ah ah, the headlines on our team international thousands of protesters to take to the streets in moldova, demanding, the country's leader resigned. authorities clamped down on a wave of demonstrators right now, still converging the countries capital facing appointed new defense minister who also happens to be under us sanctions. countries. president gigi pink makes history being elected for a 3rd consecutive also ahead for a long time regional rivals. iran and saudi arabia agreeing to resume diplomatic relations and re open their embassies. it's a move with big implications, as the multi polar world continues to blossom and just a touch. later in this i was program o protest, griffin, georgia, this week,

as the political opposition colds for the parliament's resignation. the program here at r t c. we break down what spock the tensions, but also the role forward. actives i've been playing with highlighting the top stories of the week and this was main headlines. it's a great to have you with us with this traditional sunday weekly program went out to you to national. so, mold opens have taken to the streets to demand the resignation of the country. president, maya john, do and other talk government officials. the protests kicked off in the countries capital sunday and have been met with a law enforcement crackdown. we have this report for now from a local john last. oh, 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 and parliament, marina caliber has just said that this is the 1st case in 30 years. authorities have a lawless li, prohibited residents from attending rallies protests to say they're angry with the government's failure to keep it's wood and for ignoring the problems the currency.

the country is well currently entrenched in lawsuit procedures swore i came out to protest because our government does not keep its promises price. his all gets in higher, especially on energy. the government promises to raise salaries and pensions, but promises are not kept. the government does nothing, so this is how we're going to achieve justice in the one that says li madeau van's want to solve our issues ourselves. it's true. there are a lot of pensioners at protests because the pension is scanty and electricity prices are growing more expensive. people are right. no one can violate our right to protest as our government does right now. with what we came here to defend the justice of a republic of mo baba, we stand up against corruption. we want our moldova language to be preserved, although as a 1000 year history, our own language. and now we're being told we must use romanian language. i was speaking earlier to a professor of the institute of european studies in belgrade as stefan guyot shoe says that the mold oven governments rhetoric against moscow, essentially,

blaming moscow for the unrest. well, those allegations are also helping to fuel the demonstrations. i think dad's dead 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 maya sand who 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 though it was most going a couple of weeks ago. ah my son who came out with the theory that serbian citizens are involved in conspiracy with moscow against against mal moldova. 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 coffin. that is going on but it's good to have you with us for the weekly. so china's key political event. it's called the 2 sessions . so i seen several fresh appointments to the government. a new defense minister lea shine food, taking his post today. at the official though has been under us sanctions since 2018 for allegedly buying military equipment from russia. so we'll hand it over to this report now from c g t n correspondent joe josh. and who says the fact that the minister is sanction does not bode particularly well for the future. and the idea of restoring dialogue between both beijing and washington. despite by trade friction since your political tensions back then, i mean 5 years ago china, they use tools were still maintaining to claw matic 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. and sanctions, he would not have

a decent meeting with any us officials or he's a u. s. counterpart. so we are not expecting on the leaders meeting a 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 dialogue mechanism, which would not lead to any better environment for the bi retires. so i think our, the washington has to consider if it has to mix some moves towards that in the countries new premier lee chang was also a fresh appointment. this week he previously served as the secretary of the chinese communist party and shanghai. the premier nomination was supported by gigi ping, who recently made history of china's 1st president to be elected for a 3rd consecutive terms and following his re election. g 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 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 is eugene ping. take this oath, la, during the session, the chinese foreign minister express hope that the e u will embrace what he called quote strategic independence from the united states . soft to 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 undermining china's proposed piece plan. 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 geopolitical agenda. a china as foreign minister either that washington is disrespecting beijing sovereignty. of course tensions arose last august when then how speaker nancy pelosi ignored all warnings and paid an official visit. a tie one sponsor shop response from beijing and prompted large scale military drills all around that island of the minister pointed out the hypocrisy of the u. s. position where he says that while washington respects the territorial integrity of ukraine, it disregards the fact that taiwan is an integral part of china. that moment he shirt from will, 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 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? russia as a deputy foreign minister, so gave it up golf. he says that bilateral ties with china airs, driving the u. s. in its allies around the world. crazy. he said this sir, to us here at ot, during an exclusive interview. i cheap and i many guns of this book would obviously americans are concerned that 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. 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 are driven by the desire to ensure a stable development in a prosperous future for our states in our peoples. 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 i to ukraine now where at least one civilian has been killed in a ukrainian artillery strike on a residential area. and the city of no, via a huff that's in rushes for to san region by the attack took place in the early hours of this morning. this sunday morning, leaving home stores in the power lines destroyed. the shattered glass and blood could be seen in the aftermath of the strike, which local officials say was using weston supplied weapons. that comes after another attack sunday, which are poorly used. americans applied high mas rockets on

