oh, a top headlines right now and out he international areas right there. the president of bela bruce alexander lucas shameka saying that america has strangled iran. dec comments coming if he stages by that are old folks in terror on the countries leaders, reaffirmed their commitment to building a multi lo when the program all the dominos fully offered to us to find it collapsed over the weekend by didn't try to calm the waters or showing americans that money is safe and there's nothing to see here. move along every going with the bbc makes a you turn,

reinstating its top sports presenter, gary linux on the side, letting him for comparing the nation is vibrant to policy to that of germany's in the 19 with . and so, geo politics and a possible failure of the banking system is so much to talk about today here on your program, on our team international. so a very warm welcome to you. the bell russian president, alexander, look at shanker, holding talks with his iranian counterpart into iran. it's a visit, a bit strengthening economic on strategic ties at the bell. russian leda says iran is the cradle of civilization with a great history, though it's been struggling under us sanctions for decades. i am pleased to visit to run the capital of present day run, which has become the cradle for one of the most culturally advanced civilizations. through the territory of which trade routes passed long before america was

discovered. your ancestors knew about logistics, exports in transit, much more than those who have been strangling your country with sanctions for more than 40 years, trying to instill their so called democratic values. they forgot that every nation has its own values, which stems from its culture and way of life. well, of course, alexander lucas shank over the battle. russian president arrived in iran on sunday and today he was warmly welcomed by the he's wanting counterpart to brian race. well, the 2 sides talking to ron extensively in a wide range of m like field industries including mining energy transport, agriculture. i think both sides are turning to each other in defiance of the western sanctions. as mr. like a shank of said to day in his meeting with brian bracey that he said that the

sanctions are not threats or the sanctions or opportunities for both sides. so he advised both sides. iran and bella rose to stick to those opportunities and should not submit these opportunities as these. of course, the sanctions are pressures on the outside, but they are a blessing in disguise. for both countries as those sanctions, the pressures by the west are bringing and are forming a unified front on the east term to lock de la cruz and other countries are also jumping on the wagons trying to come together and turn to each other in defiance of the western sanctions brian bracey also said today that adela roach's of strong country and iran eyes more cooperation with bella roost course. today the 2 side decided and signed of course i roadmap. cooperation roadmap would be to the 2 sides . cooperate a different fields and today they signed those 5 agreements and use to

just get closer and boost their bilateral ties. well, iran exceeded to of course, made an exception to the shanghai cooperation organization last year. and bella, luce is also willing to join and become a member, full member of the s t o. and if the 2 sides joined this important organization, they can easily can facilitate cooperation, economic cooperation between the 2 starts. so it's a 2 day visit by mister the cushion cope, and he will stay perhaps until tomorrow, or perhaps he will return to his country today. but the outcome and the consequences of his visit are significant. while the u. s. president joe biden has addressed the nation seeking to reassure americans that money is safe, foster to bank collapse over the weekend, right?

offer a speech show, the us stock market opened and shares of banks of crashing as we speak. all customers who have deposits of these banks can rest assured, i want to rest assured they'll be protected and they'll have access to their money . as of today, that includes small businesses across the country, the bank there, and need to make payroll pay their bills and stay open for business, no losses, and this is important point, no losses will be borne by the taxpayers. let me repeat that no losses will be borne by the taxpayers. meantime, asian financial markets have tumbled amid concerns about a global domino effect as yet another us bank has collapsed new york based signature by and had more than a 100000000000 and assets at the end of last year. and has now been shut down by us regulators joining the demise of california based silicon valley bank. now the talk for largest us bank have now lost more than $50000000000.00 in market value. since

the recent news of the collapse of silicon valley bank of california based lender was highly involved with tech companies worldwide, the us treasury secretary has said there will be no bail out, but has reassured effected plans so they will get some of their money back. america's economy relies on a safe and sound banking system that can provide for the credit needs of our households and businesses. so when they have her a bank, especially one like silicon valley bank, with billions of dollars deposits fails. it's clearly a concern. as you can imagine, a desperate clients have been lining up to withdraw their funds from outlets. so the california based s v b. but let's, let's dig into the key details here and find out exactly what has called the collapse of california based s b b is ortiz,

marina cost. it's make it work time for everyone associated with silicon valley. bank and busters, are panicking. tech companies are panicking and experts here that i could snowball into a new financial crisis, including former us treasury secretary lawrence summers. it certainly is going to have very substantial consequences for silicon valley, for the economy of all venture ah sector which has been dynamic. unless i, the government is able to assure that this situation is worked through. they do us government says it's on it. the joe biden and the governor of california already discussing efforts to address the situation over the last 48 hours. i've been in touch with the highest levels of leadership at the white house in treasury . every one is working with federal deposit insurance corporation to stabilize the

