ah ah ah, after to us, banks collapsed over the weekend. the new york stock exchange holds trading and a handful of bank stock that are crashing all present and buy that tries to calm the waters for sharing americans with their money is say, russia agrees to extend the black sea grain deal for 60 days, which was set to expire this saturday, but says the west needs to prove it ready to hold up its end of the agreement. you 8 tells me okay to tow it down its complains about human rights abuses. if one that wants to make big money bills in the region.

ah, something to live from the russian capital. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins. here with the latest news. welcome to the program. trading has been halted for multiple banks on the new york stock exchange after stocks hit record lows. it all comes in the wake of the collapse of silicon valley bank after fears of contagion, spread those effect. it includes several regional banks after losing 60 percent of their market cap on monday. experts blame as b, b, c, e o for the crisis and market as the 2nd biggest us banking failure on record. the stock crashes occurred while president biden sought to reassure americans that their money was safe. although he refused to engage with journalist after delivering his statement, all customers who had deposits and these banks can rest assured,

i want to rest assured that will 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 will, and i'm, this is important point. no losses will be borne by the taxpayers. let me repeat that. no losses will be borne by the taxpayers with the president. what do you know right now about why it has happened? and can you assure americans that there won't be a ripple a past? due balance of evidence should all the positives be protected at all? banks of war president might hint claims the us economy is safe, desperate clients lined up to withdraw their funds. images circulated on social media over the weekend, showing cues of people. some never got the chance to get their money out. financial markets around the world have fault the rebels to as concerns of a global domino effect, continue to grow. economics. professor richard wolf believes as c b crisis will do

far more damage to the u. s. economy than many think. at this point, what you have is a mixture of fear and panic, panic for those who have no long histories of knowing that the government always assures us in the middle, middle of the crisis, that all will be well. and a many times that turns out to be bad advice, dangerous to follow if you are someone involved in finance and for the rest of us, we're waiting to see whether the proverbial other shoe will fall. how far this will spread, how deep the roots are. is this a problem of a few banks? is this the problem of the entire financial and banking sector? we don't know, but i can assure you of at least 2 or 3 things. number one,

the most dynamic sector of the u. s. economy is high technology, and that is the sector most damaged by the lay offs of the last 6 months, over half a 1000000. and now this collapse in their credit and banking system, it's going to be very hard for startups to get the kind of financing they have become used to. and that's going to be very bad for the larger american economy. and the other one is that people and businesses looking at the united states for a haven for a place to put government money, private corporation, money, individual money that is being reduced by many phenomena. but now this one will add and that will see foreign people pulling money out of the united states because it is increasingly less safe to keep it here than to move it elsewhere. so

that the ripple effect of the ramifications of this. we are just at the beginning of figuring out where this is going to go. my colleague research i spoke with our team contributor chris and who to consider the situation and what it could mean for the global economy, volleyball. i don't think anyone really heard of it outside of the, the tech industry until friday. really been with this news broke, a lot of people just to explain the views at home, but with no help on foot. but some people are bit unsure. so what happens is when you deposit in the money with your bank, your banks use your money, lend to the customers. and that could be big institutions, companies or just people like you and i that may want to buy a home and get a mortgage. and now the problem with this bank is they had over $250000000000.00 on their balance sheet. so they'd actually lend out $249000000000.00. so that doesn't really leave that much of a cushion, right? that say if something happens, so what happens the u. s. high interest rate says we've covered

a lot on the program and that obviously makes the debt that they're holding on their balance sheet, which was a lot of it within us government bonds was less. so this is really key point you talk about the interest rates are the key and critical point. yeah. yeah. so as those interest rates the rockets it the, the debt that they have, they have lead to the u. s. government becomes less. right? so that left this bank with a deficit on their balance sheet of about a $1000000000.00. now, once that happened, the bank bid exactly what the guidelines say. i would say the ceo acts the same way . he said, well, i need to go and raise that $1000000000.00 now to make sure that my bank is in the block now will happen when he did that, that spoofs a huge amount of people, a lot of money in the bank companies, mainly who then there was a what we'd call to run on the bank. so about $13000000000.00 which was withdrawn from the bank reading. and at that point the bank was totally broke, right? so then the regulates and the government have to step in and take over. now what i find really interesting glory is that they portrayed to be the leadership team of the bank as irresponsible. we had all the talk just before the weekend over the

