live, so you can of course he is i'm not gonna make it ah, the emerging multi polar world brings long time regional rivals, iran and saudi arabia, together as they agree to resume diplomatic relations and reopen their embassies. a move with enormous geo political implications. a run on the bank in the us leave scores of companies and individuals holding the bag as the country's largest lender to collapse them. the 2008 financial crisis is shut down by federal regulators. fragments to help the shell went right through the car right here. right through this seat. as you can see, the blood is still there. a father and son are kill them. don yet got civilian

infrastructure again comes under ukrainian shelling r t reports from the scene. and as south africa deals with rolling blackouts, it's now faced with a shortage of water. as reservoir levels continue to decline, just adding to the list of problems in the country. our correspondent reports from the scene. ah, good evening for martinez, national studios in moscow, and welcome to the hours most vital news stories across the globe. i'm fiorella, isabel. we begin with our top story bricks. hopeful candidates. iran and saudi arabia find common ground and have agreed to resume diplomatic relations and reopened their embassies. in a deal brokered by bricks, member china, senior officials from the middle eastern countries, how tops and beijing to bridge the divide. the delegates explain what paid the way

to rebuild bilateral ties of 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 arabia hopes that this will open a new chapter and bilateral ties under the architecture of a brotherly relationship of china has provided favorable conditions for rich and disagreement. is 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. you're on firmly supports the relevant initiatives. well, the reason they cons 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 started from iran. the wanting foreign minister here on the learning on has said that v and if we, since agreement,

will build great capacity for both countries, both 4 to one and we are. and he has said that it's the policy of the iranian government to tread on the path of good neighbor s with its neighbors, including wait, we are with saudi arabia. we all itself has also reacted to the issue. officials from the saudi king there are 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 broker by china. it's a very major step by our seizure and paying our who has just thought of his 3rd term as a chinese president. starting with this good news and trying to build trust between the 2 arch rivals. the long term are tribal step one embryo. this is a major step towards china's stronger role individual needs to show that china is

interested in the middle politics. and in the we just 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 disputes 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 for the future and destiny of the middle east, or when it comes to the united states. united states on the outside seems to be interested in the agreement between bring our mentor on the united states, said that it welcomes any effort to de escalate the region. the american president, our joe biden said that he welcomes any effort to help put an end to the game and he wore to the saw the war. yes. yeah. but when it comes to israel, israel is, ah,

seems to be alarmed by the green man job or the 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 coalition against check ra. china is now interested in bringing different voices in different forces. together in the eastern bloc. he tried to unify different for a force and different players in the region against the western union battles. and we see that russia, china hockey, ronald, now, he wants our tribal saudi arabia. it joined him on the bandwagon and he's trying to r for this unified alliance against the west sewland barrels. and i will see what will happen in the future. we heard from residence in iran who expressed the port

for renewed ties. would saudi arabia saying it would add strength to their country and standing up against foreign actors meddling in the region? hansley been among huh. 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, neighboring countries in order to have dominance on iran politically. and if friendly ties are constructed between iran and its neighboring countries, the u. s. will not achieve its objective in god are going to south america. this signs agreement can have a positive points. and that can be indicated by halting the war in yemen. destroy alyssa, israel is upset about the unification of islamic countries and cannot tolerate it. israel is certainly trying to disrupt this in the future of the middle east should be determined by those in the region. that's the message from the chinese foreign ministry who says beijing's bilateral ties are built on respects.

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 in the won't. they are more and more chance to washington. and it any longer usa, some main joy, all you need to know, instead of conflict, not only in the middle east, about also eastern europe casa, in the past. 40 years the united states has launched, a lot of them was walked in, middle east, it at least on one billing that people have died under the fi of the united states . so now actually people know da da da would clearly so carter

hegemony already and he stays due to be and ashley as possible. when asked for comment on the latest med easter approach met between re add and to ron u. s. president joe biden shifted the focus to other countries in the region, and i ran really, really national medical relations sir with this comes as some us officials reacted positively to the news. saying the revival relations between iran and saudi arabia will promote broader peace in the region. that being said, some members of the u. s. congress directly called for regime change in iran. the iranian regime must be taken out no more evil tyrants, whether it's the shaw or the leader. while washington is preparing a resolution to condemn the iranian government, we heard from