situation as quickly as possible to protect jobs, people's livelihoods, and the entire innovation ecosystem that has served as a tent pole for our economy. and if that doesn't work out, maybe in mos can save the day since he's already suites it, that thing is open to the idea of buying the bank. so what does s v be exactly? well, it was founded in the early eighty's and provided financing for almost half of us venture back technology and health care stops. it was one of the top commercial banks in the us, with $209000000000.00 in total assets. at the end of 2022. so what happened or s v b didn't expect the federal reserve to raise interest rates last year, which resulted in a losses for the company. that coupled with venture capital drying up and high foreign costs, proved to be the perfect storm as to be was forced to sell the entire bond

portfolio, which resulted in a huge loss. and then they announced that they wanted to raise 2000000000 fresh from investors who said no thanks. the next say they're on on the bang happens and $42000000000.00 were withdrawn, leaving them high and dry. good morning everyone. silicon valley bank is getting worse. customers trying to pull millions of dollars out. and kent online banking in mobile services, showing unavailable for some customers, stuck down 60 per cent per market. if the bank fails, it would be the 2nd largest bank failure in u. s. history. the ripple effects of the crash are being felt only at home. s a, b z u. k. subsidiary has been put into insolvency and the u. k. government is now urgently figuring out a plan to try and minimize the damage to some of the countries most promising tech firms. and all this comes after a cry for help from about 180 tech companies who sent a letter to you. k,

chancellor. jeremy hans colon him to intervene. the losses 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. and it's not us in the u. k. s. we be had branches in various countries including canada, china, germany, and israel. the concern is that the bank failure could wipe out stops around the world. in china, clients were being urged to stay calm and told that operations there are independent and stable in brazil, founders of sod ups were the 2 hundreds of millions of dollars. as soon as word got out of the imminent collapse box, not every one managed to get their funds in sign with a reported sen $1000000.00 up in the air, you know, who did manage to withdraw money and time. s lead these chief executive officer

greg becker. he sold $3600000.00 of companies stock less than 2 weeks before this all went down. and other interesting fact, as that these chief administrative officer was none other than the cfo of the lehman brothers. you know, the largest bankruptcy falling in the u. s. history, which has thought to have played a major role in the global financial crisis of 2000 and eight's. yep. that one. so how did it get to this? well as the be didn't even have a chief risk officer for almost a year. and when they finally replaced the old one, this january, the new one seemed more preoccupied in promoting every liberal calls out there, rather than focusing on the train right ahead. should our water cutter clear how severe the fall out? we'll be. turns out the majority of us to be deposits weren't even insured, which takes things to a whole other level. everyone is now on guard,

hoping and likely praying that governments intervene and save them and themselves for that matter. because we all know by now how one banks collapsed could lead. so world wide economic rec. so let us hope that whoever is steering the solution here is not a crash test dummy regina coast, the executive director of the 1st source, monday, warns that as phoebe's financial collapse will affect not only the us but also nations all across the world, including africa and mean time on the new york stock exchange, countless banks are being blocked from trading and banking stocks of going down the drain african bank, especially in south africa. highly exposed, highly connected to the global market, to the extent that i saw connected the collapse of if b b is likely to affect african banks in quite a large way and south africa in particular. so we cannot ignore that collapse that

collapses. not just going to affect the american small banks, we get going to run more likely from monday, going on, going to affect the band, some asian banks and things of africa. and indeed, some of the african countries are connected to europe, asia, and indeed the us itself. so africa will certainly be affected. not all economies in africa, that exposed buddy who see the 1st countries that after the highly highly or it was the only country in 2008 to the 7 that was so much more effective than the rest of the continent. we expect south africa to be on the watching africa and she said after that, begin to work as a consequence of this, that quite frankly, the rest of the content to catch the cold that's going to straighten out to the front lines in the don't at script public where russia's wagner group is leading an assault against the ukranian stronghold. the 50 is our come off. sk also known as buck. mood leader says that as fighting has become more intense,

t f is sending more forces to the front line. the bottom. no, i've been ok, jesus situation is difficult to is very difficult. the enemy's cousins wrote the me fighting for every meter and the closer we are to the city center, the harder the battles ukraine's throw an endless reserve sancho. we are moving forward and will continue to move forward to doing better. we will not dishonor the glory of our russian weaponry. you put, i mean, he added that russian forces and are currently just about a kilometer from the city center. the area there has been a focus of very heavy fighting for months with entrenched ukrainian troops now flanked on both sides. and this comes as the ukrainian commander has admitted that its military supply routes are being cut off by the advancing russian forces. whereas who me a more sure more than it's hard to hold every building. there is a particular danger that the neck of the cauldron is no more than 4 kilometers. without logistics, there is neither a rotation nor

