a limited time with a corporation has never been named at any 3rd party, but we never allow any 3rd party to dictate to us what to do with cooperation between china and russia. as we said more than once, is very important in stabilizing the international situation. china's top diplomat vladimir putin. nathan moscow, the discounts ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation. with ozzy visits, a temporary refugee camp and they don't yet, republican speaks to those repeat, evacuated from the front lines with they told us to write our initials on our hands with a red marker because they were going to bury us there. the ukrainians dug a strange right in front of our house. there were 3 or 4 such drugs to small street . turned out that it wasn't from africa's biggest economy. nigeria,

if that to elect a new president to make multiple crises and engulfing the oil, rich nation, you know, special coverage wakes. but what's the head for the country on the card with 8 to 9 pm here in the russian capital. and this is asi international with the very latest. well news updates. welcome to, you know, i top story this, our, china's top diplomats as hell talks with vladimir putin in moscow on the long stop of his 6th day diplomatic for earlier my colleagues speak to scott and donald court to discuss the meetings significance, which was underscored by the russian president is little natasha. she with international relations to day are complicated. they didn't become better after the fall of the bipolar system. quite the opposite. they turned out to be more problematic. in this regard, cooperation between china and russia. as we said,

more than once is very important in stabilizing the international situation. even though crises are ongoing, each crisis is an opportunity. so we should strengthen our joint efforts to respond to current crises and deepen alco peroration. i also want to emphasize that all cooperation has never been aimed at any 3rd party, but we never allow any 3rd party to dictate to us what to do. these meetings focused pretty exclusively on strategic cooperation between russia and china. when wang, he was in the kremlin, he told vladimir putin that he was grateful. that bilateral relations have stood the test of time, although they've had to go through numerous crises together. he said that this, these kinds of situations actually gave both russia and china the opportunities to grow closer. but believe the concepts of multiple, the world is also brought up during those talks. what's wishes take on that? right? there was a lot of talk about multi polarity at these meetings today, and wang even told vladimir putin that china's dedicated to making international relations more democratic. and naturally that means moving away from the unipolar

way, way of doing things in terms of international relations. now, lying also did meet with russia's foreign minister, sergey lab rob today and their lab rob again spoke about their common interests in building this a form of multi polarity on a world scale. and lab rav said that this was something that was also in the best interests of africa and asia countries, the majority of which are trying to assert their national sovereignty very much right now. she's because she didn't see those glue spool, the russian federation and the people's republic of china continued to closely coordinate foreign policy efforts. standing for the creation of a more open democratic fair system of a national relations. that's what the majority of asian african and latin american countries which show independence based on their national interests are seeking. they do not accept attempts to impose a confrontational agenda on them, as well as restrictions on their development. but that's basically a rundown of what was said at these meetings. and when all was said and done,

vladimir putin of course, asked wang to give seizing ping his best wishes. so all around good news for these 2 long standing strategic partners. we spoke to john gong professor at the university of international business and economics in bay. jang, who says the chinese diplomats visit to moscow, come to the 2 countries that strengthen economic ties. it's very clear that our china is in a 100 percent opposed to the union for all are china is a big champion of a motor part of what i to which that, that the china is a party and also poverty. you know, russia, writers also important. i think one east mission is laying the groundwork for present. she's a casual visit to moscow. i think probably more important is so the app that has to do is essentially establishing a another economic ordering minute together was the bridge country's part meeting, also joined by some allen countries. oil producing countries on, in terms of,

at least, you know, come up with a r o choice settlement mechanism that bypasses the u. s. thought the trade or agents. you put you russia and china fast increased dramatically. i think at least trouble. washington has a narrative that somehow with increasing trade, the relationship between benji and moscow estate is portrayed as a way of assisting a washer. just total nonsense, you know, even before is the trade between china and washer has been increasing rapidly. if i can remember this corrected, i think important one is one of the trade between russia and china increased by more than 30 percent compared to the previous year. so the 2nd audio trends, even before this, we're going well following his meeting with china's foreign affairs chief front porch and congratulated russian citizens on the upcoming defender of the fatherland day. the president noted that every person is

