more than 1000000 vietnamese people became the victims of american aggressors. the headlines off the international as a russia suspend dissipation in the new start nuclear treaty, but is not leaving it. that is one of the messages from a lot of my food and that he just delivered as i knew what address to the russian parliament. the yet another series of earthquakes slamming with 6 people reported killed about 300 injured. at the death toll from previous massive quakes in the region surpassed 40 town and western powers. discuss increasing that presence in africa, asserting that the continent cannot be left to strengthen its ties with china.

the while it is so good to have your company teradowski international. we've all been sharing the russian president vladimir putin. and you will address to the russian parliament and we do kick it off now with breaking news here on our t international. so russia, one of the big points from the speech, russia suspending is participation in the new start nuclear treaty, but is not departing from the agreement. a president vladimir putin made that statement in his annual address to the national parliament. he also accused western powers of inciting the ukraine conflict as well as escalating it mozilla. we know that the west is directly complicit in kiev. regimes attempts to strike the bases of our strategic aviation was only drones used for that were equipped and modernized with the help of natal specialists. and western elite

cannot ignore the fact that it is impossible to defeat rush on the battlefield. they intend to transform a local conflict into a phase of global confrontation. this is exactly how we understand this, and we will respond accordingly at that. when you more, i've learned more here on our tea crossing like to our senior correspondent areas right there might add gasdio in central moscow. you have been monitoring the speech by the russian president. he spanned a spectrum of some very important topics. we bring us some of the highlights mother . while the speech went on for about an hour 45 minutes, we were here in the fool as vladimir putin delivered his speech to the cream of russia's elite to the prime minister. various governors, business leaders, activists, leaders of various civil society leaders. he spoke at length about the special military operation in ukraine, about the return of russia's historic territories back into the fault. but he left

perhaps his biggest statement than that is about russia. suspending its participation in the new start treaty till the end. furthermore, the russian president also ordered the ministry of defense to prepare for potential nuclear weapons states because there is information that the united states, which is in the middle of developing a host of new nuclear weapons, strategic weapons that the, the united states according to information that vladimir putin has perhaps intelligence reports could well carry out tests. now, putin said that russia will be for her to rush won't 1st come out and, and test nuclear weapons after moratorium that has stretched decades. but if the united states does carry out any such test, that russia must be ready to, to, to, to follow, are follow suit or the, the implications of russia pulling out of all suspending its participation and

start vladimir putin was, was very clear on that. russia isn't even, it is marylee merely suspending, it's a eats participation in the new start treaty. the implications are potentially huge because start limits 8, the number of deployed nuclear weapons strategic nuclear weapons and tactical nuclear weapons. but also the various means by which they are delivered. that is nuclear weapons that is icbm continental ballistic missiles, the number of aircraft subscripts, strategic bombers that, that can be deployed all manner of inspections as well. here vladimir putin also remark, but of one of the reasons that the new stud no longer makes sense is one of the provisions is a mutual visit to the united states and russia having the right 1st of his minis, up to 18 visits to, to nuclear sites. in the united states and in russia, i and lose haven't been ordered. in recent times, the russian,

russian monitors inspectors in the united states are offered all manner of reasons to deny them access to such nuclear such but but, but the reason there is the underlying cause of all of this is that the united states and nato have declared that their goal in ukraine is strategic defeat for the russian federation, which, from what we understand, what led me, a putin said, for russia at e, it is simply an acceptable and bratia ease with the step perhaps letting it be known to various leaders in the west of the raw red lines and the busha is prepared to go far ahead to ensure vladimir putin bought up a very famous old quote about the russian federation. and it used that was a, has a historic right to remain strong. and this is what his speech was about,

whether it's about the economy, about the social sphere that the russian state, the russian economy has withstood the worst of her native while of western sanctions. or that the economy is growing unemployment as an all time low. that the of the military industrial complex defense industry is in full swing and vladimir putin here a market. we're not going to repeat the mistakes of the past. that is the soviet union, as the soviet union outspent itself into bankruptcy. and which is one of the reasons that it collapses been too much on arms and not enough on the economy. this time we're out, we won't be making the same mistakes. vladimir putin said he again, fact, one of the soldiers ruled the troops. one of the volunteers, doctors, medics, builders that are in the, on the front lines that have a securing rushes future going forward. and also said that

there is little doubt that we will be victorious, that he's the russian state. yeah, that's right. that's right. my dad, he was also saying that, excuse me, put in saying that he thanked old people of russia, the soldiers, the offices for their effort on going with a special military operation. put and also said more than once. he said, i bowed down before parents and spouses of those fighting in this conflict are senior correspondent right then what i'd guys div thank you will let so learn little bit more how naughty international crossing live to better and great diplomat leal need us. chris and policies joining us here on our to international in the immediate minutes after the speech from vladimir putin. a very one welcome to you. so thank you very much for joining us, your naughty international today. one of the, one of the, one of the key points coming out just near towards the end of the speech. there sir, was the new start treaty has just been what the russian president called put on hold. what do you think brought him to that decision?

