the who's the headlines on the international. thousands of protesters take to the streets in mold, over demanding the country's leader, resign. authorities crammed down on the wave of demonstrators continues to converge, and the country's capital paging a point. this new defense minister who also happens to be under us sanctions. the countries president changing thing makes history being elected for a 3rd consecutive term. also ahead for you, long time regional rivals, iran and saudi arabia agreed to resume diplomatic relations and reopened their embassies. it's a big move with significant implications, as a multi polar world continues to blossom and still come just a bit later in this program. the

protest gripping georgia this week, as the political opposition calls for the parliament resignation. here on the program, we break down what kicked off the tensions, but also the role that foreign actors has been the whitley down the top stories of the week and this hours main headlines. it's so good to have you with us for the sunday weekly program on our mold opens have been hitting the streets to demand the resignation of the countries president, my son do, and other top government officials. the protest kicked off in the country's capital on sunday. and has been met with a lauren foresman crackdown as a one local journalist. filed this report for us. 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 did the stabilize 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. protective say they're angry with the government's failure to keep its word and for ignoring the problem is the country the country is

a facing right now blew lawsuit procedures. so i came out to protest because our government does not keep its promises price his aisle 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. thank in the numbers. actually, moldova is one to solve our issues ourselves. it's true, there are a lot of pensioners at the protest 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. do you agree with you when we came here to defend the justice of a republic of moldova, we stand up against corruption. we want our mold open language to be preserved. although as a 1000 year history, our own language, and now we're being told we must use romanian language. speaking just a bit earlier with professor at the institute of european studies in belgrade stefan diet. now he says, the mold open government's rhetoric against moscow, essentially, blaming moscow full this unrest. he says,

actually the allegations again, moscow a helping to fuel the demonstration. 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, a son 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 doors towards moscow. what though it was most going just 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 small, 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 china's key political event, it's called a 2 sessions, has certainly seen several fresh appointments to the government. a new defense minister, lee shang food tech took up his post. today, i should say. and the official though has been under us sanctions since 2018 for allegedly buying military equipment from russia. so we'll hand it over now to see g t n correspondent, jo josh shin, who says the fact that the minister is sanction doesn't bode very well for the prospect of well restoring dialogue between beijing and washington dispos by trade friction. since your political tensions, that's an i mean 5 years ago china? yes. we're still maintaining to clar 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

u. s. officials or he's a u. s. counterpart. so we are not expecting on 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 a creed, 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 in the countries new premier, lee chang was sober. also a fresh appointment this week he previously served as a secretary of the chinese communist party in shanghai. the premier combination was supported by gigi and ping, who recently made history as 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 show 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, eugene, ping, take this oath. la, during the session the chinese foreign minister expressed hope that the e. u will embrace what he called quote, strategic independence from the u. s. after the end of the conflict in ukraine, he added it's the west to which is escalating the conflict while pursuing his own agenda all the while, as he says undermining china's proposed peace settlement. 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 cream crisis to serve a certain geopolitical agenda. china's foreign minister, other than washington is disrespecting beijing. sovereignty of course, attentions rose last august when the than house faith and nancy pelosi ignored all the warnings and still pay an official visit. a tie, one spot to shop response from beijing and even prompted large scale military drills all around the island. the minister pointed out the hypocrisy of the u. s. position saying that while washington respects the territorial integrity of ukraine in disregard. 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? what cowardly formulated in a plan for the destruction of taiwan. but russia is our deputy foreign minister. so dear rap cove says that bilateral ties with china driving the u. s. in its allies around the world. crazy. it delivered his comments in an exclusive interview to us here at archie that you didn't, 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. 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 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 i turning out of the conflict in ukraine and we understand a 3 dead and 15 wound including 2 children off the key of shell. the city of put a basque that's in the loop. ganske region, a local supermarket and to petrol stations were hit according to local authorities . the reports also say the stripe was carried out with american supplied high mas rocket launchers. the local head of the region is called this a tragic incident. a ukrainian terrorist attack intended to cause maximum damage to civilians, as well as comes after another strike sunday on a residential area. in barnett severely damaging several homes for the rush and