a defender of their homeland. but am with you just right now, there is a fight on our historical territories for our people. all our people are defenders of the fatherland. the homeland is a family and in the hearts of russians, they are the same thing. and his address, the russian leader sent his thanks to soldiers currently defending their homeland language and culture in the ukraine, giving special recognition to medical work as the saving the lives of those injured around 200000 people gathered at the arena in moscow for the events waving flags and thinking patriotic songs. many prominent musicians and artists also joined the festivities, congratulating russians on the upcoming holiday. cut up well as the fighting continues in the dorm boss, we bring you the exclusive 1st hand accounts of those court in the gun. find out safety evacuation from the ukrainian city of our tim offices. what the notice back needs to a temporary refugee comp and i don't. yes, republic. oh,

it's your search. it was very scary when all the shells were flying, everything was exploding. nobody knew where the shots were coming from. starting january 10th, my younger brother and i could not leave the house because of the constant bombardment of original whip. otherwise we'll have to roam. we were on the 2nd entrance to the building ish. the ukrainian nationalists were in the next one to sell and they told us to write our initials on our hands with a red marker we saw because they were going to bury us there. although we'd been sitting in the basement for over 3 months. ever since the shelling began up to the 3rd floor, a whole house was littered with shells. there were boxes of weapons round the place . it was. i was afraid that something would happen and everything would blow up the dish. i decided to move to another basement over which i had. shells were constantly flying through our yard and garden, the ukrainians dug trench right in front of our house. there were 3 or 4 such structure. small street turned out that was the frontline. hundreds of displaced persons have already passed through this temporary refugee sensor and an escrow

republic. they come from different places from besieged to r, to almost scan from other freed areas in the nest republic as well, like her solids, are the refugee saved by the russian army in that a charm of have all different stories by the have one thing in common is that they all lost their houses that were destroyed by the ukrainian military. we have shells in our garden, one is buried, shrapnel is all over the yard. neighboring houses have been down my boyhood. once you would step out of the house, the shelling would begin the buffer. sometimes i was not even able to sleep at dawn for the day of the shells were constantly flying through a yard and garden without the ukrainians dug a trench right in front of our house. there were 3 or 4 such structures on our street. it turned out that was the front line, this temper, refugees sensor, provides not on the shelter, but also necessary clothing of food and medicine as well. once they arrive in this

refugee sensor, their documents say, gets checked and later on they move on to other areas. in russia or stay here, internet republic, or some of them find jobs are there are, this is a bulletin board. what makes of bulletin board where they're able to find jobs or find something to do. but most of them are moving on to meet with their friends and families elsewhere in russia, romantic author of archie that ask republic, ah, at least 10 palestinians have died and over a 100 more injured and heavy fire fights with israeli forces as, according to the palestinian health ministry. the clashes took place in the west bank following ideas, rites, ah, gunshots and explosions could be heard in the area as his weighty force is entered,

not blue. his old city videos on social media showed palestinians burning tires and throwing stones at his wally military vehicles. as kansas palestinians express outrage, it intensified policing by the ideas as well as the demolition of our neighbourhood by jerusalem. authorities have been to iran now why the central bank has launched a new currency and gold exchange center to boost its national currency. the re out the center open to mid severe sanctions imposed by the us and experts believe it will reduce iran dependence on the dollar by opening the center into ron officials, hook to improve access to foreign currency and golden, to establish an authority to monitor currency exchange the volume of official transactions is expected to increase by allowing foreign currency to be exchanged for exports of oil products and other commodities. multiple countries have recently

