a bare with a point is on the us functions as a country easing pain. make history becoming try that 1st of all around are killed in the civilian areas. once again, i'm on the cleaning, shooting also in stories that shape the week. i'm result arrivals, a raw on saudi arabia, agreed to receive diplomatic relations and re open their embassies with important political implications. a georgia this week, as a political opposition called for the government resignation. party regs down the

how the center the and the role of foreign influence a welcome to our santa actual question live from much though i'm right, i'm on me and you're watching the weekly. here are the top stories for this week and for today. so i was key political event named the 2 sessions has seen several fresh appointments to the government new device. mr. lee shang food takes up his post. today, the official has been on the u. s. function since 2018 for buying military equipment from russia. to learn more about this as get all the details from c g n correspondent, joe jackson. thanks so much for joining us. a this one. now a new defense minister has been appointed. he is on us sanctions,

but how could this influence biological ties between the 2 states? well, in fact, as you mentioned, the or some stage farmer, 5 years ago and 2018, impose sanctions on mr. leesha. sure. who was then the director of the chinese equipment development department for what the u. s. code of violating the countering america's anniversary through sanctions at so china's foreign ministry, then he to back saying that china has indisputable solar energy over south china sea islands and. and they are a jensen waters and that install the national defense facility there. meaning the 9 shy islands, which are chinese territories. china is exercising its right of self to fans of sobering and state in accordance with the international. so despite i trade a friction that your political tensions back then, i mean, 5 years ago, china, yes. we're still maintaining to plumb magic and security dialogue,

which haven't been seen these days. many chinese new defense minister, just appointed today is now under the us sanctions. he would not have a decent meeting with any us officials or he's u. s. counterpart. so we are not expecting the leaders meeting between the 2 sides in terms of you know, security talks. but still, i believe that the 2 sides at the moment of still maintaining the strategic communication to avoid any chances that you, as president biden said, very into the conflict. but as i said, if you know the new ministries under sanctions, you would not provide or create any good atoms for, for the 2 sides to restore the dialogue mechanism, which would not lead to any better environment for the buy or ties. so i think the washington has to consider if it has to make some moves towards that day of

interesting to watch, to see how that pans out in the near future. now these are these 2 sessions meeting came to us. what will the other major highlights from them but least 2 years. 2 sessions has tried to a wider attention. i moved all about the government work, but at the same time, this is also the 1st session of the 14th, you know, political season because it just followed a month followed, follow the company's parties, national parties, congress. so we had a new ny, up for the government. we talk about that, but we have some free 1000 new elected deputies, which is the group of the country's top lawmakers to this year's national people's congress. so we have the new members, we have the new appointments among the government officials and also we have the

new chapter for the economy. so given the toby and restrictions in the past 3 years, chinese economy has been done by this health crisis, but now is new start and with the optimized and adjustment of china's epidemic prevention control measures. i think the chinese economy will be granular. we're getting some vitality. so the government during government report work report said the targets of this years, economic growth around 5 percent, which is of course, a little bit lower than last year. but at the same time, i think trying to, he's looking for a, a more modest target for the comic growth rather than the, you know, the growth rates. so it is no more focus on the like quality development. so we, we are expecting a strong rebound, particularly in the 2nd half. and 3rd, i will say that it comes to the democracy because the new,

the top legislature now is writing china's diplomatic pattern into its, its law, which is the so called whole process peoples. democracy so and this would be implementing some of the community levels, democracies that, that we are expecting. and, and for that i would say that chinese though chinese now focus on expanding the mass demand. but it is still on the china is so called do your circulation policies . china is going to wide and it's opening up policies. and we have, you know, this year marks of for 45th of china is reform and opening up and china will keep motivating its economy by holding the export import service on cost consumption expo at home. and last one,

i would say that china is more focused on the new situation. and in terms of political tensions so or economic challenges. so yeah, lots of new things on the horizon for beijing, but are there any more? have there been any more or other key payments and the chinese government that we should know about and make your pardon, have there been any new kid pointless in the chinese government that we should know about? you mean a new policy or the national new new official appointed? yeah. what are we seeing as some of the appointments today and within the state council are the new line. and you may know that mr. ching dawn has been just but, but most of the but most of forms will be carry out as we saw 5 years ago because,

