ah ah, headlines on off into national as beijing appoints a new defense minister who is under us sanctions at the country's president gigi ring makes history being elected for a 3rd consecutive term. also ahead for 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. a father and son killed and i don't expert public a civilian areas. once again come under ukrainian check with longtime regional rivals. iran and saudi arabia agreed to resume diplomatic relations and reopen their embassies. it's a move with significant publications is the multi polar world continues to blossom

. also, just to touch later in this program has its gripping georgia. this week is the political opposition. colds for the parliament's resignation. here at r. c. we break down what spock the tensions, but we also address the role for an actors a play with such a busy week for your worldwide headlines here, one off the international. so for the meantime, let's run down some of the highlights, plus the main stories for this hour. it's the weekly program on ok. so china is a key political event. it's called the other 2 sessions. it seems several fresh appointments to the government. a new defense minister, lee shang food taking up his post today. but the official though has been under us sanctions since 2018 for reportedly buying military equipment from russia. unless

he gtm correspondent, jo josh shilton says the fact that the minister is sanctioned does not bode well for the prospect of restoring dialogue between both countries. despite i trade affliction since your political tensions back then, i mean, 5 years ago, china, yes. we're still maintaining to clar magic and security dialogue which haven't been seen these days. many chinese new defense minister just appointed to day is now under the u. s. sanctions. he would not have a decent meeting with any us officials or he's your counterpart. so we are not expecting that the leaders meeting between the 2 sides in terms of, you know, security talks. if you know the new ministries under sanctions, you would not provide or create any good atmosphere for the 2 sides to restore the dialog mechanism. which would not lead to any a better environment for to buy or ties. so i think at the washington has to

consider if it has to mix some moves towards that the country is new. premier li chatting was all also among the newly appointed high ranking officials. he previously served as the secretary of the chinese communist party in shanghai. the premier's nomination was supported by gigi ping, who recently made history as china's 1st leader elected for a 3rd consecutive terms and following the election. g confirmed his oath of allegiance to the country and its people are i pledge to be a legion to the constitution of the people's republic of china and safeguard the constitutions. 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 jean ping. take this oath. during the session, the chinese foreign minister expressed hope that the e u will embrace quote, strategic independence from the u. s. after the end of the conflict in ukraine, he added the west is escalating the conflict and pursuing his own agenda while at the very same time. under mining china's proposed peace plan. already or you honish . regrettably, however, efforts for peace talks have been repeatedly undermined. there seems to be an invisible hand pushing for the per traction and escalation of the conflict and using the ukraine crisis to serve a certain geopolitical agenda. and while of course, the us fully supports ukraine. china's foreign minister accused washington of disrespecting beijing sovereignty attention intensified last august. when then house speak at nancy pelosi ignored all warnings and paid an official visit to taiwan spock. a shop response from beijing, prompting large scale military drills all around the island. i will note that the

chinese foreman is pointed out, the apparent hypocrisy of the u. s. dance saying washington respects the territorial integrity of ukraine, while disregarding the fact that taiwan is an integral part of china. her mom 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 it keeps selling arms to taiwan in violation of the august 17th communique. why does the u. s. keep on professing the maintenance of regional ties and stability? what cowardly formulated in a plan for the destruction of taiwan. russia is o deputy foreign minister. so gay rep cough says the bilateral ties with china and driving the u. s. and its allies around the world. crazy. you made the comments in an exclusive interview to us right here doughty,

achieve my many guns of this book 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, 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. 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 hundreds of moldova ins, join antique government protests in the country's capital. the demonstrate is demanding the president, my a son to resign. a police have stopped bus transport in the country in a bit to curb the rally from growing and taking the initiative. the protesters are converging on the capitol by foot. some have already reached our cushion now marching against soaring energy prices and holding a headline banner that reads no to war in moldova. meanwhile, moldova security services reported over 50 protesters, arrested countries authorities blamed moscow for inciting the protest movement in that country. now at least one civilian has been killed in a ukrainian artillery strike when a residential area in the city of novi, huff in russia's house on region. the attack took place in the early hours of the morning, leaving homes of stores and power line destroyed. a shattered glass and blood could

