a at a a thousands of protesters take to the streets in moldova, demanding, the nation's leader, resign. as authorities clamp down on the way the demonstration traders, converting on the capital. beijing appoint this new defense minister who's under us sanctions. as the countries president choosing thing makes history being elected for a 3rd consecutive term long time regional rivals are wrong, and saudi arabia agreed to resume diplomatic relations and reopen their embassies. a mood with significant implications, as the multi polar world continues to blossom. and later in the program,

oh, mass protest group to georgia this week, as the political opposition calls for the parliament's resignation. our team breaks down what sparked the tensions and the role foreign actors played with coming to live from the russian capital. this is the week week on our t international. i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories of this week and today. welcome to the program. mo bits have jake industries to demand the resignation of the country. president, maya, sand do, and other top government officials. the protest kicked off and the country's capital on sunday and have been met with a law enforcement cracked out local journalists and us this report. 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 protesters 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 lawless li, prohibited residence from attending rallies, protest her say they are angry with the government for failing to keep its word and ignoring the problems the country is facing right now. blew lawsuit procedures. so i came out to protest because our government does not keep its promises. prices i'll get 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. unlimited, sadly, 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 have him he, when we came here to defend the justice of a republic of mobile, re 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 here and say professor

steven guyette, she believes that the moldova in governments, rhetoric against russia is dangerous. and that it is feeling unrest. i think 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 faced is my son do. and who governments that is constantly fueling the fears on one side. and also it is, it, is it fueling this hawkish frederick towards, towards moscow? what the thought it was most going just a couple of weeks ago, my assumption came out with the theory that serbian citizens are involved in conspiracy with moscow against, against mobile dover. 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 conflict that is going on. china's key political event name. the 2 sessions has seen several fresh appointments to the government that includes the nations new defense minister, who notably has been under us, sanctioned since 2018 for allegedly buying military equipment from russia. we heard earlier from a c g t n correspondent, who says the fact that the minister is sanctioned does not bode well for the prospect restoring dialogue between beijing and washington. despite i trade of friction that your political tensions back then and i mean 5 years ago china, you us, 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 you as 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 dialog mechanism, which would not lead to any a better environment for the bi retires. so i think are the washington has to consider if it has to make some moves towards that into all the countries, new premier was also a fresh appointment this week. a previously served as the secretary of the chinese communist party in shanghai. the premier's nomination was afforded by shing paying, who recently made history, i china's 1st president to be elected for a 3rd consecutive term following his reelection, president shake and firm his allegiance to the country and its people washer.

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, 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. during the session, the chinese foreign minister expressed hope that the e. u will embrace what he called strategic independence from the u. s. after the end of the conflict in ukraine, he added it's the west which is escalating the conflict while pursuing his own agenda all the while undermining china's proposed settlement 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 cream crisis to serve a certain geo political agenda. china's foreign minister added that washington is disrespecting beijing sovereignty tensions rose last august. when house figure nancy pelosi ignored all warnings and paid an official visit to taiwan, sparking a sharp response from beijing and prompting large scale military girls around the island. the minister pointed out that walker c u. s. physician, saying that while washington respects the territorial integrity of ukraine, a disregard the fact that taiwan is an undeniable part of china. and he should go, the chinese people have every right to ask. why does the us talk about respecting sovereignty and territorial integrity and ukraine? what disrespecting china sovereignty and territorial integrity on the taiwan question? why does u. s. gas china not to provide weapons to russia while 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 rash as deputy foreign minister says, bilateral ties with china are driving the u. s. and its allies around the world. crazy. he delivered his comments and an exclusive interview here on our tea achieve limited 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 dick tie an american hedge morning. 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 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'm turning now to the conflict in ukraine. 3 people had been killed and 15 injured, including 2 children due to shelling by keith's forces in logan's region. a local supermarket and 2 petrol stations were head according to local authorities. the reports also say that the stripe was carried out using americans applied high mars rocket launchers. the local head of the region has called this tragic incident, a ukrainian terrorist attack intended to cause maximum damage to civilians. this

comes after another strike sunday on a residential area and on as severely damaging several homes and leaving one woman wounded. the russian armed forces say it struck key military infrastructure targets in several ukrainian cities on thursday, including in the countries capital t at, according to the russian events ministry. the operation was in response to terrorist acts carried out in russia's, brianna border region or ukrainian forces earlier this month. meanwhile, in our to me off, also known as back move russian forces are just now a kilometer from the center of the city. according to the chief of the wagner group, the area has been the focus of intense fighting for months with the cranium. troops now almost fully surrounded. those unverified photos circulating on social media shows wagner soldiers replacing the ukrainian flag with their own on top of a russian monument in the eastern part of the city. those come to washington now try to downplay the significance of the key city. the fall of the bus moved 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 well, previous reports labeled the city as key and strategic. the narrative now suggests the stronghold is not so important and mostly hold 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 create tools because, well, the 2 most important cities in the dawn bass there is little strategic value. it's not a military hub. there'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 was us. i don't think it said insignificant and just approve put, i think would be a demoralizing factor for the ukrainians at this point. if they 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 last protest against the bill that would have required foreign agents to come out of the shadows have gripped georgia all week. the ruling party has since abandon the drop law in a bid to stop the violent protests that erupt. it in the nation's capital.