focus, replacing dependent on the dollar as trade currency. the rating on bass of the, to russia says that reducing the use of the dollar and a bilateral in bilateral trade will diminish negative economic impacts. earlier china opened the door for gulf states to buy oil and gas in you on and in an effort to we can the us dollars grip on well trade on the right to emigrate found in the i've also entered into talks to establish non oil trades in india national currency . iranian affairs analyst tahita saudi says the west failure to show itself as a reliable partner has pushed countries around the globe to turn back on the dollar . what has been and gone actually without saying for iran is that the west is not a part to be trusted as a result of the country and try to more than the scope of its economy relations with other hard trees. and since these crippling sanctions are dumont's

length, the country have open economy times throughout the country. there is this tendency, long uranian politicians to switch to other currencies in order to not let the trade off. and in so doing, i think, due to this track that you, dr. marie, that exist there is a kind of positive reaction from other partners or other economy partners that the wrong to ignore this extensive use of dollar dollar aviation. and it's negatively impacts. there is whole fact, this new measure could play a positive role in employing the situation, bettering and value iranian law, courtesy shelly ober roy has been elect to be met of new delhi with 150 votes. the candidate from the ruling arc me party defeated her opponent by

34 votes, her permit, an appointment rather comes after 2 months of delays and scandals. the elections were disrupted due to dispute se, but whether to hold municipal elections simultaneously. and the inclusion of so called elder men respected citizens, elected by the current governor, may say, roy declared that would be against the law and would only benefit opponents. the elders were subsequently excluded from voting by a supreme court decision. for me, you as president, donald trump is heading to ohio to this night of a chemical catastrophe which occurred 2 weeks ago of the a train carrying toxic substances derailed with others. joe biden, to europe with promises of supporting ukraine by any means necessary, with many criticising his policy of prioritizing here, america and the district office.

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the biggest slab in the face that go to right now he doesn't care about. so agreed on. you can send every agency he wants to, but i found that out this morning you one of the briefings that he was in your credit and given billions of dollars away to people. they're not the austin. i'm curious, this is incredibly insulting to day on our president's day, joe biden. the president of the united states chose ukraine over america, while forcing the american people to pay for ukraine's government and the war. if you want to understand why so many americans are frustrated right now, biden is in ukraine before ohio. no time to visit east palestine, ohio, but plenty of time for this. civil rights attorney,

robert patillo and geopolitical analyst moxley bo, to shed beth thought some biden's trip to ukraine and poland, which the mare of the afflicted city has dubbed the biggest slap in the face. they were definitely trying to spin a dramatic propaganda narrative with president biden's speech in warsaw, i mean, and he punched home freedom and democracy versus autocracy light versus darkness good versus evil. and all of this, of course is, is really an obscene misrepresentation of the situation. and you grand, i read in a p piece that described zalinski and bite in walking through the streets of kia with the air raid sirens, as a taste of the terror that the people of kiev have lived under

a never mind. of course, the 9 year bloody war that the care regime has waged on the people of don boss. this is a propaganda set piece. the target of which is the people of america and the west to create an atmosphere um that bite in wanted to present his trip to kiev under. we're looking at money with $5000.00 workers per year, are killed on the job. nearly a $100000.00 more die from diseases related to their time employment, the workplace safety of an epidemic in this country. there is a current focus on it because of the train derailment in east palestine, ohio. but this is me problem playing in the nation for over 40 years. we wrote that nearly every safety regulation, every on work regulation corporations in the name of profits and the support of the put the health and safety of americans at risk. the congress people knew of leadership there, understand the need of breaking through the partisan divide and washing the sea and

putting in place the types of regulations that we'll softly say from happening to west administration. we have a severe di, regulatory regime of the thought, the thought to rollback of the workplace, regulation to possible and their lease weeds regulations passed. to stop this from happening. the south africa has held a welcoming ceremony for its russian and chinese counterparts. his neighbor will begin at richard's bay, where ships one, the 3 countries will take part in joint exercises, including tactical maneuvering tillery firing was c. sailors will also practice inspecting and recovering a hijacked ship, assisting a vessel in distress. repelling and they meet to drills will take place from february 25th to 27th. well, in base to n g o liberty's essays, some european countries are weakening their own democracies. and the report by the