be seen of the aftermath of the attack. the city officials say that western supplied weapons were used in the strike. now another morning strike hitting a residential area and donuts with home severely damaged and at least one woman injured. american supplied high mos rockets were portly, used in that attack. ukrainian artillery a talk on a bus depot claiming the lives of 2 civilians on saturday. this also in the city of don, ask a father and his 8 year old son were killed shell fragments of the location where reported to be of nato origin. so open out to our correspondent room and cause a ref who brought us this report from the c. 2 people were killed as a result of ukrainian artillery shelling against residential areas here in the next . a man had his 8 year old son war in this said sack, 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 a still there. so the fragment of the shell went for the car and ended up right here, went through it through 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 taxi driver are completely safe, although i fragments of a shell went right through their clothes with long as i showed himself, the confession federal investigative committee officials have completed their investigation of the ukrainian forces artillery shell like that targeted the cooper chef ski district the city of den, yes, shall a fragment 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 and 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 a here now also a dog was killed. now thankfully it said the we can, so there were no employees. add 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 killed the father instantly. and the child died on the way to the hospital for mon cauthrin, r g done escrow public russian on forces struck a key targets in several ukrainian cities on thursday, including in the country's capital according to the russian ministry of defense. so

the strikes were in response to terrorist acts carried out in russia's, brianna border region by ukrainian forces. earlier this month of moscow added that it had to successfully hit military infrastructure. meanwhile, in charge of schools on his back moot, russian forces that are roughly a kilometer away from the center of the city. that's according to the wagner, private military group. chief, the area has been the focus of intense fighting for months with the entrenched ukrainian troops. now more or less fully surrounded at this, on verified footage are circulating on line showing wagner soldiers replacing ukrainian flag with their own on top of a russian monument. the eastern part of out of jo, mosque of its commons. that's washington now is trying to downplay the significance of what they've been calling a key city. the fall of buff mood won't necessarily mean that the russians have changed the tide of this fi. i think it's more of a symbolic value than it is a strategic and operational. and while previous reports label that city as key on

the strategic the narrative now suggests the stronghold is not so important. emotionally holds only symbolic value. russian forces try to take the strategic town of backlash. the city itself is not that strategically important, which all earlier in the strategic time of move, it is not strategically important. it could lead to the full, slowly and can comma tools because, well, the 2 most important cities in the dawn, there is little strategic value. it's not a military hub, is not a communications hub, it can be significant strategically significant given it access to the rest of dumbass. number 2, you gotta keep in mind lloyd. austin oversaw the. busy withdrawal of us troops out of iraq back in 2011 and what crept in isis. so 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 to prove, put, i think would be a demoralizing factor for the ukrainians at this point. if they weren't 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 the mass protests against a bill that would have required foreign agents to come out of the shadows of gripped georgia all week, the ruling party has since abandoned the draft. lauren a bit to stop the bottom protests that erupt. it in the nation's capital, ah

thousands to the streets against the so called foreign agent bill, claiming it, but clamped down on western news outlets and n g o's. despite it very striking similarities to an existing u. s. law. american officials threatening georgia with sanction. though the government reached via to protest the demand essentially by canceling the bill and releasing those who had been detained, crowds gathering near the national parliament have been multiplying by the thousands rushes. foreign minister says that a events in georgia to have similarity to the ukrainian my dan qu of 2014, very similar to caves 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 secession to the e. u. in general, this hypocrisy is of course, obvious by parliament saying it would no longer push the bill. protexture still gathered, demanding the government and the parliaments, i should say. resignation the latest mass protests taking place on friday as ought . he's donald quarter reports and finds himself pretty much in the thick of it. 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 938. 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 haven't tried to storm the parliament building twice. the police have obviously responded with tear gas and water cannons. and i was actually in the thick of it. yesterday i got to your gas and saw the action 1st hands. now, the government is actually divided on this issue. the parliament is at odds with the president who was in the i did states. when all of this, all of these protests broke out. she released a video with the statue of liberty behind her. what's her support in, in for the protests and denouncing the part the parliament support for this law? we discussed the development in tbilisi with political analyst, alexander dupage. now he described the protests as another outside attempt to

interfere in george's affairs. it's a danger to the wes model. exporting democracy, meaning exporting, calling revolutions, exporting their own influence over or other countries, governments, media, culture, education. that's why the alarm. so actually what, what the west wants is a permanent right to metal in other countries, internal affairs, and wants to put a stop to it, is immediately labeled as on democratic people just don't want new color revolutions for all of the previous long said let's just destruction in their way, more poverty, more of the stabilization and less democracy, they are afraid of georgia, improving ties with russia. the announcement of maybe,

perhaps flights being resumed between george and russia. certainly raised alarm bells. and so, you know, now that the george in authorities want to suppress western influence. well, they, they want to be able to open up a new front against russia because of the franklin ukraine is not going well for them. so they need to open up a new hot spot along russian borders and they need to do it as easily as possible. and that's why this new proposed law is something that wasn't very much which water is well known to have close ties to numerous non governmental organizations. angie owes the via putting forward the foreign agent until the georgia parliament went up against a powerful and well he'll love it. you can read much more about that at odds. he thought was a big development coming from friday. bricks. hopeful candidates, iran and saudi arabia found common ground, agreeing to resume diplomatic relations and reopened their embassies. the deal was

actually broken by bricks, men, but china and senior officials from the middle eastern countries held talks in beijing to bridge the divide. and the delegates explained what paid the way for rebuilding 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. this is a 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 here 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. be wanting foreign minister here on the line 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 neighborliness 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 appealed flossed with these macrocosm of iran, as they believe that this will lead to more stability in the region. agreement was brought her by china. it's a very major step by our vision pang, our who has just started his 3rd term as a chinese president, starting with this good news and trying to build clos between the 2 arch rivals.

