[000:00:00;00] a with thousands of protesters take to the streets in moldova, demanding, the nation's leader resigned as authorities clamped down on the way the demonstrators converting on the capital. beijing appointed new defense minister under u. s. thank ship. has the country's president puting thing makes history being elected for a 3rd consecutive term? for the 1st time in the country's history or rhonda oil ministry announces a plan to issue some $6000000000.00 worth of oil bonds,

which would allow the supply the rules to domestic customers. and later in the program. oh, mass protest group, georgia this week, as the political opposition called the parliament's resignation party breaks down what sparked the tension and the role of foreign actors play with coming to you live from the russian capital? this is the weekly on our international. i'm racial blevins here with the top stories and this week and today. welcome to the program. molto bits have taken to the streets to demand the resignation of the country's president, maya san. do and other top government officials. the protest kicked off in the country's capital on sunday and have been met with a law enforcement crackdown a local journalists and us this report. ah,

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 and parliament. marina talbert has just said that this is the 1st case in 30 years.

authorities have a lawless li, prohibited residents 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. 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 promised as to re salaries and pensions, but promises are not kept. the government does nothing. so this is how we're going to achieve justice, like in the lower numbers as li, 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 in the way we came here to defend the justice of a republic of mo bobo, 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. here pan

cities for faster. steven guy edge believes that the moldova and governments rhetoric against russia is dangerous. and that it is fueling unrest. i think that the interest of the, of the vast majority of the population, regardless of their linguistic or ethnic background is for peace to remain in the country. and the problem that they face is a maya. some do and who governments that is constantly fueling the fears on one side and also it is, it is 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 doevema. 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 nation's 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 v. jan correspondent, who says the fact that the minister is sanctioned does not bode well for the prospect of restoring dialogue between beijing and washington. despite trade friction, since your political tensions back then. and i mean, 5 years ago, china, the u. s. tools were still maintaining to claw matic any security dialogue which haven't been seen these days. many chinese new defense are minister, just appointed to day is now under lewis and sanctions. he would not have

a decent meeting with any us officials or he's on his counterpart. so we are not expecting 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 a better environment for the bi retires. so i think are the washington has to consider if it has to mix some moves towards that in the countries new premier was also a fresh appointment this week. he previously served as a secretary of the chinese communist party in shanghai. the premier's nomination was afforded by shing ping. recently made history as china's 1st president to be elected for a 3rd consecutive term following his re election president, she 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 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 pe, take this oath. during this session, the chinese foreign minister expressed hope that the e 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 its 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 changes rose last august. when then, how speaker nancy pelosi ignored all warnings and paid an official visit to taiwan, sparking or sharp response from beijing and prompting large scale military drills around the island. the minister pointed out the hypocrisy of the u. s. position 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 you ask us 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 rushes deputy foreign minister says bilateral ties with china or driving the u. s. and its allies around the world. crazy. he delivered his comments and an exclusive interview here on our tea. 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 continue to develop despite all our enemies attempts to upset them and damage our relations. the americans 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. if we have no hidden agendas, we are driven by the desire to ensure a stable development and a prosperous feature 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 last protest against a bill that would have required for an agents to come out of the shadows have gripped georgia all week. the ruling party has since abandoned the draft law and a bid to stop the violent protests that erupted in the nation's capital.

ah. thousands church histories against the so called foreign agent bill, claiming it would clam down on western news outlets and and g o z. despite it bearing striking similarities to an existing u. s. law american officials threatened georgia with sanctions though the government reacted to protesters, demands by canceling. the bill and releasing those who had been detained. crowds have continued together near the national parliament building. precious foreign minister says that events in georgia have disturbing parallels to the ukrainian might on uprising 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 you. in general, this hypocrisy is, of course, obvious. despite official saying, they dropped the legislation, protesters have demanded the parliaments resignation. the latest mass protests took place on friday. ortiz, 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,

a dropped 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 to see violence erupt,

protesters throwing molotov cocktails and rocks and objects of police building barricades. and they even 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 for the protests and denouncing the part of the parliament support for this long, 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 colonies, call it an oligarchy, call 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 that they consider to be interfering. the american himself are and acting for us against political opponents and discipline. so, and then you have the u. s. embassy saying, oh, 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 light home? you can't possibly be that this law is terrible when enact that in georgia. but great when it acts in washington, d. c. turning now to the conflict in ukraine, 3 people have been killed and 15 injured,