weekend. they will be responsive, they will be now i've worked for a number of regulated financial businesses. i wouldn't say my next, but i'm not just you know, disclaimer, i'm not a finance lawyer, but i would say i don't see anything within the guidelines that they did that was fiscally responsible. i would say the fiscal responsibility lies with the regulator and ultimately with the u. s. governor, i ha, well ok, so you bring it to the u. s. government let, let, let's bring it further into washington. d. c. here. joe biden has come up with a statement addressing that public essentially saying nothing to see here, move along, your money is safe but, but then, you know, when people wanna ask questions, i me the guide legged it out the back door just now. i mean, is it possible that biden, in some way, is trying to avoid what could be a dire truth or had any, had any answers for it? i don't think anyone really knows what's going on. and really they suspended stocks on a lot of small cap banks. i mean, to people, i'm 250000000000 sounds like a lot of money. and of course it is a huge amount of money. but for us institutions is actually quite a small it,

you know, top 50 banks where they have so many banks say so really? i think they just, they just don't really have a clue what's going on. we saw the vast forensic of money, the high could inflation rates, but anyone seemingly understand what the consequences are if doing that. but you talk about the consequences. donald trump has put out this statement here and you met it where the consequences or not. let's have a quick listen to what form a u. s. president had to say with what is happening to our economy and what to proposals being made on the largest and dumbest tax increase in the history of the usa times 5 joe biden. we'll go down to herbert hoover of the modern age, we will have a great depression far bigger and more powerful than that of 1929. as proof, the banks were already starting to collapse. you know, chris, some people like to say in, in the certainly, i think i'm one of them, frankly, you know, the global banking system. it's so heavily into twine. i mean, the tentacles reach far and wide around the world. and that does seem to be a legitimate concern about knock on effect from this. and do you see a risk of

a knock on effect? and then, and then after that i'll be asking you something about this new multi pony well order. so what is the risk right now of a knock on? yeah, i think you're what tentacles is absolutely opt in this case. i mean, let's look at the us, right. the dow always opens quite light compared to the west. the markets, the foot see in london opened before, and we saw just really not really not a very comfortable situation for you. k companies, western companies that have their hops in london. and then so you saw that bit. now i think mobile c now is just before the close of that will recover. that's an awful nightmare for trade in london is basically the behest of whatever the us the going to do later on in the day. right. and we see that across everything frank, we can look at any other market, and it just shows that, you know, all point that we're always making is that the u. s. is dictating financial policy of every other country within that fear of interest. they don't allow them that much freedom and everyone is sort of on tens of waiting for what the fumbling man

is. is about to say we just crazy. moscow has agreed to extend the black, the grain agreement with ukraine, but only for 60 days in order to assess whether the west will prove is ready to fulfill its side of the deal. russia said its commodities are supposed to be a part of the agreement to the comprehensive and frank conversation has once again confirmed that while the commercial exported ukrainian products is carried out at a steady pace, bringing considerable profits to kiev restrictions on the russian agricultural exports as the stunning place, how far the stones were, we determined upon tangible progress on the normalization of our agricultural exports, not in woods, but in deeds. so this deal is supposed to allow grain from both russia and ukraine to get out of the conflict zone and over to countries in need, notably in africa and asia, but russian for a mr. sergei love rav explain just