a supply of amunition. we understand there may be repeat of a de bells of colds. the situation whether olds are cut off and an intentional withdrawal of troops can endanger during tar colon. ukraine's president. the landscape claims that troops are being called up from the direction of zapata orgy to reinforce our channels at says he has, the government is demanding more weaponry from western partners to keep up the fight. now, over to our corresponding eagerness down off, telling us how russia's weapon so giving its troops, the edge against the ukrainian military western countries have approved trans have to tranche of their weapons and equipment to ukraine, which i believe. so russia has had to raise stakes to some of russia's newest. com, but vehicle modifications are already here in the dumbass and they have already been tested. had their work has been proven on the battlefield quite a few times. ah, the vehicles tracks a spew dirt on us as it storms past towards the front line to cover infantry salt

teams. it's how doesn't offer much protection, but what it lacks in armor, it makes up for in speed and firepower. with it's designed to blitz the enemy released the smoke bombs and disappear. the crew tells me this. amphibious infantry fighting vehicle has already met its match in the dumbass. the proudly american bradley's from the most recent shipment are

already here. when did studio show up in nevada, our new airborne combat vehicle? the b m. d for is an excellent machine. works like a dream. of course the caliber pleases me. it is good against large clusters of opponents and strongholds against light vehicles. and it's also good against bradley's, it has excellent speed and low fuel consumption. the machine has proven itself, especially on the front lines in as a high rate of fire. the ability to shoot from close positions. we use the b, m, d every day, send greetings to our opponents and do not let them relax. moscow has been repeatedly calling on the west to stop military shipments. stop the escalation, all russia will have to match it up a future. the west is cool to inflict to military defeats of russia as they need to pump weapons into crate little including those that can hit russian territory. this presidency, lensky has publicly requested such weapons, and we have strongly warned the west against providing though it is effectively

waging a proxy war against russia using hands, bodies, and minds of ukrainian near not legalities, but long range weapons would drastically escalate the conflict through and i sincerely hope that the fee reasonable people in the west understand loves up this . i, if thee is only one example of russia's new weapons deployed to the, with the brand new t, 90 tanks lurk in the woodlands. drones is sure in the skies, faster and more powerful missiles hit ukraine's infrastructure. d behind the lines . but the power of rushes biggest and most lethal weapon so far has only been unleashed a drill site. i'm a gosh, darn of reporting from the dumbass r t. the prime minister of finland, santa marin, has been slammed for attending the funeral of the leader of the infamous right sector terrorist, an ultra nationalist movement in ukraine. history repeats

itself. fins with nazis once again. not that the nazis funeral nor insanity. it all adds up. finland doesn't mind naziism. so i doubt she'd care. even if someone told her ukraine's president lensky and the finished prime minister myron both joined the funeral in the country's capital. thousands conversed on the city's main square friday of last week, praising the commander as a hero. a western media also couple of the story, calling him a fold and hero. despite his very questionable past code named davinci, he joined the ultra nationalist movement at age 18 during the 2014 my don qu, and after the uprising, he took part in the fight against the defenders in don bass for his extreme cruelty on the battlefield. he on the nickname check at the low, off turned in from a serial killer. and an a notorious interview clips a bottle joked that he fed his pet wolf, the bones of russian speaking children. i spoke with a yan us,

but code and editor in chief of the finish m v. let the media he told me he was shocked by the prime minister's actions. what happen is a great shock. oh, it shows the real scheme of the finish global leadership. whatever you've explained and what kind of more peeps are bring up, we came up to or ruled the fact that participate the nazi funeral makes you a nuts and doing that by social democratic leader of freelance, it makes a bit very big question and a harsh vocation. this is a moment go through for all the fields, and these happen only 3 weeks before the general election of boardman. this is a very every single not only do the world but the finish population as well. finish is sliding with the nazis and oh and we have we have a local beans to pink and discuss about what's going on. china's

lead us eating ping has asserted in a speech to parliament that it was only recently in the country's history when it was semi colonial ised and bullied by foreign powers. without the nation is ensuring it sovereignty and working to protect its national interests. gym valuable in modern times, china was reduced a semi colonial, semi feudal society, suffering from bullying by foreign powers. it was rife with conflict. it's people were subjected to great pain. we must for advance our modernization drive in terms of national defense and cern shyness, military into great wolf steel. it effectively protects our national sovereignty, security and development interests. we should strive to advance the one country to systems policy and achieve national unification or these, the chinese leader delivered his remarks at a key for the decal event. it's called the 2 sessions which are seen several fresh

appointments to the government. a g himself actually made the history of the country's 1st president to be elected for a. busy 3rd consecutive a new defense minister was chosen as well. li shang fool who has unfortunately been on the us sanctions live in 2018 for allegedly buying military equipment from russia. chinese president also emphasized that his country is focusing on it gives me that of a global multilateralism. as a principal and his new political agenda is navient. we should hold high the banner of beaten or development corporation and mutual benefit. when we should always stand on the right side of history, just multilateralism and observe the common values of humanity. we should actively participate in the form and construction of a global governance system. promote a noble economy and further advance a global development initiative and the global security in id. it showed young father over now to our security and correspondence, jo josh,

