ah ah ah, and then move with an enormous geopolitical implications around and saudi arabia agreed to resume diplomatic relations and re open their embassies after years of tension. chinese president shooting pain makes history as the country's 1st leader to be elected for a 3rd consecutive term. also ahead a r t and that russian troops as they advanced, and don daph as artillery forces strike frontline, ukrainian position with

coming to live in the russian capital. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories of the our welcome to the program. and the leadership of iran and saudi arabia have agreed to resume diplomatic relations and reopen their embassies. the statement comes after top, officials from both countries held talks in beijing. now the states foreign ministers will meet to implement the decision and make the necessary arrangements and assign their ambassadors. here's our t contributor, use of jal ali with more on the development. great news for the middle east and the whole world as iran and saudi arabia. finally decided to break the ice and resumed their diplomatic ties. after several years, after 7 years of frosty relations, all the agreement came on friday and it was reached and the chinese capital beijing

. after several days of intensive negotiations between our secretary of iran's supreme national security council and he shavani and his mom, saudi counterpart, and the chinese capital beijing, of course, on saudi arabia, severed his diplomatic ties with iran back in january 2016 after angry iranian protesters toward the saudi embassy into iran. following the rios, execution of frog top shia cleric never bothered and member. and that led to the end of the day from attic times between saudi arabia and iran. were the 2 sides closed. there embassies in the 2 countries. or of course, so now this new development is very promising is a promising step towards ensuring stability and security and peace in the middle east. as the 2 sides have been always at loggerheads when it comes to many regional issues. after the rise and the emergence of dash terrorists,

isis terrorists in the region and the chaos that took place inside syria and iraq, the 2 sides have been on different fronts, of course. and when it comes to the saudi war on yemen, iraq backs the a sorrow, la movement, and a want backs political resolution to the you have any conflict, while the saudi arabia has been attacking yemen. so those issues will be result following, then we're agreement between we off and to juan. so this very great step and we heard that the 2 sides decided to reopen their embassies within the next 2 months. earlier we discussed the issue with a number of political analysts who i believe that's a win win agreement for iran and saudi arabia. but it might go against western interest in the middle east since prisoner re, you see to coffee this. his main agenda was improving foreign trade, especially with original states the neighboring states. so improving neighborly

relations was top on his agenda. but this is not possible unless you deescalate pensions with saudi arabia. that's your main rival. so iran continued for rounds of talks with the so these in iraq. and during the recent visit to beijing president, re you see, asked a chinese counterpart to, to, to take the initiative and be more assertive. we can see iran as a winner. the chinese, of course of are a win inside this so these could also find themselves saw as a winning side if, if they move along the path correctly. the losing side admittedly, are the americans as well as the israeli saw, who have been acknowledging that this is a great loss to is really foreign policy towards iran, as well as the region and also the american nel, cons,

are complaining and saying that it's all the loss for the united states, china is increasing its footprint in the middle east. and historically young china relations up in strong historically, even russia relations happiness. and americans of telephone of the fact that if these 2 countries, china, russia and iran managed to cooperate, managed to resolve some of the difficulties in this part of the world and no room for americans and country decline. and this is one example of how that works. that the saudi government and historically been the u. s. government dictates thousands of historically, at least been a client. i was a united states, i decided to normalize relations and urine. and then

they have chosen beijing to announce that the actually engaging to have a place and only talks with on the counterparts. chinese president shing paint makes history as the country's 1st leader to be elected for a 3rd consecutive term. it was a unanimous decision by the national parliament in beijing. president sheet, 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 are choo. i pledge to be a legion to the constitution of the people's republic of china and safeguard the constitution's authority. fulfill 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, pe, take this oath. i was right at the great hall of the people this morning to with this uh, this is jordan all night and i talked to some, some of the deputy there. and many of them said that they are very so excited to witness this moment. especially those from the grassroots, such as those from the remote villages are mountainous areas because they are among those who care really feel the changes at the chinese society better than most talking about priorities. i think definitely to boost economy would definitely be the one out of his priorities ahead to the also i think like at other is like green economy, green development and like science and technology development are also on the top