a few days ago, and you might be shocked to learn this, that only half of that bargain has been upheld, and that's the half the covers ukraine shipments. you do that the, the 1st part of the green dio package is the safe export of ukrainian grading from the ports of ukraine via the black sea. and the 2nd is the need to remove all obstacles to the export of russian grain and fertilizers. the 1st part is being executed, but the 2nd part is not executed at all. in fact, sanctions prohibit russian ships carrying green and fertilizers from entering relevant ports as well as prohibiting foreign vessels from entering rushing ports to pick up these cargoes. also, sanctions prohibit our russian agricultural bank from using the swift system if we're talking about a deal that it is a package deal. and if the package is half completed, then the issue of renewal becomes quite complicated. so level of again evoke the double standard earlier this month that the g, 20 foreign ministers meeting in new delhi pointing out that quote,

russian agricultural exports of being blatantly hindered no matter how much the europeans and americans who are used to telling lies try to convince everyone, otherwise, it turns out that the western sanctions are blocking the ships carrying, rushing grains and fertilizer used to grow food from going to russia to pick up that cargo. and also from entering the ports of delivery. so just how much you raining during is getting to the countries that actually need it most. well collectively they're getting about 15 percent of the total export volume, which works out to about one percent each. that's according to the latest data from the black sea green initiative joint coordination center. the top 3 destinations for the grain are china, spain and turkey, representing 46 percent of all exports, involving hundreds of shipments. china, of course, acts as the gateway to asia and turkey, the gateway to africa. but what's the deal with spain? spain domestically produces more than enough of the grain that it needs to feed its own people and europeans with people's grain. these accounting for just

a quarter of all the countries domestic consumption, the rest of that grain that the country produces goes to feed its livestock, notably pigs. spain is routinely ranked as one of the top, if not the top port, producing country in the entire world. so that's great news for spain and europe's pork industry to get ukrainian grain. but it's not exactly how this whole deal was sold to the world as an absolute necessity. it's kind of like starting up a food bank and demanding donations and all this food. and then going home and shoving in your fridge, it smells like a total bait and switch. russia agree to the deal because there was so much hanging over the people's starving if they didn't. and now the data suggests that a huge chunk of the ukrainian food is just being sold to europe to fatten it's livestock, and also it's coffers united nations secretary general antonio gutierrez, last october, express quote, deep concern when the initiative stalled. and he had earlier warned of

unprecedented global hunger if it didn't get off the ground. and now they apparently can't be bothered to ensure that it's being honored by all parties. the deals set to expire, march 18th, and moscow has said that it's ready to extend it, but not for more than 60 days under these conditions. wherever that last october, the russian defense ministry also pointed out that russian military and commercial ships used to secure the green corridor turned it in a massive ukrainian draw strike in the crimean port city of sebastopol. the scheme seems to follow the same pattern of other western truce initiatives around the ukraine conflict like the minsk accords, which as former german chancellor angela merkel and former french president, fall slow, long have admitted were just used to by time to give you crane a distinct advantage while at the same time trying to stick to russia town. now your complaints about human rights abuses. if you want to make big money deals, that's the message being spelled out clearly to the u. k by the trade minister to

the u. h. e. the u. k and other western countries must separate politics from trade in the economy. the u. k. must tone down standards, human and workers rights provisions in trade deals if they want more market access and more business opportunities. the minute we bring politics into discussions, we are deluding from the main objective of the agreements. the statement comes as the u. k. has been testing the waters and the region in a search for new trade partners and it's post brackson existence. british officials are seeking to strike a deal with the u. e and other middle eastern countries from the gulf cooperation council trade voc. the push, however, is said to have been hindered by critical reporting on human rights records during december's world cup and guitar. the chairman of the middle east center for strategic and political consulting believes the gulf states won't give then to western imposed values. political oppression has been used to get the benefit