him who's are sharing with us some of the details of the historical context of china's one country to systems policy in 1895, ask my memory sir, as well as we had the sino japanese wanted all 3, then we lost taiwan. we so a tavern in return to our republic, china, or before the new china, which was founded in 1949. so this is all about what the prison she was talking about because china was on invaded or colonized shashir or one chin totally national unification is to share desperation of the sanson, daughter. so the chinese nation is the essence of national rejuvenation. but we must implement our policy overall policy for resolving to tie one question, uphold the one china principal and stick to the 1992 consensus omen either belgians believes that any country must recognize the government of p r. c. the people's

republic of china. as the sole legitimate government representing the whole china, if you go to that to our present, she's speech of this morning. he stressed that sole efforts in advancing the practice one china policy of one country to a system in the cause of the national reification. so he also stressed that me to fully fifthly, and recently implemented this policy under which the people, hong kong administrator, hong kong and people. and you have my count, but i missed my car, both with high degree of autonomy. so what does a mean friendship for taiwan? so if china, he's now making better efforts to achieve what it baiting cause the national reunification, it means a beijing will also on the, you know, maintain some talks to make sure that taiwan would also enjoy this high degree of autonomy. as with hong kong, my cough are now doing well was could have your company for this program lie from

moscow and he's back the b, b. c has reinstated its top sports present. gary lenika, caving into the outcry of public support. after the host was sideline for comparing the nation's migrant policy to that of germany's and the 19 thirty's. now the t v station initially said his social media activity breached its so called impartiality guidelines. it all kicked off off the government, proposed a new policy called the illegal immigration bill. however, the choice language of the legislation left many shaking their heads. and the response came off the u. k. prime minister rishi soon i posted the national slogan, which said, migrants would be denied access to the you case, modern slavery system. the bbc host took the twitter to blast that initiative. if you come to the united kingdom illegally, you can't claim asylum, yukon, benefit from all modes and slavery protections you can't make spurious. human

rights claims you can stay there is no huge influx. we take far fuel 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 thirty's and i'm out of order. well, the recession to remove lenika sparked a boy caught not only by his co hosts, but almost all other sports presenters on commentators at the b, b. c. but he was far from alone and questioning that of the government's campaign. gonna get miss some slaves before its legal. the government tech control for came by saying if you get people here, there will have no protection from slavery, an unforgivable message, a sentence which shames the country, and everything that stands for this is absolutely disgraceful. complete application of humanity who earlier where he spoke to an international policy consultant,

who says that despite linux has message perhaps being a bit exaggerated. he still has a point. is a commenting or he's somebody's b, we haven't boy, he has a right to articulate how he feels grad. we may do that over to compare the current government to the government and obviously that the sensitive because the governor charges. but let's look at the merit of the argument. yes, understand issues of migration in europe and in america. extremely sensitive issues . and this is one of the issues that our company like in europe, with bread and the state of nationalism. the more internal policies are now looking at a way to think no, be migrant. have a right. i mean when you go as barnes see that you're not an idol. this lady protection, somebody could get somebody from europe, from africa to europe, and in southern slavery and they won't have a protection. so, i mean, he said that,

you know, for those with no voice, and it's a true them and some people they speak, it's not because they're not because they are greedy now because that they want to be there. but some people have read their lives. and if somebody developed country, somebody developed a country that litigating in their just want to find a new life part before we wrap up with our live broadcast, one of nigeria is most prominent business. women who are managers, the african countries largest port has the cried the problem of stereotypes in the workplace, and it's called for greater quality. we'll have the story over to the correspondent paulo and david. oh, my give me at least a women. yes, very few of them take part in any political process. as these has been a setback for the country, somewhat crafted developments number every year keeps twin late right now. the chance house as a weakness. the father reduction in the number of women who were successfully

elected the major challenges in this in such an increase environment. oh, good. and also the social culture of my we have i want to know what you need. you to also appeal that the next time security shouldn't be provided, especially for women who are running and make sure that we can do it with the men by with fuss for form and then try and answer the issue of my math, which has been a major tentative i am here to serve the interest of everyone that i also want them to understand with fixing that you're in, not just with the work of the people. we all have to join hands together off all the goals. 0,

one and the one from s via in the late this presidential legislative election. women accounts for less than 5 percent of political positions. nigeria has never had the female presidents, vice president. it's also one of the lowest performing countries. as far as representation in parliament is concerned. hello david, i would see a boucher now you can read more about that story if you like it audio dot com for the meantime from all of us here at austin international headquarters in moscow. thank you very much for joining us and sharing a time with us here on the russian capital. we are back to more of your ah, for a.