ah, was fairly short, he was at the bear with a, with diplomatic ties and we opened their i buses. this is a move though with enormous. geo political implication in the back is the country's largest lender to collapse. since 2008 is shut down by federal regulations. private south africa deals with rolling blackouts if now face with a shortage of water. as a resident with a new world order, taking up back sarabia, they find common ground men. but china,

senior officials from the middle eastern countries held talks in beijing to bridge to divide. the delegates explain what paved the way to rebuild their friendship. this the talks this time have fully combed through the merits of the disputes between saudi arabia and iran, and explored effective ways to resolve disputes. saudi rupture and bilateral ties under the architecture of a brotherly relationship of china has provided favorable conditions for rich and disagreement. this vivid demonstration of the basic policies and concepts of china's diplomacy, which includes the major initiative of building and community with a shared future from mankind. iran firmly supports the relevant initiatives. well, the reason they talked between we are going to ron of has become a hot topic across the world with many world leaders starting to react to the issue are well starting from iran. be wanting foreign minister. i'm here on the learning

on has said that a vi did we such agreement will build a great capacity for both countries, both 4 to one and we are man, he has said that it's the policy of the iranian government to tread on the path of good nate earnest with its neighbors, including what we are with saudi arabia. we all that. so has also reacted to the issue. officials from the saudi king or a said that they will try to continue this path and appeal flossed with these romker problems of iran, as they believe that this will lead to more stability in the region. agreement was broke her by china. it's a very major step by a judge and pang who has just started his 3rd term as a chinese president. this is a major step towards china's in the middle east politics and in the regions our economy proven kasha gray sh. the improvement of the relationship of

both sides has paved the way for peace and stability in the middle east. it has also set an example for resolving conflicts and dis, between countries, through dialogue and negotiations. china supports countries in the middle east to adhere to strategical autonomy to strengthen unity and cooperation. get rid of external influence and truly have in their hands the future and destiny of the middle east when it comes to the united states. the nurse is on the outside seems to be interested in the agreement between we all mentor rob united states said that it welcomes any effort to de escalate the reject it. be american president, argile by the said that he welcomes in effort to help put an end to the game and war to the saw the war. yes, yes. but when it comes to israel, israel is, ah, seems to be a lot of officials. israel has said that this agreement will

deal at the field low to any effort to try to isolate iran and to try to build a co region against the western union that are marked for saudi arabia. it jumping on the bandwagon and is trying to are form this unified alliance against the west's union animals and i will see what will happen in the future. we heard from a residence in iran who expressed support for renew ties with saudi arabia sang at the end of the day. it would add strength to that country and standing up against foreign actors meddling in that region. i say panama, it is better if we have friendly ties with our neighbors, considering that the u. s. and other western countries enthusiastically desire to have their own military bases in iran's neighboring countries in order to have dominance on iran politically. and if friendly ties are constructed between iran and its neighboring countries,

the us will not achieve its objective in god are going to south america. this signs agreements can have a positive points. and that can be indicated by halting the war in yemen. is rosa. israel is upset about the unification of islam in countries and cannot tolerate it . israel is certainly trying to disrupt this. the future of the middle east should be determined by those in that region. that is the message from the chinese foreign ministry who says beijing's bi lateral ties are built on respect. china pursues no self interest whatsoever in the middle east. we respect the stature of middle east countries as the masters of this region and oppose geopolitical competition in the middle east. china has no intention to and will not seek to fill a so called vacuum or put up exclusive blocks. china always believes that the future of the middle east should always be in the hands of the countries in the region. it's a very important event in not only middle east, about also in china,

foreign policy, china hoax. they had to not only the 2 countries, but also all the countries in the middle east could to develop into by themselves for washington. they should at least rethink then tell us why. now we're in the won't. they are more and more people are never a chance to washington any, any longer usa, some main joy of new regional instability and conflict, not only in middle east, about also in eastern europe casa, in a pastor, 40 years the united states has launched a lot of them was in the, in the walked in middle east, it at least a one getting a people, happy died under the fi of the united states. so now we had to lay people know, da, da da would clearly so carter hegemony of the and he stays,

should it be and as soon as possible or yeah, interact with or from a broader piece in the region. that being said, though, some members of the u. s. congress at exactly the same time, took a moment to call for regime change in iraq. the iranian regime must be taken out no more evil tyrants, whether it's the chart or the leader. and while washington is repairing a resolution to condemn the iranian government, we heard from a professor at the university of rotten hockey, may beauty. who says, conducting regime change, or is that the end of the day part and parcel of current u. s. foreign policy? you see that the united states basically has a vision that looks at other countries, either client or as enemies ended,