ah, ah thousands strict industries against the so called foreign agent bill, claiming it was clamped down on western news outlets and n g o decided bearings, striking similarities to an existing u. s. law. american officials threat in georgia with sanctions. though the government reacted to protesters demands they cancelling the bill and releasing those who had been detained. crowds have continued to gather near the national parliament building. russia, foreign minister says that events in georgia have disturbing parallels to the ukrainian might on uprising in 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 succession to the you. in general, this hypocrisy is, of course, obvious. this by the official saying they dropped the legislation, protesters had demanded the parliaments resignation. the latest mass protest took place on friday arches. donald quarter reports from the ground behind me, the parliament building where thousands of protesters have gathered for the 3rd night in a row. they just launched a new demand to the government, demanding the resignation of the parliament. this is after both of the main demands

of the protesters were actually met by the parliament. the 1st one being the release of all protesters web and detained throughout these protests and riots. and the 2nd one being the rescinding of this law that started these protests in the 1st place. that of course, was a law 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 the, in for the protests and denouncing the part of the parliament support for this law

. serbian historian and writer, no boys, your mallet says the western stance on the georgian unrest is 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 call, and 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 the european values. but european union has harsher laws for people they regard to before and agents. and they've literally censored and band and confiscated property of people the day, you know, considered to be interfering. the americans themselves are and acting foreign against political opponents and discipline. so, and then you have the u. s embassy. think this is an attack on democracy. what

gives if you still attack on democracy, why? why do you have your own law? why do you keep the forces law at home? you could possibly be that this law is terrible when in acted in georgia, but great when it acts in washington dc. on friday we're hopeful candidate, or ron and saudi arabia found common ground, agreeing to resume diplomatic relations and reopen their embassies. and in deal brokered by bricks, member china, senior officials for the middle eastern countries held talks in beijing cooper to divide. the delegates explain what paved the way for rebuilding bilateral ties. i the 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. this 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. you're 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. i'm here on the long on has said that vi did we sit, 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, re, 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 appeal to floss 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 yahoo 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 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 going on to rob. united states said that it welcomes any effort to be escalate the region. the american president, our joe biden said that he welcomes any effort to help put an end to the eminent war to the saudi 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 in different forces.

together in the eastern bloc. attracted unit are different for some different players in the region against the western union barrels. and we see that russia, china hockey, ronald, now, he wants our tribal saudi arabia, it jumping on the bandwagon, and he's trying to r for this unified alliance against the west soon and animals. and i will see what will happen in the future. we heard earlier from the executive dean of china's chung yang institute for financial studies. he says the number of countries trying to distance themselves from u. s. policies continue to grow. it's very important, eventually not only middle east, but also in china foreign policy. china hoax that to not only the 2 countries, but also all the countries in the middle east could develop into by themselves or washington. they should have the leasing, then say, why now in the won't,

they are more and more people are never a chance to washington any, any longer usa, some main drive, the all new regional instability and conflict, not only in middle east, about also in eastern europe because in the past 40 years, the united states has launched. a lot of them was in the, you know, walked in middle east, or at least a one building a 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 they okay. governments latest move crackdown on illegal immigration has been staring at plenty of headlines, prime minister issue. so next burke controversy after

a tweet saying migrants would be denied access to the u. k. the modern slavery system. if you come to the united kingdom illegally, you can't claim asylum. you can't benefit from all more than slavery protections. you can't make spurious, human rights claims yukon, stay the plan as the government's latest response to a record number of people illegally entering the country by boat from france. last year, the authorities signed to deal with rwanda to deport failed asylum seekers there. although the move was halted by the high court, it's all led to one prominent b b c hos. taking to twitter, comparing the government's plans and the language it used to germany's migration policies of the 19 thirty's. there is no huge influx. we take raphael 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 for our football star gary lenika is one of the broadcasters at tops for toes, but he's now been suspended by the corporation which said his social media activity breached it. impartiality guidelines that as it into remove him, sparked to boycott, not only by his co host, but almost all other sports presenters and commentators at the b, b. c. and he's far from the only one questioning the governance campaign. gonna get me some slaves before its legal the government tech control for came by saying if you get people here that will help no protection from slavery and unforgivable message, a sentence which shames the country and everything. it stands for. this is absolutely disgraceful. complete application of humanity. we spoke to an independent journalist from uganda who says the u. k. policy denies asylum seekers,

basic human rights, and that the bbc decision to suspend. gary linux was made because he criticized the government's narrative. the okay government has from the santa that's these refugees. i was saying titled to some benefits they have some race eat, i mean, eat exam. what harold? yes, i'm handling the problem and and fixing what, what exactly do these people want? he said over denying them 2nd rights and freedoms really sees taking us back to the 50s, where every younger is. didn't have the right to appeal on freedom of expression. we don't mobile, pete one is an italian title, men slavery, body. freedom of opinion easily, not only an entitlement over. what do you think what he does, did lisa saying that jeremy's is it simply because what that jesus was saying was not a cause sam or did b, b, c on the waiting one for the course on to other people. so likewise the v

b c should actually make sure that generally zoom, i'm generally how the opinions respected, even as he opinion. he is a reflection of so many other people that don't have platforms just it's what's been called a thinly veiled swipe at china. the general of us southern command laura richardson has claimed that 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,

people that are trying to deliver these democracies that are trying to deliver for their people. she went on to alleged the china, is expanding its influence on latin america by manipulating governments in the region with predatory investment practices. speaking in front of a congressional committee, she added that china is winning the tenders from major infrastructure projects without any western or other international bitters. gloria liver, gloria la riva coordinator of the cuba and venezuela. solidarity committee says the u. s. as struggling to adapt to the steadily emerging multi polar world. since even before the monroe doctrine of 1823, the united states has always looked on latin america as their back yard. both the land and the resources of raw materials. but what is changed now? is that there are countries like cuba, venezuela, olivia, which had 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 that it gave at the end of world war 2. and that doctor, of domination of the world has never let up. and now we see powers like china, russia as those the emerging countries that have rested, control resources with their land back to the people who love us, willa to brazil. and to believe that this is a challenge to united states. the world does not belong to you and that's all for now. be here to check out our tea dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates was a re back here at the top of the hour.