you know, to strengthen the party leadership also to try to make sure the, you know, the rule based law. and also there are some reforms to the new ministries aiming to strengthen that the market supervision, also the cultural sector supervision or jo josh in c g t n coursework. thank you so much for joining us here today. i'll see you parted. so give yourself 5 again. thank you for country that new premier me shang was also among of the newly appointed high ranking officials. the free of this is served as a secretary of, of the chinese communist party in shanghai. the present nomination was supported by seizing thing who recently made history as i was was leader elected for a 3rd consecutive term following the election. g confirmed his oath of allegiance to the country. i missed people or cherry should 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 in 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 is eugene ping. take this oath. to this, as soon as i saw him is its rest. hope that the you will embrace strategic independence from the u. s. off of the end of the convention ukraine. he added that the west is escalating the convent am pursuing its own agenda while undermining china's proposed piece plan. earlier you honish, regrettably, however, efforts for peace talks have been repeatedly undermined. there seems to be an invisible hand pushing for the per traction. an escalation of the conflict and

using the korean crisis to serve a certain geo political agenda, while the earthly supporting train tiles for miss and kim washington of disrespect in beijing sovereignty changes intensified last august. when then, how speaker nancy pelosi ignored all warnings am. pays an official visit to taiwan, sparking a sharp response from beijing. i am prompting large scale murphy drilled around the island. the chinese form, as of pointed out, the apparent hypocrisy of the u. s. start saying, washington respects the total integrity of ukraine, while disregarding the fact that taiwan is an integral part of china. and he should go, the chinese people have every right to ask. why does the us talk about respecting sovereignty and territorial integrity and ukraine? what disrespecting china sovereignty and territorial integrity on the taiwan question. why does u. s. gas china not to provide weapons to russia while the keep selling arms to

taiwan in violation of the august 17th communique? why does the u. s keep on professing the maintenance of regional ties, instability, while cowardly formulating a plan for the destruction of taiwan versus devotee pharmacist. so again, react called says, biological ties, which my man driving the us and it's our allies around the world. quote crazy. he made the comment as an exclusive interview here, artie achieve 9 minute guns of this, but would obviously americans are concerned that are comprehensive partnership and the whole complex of our ties. multi faceted and deep have received an additional impetus and continue to develop despite all our enemies attempts to upset them and damage our relations. the american 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 dictate and 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. we have no hidden agendas. we're 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 a father and his 8 year old son were killed on saturday in a ukrainian out. sylvia tap on a bus depot in the city of dusk. shell fragments of the location were reported to be of nato origin. arsie correspondent roland closer of brought us this report from the same 2 people were killed as a result of ukraine. artillery shelling against residential areas here in done as

a man had his 8 year old son war in this said sac. see what this frank 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 for 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 tax the driver are completely safe, although i fragments of a shell went right through their clothes. i showed him that the confession federal investigative committee officials have

completed their investigation of the ukrainian forces artillery shell like that targeted the cooper chef ski district of the city of den. yes. shall fragments that will likely of foreign origin from what looks to be a $150.00. 5 millimeter caliber weapon had been found at the scene of the attack market for the 2nd time this week. ukrainian artillery used it made so made a weapons and targeted as 2nd bus depot here in done as for public. as i said earlier, 2 people were killed. the father and the son writes here, now also a dog was killed. now thankfully it said the we can, so there were no employees at this. a bus depot at the moment and said the father and son who died were in a taxi and they were on that road just basically passing through. and they were unlucky as a shell fragments struck them and they killed the father instantly. and the child

died on the way to the hospital room on cauthrin r t done escrow public. saying in the us of, of the wagner. private made to group says russian falls is a noun, just a kilometer from the center of our tim. our schools are known as buffalo. the area has been the focus of intense fighting for months with the entrenched ukraine troops now almost fully surrounded. this unverified footage circulating on social media sir shows wagner soldiers replacing cranium flag with their own on top of a russian monument in the eastern part of our to mosque. this comes as washington now tries and down played the significance of the key city. the fall of buffalo won't necessarily mean that the russians have changed the tide of this all. while previous reports labeled the city t and strategic the narrative now suggest the stronghold is not so

important. and most she holds symbolic value. ration for says, try to take the strategic town of back that the city itself is not that strategically important which all earlier in the strategic turn of, but most it is not strategically important. it could lead to the full a soviet can crime a toss because well, the 2 most important cities in the, on bass there is little strategic value. it's not a military hub, it's not a communications hub, it can be significant strategically, significant given it's access to the rest of dumb bus. number 2, you got to keep in mind lloyd. austin oversaw the withdrawal of us troops out of iraq back in 2011 and what crept in isis. so i, i don't really care that much for his strategic analysis. and number 3, it would take