including 2 children due to showing by caves, forces and look on the region. a local supermarket and 2 federal stations were hit according to local authorities. the reports also say the strike was carried out using americans supplied highmark 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 don asked severely damaging several homes and leaving one woman wounded. the russian armed force that says it struck the military infrastructure targets and several ukrainian cities on thursday, including in the countries capital of kiev. according to the russian defense ministry, the operation was in response to terrorist act carried out in russia briana border region by ukraine in forces earlier this month. meanwhile, in our to mosque also, nor as back move russian forces are now just a kilometer from the center of this city. according to the chief of the wagner

group, the area has been the focus of intense fighting for months with the ukranian troops now almost fully surrounded with 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 the city, this comes as washington now tries to downplay the significance of the key city. the fall boot will necessarily mean that the russians have changed the tide of this fight. i think it's more of a symbolic value than it is a strategic and operational. well, previous reports labeled the said he has key and strategic the narrative now suggests the stronghold is not so important and mostly hold symbolic value. brushing forces try to take the strategic town of back that the city itself is not that strategically important, which all earlier in the strategic turn of back move,

it is not strategically important. it could lead to the full, a slow hands can cram a toss because well, the 2 most important cities in the dawn bass there is little strategic value. it's not a military hub, is not a communications hub, it can be a significant, strategically significant given it's access to the rest of dumb bus. 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, 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 approve put, i think would be a demoralizing factor for the ukrainians at this point. if they were 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, despite repeated pledges from nato, she said the alliance will do everything it takes for as long as it takes when it comes to arming ukraine against russia. western media outlets are now questioning if that's really the case. some have pondered whether the west is actually doing enough, while others have called out key mistakes in the war, and recommend a change of tactics. so to go further in depth on this, let's cross live now to jeffery young, a democratic candidate for the governor of kentucky. jeffrey, it's great to have you on the program today. now, only a couple of weeks ago, joe biden pledge another package of hope to crane worth half a $1000000000.00. tanks are also set to be sent. but again, there's an article in politico saying that the president simply isn't doing enough . does that kind of reaction from the media come as

a surprise to you while i read the political article and i did find one accurate part of one challenge for the rest of it was typical western mainstream media propaganda, corporate propaganda. so, you know, i'd be happy to go through, i could, i could take any particular sentence in that article and show you why it's propaganda. you know, it's typical of the american mainstream media since february 24th 2022. and when russia sent its troops in yeah, and they really, i mean, when you look at the mainstream media in the u. s, they really have been the biggest true leaders for war, which doesn't come as any surprise. but you believe that we're in a situation where people like biden and other western politicians are losing interest in helping you crane or is the a that they're continuing to sign off on still

a sign that they're still interested and still involved as they say? well, i think the one accurate thing about the political article was that there is disagreement and the people who run american military and foreign policy about how much more support are weapons to send to you. great, there there is that's, that's real, that's accurate. there is disagreement so, but the problem is that ukraine has already lost this war. nato has already lost this war. russia is going to achieve whatever objectives it watch within the next several months. and there's nothing, any nato country, including the united states can do to stop that. so, air debate, how much,

how many more weapons to stand is irrelevant. well, you know, it's interesting that you mentioned that because that is kind of the conversation right when it comes to the mainstream media and even the western politicians as they sit there. and they say, well maybe if we send x number of tanks, then that will make a difference. or maybe if we send at 16 fighter just then that will be the turning point that, you know, make ukraine some kind of victor in this war. now, do you think that we're in a situation where this could be a pretext for politicians to agree to send those fighter just to ukraine that they are now calling for whether or not it does make a difference? do you think that we're headed in that direction given what we've seen so far? i don't know exactly how stupid are military leaders are. more weapons, they spend more weapons,

russia will destroy. and the longer the proxy war will go on. so i'm totally opposed to any more military aid to the topic government in keo. yeah. and certainly i know that there are a number of americans that are right there with you where, you know, we're one year into this. they're questioning why the government is continuing to sign off on billions and billions of dollars for your crane with no accountability on their end. but at the same time, when we look at what the media has said, other articles have spoken of the mistakes made by the cranium command in the war, and also called for a change of tactics. do you think that the actions of ukraine are now being called into question by the west or are such critical voices just might just a minority when you continue to have those who call for more and more support for ukraine anyway? well,

i was faded that since 2014, if crane has been a puppet government, totally controlled by the united states and to guard c, i a state department and groups of ukrainian heavily armed since 2014 ukraine. the accordion government has existed as an independent has been a puppet controlled by washing. yeah. so it doesn't matter what, what the, what the lensky says, or it's all a question of how soon the united states is going to realize that their proxy war has fail? how soon we cut our losses and back off and leave. leave ukraine. yes, certainly a lot of the lessons to be learned there,