group has pointed the finger at several members with unresolved rule of law issues . hungary and poland came under the heaviest criticism with the report labeling them the worst offenders. both governments have been under strict scrutiny for years accused by brussels. the facts on democratic commitments, censoring the media, and putting their legal systems on the political control. however, the n g as a brussels, is taking a slightly different approach in reprimand. the 2 members for that track record, hungary and poland, remain the worst offenders. however, the e, you decided to take firm or action against hungering, which isolated itself politically by supporting russia than poland, which has gone to length to support ukraine. in an unprecedented step, the e u has triggered its newly created conditionality mechanism to withhold funds from hungary, which has yet to produce genuine improvements on the ground. the report published

by liberties claims to be biased and we will have little watched or positions itself as an independent organization which suffer with the financing from political institutions. however, that website lists the european commission, the executive branch of the you was one of the n g as main fund this global policy research, a george samuel estates, the establishment in brussels, is came to criticize conservative e u members who don't play along with the mainstream. agenda, the people who run the you have a particular ideology. they have a particular world view, the what we call it global is neo liberal. and that isn't shed by many people in europe. certainly, it's not shared by many people in eastern europe who are much more conservative, but it's not even shared by many people in western europe who, you know, again, are quite conservative in the outlook on life, an applicant morals and families, and so on. so again, this is sort of disjunction, you have this, you know,

27 member lions and but the people who run it, the sort of the, the bossed bureaucracy. they aren't really representative of the publics of europe. they isn't themselves a suicide bombing links to ship. bob militants has claimed the lives of 10 and wounded 7 others. in the somali capital of mogadishu, i'll ship up to this report to be struck, the private residence of a c in the army officer. some say the talk with him, a congregation to the somali government regaining of formerly extreme, is controlled regions. meanwhile, authorities have completed an hour long offensive to recapture home occupied by a terrorist group. with links to al qaeda has been responsible for tens of thousands of deaths throughout somalia. ah, the former ground murphy of jerusalem, a shake cream as

a brief face of the criminal probe on suspicion of inciting terrorism. we spoke to his lawyer who was vehemently denied all the allegations. thank his client has always condemned any kind of extremist activities. yes, carol, somebody lamb, his highness has never supported terrorism. he has always exposed to arisen and the jewish extremist terrorists were carried out to day against palestinians. wherever they are in the west bank were jerusalem, or the palestinian interior of the world has witnessed live broadcast. so attacks by terrorists, settlers on unarmed palestinian killing them in cold blood anywhere in the west bank, just because their palestinians because their arabs, they decision to investigate. the former is lamb, a cleric comes off, he reportedly praised the murderer of a female is rarely soldier investigation takes place in brewing tensions in east jerusalem, where some roads were earlier blocked with burning tires as palestinians declared

civil disobedience to protest, intensified policing. and the demolishing of arab neighbourhood. a lawyer representing the former grand murphy of jerusalem again say that such prosecution of political dissent by the israeli government and dangers not only the country, but the entire region and about bucket under his highness. shake ramos oblique always clarifies the position in terms of religious law on any event in our region . but i think this legal measures legal powers and the law in general serve a political function in order to persecute prominent palestinian figures. i have influence on the streets. this government, which has adopted a radical religious course, is now trying to impose its agenda on the palestinian issue in all its complexity. i think that these railey government itself poses a real threat to security an order in the entire region. ah, nigeria, africa, most populous nation, and biggest economy is preparing for presidential elections this saturday here. and