if initial were an enemy, the country that is, you know, systematically independent on major domestic or foreign policy with the united states. that is the initial, any u. s. foreign policy in perspective. clients and need to empire is the reality of us policy basically look back, it's been terray. you see that, you know, the history of united states relations with the rest of the world has been filled with these kind of this kind of mentality to take out the government that they have problem with. i think the government will know for another time that regime change is not going to work in 21st century. when enough is not enough. joe biden has requested a record breaking $886000000000.00 for the countries national security budget next

year. the vast majority of the wish list is set to go directly to the coffers of the pentagon. the defense department wants to use the cash to tackle a perceived threat from china, proper ukraine and provide more funding for the entire nato block. the pentagon also seeks to counter what it calls persistence threats coming from north korea and iran. over the years, the u. s. defense department has always increased its spending. the last 3 years, the military budget went up by 15 percent. some media report say the 2024 final numbers may reach 950000000000, but we spoke with the co director of the international action center. sarah founder's now. she says that while washington spends more on the military, industrial complex, hardworking, every day american citizens are simply being left behind this amount of money, the largest military budget of all time, exceeding any past military appropriation is

a disaster for working people in the u. s. and for people around the world, it is a catastrophic amount of sheer waste into militarism $886000000000.00 and it will grow. it's not the end. what the white house is sends to congress always grows by tens of billions of dollars. additional ad one's cost overruns, what it would take to reverse it is working people in the u. s. and globally, really standing up to us imperialism. it won't come from congress. the democrats and republicans invite with each other to add on more and more to the military budget, to pass it almost unanimously year after year. i mean, it really is a staggering and criminal amount. and as they say, this amount is meant to continue the war on russia and to plan for war on china.

while at the same time threatening a ran actual crisis has just occurred in america. silicon valley banks unsecure money out in time and about both of assets and was a primary source of cascade of company failures to pay the basic everyday bill. or coincidentally, perhaps the firms chief economics jack rasmus, he told us to be s v b 's collapse is directly tied to the current us strategy of coping inflation by raising rates the fed high enough to bring that. so they're trying to take inflation down by raising interest rates, letters, crushing demand alone, right? but when they raise it up a certain level between 5 and 6, i've been predicting you're going to start getting financial and sank because the tech sector is the most exposed. right now and, you know there's, there's like $250.00 companies that,

that have their money and silicon valley bank. lot of them start ups. and if they, if that bank goes belly up and they lose that money will hope to start up to gun ago. i got a crash, right? that's where the government, i think, is going to really jump in and bailing downs already signs the doing it. but we don't now the contagion between silicon valley bank and other tech, financial funders, and other commercial banks that fund these tech banks. you know, the tentacles of contagion are, are very wide spread and we don't really know it. because there are these tentacles, these debt pentacles are always very opaque. you know, we saw that back with the housing sector crash and we're going to find out over the weekend or start to find out what are the contagion potential here for the collapse it is banked very and also all next week because we'll beginning to see it will leak out of the contagion is and it may shut down the funding of startups in

the tech industry for a while. so, you know, it's all traceable to the fed interest rate policy and minus policy of a attacking tech tech chinese technology and trying to get the businesses to come back to the u. s. which is part of the geo political. the problem with biden is that it's, it's all g geo politics and what happens to the economy be damped, really, as the as tries to ring fence a, russia and china and the other countries who may align with them that the u. s. is bifurcated a slowly the global economy, the global capitalist economy. but it's all because the geopolitical objectives, i believe, and it's, it's going to be a big price to pay, i think eventually by young couple years from now. i think it's too early,

much too early to say that i and unlike in 2008, oh boy, the government is jumping on this thing, ensuring bay aloud and so forth. already within 24 hours, see how they learn their lesson of not dragging their feet back then i, i think one of the consequences if, if there is contagion, is the feds gonna stop raising rates because they're going to take care of the financial sector 1st. and that means inflation is going to stay high and 345 percent. it's not going to come down. so there between a rock and a hard place, you know, do they try to keep bringing inflation now? my raising rates are by raising rates, do they cause effort of financial stress and that the fed doesn't work very well. the policy doesn't work very well. any more in the 21st century, where you got a globalized financial ais world economy. china has appointed a new premier. lee chang, this during a session of the national parliament in beijing. i. mr. chang is said to be

a close conference you phase of its 1900, and also pandemic prevention policy. it's in a new phase now to many people are really expecting to see what the country will be having to. it's coming out of the face, especially we are seeing some booming numbers here in terms of the china spring festival travel. russia as well as the film industry is such a strong indicator that chinese people have the power of spending. but how were the country really coming out of such challenging period in terms of how business are recovering, how the big enterprises are recovery, as well as what kind of policy that will be helping them. for example, for major industry to really catch on to the momentum putting had said that chinese president, she's drinking, has really made major contribution into further enhanced by letter and strategic partnership between china and russia. and this is what we're seeing here. china is not only focusing on buy, let a relationship, but also for example, using project like belden road to really extend and really link its neighboring