well, 1st of all, it must be stressed to, to, to the west that it's on hold. they're not cancelling the agreement. they're not, they're just freezing it. and that's this an important point that the west must understand because sometimes the west has problem. it's an understanding, i think that the, all the, all the weapons that the west descending to the ukraine played a major role in this decision. bless the fact that in the past, in the near pastor, before the a military operation started to ukraine, russia asked a curb to bake inspections. and these requests according to the start to treaty, were ignored. so this is why i think that the president put in, decided to present at i stress, again, he is raising in his not to cancelling it. he's not going out of it,

et cetera. so this is an important point actually, actually. and generally speaking about his speech, i had to expect that that it would, that it would have been stronger, but it was quite diplomatic and all the issues that he raised. i totally agree with him. that it was of the west that started this war. and i, and i also agree with him that the the west is suffering from the sanctions that it has imposed. i mean myself in greece with the price of energy going up. i have problems paying my energy bills. and this was, this would not have happened, had not the sanctions been imposed in my, in my visit to saint petersburg in september, i saw myself that everything was natural. it was the saint petersburg was exactly

as i had seen it in 2012 when i had visited the last time and then it just to jump in quickly. i do apologize, but i think i think you but it's a good point. there was one of the themes that putin spent a while talking about, and that is the resilience of the russian economy in the face of all of these extreme western sanctions. if i can mentioned that putin emphasize that a russian bang stable. and in 2022, they turned a profit of 203000000000 roubles. definitely $3000000000.00 profit in russia. despite all these western sanctions that is used to lead this apparently hurting europe more than russia, do you really believe so? yes, i feel it. and when i was in again, when i was in st. petersburg in september, everything was once, it was normal and people were enjoying themselves. and actually there were many, many russians coming in to coming in to begin to rush up

from finland. because we came by calling from in, from st. louis to saint petersburg. that was the only way that we could easily get there. that's right, that's right. that's right. let me just let me, let me ask you one question here because we talked about the start treaty. and as the russian president said, that the start treaty has been put on hold. roger is not walking away from it, but on, on, when it comes to the conflict in ukraine, putin said that if the west supplies long range weapons, russia will have to push back further. putin said that russia cannot be defeated on the battlefield. so the west us is an information war. how would you read that statement? so i agree with him. i agree with him because the, the west is trying to give and all kinds of. busy weapons to the ukraine, and now they're, they're even contemplating. i think there was one country opponent i think, who is willing to give f sixteens to, to the ukraine,

and that changes everything. so the war of propaganda continues. the weapons continued to, to be sent to your grade. and i think that the west is, is leading us do a major disaster in europe. and i just, i just hope that it stops at a certain moment. then we start discussing piece, but the west for the moment. i don't see them wanting to discuss any kind of piece initiatives which are absolutely necessary at this moment. you used that, you use the term use the phrase war of propaganda. how do you assess the effectiveness of essentially, what's me called an information war? the west has been and continues to wage against russia. is it possible the anita, that rushes message can get through? what is as western blockade, in effect, it is very difficult. it is very difficult,

i mean, i cannot hear russia today. we have no access. i tried to do to listen to preston put in speech live. it was impossible, and i hadn't, through the connections of russia today. i could get the main points of it. so we, we in the west, in greece and you know, we don't hear anything but anything of that you've heard of proposals of what is happening and what, why, why does that lead us? why is that? why i'm sort of jumping, but why do you think there's just no attention to such little attention to that? and why do you think people in the west are being blocked from watching the russian president speak? i think that we're returning to fascism. this is not something you it happened last year when i went there ease you banned us in the west from listening to any kind of. busy a mass media coming from russia, and that was the beginning of the end. we got here anything we have to both through

don't use channels. we have to go through other kind of channels to find out what is happening. and it's, it's, it's a 1st step towards fascist. i mean, during the doings and think data shift we in greece could hear a, b, b, c. and we could hear deutscher better. what at the colonel's at that time, who are in power in greece, could have blocked that. they did not add in the 2nd world war under greek under german occupation. those who had the radio could hear the could hear radio moscow or radio free europe. but now nothing like that. so it's for me, it's a movement towards flushes. well, ok, the strong words from you. so, but i'm, i'm not going to argue with that. everyone's entitled to their own opinion. what do you, what do you think? what kind of reaction would you expect from brussels or london, paris, and washington in the wake of putin speech today? well, they will go where they will go crazy. they will say it's a very, it's

