an engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. ah, the headlines will offer you international chinese president, jean ping makes history. the country's 1st leader to be elected for a 3rd consecutive tar. ah, the parliament of the republic of georgia has scrapped controversial legislation. that sparked violent protests in the country for the political opposition insists the current government must resign on the program. we break down how the tensions emerged, but also the meddling roles of external actors. also help us health official

during covered so it's washington funded research into corona virus, again of function at a chinese laboratory, ultimately contradicting the mainstream u. s. narrative about its origin. one civilian has appealed to wounded in a ukrainian attack on a town in the internet's great public. local officials say american supplied high mars rockets were used in the strike with friday just after 2 pm local time. here at r t international headquarters in moscow, it's great to have your companies. we kick off this, i was program. so the chinese president, gigi ping has made history as the country's 1st leader to be elected for a 3rd consecutive term. now it was a unanimous decision by the national parliament in beijing, as eugene pig who has already served in the post for a decade is now set for another 5 year term and also secured his position as the

head of china's central military commission. following the election, he confirmed his oath of allegiance to the country and its people. for shoe, i pledge to be a legion to the constitution of the people's republic of china and safeguard the constitution's authority. so my legal obligations be loyal to the country and the people be committed and honest in my duty except the people supervision and work for a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful. i eugene ping, take this oath or to hear from us as you t n correspondent or shine changing. who says the president's policies have at the end of the day lifted people in the country out of poverty. you also said the beijing will not remain silent, about aggressive rhetoric that continues to come from washington. was she didn't. pain was this morning. he was unanimously

a elected president of the people's republic of china and chairman of the central military commission and hen, joan was elected. the vice president and geology was elected. the chairman of the standing committee, 14 in p. c, and a 14 people were elected. the vice chairman at this any committee i was at the grills of people this morning actually, and i talked to, i've spoken to some, some of the deputies he'd there met most of the or all of them that i had to talk to are so excited about to witness this moment, you know, especially those from the grassroots, are such as remote areas are remote villages in mountainous areas because they are among those who can feel the changes of the chinese society further better than most. because as we know that the poverty alleviation in the remote areas has been one of the priorities during those china chinese. and she's a presidency over the past few years since the 18 national congress of the c p. c.

china has been seen very reparative ellamin, and as it has lifted about a 100000000 people out of absolute poverty, which is a great, significant historic success of the countries poverty eradication task and become the 2nd largest economy in the world. i think china is now a more like responding to the al serra word when it feels like it was to offend it to defend itself or even to defend international order of the foreign minister tingling says, warning that china, us religion is really at a very difficult situation at a very difficult time, and he also warned that if the united states it keeps going down in his pad in the u. s. as in hit a bridge, there would be some confrontation and conflict. and that vision would not remain silent at the u. s. leonard or attack china. so i think that's a very strong message sent out by for mr. and i believe, said to, over the past 2 years,

china would definitely be strong. and our response actively the parliament of the republic of georgia says it has scrapped a controversial bill that spot days of coordinated bol and protests and the country's capital. and now the political opposition to maintains that they will only end the demonstrations if the current government resigns. now the so called foreign agent legislation, similar to a u. s. law was seen as a clamped down on western news outlets and engineers. american officials spoke out against the measure and even threatened to impose sanctions against georgia. though the government complied with protesters, demands by canceling the bill and releasing those who had been detained. a number gathering near the national parliament has been growing 5 thousands. so we hit the streets and spoke to the locals. i me the parliament building where thousands of protesters have gathered for the 3rd night

in a row. they just launched a new demand to the government, demanding the resignation of the parliament. this is after both of the main demands of the protesters were actually met by the parliament. the 1st one being the release of all protesters weapons detained throughout these protest and riots. and the 2nd one being the rescinding of this law that started these protests in the 1st place. that of course, was a law, a dropped law that the georgia parliament passed that would see on non governmental organizations in this country that make over 20 percent of their income from foreign sources register. as foreign agencies, we've seen a lot of anti russian sentiment here. ukranian flags, american flags, european union flags alongside the georgia ones. and they've been calling this proposed law that started this all a russian style law. that's despite the fact that this law does exist in russia, but was 1st passed in the united states all the way back in 938. and it actually

carries much more severe consequences. criminal ones, including jail time for employees of organizations that failed to register as opposed to in russia where organizations that failed to register would simply receive a fine. now you can see behind me the protest has today been so far peaceful. but this has been the case over the past 2 days earlier in the night. around midnight is when really we started the scene violence arrived protesters throwing molotov cocktails and rocks and objects and police building barricades. and david tried to storm the parliament building twice. the police have obviously responded with tear gas and water cannons. and i was actually in the thick of it. yesterday i got to your gas and saw the action 1st hands. now, the government is actually divided on this issue. the parliament is at odds with the president who was in the united states. when all of this, all of these protests broke out. she released