a professor at the university of turan who study conducting regime change is a key element of u. s. foreign policy. you see that the united states basically has a dual vision. looks at other companies as ryan or as enemies ended definition for an enemy's country. that is, you know, systematically independent of the not it says on major domestic or foreign policy with the united states. that is the definition of an emmy u. s. foreign policy perspective. client and in empire is 33. you see that you know, the history of united this relations with the rest of the world has been filled with these kind of this kind of mentality. the to take out the government that they have problem with. i think the u. s. government will know for another time that regime change is not going to work in 21st century. meanwhile,

the biggest bank collapse since the 2008 financial crisis has happened in the u. s . after the california base silicon valley banks, unsuccessful attempt to quickly raise $2000000000.00 from investors, it set off a run on the bank, which has now been shut down by federal regulators. it's currently under the control of the u. s. federal deposit insurance corporation, which usually means the lender will have its assets liquidated and dispersed to those that missed getting their money out. in time. the bank had over $200000000000.00 worth of assets and was a primary source of funds and deposits for silicon valley start ups. media reports say that the bank's demise will result in a cascade of company failures, who'd by now won't be able to pay their bills. coincidentally, the firm's chief administrative officer was previously the cfo for lehman brothers global investment bank,

which went bankrupt and was one of the sparks for the 2008 financial crisis professor of economics and politics. jack ross miss told us that s b b's collapse is directly tied to the current us strategy of curbing inflation by raising rates. the fed cannot raise interest rates high enough to bring down inflation because inflations must be supply side. we can't do anything about that. so they're trying to take inflation down by raising interest rates, not like, but when they raise it up a certain level between 5 and 6, i've been predicting you're going to start getting financial instability. and we see that already now with the silicon valley bank because the tech sector is the most exposed right now. and, and, you know, there's, there's like $250.00 companies that, that have their money in silicon valley bank. a lot of them start ups. and if they, if that bank goes belly up and they lose that money,

well hope to start up the gun ago. i got a crash. i. that's where the government, i think, is going to really jump in and bail it sounds already signs of 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 widespread and we don't really know it. because there are these tentacles, these debt clinicals are always valued. take, 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 of this bank. very important bank. and it be interesting to see what happens on monday, both in the financial market stock and bond markets, and also all next week because we'll beginning to see it will leak out of step by

step, i think on, on what the contagion is. and it may shut down to funding of start ups in the tech industry for a while. so, you know, it's all traceable to the fed interest rate policy. and by this policy, attacking tech, tech, chinese technology and trying to get the businesses to come back to the u. s, which is the part of the geo political. the problem with biden is that it's, it's all g geo politics. and you know, what happens to the economy, be dam really. as the u. s. tries to ring fence a, russia and china and the other countries who may align with them. 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. and unlike in 2008 boy, the government is jumping on this thing, ensuring bay aloud and so forth. already within 24 hours, the only learned her lesson of not dragging their feet back then i, i think one of the consequences if, if there is contagion, is the feds going to stop raising rates because they're going to take care of the financial sector 1st. and that means inflation is going to stay hot 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 weights . do they cause a fruit of financial stress and that the fed doesn't work very well. the policy doesn't work very well anymore. and the 21st century where you got a globalized financial ais world economy. a father and his 8 year old son have been killed in a ukrainian artillery attack on

a bus depot in the city of daniel shall. fragments at the location have been reported to be of nato origin. r t correspondent, roman casarez reports from the scene. 2 people were killed as a result of ukrainian artillery shilling against residential areas here in done as a man had his 8 year old son war. in this said sax, he wanted the strike took place. fragments of the shell went right through the car right here. and right through this seat, as you can see, the blood is still there. so li, fragment of the shell went through the car and ended up right here. went through it for the body of a man with him in the car at that point for his wife and of course the taxi driver as well, the wife and thanks the driver are completely safe. although i fragments of

