you friends, we can work together. ah ah, the headlines on our team international as hundreds of protesters gather in moldova, demanding the country's leader resigned. authorities try to block access to a wave of demonstrators that will continue to converge and the country's capital beijing, the points and new defense minister who also happens to be under us sanctions countries. president gigi paying makes history of being elected for a 3rd consecutive also ahead in this crow. ah protested, gripping georgia, this is the political opposition calls for the parliament's resignation in the program. we break down what's is font the tension, but we also assess the role that foreign actors have been play

with us. tough to find the top picks of the week considering has been such a busy week for your worldwide headline. so let's run down some of the bigger stories of the week and so mold opens have taken to the streets, to demand the resignation of the country. president, my assigned to anti government protests, kicked off from the country's capital sunday and it be met with a harsh law enforcement practice. we have this report from one local john, if we're at the great national assembly square where the protesters have approached people are chanting that the government needs to resign. riot police have now appeared at what began as a peaceful protest. but now we've just witnessed the 1st clashes as the police are responding very aggressively to the protesters. the police have blocked passage so the protesters can't go any further. at the moment the police say that more than 50

people have been arrested. authorities have accused foreign intelligence agencies of organizing the protests in order to destabilize the situation in the country and claims that the rally was specifically organized by russians. special services to police have blocked bus services in betsy, but despite this, the protestors decided to continue on foot to take part in the demonstrations in the countries capital law enforcement claims. the blocking of transport was to prevent what they call an organization of mass riots. a member of the modem in parliament. marina talbert has just said that this is the 1st case in 30 years. authorities have a law. leslie prohibited residents from attending rallies short time ago, i was speaking with a professor at the institute of european studies in belgrade. i sat on guy edge now he says that the mold oven governments are rhetoric, blaming moscow for the demonstrations is dangerous, and it is also fueling the unrest. i think that that, that the main tourist of the, of the vast majority of the population,

regardless. busy of their linguistic or ethnic background is or beast to remain in the country. and the problem that they face is a my asunder and her government that is constantly fueling the fears on one side. and also it is, it is a fueling this a hawkish frederick towards, towards moscow. what the thought it was most going just a couple of weeks ago. ah, my son who came out with theory that serbia citizens are involved in conspiracy with moscow against against mobile law. and this was proven to be wrong. this is quite dangerous. and i honestly hope for both countries to remain a peaceful and neutral in the confidence. dinah, china's key political event called the 2 sessions,

so seen several fresh appointments to the government. for example, new defense minister lee shang food taking his post to day. of the official though has been under un sanctions since 2018 for allegedly buying military equipment from russia. so over now to see g t n correspondent, jo, josh sion who says the fact that the minister is sanctioned does not bode well for the prospect of restoring dialogue between basing and washington despite trade, affliction, since your political tensions back then on. i mean, 5 years ago china, the u. s. tools were still maintaining to clar matic any security dialogue which haven't been seen these days. many chinese new defense minister just appointed to day is now under the u. s. and sanctions. he would not have a decent meeting with any us officials or he's a years counterpart. so we are not expecting the leaders meeting between the 2 sides in terms of, you know, security talks. if you know the new ministries under sanctions,

or you would not provide or create any good atmosphere for the 2 sides to restore the dialogue mechanism, which would not lead to any a better environment for the bi retires. so i think our, the washington has to consider if it has to make some moves towards that change your mind, the country's a new premier. lee chang was also a fresh appointment. this week. he previously served as the secretary of the chinese communist party in shanghai. the premier's nomination was supported by gigi ping, who also recently made history as china's 1st president to be elected for a 3rd consecutive terms. and following his re election, she confirmed his allegiance to the country and its people. or sherry 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 and honest in my duty. you accept the people supervision

