperation with the philippines falling in

announcements that washington would be stationing more military equipment facilities in areas across the southeastern region of the country. now the plans were revealed during the u. s. defense sexy austin's village. visit to manila. another u. s. has access to for new strategic science in the country, bringing the total to 9. the white house has already invested $82000000.00 in existing sites under a 2014 agreement. china's accused the u. s. of escalating the situation in the region. me found too easily out of self interest and with a 0 sum mentality. the u. s. side is constantly strengthening its military deployment in the region, aggravating regional tensions and endangering regional peace and stability. the regional countries should be vigilant against this and avoid being blackmailed and exploited by the united states. let's discuss this now with the vice president of the center for china and globalization on a regular in the program. victor gal, thanks for joining us this evening. victor. thank you for having me as a 1st off,

i just want to get your take on the reaction from a beijing considering that the, the u. s. is now essentially consolidated and arc around the seas of china from south korea to australia. what's your force in the reaction the united states is definitely a cause of instability. and also for the co, in this part of the world to focus to any particular region in the world, you tend to see tensions all crisis one after another are therefore china views the increase the military presence of the united states in this part of the world with great suspicion and with great alarm, and china is urging all countries in this region to be vigilant about the stakes created by the united states. because eventually,

if we do not guard against such expansionist and war mongering adventures by the that states, our region, late lose peace and stability and plunge into chaos. this is exactly the danger that all of us need to be guarding against. not just to play devil's advocate have a to the us presence in the philippines is expected to be considerably less than it was in the 1980s, when around, $15000.00 troops were stationed there. do you think this goes some way towards the limits in the rise attentions and the regional to the fact that they are expanded just to exacerbate the situation anyway? well, if we look at the situation in this part of the world since the end of the 2nd world war, in 1945, there were 2 major was one involving the career war between 959 to 1953 and then the vietnam war in the 1960 s, and all the way to the 19 seventy's,

the cause of these walls and huge losses of lives was the united states. of course, after the vietnam war, when the united states were defeated, sina says and left this part of the world with great shame and misery. for example, the united states regrouped and tried to re insert itself and the united states has always kept strategic alliances with republic. of korea and japan and australia for example, any more recent times, it is very obvious that the re, u. s. real intention is to in circle china and try to hinder channels peaceful, economic development. on the other hand, china has made a very clear no force in the world can deprive the chinese people of their right of peaceful development. so whatever ski me and maneuvers or all deployment study

united states wants to do in this part of the world will eventually end in futility . because it's not going to work. and the, this region is a vast enough that the united states really should not expect that it can dominate this part of the world. and the chinese people refused to be dominated by any country, including the united states. is the 30, certainly a long way from america, and it comes as the americans of also step up the military activity in japan as part of the security part that it does have with that countries, i'm just gonna give you, let us listen now the u. s. military general, who commands washington forces in japan and his explanation as to what they're doing now. and i want to reaffirm the united states are inquired, commitment to defend japan with the full range of capabilities, including nuclear. well,

nuclear weapons certainly are very ominous where the dates are what sort of effects on relations with china, the countries in the region do you think so sort of rhetoric has 1st of all, it is very ironic and also deeply he relating to the japanese people for the secretary of defense of the united states to talk about nuclear weapons because in human history, only to nuclear bombs were did a dropped healing tens of hundreds of thousands of civilians in japan. one in there was you mom, the other one in august, saki and both nuclear weapons were dropped by the united states. therefore, i think it is a shade for the secretary of defense of the united states to talk about use of nuclear weapon. again, in this part of the world, no one wants to have a nuclear weapon exploded in law part of the world. and the united states need to come to its mind that it shouldn't never talk about using nuclear weapons. because

if you're talking about using nuclear weapons, you invite yourself to be attacked by nuclear warheads. it's certainly very dangerous rhetoric, i guess the u. s. justification for those bombs in $45.00 would be that it brought . or they believe that the brought the, the world war 2 to and more quickly. but that's obviously is a topic for another debate, vater, i'm now the u. s. secret defense has also been to japan recently, and he raised my bronze of the statements on just how far washington is prepared to go with its military activity there. and let's have a quick listen to what lloyd austin actually set. why have we achieved the level of success we've achieved in ukraine a big part of that has been because after russian aggression in 20142015, we earnestly began preparing for a future conflict training the ukrainians. pre positioning supplies, the identification of sites from which we could operate, support from an sustain operations. we call that setting the theater, and we are setting the theater in japan, the philippines,