a shell went right through their clothes with whom i showed him that the confession federal investigative committee officials have completed their investigation of the ukrainian forces artillery, shall i that targeted the cooper chef ski district to the city of denise shall fragments that will likely of foreign origin from what looks to be a $155.00 millimeter caliber weapon had been found at the scene of the attack market for the 2nd time this week. ukrainian artillery used at nato, made a weapons and targeted as 2nd bus depot. here in don't ask republic, as i said earlier to people were killed the father and the son writes a here now also a dog was killed. now, thankfully it said the, we can, so there were no employees at this bus depot at the moment and said the father and

son who died were in at sax. he and they were on that road just basically passing through and they were unlucky as a shelf fragments struck them. and dick killed the father instantly and the child died on the way to the hospital room. on cultural arts, he done this group, public activists have taken to the streets of paris to express, are solidarity with migrants. this comes as the leaders of france and the u. k. held a summit with the refugee crisis on the top of the agenda. we heard from some local to say, current policies cannot resolve the situation. i mean, seeing the new policies that have been put in place by the government in u. k. and the reason why they're coming here today, we have to fight back. we have to defend human rights. we have to actually find a solution to what is happening. i mean, we have 30 years of the situation that is going on on the border. we have people

dying, we ask people suffering. and at the moment, everyone is pushing the ball one through each other without never looking for an actual solution. who claims leave horribly. the border issue on the table today is of concern to both france and britain, but in fact, it's an issue for all of europe. people are dying in the mediterranean sea. they're not welcomed anywhere, but the united kingdom is still for these people, their last hope. instead of creating safe routes and welcoming people with dignity, we try and stop them with military installations with dogs, with drones, and with front acts. all these measures, in fact, don't prevent people from crossing the border, but puts them at a higher risk when doing so. and generates more smuggling network segment that is, would present as a u. k. has seen a dramatic increase in the number of migrants crossing over from france. the governments come up with a new policy called the illegal immigration bill. while the plan is set to stop those coming over by boat,

some of the wording used has been called into question. prime minister richie sooner posted the national campaign slogan that migrants would be denied access to the u. k. as modern slavery system, a prominent host of the b b. c took to twitter, comparing the government's plans and some of the language used to germany's migration policies of the 19 thirty's. there's no huge influx. we take for fuel refugees and other major european countries. this is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by germany in the 30s. and i'm out of order. the legendary football or a gary linux is now a major star at the broadcaster he since been suspended by the co op corporation which said his social media activity breached his impartiality guidelines. but the decision to remove him sparked a boycott, not only by his co host,

but also their potential replacements. however, he's not the only one who's questioning the governments campaign. gonna get me some slaves before it's legal. the government took control for came by saying, if you get people here, there will health, no protection from slavery and unforgivable message, a sentence would change the country and everything. it stands for. this is absolutely disgraceful. complete application of humanity less our cross live to red star radio editor and political analysts. alexander mc k. a. welcome alexander. when it comes to cancel culture, it's often targeted to those with lesson liberal views. but here we have the opposite. we're seeing a star being suspended for criticizing something perceived as institutional racism . well cancel culture is really directed against any body who is perceived to be against the established order. really in the case of britain or

now the in the case of carolyn occur. he's been a notable for ease comments on twitter that are more now. and so there is to lot of people on the political right in british government likes to lecture everybody on free speech. we don't have free speech in this country. not really. there's been people who have been fined and imprisoned for tweets that have been questioning the narrative around the roofing from covert to the ukraine war. the authorities regularly resort to laura enforcement to try and stop expressions of free speech that they considered to be against government policy. so what this reveals really is the, the british government's words about free speech a hollow. and now finally, somebody who's very high profile has or has now been targeted for cancellation because of the views that they have expressed. and i would be remiss if i didn't mention at this stage that the fact that of course we in britain have a long term political prisoner serving time in

a maximum security prison in the form of julian assange who is being imprisoned for exercising free speech. so all the values that the british government talks about and likes to lecture other countries about round the world. we do not in this country live up to them in the slightest. now this isn't the 1st time, but to an outsider, it does look like the bbc has caved into government pressure. i mean, according to them are, they are rated, they have a commitment to impartiality and independence. what is the say about that belief that they have about themselves? it's a, it's the, the belief is completely illusory. it's an illusion of it, sir, or more specifically, more accurately. it's a delusion because the, the b, b, c, british broadcasting corporation is set up on run by government remit by royal charter, as it's called. it's a hierarchy in its top management are all appointed by the government. it is paid for via direct taxation on people which you can actually be prosecuted if you evade