and work for a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful. i, eugene pe, take this oath. paula: during the session, the chinese foreign minister expressed hope that the e. u will embrace what he called spoke of quota strategic independence from the united states. after the end of the conflict in ukraine, he added it's the west which is escalating the conflict while pursuing its own agenda all the while. and the mining china's proposed p settlement already are 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 geo political agenda. and while the us does fully support ukraine, china's foreign minister accused washington of disrespecting beijing sovereignty

attention intensified last august. when then the house speaker nancy pelosi ignored old warnings and paid an official visit to taiwan fungus shop for sponsored beijing and prompted large scale military drills all around the island deliver her. the chinese foreign minister pointed out the apparent hypocrisy of the u. s. dance, sang washington respects the territorial 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? well, 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 while cowardly formulated in a plan for the destruction of taiwan, where russia is,

deputy foreign minister. so to carry up cough, he says that bilateral ties with china and driving the u. s. and its allies around the world. crazy. made the comments in an exclusive interview to us 0 doughty i cheat and i 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 continued to develop despite all our enemies attempts to upset them and damage our relations city. the american seemed 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. if we have no

hidden agendas, we are driven by the desire to ensure a stable development in a prosperous future for our states in our people. so, 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 at least one civilian has been killed and a ukrainian artillery strike on a residential area. this in the city of nov. ioc, a hoff guides and rushes out of song region. the attack took place in the early hours of this sunday morning and leaving home stores in the power lines destroyed, a shattered glass and blood could be seen in the aftermath of the strike. a city official say the that a western supplied weapons were used in this attack. well, another morning strike hitting a residential area in don. yes, with homes severely damaged in at least one woman injured. we understand americans of lied. high mas rockets were reportedly used in this. now the russian armed

forces are struck key targets in several ukrainian cities on thursday, including in the countries capital here. according to the russian ministry of defense, the stripes were in response to terrorist acts carried out in raj in russia's or brianne sc border region by ukrainian forces. earlier this month and moscow did that, it successfully had military infrastructure. meanwhile, in our chum off schools and on his back moved russian forces and are just about a kilometer away from the city center that is, according to the chief of the private military group. wagner. the area has been the focus of intense fighting for months with the entrenched ukrainian troops now almost fully surrounded. this unverified footage circulating on line shows, wagner soldiers replacing ukrainian flag with their own on top of a russian monument in the eastern part of august, august. this commons washington now tries to down play the significance of this 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 reporter labeled the city key and strategic the narrative now suggests the stronghold is not so important and really only holds a bit of symbolic value ration 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 the most, it is not strategically important. it could lead to the full, a sloppy and can crime a toss, because well, the 2 most important cities in the dawn 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 access to the rest of dumbass. number 2, you got to keep in mind lloyd. austin oversaw the withdrawal of us troops out of iraq back in 2011 and what correct 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 was us. 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, activists have taken to the streets of paris to show the solidarity with migrants. this comes as the leaders of france and the u. k. held us summit with the refugee crisis of the top of the agenda. and we heard from several french protesters who say the current government policies will simply not 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 come 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 at the border. we have people dying, we have 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 to day is of concern to both france and britain, but in fact, it's an issue for all of your other 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 networks sadie,

mom did is with best. as the u. k. officials are dealing with an increase of migrants coming over from france or the government has proposed a new policy cold, the illegal immigration build. the plan is designed to stop the entry of those coming by boat. however, the language of the bill has been called into question for minister re she soon i can creased concerns when he posted the national slogan, which says migrants would be denied access to the u. k. a modern slavery system. a prominent bbc host took the twitter, comparing the government's plans and language. it used to germany's migration policies of the 19 thirty's. there is no huge influx. we take far, few 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. well, a former football saw gary lenika is it's one of the broadcast as top sports hosts,