the long term are tribal step one and real. this is a major step towards china's stronger role in these to show that china is interested in the italy's 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. that 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. yet 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 all went around the united states said that it welcomes any effort to de escalate the region. the american president,

argile widely said that he welcomes any effort to help put an end to the game and he wore to the saw the war against him. but when it comes to israel, israel is, ah, seems to be alarmed by the green man 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, for some different players in the region against the western union barrels. and we see that russia, china hockey, ron, and now he wants our tribal saudi arabia. it jumping on the bandwagon and he's

trying to our foreign vis, unified alliance against the wes unilateralism. i will see what will happen in the future. we did hear from wang when executive dean of china is chung young institute for financial studies. says the number of countries currently trying to distance themselves from us policies is growing. it's very important, eventually not only middle east about also china fall in china. hopes that to not only the 2 countries also all countries in the middle east could develop and by themselves for washington. they should at least think then help and why. now, in a lot more and more people never have to washington any more, any longer. you as a main driver of deal legion know inc. deputy and conflict on the middle east. also eastern europe because the

pastor 40. yes. the u. n. a. have states has launched a lot of was in the middle east, at least a one meeting that people have died under the fi of the united states. so now we're the only people know the world very clearly. so called the germany of the state to be and as soon as possible, the shock waves have begun to ripple across the financial world following the collapse of a california based silicon valley bank. it is the 2nd largest divides of financial institution in american history. for my treasury secretary has issued a stock warning saying that without immediate government intervention, the entire venture capital sector could be wiped out. it certainly is going to have very substantial consequences for silicon valley, for the economy of

a whole. they sure, ah sector which has been dynamic unless i, the government is able to assure that this situation is work through wes vps wide spread exposure provided financing for almost half of american venture back technology businesses. among the top 20 us commercial banks that had $209000000000.00 in total assets at the end of last year. so by the end of the day, this collapse does have global implications. never portly, some brazilian firms with more than $10000000.00 in a bank, they've lost it all. and that may just be the tip of the iceberg. as s v b also has branches in india, china, and all across europe. in fact, in the u. k, more than a 180 companies penned the letter to the british government, asking for help. the loss of depos as has the potential to cripple the sector and

said the eco system back 20 years. many businesses will be sent to invalids for liquidation overnight. this crosses will start on monday, and so we call on you to prevent it now. or parallels are being drawn to the start of the 2008 global financial crisis that was triggered by the fall of what was america's 5th largest investment bank. best turns its exposure to the subprime mortgage fiasco led to the so called great recession and started a domino effect leading to more business failures. now, a recession in the us economy was also seen as a key factor in the crisis. and then attempt to slow the economic downturn, the federal reserve, significantly cut interest rates. but due to the loss of revenue and declining market confidence, more banks began to fail. now, the layman brothers, i was the most famous institution to collapse. and interestingly enough, the person who directed its financial operations also. so there's a chief administrative officer for silicon valley bank, golden,

global currency analyst. chris hard says the american and european economies are facing a recession. and a global economic crisis may very well. the cost of that extended period of siri, interest rates, and mulligan capital. already we seeing yield hoops included in the us. european central yield the inverted field trips already attending, that's the u. s. economy, the european economy, et cetera, is going to go into recession. if not already in recession, that when she had such a large capital flows into sub optimal projects, you're going to find more and more bad dates coming up in the system and more and more. the closer to appendix coming through for a would look, a city would say when needs to be cautious, it doesn't necessarily say we're hitting for another level financial crisis,

but certainly the dates are bigger. the bullet bell allocation of capital is most of the possibility of another global crisis. so i just saw some of the top stories from this hour and from the week for the weekly program here, we're not international. thanks so much for sharing some of your sunday with us hair in moscow. it's been a busy week, so will highlight some more of the big stories when we were at the top of the out with. while most of us think that sy fi films are merely fantasy, there are though to try to push the limits of technology in the human body to make those fantasies are reality. bio hackers are those want to hack their bodies and minds in scientific and technological advances to modify their own bodies and push the limits of human biology. missing fluids using technology to optimize and augment the body and also drugs to expand the mind. smart and dr. or neutral base

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