a lot of ukraine troops out of the fight. and i think that this is what they want to do given the ukrainian losses. i don't think it said insignificant and just approve put, i think would be a demoralizing factor for the ukrainians at this point. if they were just to get up and, and leave. and you look at the territory that's there, that's significant territory. if the russians take it back over to the news out, my protest against the bill on the influence of who joe all week, the ruling policy has since abandon the draft laws or stop the violent protest. i'm crashes with police ah,

people in enjoys in capital, said to the seats against the so called foreign agent bill claim in would come down . western news outlets and, and v is american officials spoke out against the draft bill despite it bearing similarities than existing u. s. law even threatening georgia with sanctions. though the government reacted to protest demands my cat in the bill and releasing those who had been detained. browse, gathering near the national parliament, have been growing by the 1000 rushes of foreign masses at events in georgia to have similarities to the queen my dan uprising of 2014 very similar to caves made on there is no doubt that the lawn 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 secession to the e. u. in general, this hypocrisy is, of course, obvious, is why parliament say it would no longer push the bill. protests is still gathered demand in the government's resignation. the right is mass process took place on friday. his offseason causes report from the ground 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 throughout 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 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 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 of police building barricades. and they even 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 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, putting her support into the in for the protests and denouncing the par. the parliament support for this law serve in it. so it i ride, turn the bullet,

not democracy. i mean, he either just seizures or, you know, whatever the american embassy says goes, but in that case, don't call it democracy, call it a colonies, call it an oligarchy, call it whatever. but it's, it's definitely not a sovereign democracy. and yet here they are denouncing this is a russian law and saying this is against or european values. but european union has harsher laws for people. they regard to be foreign agents and they've literally censored and band and confiscated property of people the day you're considered to be interfering. the americans themselves are enacting ferrara, against political opponents and dissidence. so, and then you have the u. s. embassy saying, oh, this is an attack on democracy. what gives if you still attack and have your own law, your why do you keep me enforced this light home? you can't possibly be that this law is terrible when enacted in georgia. but great when it acts in washington, dc. i said to the middle east now on friday breaks hopeful candidates. iran and saudi arabia found common ground, agreeing to resume diplomatic relations,

and reopen their embassies. the deal broken by bricks, member china, senior officials on the middle eastern countries held talks in beijing to bridge the divide. the delegates explained walt pay the way for rebuilding by the actual ties with 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 in bilateral ties under the architecture of a brotherly relationship. 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 where the shared future from mankind. you're on firmly supports the relevant initiatives. well, those are the thoughts between to launch 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 here at the long on has said that vi did we sent 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 with 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 trustworthy islamic republic 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 vision paying our who has just started 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, our tribal step one embryo, this is a major step towards china's are stronger role individual needs to show that china is interested in the middle east politics and in the regions our economy drove on. 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, strength, and unity and cooperation. get rid of external influence and truly have in their hands of 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 we are around the united states. said that it

welcomes any effort to deescalate the region. the american president are joe biden said that he welcomes in effort to help put an end to the game in war to the solar war against yemen. but when it comes to israel, israel is, seems to be alarmed by the green tab or the officials in 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 east term, duarte contracting unified, different force and different players in the region against the western union barrels. and we see that russia, china, iran, now he wants our tribal saudi arabia jumping on the bandwagon. and he's trying to

our forum, this unified alliance against the west human animals. and i will see what will happen in the future. we heard from a residence in iran who expressed support for renewed, tied with saudi arabia, saying it would add strength to the country in starting up against foreign accent. meddling in the region. ha gunman, mom, 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 the run politically. and a friendly ties are constructed between iran and its neighboring countries. the us will not achieve its objective america. this sign agreements can have a positive points. and that can be indicated by halting the war in yemen. as roy, israel is upset about the unification of islamic countries and cannot tolerate it.

israel is certainly trying to disrupt this further law. carlos ruiz and me. yeah, i believe these agreements are a huge diplomatic success for china, which will have a significant impacts on the region. both countries, well as a war and both counselors are involved in the auction war in. hm. yeah. so it was actually very, i guess it was very difficult to achieve with this agreement, think that this improvement will have no in not just of all it takes him to or i'll be an issue, but also in other areas. this is a success for china. busy on foreign policy that

also will give more credibility many to cast some doubt on chinese chinese in the ship. it becomes much more currently, more than it was before or as of this is out on a boy co is up next on. well the thought will be here again and it's over there.