armed forces. as it struck key military infrastructure i targets, i should say, in several ukrainian cities on thursday, including in the capitol. now, according to the russian ministry of defense, the operation was in response to the terrorist acts carried out in russia's brilliance border region by ukrainian forces earlier this month. meanwhile, in our off score, so known as back move russian forces in our belly, a kilometer from the city center. 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 social media shows wagner soldiers replacing ukrainian flag with their own on top of a russian monument in the eastern part of our troubles. this comes as washington now is trying 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 i previous reports labeled that city as key and strategic the narrative now suggests the stronghold is not so important. it's just a bit of 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 the most it is not strategically important. it could lead to the full, slowly and can come and talk because well, the 2 most important cities in the dawn bus 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 gotta 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 to 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 of the rolling party, a sense of back of the draw floor and a bit of stop the violent protests that erupt it in the nation's capital. ah,

thousands took the streets against the so called foreign agent bill, claiming it will come down on western news outlets and engineers. despite it bearing striking similarities to an already existing u. s. law american officials even threatened georgia with sanctions. though the government reacted to the protest as demands by canceling the bill and releasing those who had been detained crowds. it continued to gather all around the national parliament building. and russia's foreign minister says that events in georgia have disturbing parallels to the ukrainian, my dad, who 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. where despite official saying they dropped, the legislation protectors have now demanded the parliament's resignation. latest mass protests taking place? well, just in the past, 48 hours as it is 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 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 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 the scene violence erupt, protesters throwing molotov cocktails and rocks and objects of police building barricades. and they've been 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 gassed 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 in, in for the protests and denouncing the part of the parliament support for this law . but other in the program i was talking to serve you in historian and writer,

and the boyish knowledge. now, according to him, he says the western stones, on the george and unrest where he calls it a case of double standards. if the vast majority of lawmakers in the parliament vote in favor of the law, how is that not democracy? i mean, either georgia has a state in which there are rules and procedures 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 or whatever. but it's definitely not a sovereign democracy. and yet, here they are denouncing this is a russian law and saying this is against their european values. but european union has harsher laws for people they regard to before and agents and they've literally censored and band and confiscate a property of people that they consider to be interfering. the americans themselves are inaccurate for us against political opponents and dissident. so and then do you have the u. s embassy? think oh, this is an attack on democracy. what gives if you still attack when democracy, why?

why do you have your own law? why do you keep the forces lloyd home, you could possibly be that this law is terrible when enact that in georgia. but great when it acts in washington, dc on friday, bricks, hopeful candidates, iran and saudi arabia found common ground, agreeing to resume diplomatic relations. and even to reopen their embassies. the whole deal was actually broken by bricks member china, senior officials in the middle eastern countries. i went to beijing to help bridge the divide that alex now explaining exactly what paved the way for rebuilding their old friendship. a talks this time have fully combed through the merits of the disputes between saudi arabia and iran, and explore 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 of china has provided favorable conditions for rich and

disagreement. is a 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, your on firmly supports the relevant initiatives. well, the reason they cons between we are going to ron of has become a hot topic across the world with many world leaders starting to react to the issue are well started from iran. the wanting foreign minister i hear of the lawyer has said that vi did we such agreement will build a 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 neighborliness with its neighbors, including with we are, with saudi arabia. we all itself has also reacted to the issue of them. officials from the saudi king there are said that they will try to continue this path and

appealed floss with these romker problems of iran, as they believe that this will lead to more stability in the reject 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 clos between the 2 arch rivals. the long term are tribal step one embryo. this is a major step towards china's ok. stronger role individual needs to show that china is interested in the italy's politics and in the we just economy short on cash. gresh, 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. yet read of external influence and truly have in their hands 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 meant to rob united states said that it welcomes any effort to deescalate the region. the american president, our joe vital said that he welcomes any effort to help put an end to the eminent war to the solar war against him. but when it comes to israel, israel is, ah, seems to be alarmed by the green man job, or the officials in israel have 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 chair, ron china is now interested in bringing different voices and different forces