a video with the statue of liberty behind her. oh, put her support in making for the protests and denouncing the part of the parliament support for this long and while the political opposition does cool for the current government to resign, that still no guarantee that the tensions would subside. even if that occurs. now ortiz marina kosovo breaks down essentially how the whole situation is escalated, and in particular that of the role of foreign actors. as soon as the pros has started in georgia, most people follow in european politics thought. here we go again, another college revolution. why? that's why american and european flags banners in english saying peaceful protests mixed in with a few molotov cocktails, as well as some words of encouragement from western officials. ah

ah, this time instead of assistant secretary of statements for a newland handed out snacks to demonstrators in kiev, it was hard. robinson, another us assistant secretary of state who just so happened to be in belize c. a day before the riots erupted. he claimed to be there for slightly different events, but he couldn't help, but all for a few words of advice for georgians. this is a lot based on russia's interest, not george's interest in rethinking to george's in truth, to we're work closely towards euro atlantic integration. this law doesn't do that. we don't think it's the right thing for georgia and more importantly, georgia,

i don't think it's the right thing for georgia. so let's get this straight. washington doesn't like a law being proposed by the majority of george and m. p. 's from the ruling party of georgia, a law that would highlight the companies and individuals receiving substantial funding from abroad like america, who could therefore be acting in the interests of said country. now, why would they care may come to mind a recent u. s. government report names georgia as a lead in recipients of u. s. foreign and military aid in europe and eurasia. and this, this is something new. the u. s. has been sending hundreds of millions of dollars to georgia since the mid ninety's over $445000000.00 in foreign military financing. i loan since 1997, 35000000 dollars just last year, over a $130000000.00 in bilateral state department and us aid assistance annually.

and all this, of course, go and towards helping georgia develop a democratic free market with the western orientations. in july state department spokesman, net price told reporters the u. s. has allocated a total of almost $6000000000.00 in assistant bonds for georgia over the years. and as we know, nothing comes for free and this is exactly what local m. p. 's had in mind when considering the draft, raul, on transparency of foreign influence, countries tend to use angie hills and private media organizations to sway public opinion and encourage opposition movements in countries of interest. the biggest share of the u. s. funding is directed towards and cios, which means that this money benefits not our country, but their own agents. we see that there is absolutely no transparency in their

spending. the public does not have any information in this regard. that creates risks. our country's a small state, naturally, it is vulnerable to various types of risks. so at this time, transparency is of special importance. georgia is already one 4th and that you pons haven't signed the e u association agreement, and this law would jeopardize its future with the wes box. not everyone seems to share these pro western views, as we've already seen from the scuffles in parliament. so the majority of m, p, 's voting in favor of this particular law. the western like that and started was saying its support for the protesters while paints and. 5 russia as the bad guy, as always, it's about a moment for george's own future democracy. and we want to be here to support the georgia people in their aspirations and georgia journey to strengthening its democracy in this region. russia is trying to absorb countries like ukraine absorb

countries like belarus, threatened countries like georgia. if you look around, no one is choosing to be with russia. what we've gotten stead is a very strong united international support for ukraine and for countries like georgia that are occupied by an aggressor like russia, the west support georgia, as long as it's part of the gang when georgia had a president who was last euro centered, it all ended with the rose revolution in 2003 and a change of power. that's when opposition, leader and western fine. mikhail suckers really answered the picture and what followed was a war and to break away regions. and now here we go again. that's so cold, controversial bill has since been withdrawn box. protesters have bowed to continue . and so let's formerly denounced and protesters are released from detention. so once again, democracy brings conflict across russian borders. and another russian neighbor is

being and ties to follow a european future. a plan that has been in the making for years with george bush discussing ukraine and george's need for membership back in 2008. and thats despite warnings from russia since pretty much the soviet union collapsed. well, not much has changed the themes and now we're back to square one. ukraine is a disaster. and now in georgia, the pots is definitely hauled and been stirred. and the only question seems to be how long before it spills over. again, the quarter past. now, here in moscow to germany's northern city of hamburg now where 8 people reportedly killed and several others wounded in a mass shooting and warning, you may well find some of the following footage. disturbing it happened. a jehovah witnesses, church, facility, and authority said the gunman died of the incident without elaborating on how it