and in other locations will setting the 5th are also fairly obvious, given the context of ukraine with which you're referring to initially. do you see similarities here with the situation? ukraine. russia's justification for its military operation that quotes in the, the expansion of nato, with us expanding its facilities in asia around china. i think it is truly a shame for the secretary of defense of the united states to talk about setting the theater for walk, for wall, for huge sacrifices of human lives for destruction, of peace and stability for alienating people from another people. and this is the tragedy that we witnessed in ukraine if the united states had not gotten it fingers very much punched in, in the situation in ukraine. i believe there will be no more breaking out. and i

believe there will be continued peace and stability in ukraine. therefore, when we see war breaking out, ukraine, we need to really ask philosophical questions about why should there be a war because natal kept expanding, try to bring you crying into natal freight work. and in our part of the world, nato is really talking with countries like japan and the republic of korea. they talk about war in your cray, on the one hand. and they also talk about uniting their forces to deter china. this is setting the stage all the theater for war and we don't want to have war. we want to have peace and development. so i hope the secretary of defense of the united states will focus more on peace rather than war mongering. that's a few attempt. let certainly hope that peace prevails over war,

vice president of the sense of china globalization vis ago. as always, thank you very much for your thoughts. i was fascinated speak to you. thank you very much for having me. bye bye piece. and she was staying in asia where economy is on the rise of the latest date to suggest that india and china are weathering the global economic storm a bit better than some of the western counterparts. india's economic growth this year is estimated at 7 percent, which is the highest among all major markets. reports revealed that the country has successfully recovered from the pandemic. and during his 2023 budgets announcements, new jellies, finance minister, praise the nations performance 20 years economic growth is estimated to be at 70 percent. he just notable that this is the highest among all the major economies. this is, in spite of the math slowed down globally cost by coven $19.00 and the wall.

the indian economy is therefore, on the right track. and despite a time of challenges, heading towards a bright future in finance, minister has promised to inject around $30000000000.00 into the countries railway network under 50 airports. that comes as cooperation between india and russia steadily increases with growing trade in their respective national currencies. we heard from an expert on indian economics underwriter batter, who told us more on the reasons behind the states growth in india, keep the standard one to the young population. this to the population. and we are modeling, you know, and math and science students. a young professional going to have the manpower to be able to do the work, whether you become the next big manufacturing location or the next one. big deal

also become really socialized by producing, you know, you produce almost half of the world. huh. soon you know, a man such is getting swinton and a digital transformation of india to or did you believe that this government is undertaken making sure that we're able to use he to live co admins and create a foster g d p. but as you need the group, then they will in the other sheer relationships. additionally, up the, what is on and in this last few months in young bushes and from the relationships, i mean, does better to benefited from a cheaper russia north western states shouldn't initially initiate peace negotiations with moscow. well that's according to former us national security advisor, john bolton. he said it's an a phone call with infamous russian pranksters,

vo vaughan and lexis, who presented talk on behalf of an ex ukrainian president. to me, the, the important thing is to continue to course the russians militarily. i think, i think this is a winnable war and to, to stop efforts by whether it's the french or the germans or whatever it might be to try and negotiate with the rush or craw has said publicly several times since february the 24th. we have to find a deal, it's acceptable to the russians. and that's, that's why i worry that too, and thanks, he can break western resolve. and i think good, he really hopes to win politically what he can't win militarily on the battlefield . that's where the real testers and i think we are vulnerable. they're just so nice to see john bolton taking a break from flying to overthrow governance, to refuse to kish washington's backside, to kick back with an old friend, former ukranian president petro,

for sango and lament. all the wasted regime change opportunities at washington and nato passed up, you know, just are average banter between dudes between buddies, a guy, bolton, those so well that a couple of russian pranksters, lavonne and lexis were able to successfully impersonate them by sounding pretty much exactly like they did every other time they prank the other high profile. western officials in the best and brightest brigade, fulton told the fake for a shingle that meant agreements were terrible because they let europe pretend that the attacks on russell phones and the don vos were cubes. responsibility, except that they were and even if they weren't, when unrest broke out and syria did isis and western back syrian rebels. bolton, and as neo con buddies argued that president bashar al assad needed to step down simply because he had lost control of the country through not his own fault. the former un ambassador, a national security adviser to former u. s. president donald trump said that the u. s also made a mistake by not quote,

punishing russia for the 1st attack on ukraine. he's actually talking about the unrest of 2014, during which his neocons state department pal, victoria newland, was spotted handing out cookies and caught blabbing on the phone about which ukrainian opposition members would make up the new government both and also claim to regret not bringing ukraine and ga, into nato, on a fast track back in 2008, which europe rejected. but nato expansion equals peace in bolton's world. because of course, it does. if the entire world belongs to nato and answers to washington, then there's no descent, no opposing interests or agendas, and therefore no one left overthrow bulletin also reveals that he tried to work his seductive magic on belarus and steal away the russian neighbor. how on earth did president alexander la gus jenko ever managed to resist this? the reason that i wanted to see blue book is shanker.