a residential area in don. yet sca severely damaging several homes now the, the russian armed forces says it struck key military infrastructure targets and several ukranian cities on thursday, including the capital. and according to the russian ministry of defense, the operation was in response to terrorist acts carried out in russia's brianne sc border region by ukrainian forces earlier this month. meanwhile, in our trauma source, going to known as back moot, russian forces had just now a mere kilometer away from the center of the city. that's according to the chief of the wagner. private military group. the area has been the focus of intense fighting for months with the entrenched ukrainian troops now almost fully surrounded. and this unverified footage circulating on line shows, wagner soldiers replacing the ukrainian flag with their own on top of a russian monument in the eastern part of our mosque. this commons, as washington now tries to down play the significance of that 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 or bore to label the city as key and the strategic the narrative now suggests the stronghold is not so important and really mostly only holds a bit of a symbolic value. russian forces try to take the strategic town of batman. the city itself is not that strategically important, which all earlier in the strategic type of move it is not strategically important. it could lead to the full, slowly and can crime at all 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 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 a poo poo it, i think would be a demoralizing factor for the ukrainians at this point. if they work or just to get up and, and leave, and you look at the territory, that's there, that significant territory. if the russians take it back over 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 draw floor and a bit to stop the von and protests that erupted in the nation's capital. ah

thousands took to the streets against the so called foreign agent bill, claiming it would clamp down on western news outlets and n g o's. despite it very striking similarities to an already existing u. s. law. american officials actually threatened georgia with sanctions. and though the government reacted the protest as the bonds by canceling the bill and releasing those who had been detained, crowds of continue to multiply around the national parliament building. russia's foreign minister says that events in georgia have disturbing parallel to the

ukrainian my dan uprising of 2040 very similar to cubes 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. or this by the visual saying they dropped the legislation, protect us, have demand at the parliament's resignation. latest mass progress taking place on friday is on his donald quarter. now report 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 lags 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 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, putting her support in for the protests and denouncing that part of the parliament support for this long. of georgia is well known for having close ties to numerous

non governmental organization and g o's. by putting forward though, the foreign agent build, george and parliament went up against a very powerful and very well healed lobby. it's a monkey story with a lot of angles to learn more about it in the arts. he don't come canal here on this program. the west is reportedly solving its electronic waste. it's used by shipping all of the stuff to africa. despite the coals at our last year as a cop $26.00 climate conference to stop the practice, which some have equated to environmental racism. now we have this report from a mom, the a t n o who explains what kenya is doing to tackle the problem in that country. electronic worst is becoming a significant environmental concern in kenya and the rest of the african continent . the amount of view is generated on your knees exponentially growing with the equally usage of electronic gadgets. while huge gulf exist in the properties plus

all of the ways with only 4 lines as recycling companies in a country of nearly $50000000.00 people. most of it often ends up in the landfills . our italy says mercury lead and other toxic substances. one of the kenya's u. s. companies elite is trying hard to review the swelling tide, looking forward to re pop up the electronic trash, u. s. t. and we should have king is and, and government or new fisher, which was started in the year 2015 and got registered in 2016. ah. our core business is electronic waste management fitness, specifically in the form of victor. ah, this is because we realized that these are out of the with being mishandled in the form a 2nd i. so we, we are, is that is of, is a need to thought and one edition about concrete or we, unless among the informal devious contrasts, electronic waste poses detrimental,

had the hover to the canyons on the environment, if not properly addressed these calls for action by the government on this, they coordinate to find proper ways of dealing with the problem. i think this justin's but yet there will be seats and on working around you find a lot of weights and the waste in them. you get his fine ah, he was in them. so the specialness wasn't neatness, bad, and big citizens, and the government is not doing enough in handling that. these was one of the ways . so i think about that we had but this week because you'll find out you'll find they you with why don't you let them out. and now we, a lot of, i'm a vitamin and the humor. let's get more of the issue right now and crossing live to essentially a project manager that is with joseph aaliyah shelf,