of jen, of the central government under present she's gotten talking about china, russia ties amid is sweeping western sanctions imposed on russia. china has actually relatively accurate exports in energy products, including like natural gas, oil and coal, to china, as well as it's agricultural products. and also, as we know that in 2019 china and russia jointly set the goal of their bilateral trade, reaching $200000000000.00 us dollars by 2024. so a lot to expect. of course, at the same time, china is also using, you know, increasingly strong rhetoric when it comes to china, us relations, you know, it's, it's worth noting that the foreign minister and she's gone directly warned designer us relations are in a very difficult situation during the pressure of a few days ago and says firmly that if the religions keep going down in his path and that the u. s. doesn't hit the breaks,

there would definitely be confrontation and conflict. and that vision would nod, remain silent if the u. s. landlord or attack good, so very strong works, but on the other hand, like what has mentioned of by farming or searching gone. it's also very important to forward. so there's a strong ties with the to the words, to larger economies. russian president vladimir putin has congratulated his chinese counterpart, adding them moscow values his contribution towards strengthening the relationship between the 2 countries. according to russia's deputy foreign minister, those bilateral ties are driving washington and others around the world of crazy. he made those comments and an exclusive interview here on our tea that she didn't, i me to guns of this buck would. obviously, americans are concerned that her comprehensive partnership and the whole complex of our ties, multi faceted and deep have received an additional impetus and continued to develop

. despite all our enemies attempts to upset them and damage our relations city. the americans seem to understand that the russia, china nexus is one of the pivotal elements in the formation of a new multi polar world order. and it is, if you like, an antidote to the american dick tie an american hedge ammonia. we work with the people's republic of china, hand in hand, standing shoulder to shoulder, resisting the onslaughts of our enemies. we have a lot of projects and we have the groundwork for our work with china. if we have no hidden agendas, we are driven by the desire to ensure a stable development in a prosperous future for our states in our people's. and that just seems to drive our enemies crazy in washington and some other capitals. their nervous reaction to what is happening is further confirmation that the course we have chosen with beijing is the right one. i am logan, my chair for between the us and china is spreading. as the dutch government just announced new restrictions, similar to washington's on machinery to manufacture big key,

high tech component. china says the measure was adopted under pressure from the u. s. and has urged the netherlands not to violate free market principles. dina could vehicle available, do it in the recent years, an individual country in order to depart, train over to rights to development and safeguards its own head. yamani has almost reached the concept of national security when you call it a sized and instrumentalist, economic crate and high tech issues at the cost of a ally center as well. and courage and learn some countries to adopt experts, restrictions against china will miss you on sofa. we hope that the netherlands will uphold an objective and fair position based on market principles. respect this period of the contour received from steve guardian. so in the interests and not follow the individual countries abuse of export control measures. leah with the whitfield, the dutch company, a s m l is the world sole source for the most advance lithography machines that are used for semiconductor production. the new assertions will limit exports of the

company's 2nd most advanced product wallet state of the art machines were banned from export back in 2000. and 19 dutch officials have not specifically named the countries targeted by the restrictions. but media report suggest china is in the crosshairs. we spoke with nelson wong, vice chairman of the shanghai center for room, hack and international studies, who says the controls may stimulate the development of china's domestic chip industry. it's obviously a technology wall between china and the u. s lead west and in the short term i, i would like to say that china was shocked, but ah, quite a bit. but that actually gives china also the, the ground to make the resolve that china would need to develop its own semiconductor industry. in a, perhaps faster pace and her so rumors are that the chinese government is about

to announce at last, it's decision to give out huge amount of money as a financial ground to support the foss development of the chip industry. so that's something to be expected as well. ah, as intense fighting as waged on the front lines, ukraine has lost 350 troops over the last day, according to russia's defense ministry. which also stated that 9 american high mars rocket launchers were hit and multiple ukrainian military vehicles, destroy ortiz, acres you'd on up brings us this report. tulips, corn, flowers, carnations hyacinths, delicate symbols of affection and normal life. here, these names are harbingers of death. ah.