but he's now been suspended by the corporation which said his social media activity breached it's impartial, is he guidelines? the decision to remove him sparked a boy caught, not only by his cohorts, but also that potential replacement. and he's far from the only one questioning the governments campaign. going to get me some slaves before it's illegal. the government tech control came by saying, if you get people here, they will have no protection from slavery and unforgivable message. a sentence which shames the country and everything it stands for. it is absolutely disgraceful, complete application of humanity or crossing life. now to discuss it further with phil, make a tim wilson who's joining us on sunday afternoon life program from moscow. very well. welcome to you today. tim, thanks for coming on the program. we appreciate it. hello. i wanted see just to bring up the 1st question for you. if i could, you know, maybe the national campaign to deter migrants from entering the country. maybe it will be successful,

but how do you think the hopefuls might react when they read that they will not be allowed into a, quote, modern slavery system? well, there's more than slavery. issue is a very small. ready part of the, of, of the whole issue and very few, i think, i think 7 percent of the, of the migrants who across the channel in the last 4 years qualify as people who been trafficked for modern slavery and 90 percent of those have qualified for asylum so it's a very small issue. this is a paper tiger that some of. ready the home secretary is dealing with and it's a distraction. the real issue is that we are where we're going to end up with people in this country who are in the state of limbo. they cannot be given asylum because they're not going to be refused. they almost certainly cannot be returned

back. many of them will refuse to go back. i, i think in terms of a. ready practical solution, how do you return people back to a country like i've got this don or yemen. also done, it simply isn't going to work and the route and the random option which is threatened is only going to take $200.00 or $300.00 people, even if it works. and the run the pack. you know, you made the, you made the you drew the issue. ready about gary, linux, and gary lenika use language that perhaps in temperate language about a comparison between the british language at the moment. and the language was by nazi germany during the 1930. will he stops at the 1900 thirty's. so that doesn't include the concentration camps and the holocaust that i think, i think it does include the madagascar plan. and the madagascar plan was one plan

for germany to send jews to madagascar. they want. what was mad against go ahead, fell under german control. ready what one of them conquered bronze so so so so, so there are, there are links the mat against the plan was as absurd as the, when the plan you know, and i, and i think both so, so today and partly because i think of the guilt that we felt in the u. k are not taking proper action in the 1930 is to help people. and indeed in the, in the mid 1900 forties as well the, the u. n. conventions, and particularly the refugee convention was developed and britain was very much behind that. and we are going to, we were going to dismiss much of the, much of the framework of that with these, with this new build illegal immigration, whatever legal bo. but yeah, i don't,

i do apologize. very sorry for jumping in, but you know, you bring up the issue of guilt for example. and i think you do raise a fairly pertinent angle here. i mean, just for example, what do you think about, you know, the bbc's decision to suspend gary linux? because you know, all is all of this fall out. now, i mean, you've heard of the moto john, listen author jeremy clarkson. he's come out saying i don't necessarily agree with gary lenika, but he has a right to the freedom of speech. jeremy clarkson has the has let me use that right on many and occasionally as i, as indeed have other pundits in the b, b. c. like lord sugar, for example, and gary live. linda had said things in the past. i think he said to me, i've been call them when, when, when, when he's saying those sort of things he's not concentrated when he says something against the present government, the present conservative government. he finds himself in deep water in suspended. i

think this 4 issues. so the 1st issue is, was his comment reasonable? i think actually probably not. i think the comparison is with europe as a whole and the language of europe as a whole during the 1900. so just because britain was certainly not innocent of using races, language and being quite, quite, quite difficult when it came to immigration, we need to go back to the 95. aliens act horrible and, and that's why i think we have this guilt which, which then develops into the refugee convention and so on, which we were very much behind. so that's point 1.2, could he be allowed to express his opinions? well, so many other people have and i just, you know, not indoor as the other day expressed an opinion about her grade and she wasn't here. she was in question, she the, the b,

b c radio for allows her to get away with that. and so, so, so, so there's nothing but freedom of speech and then in terms of the suspension, was it, is it that i think probably the answer is no. but was it conducted honorably? absolutely not. initially the baby said to be a mutual decision. it clearly was and that was clearly as it would have imposition . right. and, and that is what led to the walk out of all the sports presenter. as i was quite, quite impressive when you think about a line up for a program that's been going on for at least a couple of decades. a, tim, you know, when it comes to the fall out for linda or even for students as well. i don't think it's going to quieten down anytime soon. i feel make a to wilson. i wish we have more time for this. we don't, but it's been an absolute pleasure having you on the program today. thank you very my pleasure to be there. thank you so much. thank you very much, robert mass protest against