i'll take what tick nor thought special coverage of one of the continents most significant elections. this year. 18 candidates will take part in the presidential elections with 3 of the lead is representing the main regions of the country. those decisions have been complicated by multiple crises in the country from economic troubles, to energy issues or the corresponding racial blevins springs of more details. the west african nation of nigeria is days away from an election that will determine the country's next president. and while some races have humane options, nigerians have 18 to choose from who represent a wide range of views and interests. the question at hand is, who will replace the current president bahama do bihari, who has been in office for the last 8 years. the chapter contenders represent the major regions in africa, most populous nation. first, there's bola to new. bu,

from the ruling all progressives congress party, as a former governor, he has often boasted about helping the current president get into office. his favorite slogan translates to, it's my turn and he's promising to create jobs, focus on the economy, and tackle violent crime. this is a revolution. this election is a revolution. we shall take over from them. they don't want election to take place, but we won't accept. they're going to hide under fuels capacity to cause the crisis so that there won't be an election to new will represent your robot. the 3rd largest ethnic group in nigeria, which makes up around 20 percent of the population. while the candidate is part of the wealthy political establishment, the people he stands for are known to be farmers and craftsmen. the next contender is tico. above our car, the leader of the people's democratic party has a former vice president. he is considered by many to be the most experienced politician still trying even after 5 unsuccessful presidential bid. he represents

the full on a majority muslim group and the north, which makes up around 6 percent of the population. his latest campaign has revolved during the slogan to recover nigeria, where he promises a small government that turns the country into the hub of crude oil, refining in africa. let me promised nigerians that we shall never disappoint you. if you give us your mandate, we promised to live by our promises and have united country a peaceful country that we have a buoyant economy. and we have the best education for our children, and also delegate powers to states and local governments with corresponding resources. then there's peter o v, a former governor and nominee of the labor party. he represents the ego people of se nigeria, which make up around 18 percent of the population seen by many as an outsider. he is the youngest of the top 3 contenders. that age 61, and he is focused on the younger generation with pledges to fight corruption and to

change the economic priorities from consumption to production in line with my upbringing, especially my mother's counsel. my promises that nigeria is resources will be most prudently used. and as the commander in chief i p t o b sicily, plates that are packed with nigeria will be diligently pursued to create a new nigeria characterized by sustainable and inclusive growth and development. while nigeria is the most populous nation in africa, it's estimated that only around $93000000.00 people or less than half of the country are registered to vote. and when it comes to the issues the new president will inherit. there are many ranging from the economic crisis that is left citizens dealing with cash shortages to an energy crisis. those drawn attention to the nations controversial petrol subsidies. as a result, all eyes will be on saturdays election and what it means for the future of nigeria . public opinion polls show most nigerians consider the kinds of your current

political cause to be problematic with the fate overwhelmed by a cash price is caused by a hasty currency reform and issues with energy stability due to a lack of fuel. aside from poverty, nigerian face a security crisis on the issues with terrorism, which caused an upsurge of violence in the country last week. at least 8 policemen have been killed in kind of going up to the elections. a country security services plain the indigenous peoples of b, r for a rebel group. the killings have struck fear into low calls and raise the question of security polling stations. we heard from an on an s to set that there are signs of court intervention and the stabilize the situation ahead of the election. nobody benefits role. so any probate issue that is going to lead to violence is not going to be in the interest of the citizen. and that was why some policemen were killed. we were meant to understand that the person

who is to get 10 foundland is from abroad. do you know judy and what he's not seen in julia, we will admit to understand some of his follow up where does, where it wants to move forward the killing of the police made. that was what we allegedly had in our collective interest to allow it shows to come, we go, i lead the abbey piece. so we don't need to allow nigeria to be destroy ever becomes the president or the governor or the senate, all, all the legislators. we should all support them in national interest. led the country move forward. much. i'll coverage all the nigerian elections throughout the coming days. hale nasty and will keep you updated on all the latest news.

many, thanks for your company here with archie international this wednesday. we're back at the top of the app with, [000:00:00;00] with, [000:00:00;00] with hello and welcome to cross talk. we're all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle . mr. barton goes to kim, the us president unannounced trip can be interpreted in