happened. several of the victims had been hospitalized with severe injuries in the city's mayor, expressed his sorrow for this tragedy. a former senior us health official has asserted that american tax dollars funded the research that led to the creation of co ford. but robert redfield who headed the centers for disease control as the virus was sweeping around the world and made those comments during the latest herring into the origin of the disease. do you think that doctor found she intentionally lied under oath to senator paul when he vehemently denied an age his funding of gain of function research? i think there's no doubt that n i h was funding in a function research. is it likely that american tax dollars funded the gain of function research? i created this virus. i think it is on only from an age put from the state department user id and from doing well, red field testified that early on he believe the virus had been engineered and

he was excluded from later calls because he took that position and he went on to talk about this paper that it appears was generated, and while he couldn't speak to dr. valgy motivations for prompting this study, he said that it does appear now. you know that, that this study was, was intended to translate and prevent and, and circumvent the idea that cobit was originated in a lab that it was a man made virus. if you really want to be truthful, it's antithetical to science. this was a narrative that was decided that they were going to say this came from a what market and they were going to do everything they could, the supported to negate any discussion about the possibility that this came from alarm. now doctor found you repeatedly denied that the national institute of health had funded gain of rock junction research in 2021. you didn't give money

to the will on lab to do gain of function research that is correct. doctor vouching knowing that is a crime to lie to congress. do you wish to retract your statement of may 11th, where you claimed that the and i age never funded gain of function research and woo on senator paul, i have never lied before the congress. you gave them money and you said don't do gain of function research, correct? and they said, we won't correct how you can say that is not gain of found. it is not, it's a dance and you're dancing around this because you're trying to obscure a responsibility for 4000000 people dying around the world, from a panoramic and center to pull. you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly. and i want to say that officially, you do not know what you are talking about. now this all comes as revelations seem to indicate that in february of 2020 doctor found you prompted

a study that was intended to show that the virus did not come from a lab. and that has raised a lot of outrage republicans or calling for dr. valgy to be put behind bars. and this comes as a way of the immunization of china from u. s. officials and u. s. media blaming china for the pandemic. now china has was back and said the united states should be turning serious public health issues into political weapons, new report, anatomy, origins of coven, 19 the u. s. energy department, now differing from some other government agencies that of the f. b, i and the united states has said the corona virus pandemic is most likely to have emerged from a chinese laboratory, created deliberately for research, but leaked unintentionally into the world. china predictably is furious and pushing back the lack of cooperation from china has made it difficult to pinpoint the exact cause of the pandemic seems lovely, is extremely unlikely. this is an authoritative scientific conclusion that experts

from now and the world health organization region. after visiting the relevant laboratory and blue hand and holding and exchanges with relevant researches, the relevant party should stop playing up the large league theory, stop smearing china and stopped politicizing the issue of origin tracing. now at this point, these new revelations about the national institute of health and dr. valgy and his statements, and the studies that were commissioned all seem to indicate that us officials have something to hide. they're trying to point the finger, it's shina, but it looks like some of their own behavior as serious questions that could be raised. tony attention now to don bass, where according to local authorities, one civilian has been killed and 2 other wounded in a ukrainian attack on the city of boulevard. that is in the don republic, the following video showing a building that was destroyed at a parking facility where civilian buses and vehicles are located. a local official

say that ukrainian force is used a u. s. supplied high mars rockets in the time. i thought it might cause a ref number for ah, one civilian was killed and 2 more were wounded as a result of the cranium artillery attack in the city of val navarro. and now, according to officials, ukraine launched to 6 rockets from multiple launch raucous system high mars made in the united states. now 4 of those were intercepted and the 2 landed right here at this bus terminal glimmers bushes of letters. no but pots, supposedly, from the foreign weapon systems of the high mosque, multiple launch rocket system were found on the scene. the result,

one person was killed. sergei, his a laying right here. he was a 63 years old and he came to work at 5 o'clock in the morning. when had this at sack took place now the other 2 people who were wounded are now being treated at a hospital. and after the trying to do everything they can in order to save their lives. happily of course, i heard a pulp the explosion was so strong that i was thrown out of the gate. thanks to the security guard. i was not on the bus at the time of the explosion. you can see for yourself was left at this boss. i would have been dead then. when i came to my senses, i pulled out one person. his leg was badly damaged by the explosion. he was concussed, he didn't move, the ambulance took him right away. that's the civilian object. they've never been military facilities here. why shoot here targeting living people? it's just an atrocity. local bathrooms have now been suspended, as there are simply absolutely no bosses to use for the people. i hear some of the

employees at this boss sermon olsa are leaving their cars here over night. you can see that they're completely destroyed at the moment. it's yet unclear when bus services in this area will resume, but as we can here right now, shelling of this residential area continues at this point. and as the day progresses we might hear about more victims. romano, culture of r g, the next republic u. s. o. defense secretary lloyd austin has held talks with his israeli counterpart way. he basically reaffirm washington's i'm kind of commitment to israel security. however, during a press conference, when asked about a recent suggestion by and his railey official to wipe out a village in palestine, austin seemed well less committed to a secretary and the current is really government is the most far right. it's been