a very aggressive speech. they will use this mild speech according to my opinion, in order to create a, a bigger tension with russia. and also to use that as an, as an opportunity for you sense much more weapons to the ukraine. they're going to consider it, that it was a very negative speech that put in doesn't one piece, and that, and that there is no prospect for a diplomatic negotiations to go on. this is what i expect, that the west will say, i hope i'm wrong, but i don't think so. well that, you know, they do say that the 1st casualty in war is truth and they were mentioning the ortiz being blocked, blocked in europe by england, america, canada, essentially g 7 countries, so to speak. but, you know, when i have friends and family across europe need this, and when i speak to them,

they typically just pirate. back to me, the lines they've got from sky or bbc that the putins a thug. he's a dictator, a russian aggression, russian aggression and all these kinds of things. when i try to speak to them and say, do you ever listen to what flatter me putin has to say? they always say no, no, no, we don't listen to his nonsense. and yet, here we are listening to the russian president's speech and whether you like him or not, what he says makes sense. he speaks in measured statements. do i guess chime a bell with a lot of people around the world? leon did is i wanted to ask you for the people who are blocked from watching putin and from learning about russia. what does the average person need to know about putin and russia to day? well, they did to go is the reality of what happened in the, in the ukraine, starting from 2013. and they should also know,

and they don't know the proposals that russia submitted on the 17th of december of 2021 with 2 draft treaties. one to nato, and one with the united states that anticipated that $200.00 quoted peacekeeping measures within europe. a removing the missiles that are there, plus no further expansion of nato had with the west accepted to discuss with these these agreements. then i don't think that we would, that we would have had the military operations in the ukraine. that's 11 thing that go body in the west, those above and nobody cares. and i go out of my way to emphasize that in my

statements, i made it in greece to greek radio to wreak television. so that the people, i mean, i'm actually trying myself do inform the greek people of when you do the, the positions of, of russia. because we need to know the positions of both sides so that we can make our own proper judgment. liam need is a kristen, populous veteran, greek diplomat, joining us life on archie international immediately in the wake of the russian president. speech a great pleasure to have you one. thank you very much for your time. thank you very much. thank you. ah, i thank you for joining us here for this program life from moscow. let's turn to news now. from turkey, a 6 people have been reported killed about 300 injured in the latest earthquake striking turkey and monday evening. the percentage were recorded in the southern part of the country. the tremors felt across the border and syria and even as far away as israel, egypt, and libya. the,

you know, the footage basically showing the moment when the earthquakes hit, the largest one was that magnitude 6.4. that came just what over 2 weeks after a series of devastating earthquakes and turkey and syria which left more than 40000 people dead. meanwhile, this video was taken to the airport and they had tie problems with people screaming and essentially running and panic. there's a terminal was struck by tremors, there also being a report of a number of flights being cancelled. you could not easy enough to imagine how we got to a 1st hand account of the situation from a local resident who also felt the quakes in a region several 100 kilometers away from the high tide. probably the worst parts we cannot bag or in our team, like really the big bag before which we had to get through. it has been 2 weeks and we were trying to get back to our roots in life. but we

shake again. we had to earthquake again. you know, years now the careless because you know what is the worst thing in the world? maybe in my opinion that the think we should. you don't know what to do. you feel desperate. you don't. you don't you say at your own house now we again left the houses. now we are in a cafe which is one florida. and we are now there. i think the cap is just about 100 people. i think at least there are 200 people who don't know what to do now, when they say and the small you don't want somebody, you're like people when taking steam again. we spoke with a geology professor at the stumble, a technical university who explained that the region is still suffering from the after shock. so the previous enormous earthquakes and will do so for quite some

time. the crisis is not over yet there, because these are massive folk traits, dead brogue, galactic $500.00 millimeters long sections of the off the, off the fall in total and, and effecting are increasing stress on new by false, not only outside but the other falls to the north to the north, east and, and northwest. so other earthquakes of similar size may also happen at any time around this, this, this, this region or how long it takes me, you never know it is well, thank you for, for mounds. i assume because of the, the size of the page, the whole area has been, you know, shaking is very strongly and there are a lot of falls here, like broken glass. you see it are so many different falls struck in different directions. so i guess why they are so many number of aftershocks with large size.