a bill that would have required foreign agents to come out of the shadows, gripping georgia all week. the ruling party has since abandoned the draft. lauren a bit to stop the bottom. protests that abrupt it in the nation's capital. ah, with the thousands due to the fruits against the so called a foreign agent bill, claiming it were clamped down on western news outlets and, and jo's had despite it, bearing striking similarities to an already existing u. s. law american officials even threatened georgia with sanctions. and though the

government reacted to protested demands by canceling the bill and releasing those who had been detained. crowds have continued to multiply near the national parliament. russia's foreign minister says that events in georgia, a disturbing parallel to the ukrainian my dan uprising, the 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. now, despite the official saying they've dropped the legislation protectors have demanded the parliament's resignation, let us mass protests taking place on friday as art is donald quarter. now reports

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 weapon 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 draft law that the georgia parliament passed that would see on 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've and 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 i did 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 in, in for the protest and denouncing the part the parliament support for this long me oh, georgia is well known of having close ties to numerous non governmental organizations by putting forward the whole foreign agent bill, the georgia parliament, it went up against a very powerful and well field lobby. you can read much more about this very murky story, t thought for now and what's being called a thinly veiled swipe at china. the general of the u. s. southern command laura richardson has claimed washington's adversaries are expanding their influence in latin america by extracting resources from the so called lithium triangle. this region as full of resources and i worry about the malign activity of our

adversaries taking advantage of that, looking like they're investing when they're really extracting. we have the lithium triangle in this region, 60 percent of the world's lithium argentina, bolivia. sheila have this and it's taking resources away from these countries and from there are people that are trying to deliver these democracies that are trying to deliver for their people. well, she went onto a ledge, the china is expanding its influence in latin america by manipulating governments in the region with predatory investment practices. speaking in front of a congressional committee, she out of the china is winning the canvas for major infrastructure projects without any western or other international bids. and gloria, or even a coordinator of the cuba and venezuela sorta therapy committee says the us is actually struggling to adapt to new geo political realities. since even before the monroe doctrine is 823, the united states has always lost on latin america as their backyard. both the

land and the resources of raw materials. but what is changed now is that there are countries like cuba, vast swell, ha, bolivia, which have struggled to create progressive socialist societies in order for not so much foreigners to take their resources. but for the people of those countries to have control over their resources. for real development of the people you must wants to maintain the domination vetted game at the end of world war 2. and that doctrine of domination of the world has never let up. and now we see powers like china, russia, as long as the emerging countries that have rested, control resources with their land, back to the people who love and as willa to brazil. and to believe that this is a challenge to the united states. the world does not belong to all right,

just by wrapping up this, i was addition of the weekly life from moscow and aussie international. thank you for sharing a time with us here on the russian capital stock ship busy week for your worldwide headlines will at the top of the hour bring a new list of all of a fix, but also headlines from this afternoon as well. to appreciate you joining us with me one welcome to well to part being able to see and accept that others may have or will you fundamentally different from your own was once considered a benchmark of psychological maturity,

which is evident to lacking in contemporary foreign affairs. with the western earlier assumption that economic development would do way with geopolitical difference is now proven wrong. is a clash of great powers, inevitable? well, to discuss that i'm now joined by you being senior fellow at the russian studies center at the east china normal university. and senior fellow, they show high association of american studies. dr. you, it's great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you for having me here. now let me start with an issue that is very close to my heart, and my hope this is a conflict in ukraine. as you are here in your articles and these vast and theories of the russian chinese alliance. i greatly exaggerated that beijing is taking a distinctly neutral position, but do you think the chinese americans do.