especially when it comes to us foreign policy as a whole. well, we really appreciate you joining us to break down all of the latest jeffrey young, a democratic candidate or candidate for the governor of kentucky. thank you so much for your time and insight. thank you very much. for the 1st time in the country's history around the oil ministry has announced a plan to issue billions of dollars worth of oil bonds are cheese use of jewel. ali has been looking at the story and its regional implications. as western sanctions continue to weigh on iran soil sector, the petroleum bridge country is exploring no ways to keep this strategic industry up and running, and a bit to rampart domestic oil sales, iran soil minister, javan oj announced a new initiative officer for the day, the certificate of deposit of crude oil and gas, condensation is an initiative that was launch falling the deliberations between the stock exchange organization, the ministry of economic affairs and finance. in the central bank,

the initiative allows us to attract micro local investors and increase public participation in the domestic oil market. in fact, it will diversify oil exports as well. in 2018 iran was the 3rd largest oil producer in the organization of petroleum exporting countries, following washington's reinstatement of sanctions on to iran that here many western oil giants left the country. and iran soil outputs almost have to less than $2000000.00 barrels per day. exports also tumble to less than $1000000.00 barrels per day, down from 2 and a half 1000000. the petroleum industry has always been vulnerable to global developments. and now the recent rapprochement between iran and saudi arabia to opec members could fundamentally reshape the outlook for the oil market. besides bridging their political disputes, did one and reorder are also expected to resolve their differences in the energy sector. a casing point is the disputed altura or all rush gas field located in a disputed maritime area in the persian gulf,

which has not yet been demarcated to iran is critical of quite on saudi arabia's exploitation of the field. saying iran also has a stake in the area believe to have an estimated half a trillion cubic meters of proven gas reserves, bath and all that in a definitely the recent development regarding the resumption of our ties with 3 odd will help to build the joint fields with our neighbors, we have proposed the development of these fields be done by both countries that share the fields in the opec and opec plus meeting. we are very close approaches with saudi arabia, with regards to oil export. fortunately, the decisions that have been made at opec another plus over the past few months, were all a result of joint deliberations between iran and saudi arabia. for energy hungry china, mediating between teheran and re off to improve ties between the states will help ensure its energy security as the world's 2nd largest economy. beijing is heavily reliant on foreign oil and gas. figures show that more than 70 percent of the countries oil is imported. beijing has been a major buyer of iranian oil,

even at the height of the west's economic pressure against iran. it has also been saudi arabia's largest oil importer it to mean on by the raining saudi resumption of ties would increase china's certainty regarding the oil market and improve its access to crude oil. the move will also increase the supply boil from the persian gulf to the east, and this will reduce oil prices since china leads the market in terms of oil demand . when the u. s. craft, the 2015 iran nuclear deal with world powers. it fell to bring terrance crude sales to 0. but this did not happen as a result of china and russia, continuing their business with iran against all odds. now china's latest move is believed to offer both iran in saudi arabia, a host of new opportunities as to energy powers, use of to roddy r t test run shock waves are beginning to ripple out across the financial world,

following the collapse of the california bay silicon valley bank is the 2nd largest failure of a financial institution in american history of former treasury. secretary warns that without government intervention a whole venture capital sector could be wiped out. it's certainly is going to have very substantial consequences for silicon valley, for the economy of old venture ah, sector which has been dynamic unless the government is able to assure that this situation is work through silicon valley bank provided financing for almost half of the american venture back technology businesses. it was among the top 20 us commercial banks with $209000000000.00 in total assets at the end of last year. the collapse has global

implications. media reports claim some brazilian firms with more than $10000000.00 and the bank have lost their money. and i could just be the tip of the iceberg. as the v also has branches in india, china and all across europe, in the u. k. more than 180 companies have sent a joint letter to the british government, calling for help. the loss of deposits has the potential to cripple the sector and set the ecosystem back 20 years. when he businesses will be sent into involuntary liquidation overnight. this crisis will start on monday, and so we call on you to prevent it. now, parallels are being drawn to the global financial crisis of 2008, which was triggered by the collapse of what was america's 5th largest investment bank. bear stearns. it's exposure to the sub prime mortgage fiasco led to the so called freight recession. and was the start of a domino effect of financial business. failures are recession in the u. s. economy