together in the eastern bloc. attracted unit are different for, for some different players in the region against the western union barrels. and when she got russia, china, iran, and now he wants our tribal saudi arabia, it jumping on the bandwagon. and he's trying to our forum, this unified alliance against the west soon and animals. and i will see what will happen in the future. well, we heard from our wiring when executive dean of china's chung young institute for financial studies, now he says the number of countries trying to distance themselves from u. s. policies continues to grow. it's a very important you bench in the only middle east about also in china, foreign policy china hoax there to not only the 2 countries, but also all the countries in the middle east could develop into by themselves or washington. they should at least rethink then. why. now in the won't,

they are more and more people are never a chance to washington any, any longer u. s. s a main joy of for you know, instability and conflict. not only. ready middle east, about also in eastern europe, because in the past 40 years, the united states has launched a lot of was in, you know, walked in middle east, at least a one meeting that people have died under the fi of the united states. so now where the only people know the world clearly so called he germany of the art he stays due to be. and as soon as possible, shock waves have begun to ripple across the financial world, following the collapse of the california based silicon valley bank. it's the 2nd

largest demise of a financial institution in u. s. history. a former treasury secretary has issued a start warning, saying that without immediate a 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 the whole nature sector, which has been dynamic unless the government is able to assure that this situation is worked through well. s b, b 's. widespread exposure provided financing for almost half of the 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, of the collapse has global implications. reportedly, some brazilian firms with more than $10000000.00 in that bank last at all. that,

that may just be for now the, just the tip of the iceberg as f, b, b. so i should say also has branches in india, china, and across europe. in the u. k. more than $180.00 companies pendant letter to the british government, offering it to immediately step in the loss of deposits, has the potential to cripple the sector and said the eco system back 20 years, many businesses will descend into involved for liquidation overnight. this crosses will start on monday, and so we call on you to prevent it. now the parallels are being drawn to the start of the 2008 global financial crisis. so that was triggered by the fall of what was america's 5th largest investment bank. best turns exposure to the subprime mortgage fiasco led to the so called great recession and started a domino effect leading to more business failures. now, of recession in the us, a call to me was also seen as a key factor in the crisis. in an attempt to slow the economic downtime, the federal reserve significantly cut interest rates due to the loss of revenue and

declining market confidence. small banks began to fail while lehman brothers probably one of the most famous institutions to collapse. interestingly enough, the very person who directed its financial operations and also guess what, the chief administered officer for that of the silicon valley bank. golden global currency analysis. chris hard says the american and european economies are facing a recession. but now a global economic crisis could very well be next because of that extended period of siri, interest rates, and bellicose the capital. already we seeing yield trips in liberty, in the us, european cetera. you'll inverted field trips already or tending that the u. s. economy, the european economy, et cetera, is going to get interesting if not already in recession. and that when you buy, she had such a lot of capital flows into sub optimal project. you're going to find

more and more benefits coming up in the system and more and more positive appendix coming through with not a strictly would say what needs to be cautious. it doesn't necessarily say we're hitting for another level financial crisis, but certainly the dates are big malik. bell, allocation of capital is most of the and the possibility of another global crisis in what's been called a thinly veiled swipe. but china, the journal of the u. s. southern command, lower richardson has claimed, but washington's adversaries are expanding the influence in latin america by extracting resources from the so called lithium triangle. this region is 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, from their people that are trying to deliver these democracies that are trying to deliver for their people. well, she went on to allege that china is expanding its influence in latin america by manipulating governments with predatory investment practices. speaking in front of a congressional committee, she added that china was winning the tenders for major infrastructure projects without any western or other international bidders. and gloria the river, a coordinator of the cuba and venezuela solidarity committee says the u. s. is struggling to adapt to the steadily emerging multi polar world. since even before the monroe doctrine, in 1823, 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 swale, i believe young, 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 and 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 gazelle. and to believe that this is a challenge to the united states. the world does not belong to you or that just by wrap it out for me. role re.