the waste electrical and electronic equipment center. very well. welcome to you. so i, thanks so much for joining us there on this program. just straight off the top of my head, if i can ask you, how much should i want to waste to canyons produce themselves and how much of it is coming from other states. thank you very much. according to the us, monday. the 2020. but can you get that? can you generate one for 3 metric for us to be? and this is predicted to grow at the rate between 5 to 15 percent. and majority of the us that is generated in this country. and of course, the electronic device has coming from outside the country either imported as important or. ready imported us 2nd life or 2nd hand progress coming into the country and which are, which are the main countries that are essentially exporting it to,

to the african continent to kenya right now, which countries are the biggest ones? oh, probably been fine. so particular country. but most of the electronic devices coming to the, in the kind of cars that come from developed countries b, u, k, it u, as bid china all over the land. that countries are turning their electronic devices to african continent and kinda being their legit or the biggest economy in east africa. it's also home to many of the kind of devices that of course get to the site. do you think it's at all unfair? in a sense that developed nations that dumping that garbage in that of developing countries or, or is africa or is kenya ok. with this,

i can say that the countries are dumping new devices into the, into, into the after our tenant course. we have the bustle convention that control the trans wondered, movement quiz from developed countries to developing countries. the challenge that we have at the moment is in house or in the in house drug tests or in country legislative families that are the local businessman that protect. so, so the local communities, because some of the trinity is coming to the country, they're not becoming, has become a new devices and the time they become it. we also have 2nd lay devices coming to the country. and within our funnel, maybe one or 2 e s. b come. ready it so when they get into the country, they do not, most of them do not come us us to being dumped. it will have to go into it upon

us as a country, as a nation, to formulate legislative that protect ourselves from the influx of substandard electronic device. and that will be coming from developed countries. for example, some of the devices will be coming in as a donation when it, when i always time dancing, that will not last long. and therefore, if you do not have in house laws that protect us from receiving some devices, them will not be able to control and protect the country and the community and environment from such data. project manager, joseph waste, electrical and electronic equipment center, the project manager, as i said, so good to have you on the program. jose, if i understand it's a big story that requires more time that we have available today, but nonetheless, thank you for getting the word out there. appreciate that. thank you very much. on

friday bricks. hopeful candidates, iran and saudi arabia found common ground, agreeing to resume diplomatic ties, and reopen their embassies in a deal broken by bricks, member china, senior officials from the middle eastern countries help folks in beijing, and the delegates explained what pave the way for the rebuilding of their old friendship i 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 which in this agreement 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. iran firmly supports the relevant initiatives. well,

the reason they talked between we haven't won of has become a hot topic across the world with many world leaders starting to react to the issue are well starting from iran. be wanting foreign minister. i'm here on the learning on has said that a vi did we since agreement will build great capacity for both countries, both for to one and we all. and he has said that it's the policy of the iranian government to tread on the path of good nate earnest with its neighbors, including which we are with saudi arabia. we all itself has also reacted to the issue. officials from the saudi king or a said that they will try to continue this path and appeal to lost with these romker problems of iran, as they believe that this will lead to more stability in the region. agreement was broke her by china. it's a very major step by 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 are tribal step one embryo. this is a major step towards china's of 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. 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 bring our mentor on being out of state,

said that it welcomes any effort to de escalate the region. the american president, our joe biden said that he welcomes an effort to help put an end to the game, and he wore to the soda war against him. 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, for some different players in the region against the western union battles and meshida,

russia, china hockey, ronald, now he wants our tribal saudi arabia, it joined him on the bandwagon and his client, you are for this unified alliance against the wes unilateralism, i will see what will happen in the future. we heard from wine when executive director of china's chung gang institute for financial studies. now he says the number of countries trying to distance themselves from us policies is on the right . it's very important, eventually not only middle east, but also china fall in china hoax that to not only the 2 countries also, all countries in the middle east could develop and by themselves for washington, they should be rethink then. hell. why now in the won't be more and more people never a chance to washington any more, any longer you as a main driver of deal legion know inc. deputy and

conflict on the middle east about also eastern europe. because in the past 40 years, the u. n. a hey, states has launched a lot of it was in the middle used to at least a one meeting. the people have died under the fi of the united states. so now the only people know that the world clearly so called the germany of the days to be and as soon as possible. well, saudi arabia and iran are just some of the latest alliance is being formed as so many countries in the global style. whether it be latin america, the middle east, or asia, a semantic future strategic partnerships that are old, typically positioned against the western ideology of a unique polo world. you can read much more about that at all. you don't come.