with shield gun was an innocent ne hyacinth packs a monstrous punch. if you've run out of luck and been designated as its target, you better run fast and far. the intensity of the work depends on the situation on the front. we're both day and night. there are no fixed hours here. it takes about a minute and a half to side. the target open fire, and eliminated. this detachment is part of russia's airborne troops. the hun down there, pray from up to 30 kilometers away. convoys command h q's and enemies own big guns top their target list. if you open fire with the fragmentation effect, the shrapnel spreads over 200 to 300 meters. this gun is very powerful and accurate,

has been able to take out the lead vehicle in a convoy a tank was the 1st shot. they cover infantry advance in the criminal forest. they ukraine's ranks have grown thinner, partly due to heavy casualties. partly because key of command had to transfer some troops to the south, where the back moved, battle rages on that the wagner company is gradually shutting down the last lifeline that still available for ukrainian troops. they've been reduced to one road and it's already almost a bog. vehicles have to slow to cruel and become an easy targets for hire

since like this one. the catch 22 for the generals and key by moved has become to symbolic, to just pull out. yet saving it means exposing other parts of the front. i'm in rushes, relentless push. i'm a get done of reporting from the dumbass present and by that has requested the colossal sum of $886000000000.00 for the 2024 us national security budget. the vast majority of the requested budget would go directly to the pentagon . the defense department wants to use that cash to tackle the perceived threat from china, as well as to provide a ukraine and funding for nato. the pentagon also seeks the counter, quote,

persistent threats coming from north korea and iran. over the years, the u. s. defense department has been consistently upping its spending. and the last 3 years the military budget has increased by 15 percent rising from $740000000000.00 to $858.00. some media reports say the final sum for 2024 could hit as much as $950000000000.00. so to go further, ends up on this. let's cross live now to the executive director of the world beyond war global movement. david swanson, david, it's great, have you on the program today. now, given the current economic turbulence, the u. s. is under. do you think this amount of money is flowing in the right direction when it comes to their so called national security budget? of course not, and it has very little to do with national security or anything justifiable. it's,

it has a lot to do with the sort of sick war propaganda that we just watched on this channel 2 minutes ago. i'll be it for the other side of that war. this is money to escalate war make, you know, around the world. and it is in the u. s. budget as much as most of the other countries on earth put together. there are only $29.00 countries that spend as much as one percent of what the u. s. military does. and 26 of those 29 r u. s. allies, weapons customers and the homes of us military bases. so, you know, we're talking about russia, which is that about 9 percent of us military spending and iran at about one and china at around 36 percent of us military spending. this is the justification and it doesn't add up. now when it comes to really the trend that you mentioned and

that we're seeing all around, i mean the budget request seems to grow by the year. so do you think that there is ever anything that is going to reverse that trend, or are we seeing any possible sign that it could be reversed anytime soon? well, it's gonna take a massive amount of public pressure by a public that has little idea of the topic exists at all. uh when a president in the united states introduces a budget proposal, the u. s. media reports on it as if the single item and that takes up more than half of it doesn't exist at all. i. and as if 2 thirds of it isn't that militarism plus prisons and police and other so called security forces, i get that. it's just the other 3rd of the budget that takes up 99 percent of the reporting. so people have no idea what's going on at all or they would need to become informed. ready and then rise up and do something about it. uh, which is kind of take

a great deal. and now they'll tell you it's not going up according to inflation i, it is going up even if you consider inflation. and if you consider the free weapons to ukraine, that are largely outside of this budget, and if you factor in the inevitable increase by the republican congress to what the president has proposed. ah, the president said a record and the congress set a record last year and they're gonna break that record this year. the previous record was established when rock obama was president and not always a record in a good way. now, speaking of people being informed, the u. s, rhetoric about alleged threads from china and north korea and iran has existed for some time. now. do you believe that these countries pose a real indirect threat to the us? or is it just that politicians know that any time they say north korea, people automatically get on board or any time they say iran, people just kind of shrugged their shoulders and don't ask any more questions about

what kind of threat is actually there? oh, it's very clearly the ladder. it's absolute nonsense. the horrifying speeches on the floor of congress and in the u. s. media about military spending increases in china . never inform you that, that china is, you know, around a 3rd of us military spending and surrounded by u. s. military bases. but i don't know that we can assume that if you tell people north korea, china, iran are out to get you, that they will approve of us military spending. the public is never asked. this is not a democracy. and when used to when pollsters and survey groups that people down and showed them the pie chart of the budget and said, what do you approve? what do you disapprove? they have consistently, regardless of what's in the news, wanted to move money from militarism to environment and education. so if we just had a little democracy and a little less bombing people in its name, i think we would see the opposite trend in military spending. and fortunately,