in its history one if it's minister is called for a palace in palestinian village to be wiped out. and that was during the about meetings. do you feel comfortable working with and trusting a government that has individuals who have these beliefs? thanks, leaders i at the top, your religious let me say i refer to my colleague here to comment on the readiness of, of the israeli forces. but in terms of our ability to work together. and you've heard me say a number of times in various places that our commitment to the security of israel is iron quiet. but they have been great partners throughout and they will continue to be great partners going forward and our commitment to the security of israel. i will not wait, it will not change. it is not negotiable. as i said earlier, us defense secretary arrived israel to franklin, discuss the circle of voluntary milky white west bank and consult on what steps

these rarely leadership can take to restore con before the upcoming holidays. supposed jewish and muslim, but as you've just heard, some of these answers were very vague. these really policies in conference has recently end to the very dramatic violence stage, with casualties from both sides deadly terror. attacks were followed by intensified idea afraid to reach. palestinians responded to with even more violence. both sides blamed each other for these dramatic and dangerous escalation. speaking to the media after he's in meetings with these really leadership pentagon chief said that america respect recognizes israel's right to defend itself and to counter terrorism . but it condemns any step that would push 2 state solution away. i was very clear about israel's right to defend itself against terrorism. i extend my deepest condolences to the families of israelis who were killed and wounded during

recent terrorist attacks. and i am here as a friend who was deeply committed to the security of the state of israel. but the united states also remains firmly opposed to any x that could trigger more insecurity. including settlement expansion and inflammatory rhetoric. and were especially disturbed by violence by settlers against palestinians. so we'll continue to oppose our actions. i could push a 2 state solution further out of reach this rarely defense minister who is known as wanting to know some moderate officials in these rarely, right. when government said that israel is very much interested in palestinian peoples prosperity and stability in the west bank and gaza. but israel is, will always come 1st. as for the palestinian arina, the state of his wealth, 6, stability and security. we are interested in the economy prosperity

and the well being of the palestinian people in judah in somalia and in gaza. this should never comes at the expense of the life of a single cps, an of israel. the tensions in the west bank escalated again on tuesday when these rarely mil, 3 killed 6 palestinians during the military rate in the city of ginning in the north of those wide west bank, including those israel claimed, responsible for how war a shooting that took the lives of to his rarely brother is that attack provoked, unprecedented massive and violent poke rome solve how water on other palestinian towns and villages by israeli south or is in which one palestinian men died. dozens of cars and homes were burned. israeli authorities did not announce arrest the prosecution of the settler is responsible for these attacks had into the international community. was very much concerned about it. the u. s. u n. e. you

all called for israel to punish those responsible amnesty international was among those warring under israel support the system impunity rains despite the intensity and scale of sunday's attacks, which resulted in the killing of one palestinian and the wounding of nearly 400. and despite a rare show of international condemnation of settler violence, israeli police yesterday released 6 suspects who were arrested in connection with these attacks. the pentagon chief came to israel, the time of huge internal division, massive and to government protests have been shaking the country in the last 10 weeks. demonstrator is taken to the streets in thousands have been protested against these railey governments. planned judicial reforms that they claimed would bury the countries democracy if the bills become laws. these rarely politicians will have more power in appointing judges. and in cancelling decisions by the countries high court, while the prime minister will be more legally protected than ever. so say,

has been announced at day of resistance with protest, how'd everywhere throughout israel speaking to the media, mr. austin did not mention these protests, but he talked about democracy. america's commitment to israel security is our employer. and it's going to stay that way. as president president biden said on his visit to israel last year. the connection between the israeli people and the american people is bone deep. israel is a major strategic partner for the united states. it's rooted in the shared values of democracy and freedom. and the rule of law and those values remain essentially as president biden has said, the genius of democracy, of american democracy and israeli democracy is that they are both built on strong

institutions, on checks and balances. and on an independent judiciary. also visit to israel is yet another tab by jo biden's administration to play a mid year role here in the region in hand to try to de escalate the situation. since the beginning of this year had number of high ranking american officials like national security advisers, secretary of state, visited israel, expressing their concerns over mounting tension is trying to de escalate the situation. but as we can see, things are only boiling on the ground. well, the pentagon chief also visited iraq and jordan during his mid east trip, again, showing america's commitment to security in the region. and i guess he must know what he's talking about with reminding your secretary lloyd austin used to be one of the board members of raphael, one of the biggest us weapons manufacturers in the world. your program returns the top of the hour and

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