i mean, the number of clocked shocks. nice like over 5 for 4000. but people across the border a neighboring syria remained scared of father tremors. the number of casualties when the most recent ones in the country is not yet known. serious about it as a russia has emphasized that the middle east and country has been suffering not only from earthquakes. we have be suffering from a, from a to earthquakes. the 1st one lasted for 30 minutes, as you know, the last one which resulted in thousands of death and thousands of wounded people. but that is another earthquake, which has been hitting celia for the last 12 years. and here, i mean the her by f wake the foreign occupation, american turkish,

israeli as well as the a, a, the terrorist war against syria plus the european and american sanctions by imposing these so called the sanctions which are illegitimate and illegal according to the un charter the u. n cords, these sanctions, unilateral coercive economy measures, so they are illegal and illegitimate but, but by imposing the sanctions on, on the see it in people the west in general is targeting to suffocating the city and people from the day one they were lying. but, but we compelled them to acknowledge that we had in syria and iraq foreign terrorist. and these foreign terrorists were sent by them because they were collecting them from all over the world. you see how, how the dearest network is made. it's made by the western intelligence

services as well as by the israelis or themselves are in and growth corporation and a cohesion that as we say, robot at the nephew or something bad might be good this earthquake. this gloss further, the hypocrisy of the west towards shelia ah, turning our attention out about of the african continent where italy's foreign minister has said that africa is crucial for the future of europe and quote, cannot be left in the hands of china. he made those comments of the munich security conference in a discussion in which up the decal alights i pushed for. well, basically, a stronger european presence on the african continent. unit is crucial if we want to pay the wave for a stronger europe among nato ed in europe, a more present in africa. look up african to look at africa is crucial for the

future. to leave africa in chinese bend is a big mistake for everybody here. africa chose china as its largest trading partner in foreign direct investor. why is europe trying to drag africa into its fat with china as well? they sound upset that the girl thereafter doesn't want to eat at their table in the school cafeteria. maybe she just likes to hang with different groups of people. okay. and what about american bases in 5 african countries? does the italian. ringback foreign minister, mind the uncle sam's hands are all over africa, or is that no problem? because that's his body. how many times have we heard the west concern trolling africa as in lookout? don't let china just because it's a deck. trop. turns out that africa owes 3 times more debt to western private

lenders than it does to china. that's according to world bank data. and someone else was back on the scene evoking his neo colonialist fantasies regarding africa. again, chief, you diplomat, yoseph burrell. i travel around the world and particularly in the countries of the south, i see how powerful as the russian narrative that wants to reduce the war in ukraine to a conflict between the west and russia is powerful, accusing us of double standard. we must debunk this narrative and explain how rush acts as an imperialist power. president micron referred to a neo colonial power. yes, it is what it is. let's call it by its name. it is an imperial attitude from a powerful neighbour that wants to take control of some country that belongs to its political sphere. big headline in the western press, out of munich, screened quote, western please over ukraine failed to sway global self. maybe the west is not as attractive as they seem to think they are,

or maybe they don't understand the mindset of those they're looking to seduce. here's the uganda in an namibian foreign ministers with some tips for the west on why their charm offensive isn't working. we were colonized and forgave those who colonized us. now, the colonizers are asking us to be enemies of russia, who never colonized us. is that fair? not for us, their enemies or their enemies, our friends are our friends. the bottom line is that money used to buy weapons would be better used to promote development in ukraine, in africa, and asia in the you itself, where many people are facing hardships. pretty sure that none of the self help books on making yourself attractive to others. say to tell them not to walk certain networks like r t to monitor or control who they hang out with, like russia and china, and to treat them like they don't really know how to handle their own affairs. so maybe the west should try getting some perspective away from their bodies. all

these group think driven safe spaces like the munich security conference. we heard from a r geopolitical analyst who specializes in ties between africa and china. now he says that europe needs to remember it's failed colonial times and should now start treating africa with respect. africans just don't want to do that anymore. they don't want to just fully peddle they have a great deal of, you know, they're like, you can't find much, but i think it's the government and the leaders been perpetrating system that's not the win win for africans and that my star. so there are other alternatives to be considered. africans have the choice to do so. and to look into these alternative be in russian chinese for here. or you know, middle eastern saudi or a, the philippines. anybody else who can help them to improve the living conditions on

the continent? they will, but he'll, she will welcome and i think you said what else is really not a good position to tell africans by much how to see when to say when to save and then feel like, you know, african cobra was completely drawn out to an artsy international, thank you for spending a time with terra moscow. so if you missed it by any chance, the russian president vladimir putin just wrapped up his annual address to the national parliament. one key point russia is suspending its participation in the new start nuclear tracy. but is not departing from the agreement, but i put in also saying that russia, when it comes to the conflict in ukraine, russia cannot be defeated on the battle. don't use return the top of the i

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