the politicians who claim to care about democracy and other countries don't always wanted at home, especially when it comes to their special interests. now, speaking of the american people where they stand, we know that they're not necessarily asked about this military budget every year when it's approved. but do you think that they are aware of just how much of the tax dollars that they're being forced to pay and are actually being spent on the military budget every single year? no people we know for a fact that people have no idea there have been a handful of polls done that. asked people whether they know what, what, what they think, what percentage of the u. s. budget they think goes to what and they are nowhere close, not within orders of magnitude. so i, it's, it's a debate that is senseless. ah, in us polling and in us media because people. ready have no idea and most of the reporting that you've seen in the past 24 hours on the president's budget proposal

would not have to change a single comma. i, if the military didn't exist at all it's, it's just not mentioned. and so i think it might be a very convenient time to abolish it. i you wouldn't have to change the reporting on, on the budget, but you, you could change the world for the better. certainly a lot to be learned here david's fonts and executive director of the world beyond war, global movement. thanks so much for your time and insight. thank you. rations . foreign minister says that the events and georgia have similarities to the ukrainian mind on an rest of the 2014. his comments come after vladimir putin's meeting with the russian security council. very similar to cubes made on there is no doubt that the law and registration of non governmental organizations that receive foreign funding in the amount of 20 percent of their budget was just an excuse to start an attempt to force a change of power. nevertheless, in a number of european countries,

the same rules are much more stringent burrell stated, without batting an eye, that this contradicts european values and puts the block on the path of georgia succession to the you. in general, this hypocrisy is, of course, obvious. people in the georgia capital have been protesting against the so called foreign agent legislation, claiming it was set to clamp down on western news outlets and, and cios, well very similar to an existing u. s. law. american officials spoke out against the measure and even threatened to impose sanctions on georgia, though the government reactive to protesters demands by canceling the bell and releasing those who have been detained. the number gathering near the national parliament has been growing by the 1000 artes donald quarter reports from the scene behind 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 web and detained route. these protests 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 a 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 lags 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 1938. and it actually carries much more severe consequences. criminal ones, including jail time for employees of organizations that fail 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 to see violence erupt. protesters throwing molotov cocktails and rocks and objects and police building barricades. and they've been 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 tear gassed 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 civic in for the protests and denouncing the bar the parliament

support for this law. officials and the west african nation of molly have issued scathing criticism of france, citing the former colonial powers approach on the continent. molly's prime minister says his country is now putting it's interest 1st. let us say france. frances litters are the ones who wanted to impose an alt country. what should be done? what we should think about and what to say. but we told them that this kiera and this time has been long gone. which shoes and the people choose. lollies, foreign minister says france and other western powers have de stabilized parts of africa. in particular, he noted the 2011 nato incursion and bombing of libya. he said, european powers must recognize the sovereignty of african nation, that all highlighting the countries close ties with russia and taking moscow for support and fighting terrorist groups and the region. russian federation is

a strategic partner of molly for a number of reasons. the main one is moscow's assistance to bummer cohen what we have asked for in order to counter extremist groups such as isis and al qaeda. we heard from a regional security expert who says that rising anti french sentiment across africa is no surprise considering the countries approach on the continent. would you leisure? thank you. there is currently a decline in francis popularity. press is no longer in a position of moral authority in many countries. the reason for that is francis attitude towards africa over the past decade. another reason is that africans name of african youth have awakened to and understanding. they want to start from scratch the west. unfortunately has not understood desperation of african youth. this youth a currently going through tough times. it was they who pushed chrome to conduct this charm offensive. i think of we some of the results of macros store of africa. it actually shows the decline increases popularity and the fact that france is no

longer in a position of a moral authority. a crone was criticized by the public and officials of many countries that would have seemed unthinkable. 10 to 15 years ago. don case have been used for over 5000 years by humans to do the heavy lifting. the animals are commonly seen, strapped and packed, working in the fields and walking the trails. and now there are rising concerns that china's demand for them is putting at risk a key source of transport and horse power for household across africa. ah. with another water. well we're totally sorry. donkeys extremely important. nafrica. they used for ploughing to help the community fetch water because most villages have no running water in

with i'm making a living with these donkeys. they help my family. it must love animals to keep that take out. and so that they will take care of each with and that's all for now. be sure to check out our t dot com for all of the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see right back here at the top of the hour with the sabotage of the north stream. pipelines is back in the headlines in a big way.