what is called the t v licensing system. so the b b c pretends that is an independent entity. but in reality, it is a state broadcaster, it is not treated that way or not considered that way, but that's the way that this thing actually operates and you can tell are over major questions of policy. so for instance, you would never get voice is critical of british government policy over, for instance, the ukraine war and the arming of ultra right wing elements in ukraine. that point of view is just simply not allowed most times on the b b, c. nor could you get a government policy criticized on the bbc when it came to things like cove it. so b, b, c is a state broadcaster, it from the government not directly, but indirectly though sometimes the government likes to crack the whip over it. so make sure that it stays in line and that's an example of what is happening now. but

to call is a state broadcaster. now thing on the topic of the b, b. c. how much does a government really have over that is downing street involvement being downplayed? well, the influence over the baby say, i mean they ultimately, one of the sanctions they could take is they could just abolish most of it if they really wanted to. but they could withdraw the compulsion on people in britain to pay the license they, they could severely cut it back. and all of those threats hang over the b, b. c, senior management. but i think the in reality, most of those sprat's never even really need to be made. the people who run the b, b. c. they come from the same social class as the people in the government and the people in the security services bureaucracy in britain. these are all people have a very similar background of with very similar class interests. they don't need to be told what to do because they all have similar interests in kind. and if occasionally a rogue journalists get something on the average, the government doesn't like. all i need to do is send

a message for back channels and that usually gets relegated or squashed very quickly. or the last attempt by the b b. c. do. journalism that was severely critical of the government was over 20 years ago in the aftermath of the invasion of iraq by george bush and tony blair, where they did do some critical reporting on that. and then the, all the people responsible for that were driven out of their jobs very quickly in an establishment stick shop. so again, this is not a new thing that the b, b, c, is wholly under the control of the establishment has been since its inception. and one of the last attempts at independence that they had ended in the lot of people losing their job. so this is again, this is just a bursting out into the open of processes we enforce is the of been in existence for a long time. alexander mackay writes for radio editor and political analysts. thank you al center. thank you. ah,

south africa is struggling to deal with water shortages, mid rolling blackouts that the reason deals with on a near daily basis, greenpeace reports that millions of people have seen their caps run dry as rationing or which is stored hundreds of kilometers away in reservoirs that are shrinking our t correspondent or to related disasters in africa, citizens, the government needs to mother are paid us now the dispos that sometimes the tops run dry the whole day we will 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're more you'd go to, i can come back. what would still not be back o 10 if school is ashley mars. amandola by from the crisis is about 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 man that you've been given along on, but it's not, the water crisis is hurting as badly as i'm speaking to you, i haven't eaten because of situation. even based 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 is that african water prices? it's yeah, it's getting worse than it's affecting millions of people. i think it's a well known fact that god, government at the moment is struggling with a lot of service delivery issues to round out. factor in a g. platforms are unstable. and it's also well known fact that our water and wastewater and regulation systems, or dilapidated failing under severe pressure, had been under capitalized and then in many ways or dysfunctional. so all things being equal, i do not see the security around. in fact, i see you're an accelerated right of collapse coming. and i see ultimately this is very lucky to trigger abreast less on risk schedule ripping across the country and will say, this is where we're heading quite interesting to know that in the case of load

shitting, alternative sources of energy can be made accessible, but would water alternative sources may not be as accessible all available. this means that the situation of water, shading, or shortage, can have more dire consequences than what we, as africans have already experienced 40 unknown, we couldn't get into hannah's good tensions are rising in france as another day of demonstrations has taken place with police, expecting up to a 1000000 people at the rallies nationwide. that's as the french public protest, the government's plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 shows hundreds of people who have taken to paris streets after the french press. emmanuel macross has made the choice quote, to make the french work a little longer. according to the document. trade unions have been asking to meet with the french president, a demand which he has refused. he discusses india's foreign policy and

its neutrality on the ukraine conflict with a senior b j. p leader next on going underground. thanks for tuning and stay close. aah.