country to really facilitate and foster growth in different area in terms of trade as well as a collaboration and technology as well, as medical fields, so a lot to look russia relationship is definitely one of the key areas that both country will be working on in the coming years of south africa is struggling to deal with water shortages are made. rolling blackouts of the region deals with nearly every single day. a greenpeace report that millions of people have seen that taps run dry as rationing measures have been implemented for water, which is well typically stored or hundreds of kilometers away in aggressive wires that are shrinking by the day. over now to our, to correspondent know of oil conga who brings up the story does, does one thing that you're all aware of later disasters in africa and to tackle these challenges. citizens say government needs to do more than just talking. i'm a, they are paid us national dispos that sometimes the tops run dry the whole day. we

then go to bat at the end of the day without any water to drink or cook. and that's up to pol accounts the whole day, making it even worse. we m o it go to, i can come back want and would still not be back. oh, okay. and if so, the shaft lamazzo manuel. buy for me. the crisis is bad because my business needs water. we can cook, we can wash, we can clean, as you can see for yourself, we're not operating, we can do anything that you've been given along on, but it's not what a crisis is hurting as badly as i'm speaking to you. i haven't eaten because of situation, even base kids go to school without eating a bad thing because we have no water. it's clear that infrastructure is lacking. whether or not it is an old pipes or ignorance, that african water prices. it's. yeah, it's getting worse than it's affecting millions of people. i think it's her well known fact that our government at the moment is struggling with a lot of service delivery issues. to well known fact that our energy platforms are

unstable. and it's also a well known fact that our water and wastewater and ridiculous systems are dilapidated, fairly, under severe pressure have been under capitalized and in many ways all just functional. so all things being equal, i do not see the scrutiny around. in fact, ashi and accelerated right of collapse coming. and i see ultimately this is very likely to trigger unrest, nestle restaurant that's got to ripple across the country. and i'm afraid this is where we're hitting quite interesting to know that in the case of load shading, alternative sources of energy can be made accessible, but would water alternative sources may not be as accessible or reliable. this means that the situation of water is shedding or sorted and have more dire consequences than what we, as african c. i'm known we couldn't get into hannah split. the impact

on europe of washington's protectionist inflation reduction act was a key focus of talks between the use o'sullivan de leon and the u. s. president in washington. a course wanting keller. bobby was closely following their dialog on the trade war as one will notice that there is a superficial friendliness that went on. now the chief, she referred to partnering with the united states cooperation around l and g. i liquefied natural gas and it was only in a very shy way that she referred to the elephant in the room, which is that inflation reduction act, which is going to have a very negative impact on the european union. and the economies of european country with

a plan. now the inflation reduction act will be taking investment away from europe. it'll be, have less innovation in europe. i'm. it will also lead to fewer jobs for europeans . and it's, it's quite a dramatic, dramatic move on and i'll say only for certain deals and it basically forces the european union to cooperate with united states in ways that are pretty detrimental . now, when the 2 leaders were speaking, they did emphasize that they both while here's what's going on. that wasn't acknowledged in the room. over the past year, the number of countries actively condemning russia has fallen from 131 to 122. the sum emerging economies has shifted to a neutral position. the number of neutral countries has risen from 32 to 35, now representing any 31 percent of the global population. some previously western allied countries, including colombia, turkey, and cattle,

have moved into this category as that governments to seeking to reap economic benefits from engaging with both sides. now these leaders can make nice in front of the camera, but everyone knows about the inflation reduction act. everyone knows about the tension between the countries and the united states, the economic pressure that is being placed on the you. so want to give the impression that there was no trouble in paradise. that's not the case. everyone knows it. or to the conflict in ukraine. now, where the wagner private military group was just announced that the russian forces at bonds on our office is going to donate republic has brought them now within one kilometer of the city center. the area has been a site of heavy russian fighting against ukrainian and european mercenaries for months. and this comes as recently, nato res concerns the city may be overtaken by moscow in a matter of days. however, an aide to the ukrainian president claims that key of troops are, quote, exceeding their goals. and while the conflict is flooded with nato supplied weapons,

russian forces certainly use a variety of means to deal with them. have a look at this video right here. from the russian ministry of defense showing a well, a british stormer armored vehicle equipped with an anti aircraft missiles system that had been detected in the area below the coordinates and send off the kamikaze drone. you see what happens right now? drones have become commonplace in the comfort and they used by moscow to take out assets on the other side of the front line. you can read much more about the use of drones and how the conflict in ukraine is coming from all sides on our website. dotty dot com for the meantime from april, re sushi in the entire news team here. thanks for joining us. ah . ah. what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even

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whom is the aggressor today? i'm authorizing additional strong sanctions today. russia is the country with the most sanctions imposed against it. a number that's constantly growing up in the future list, of course, seniors you speak on the bill in your senior, mostly mine or will ship we're banding all in ports of russian oil and gas, new g i g a with the little, you know, with joe biden. imposing these sanctions on russia, you know,

has destroyed the american economy.