because normally and we learn the lesson, we knew about that the under secretary of the minister of foreign affairs a month ago he said, we are not. we are not obligatory obligated to, to follow the state department of us a for a beta the notes on human rights. and we are sick and bored from this file that they always complaining and accused our countries. but we are happy with what we have now. we are not ready to adopt something, i guess, a fix and religion. and so she, when it comes to those western values, i mean the west has a history of being able to say, hey, this is how we believe that you should live your life. this is how we believe that your government should act. do you think this is one of those cases where the u. e, at least with the official said,

but do you think that this is one of those cases where there is some pushback we understand the game we are ready to to play the game. but we are not accepting any kind of pretending human rights issues. we as a society, as a citizen, as a family man, i cannot accept that. and i think the gc government and mostly slim government is not accepting that issues. the full restoration of ties between iran and saudi arabia will help bring a political settlement to the devastating more in yemen that's according to iran mission to the un. it seems that the resumption of political relations between iran and saudi arabia will speed up the achievement of a c, r in yemen. the beginning of the year many peoples dialogue and the formation of an inclusive national government in this country. soon after were arrested back in 2014. the conflicts in yemen became a de facto proxy war between

a saudi led military coalition, which supported demons recognized government and iran, which back who the rebels who had captured much of the country. i curious between the warring parties was reached in april of last year, extended twice, but then expired in october. however, both sides continue to adhere to its ruled, both of them and the government and who the rebels have. welcome the agreement between iran and saudi arabia. the deal was largely sponsored by china, which are the 1st time in years, had used as diplomatic rather than economic power in the region. its influence, among other factors, has been boosted by increasing tension between the u. s. and this key, middle east ally, saudi arabia, the geo comes, met a drastic humanitarian situation in war torn gavin, we're more than 20000000 people are estimated by the red cross and to be in dire need of help. a large part of the local population has been deprived of access to

education, displaced from their homes, and have also had to contend with droughts and other consequences of climate change . yeah, many journalists who st abo, katie, believes the main beneficiary of the war in yemen is in fact the us. if it not was 2, then i can stay there, then this whole they will not actually be able to lounge. so remember that the bus at the, in washington, at the time in 2015 when they, when the world begun on the m. and he has declared the war, washington. after that united states, the white house has released the statement. they say that they will for both the so the war with all its need with weapons and the logistics supplies and information night states is making billions of dollars in profit during this war, obama administration, when the water began on yemen, has the correct the largest weapons deal in us history of poor, so the, at a,

b and will united out of another weapon started in the united kingdom and the profit has increased by 500 percent. so they actually put it in from this, this water. so the only one who can actually influence it is the one who actually is part of this. busy which is a nice tape and the u. k. aiming to provide a shot in the arm to trade and investment with russia or ron is hosting a key economic forum and a major focus to talking shop is one of brushes, muslim regions or t contributor uses, drill all the reports on names. vicious business plan being drawn up when there is mutual trust, a deal is a deal. it's this simple to clench a business agreement on the 2 sides of the bargain are from russia and iraq. these b to b meetings came as part of a business forum held in on monday, between the rough and the russian republic of brush, kurdistan,

headed by president of the bosh care states, why the hobby rove. the business delegation comprises tom prussian firms active in oil and gas, agriculture i t transport and mining. among other industries, they say they're here to clinch major deals with a wrong, despite crippling economic crushers from the wise regional. we see there were lots of companies in factories in iran manufacture equipment. we on behalf of russian companies and ready to bring new technologies here for the manufacturer of high tank equipment. right here in a raw bush kurdistan is one of the 9 most them republics. and russia and recent years to one has lived up both cultural and economic ties with their muslim states and russia. now, we see is a iran is going to be very important and speedy, productive, effective partner for us. why? no one has anonymous and experience to leave and to develop it's economic on discussions to ron and moscow's interests and concerns coincide on many fries,

both facing western sanctions. they have further turn to each other or to neutralize the impacts of the mass. the western measures have complicated the russo iranian tre, ties when it comes to money, transfer and banking transactions. this has led the 2 sides to devise new channels to shield their business dealings from the sanctions. you'll notice several bunks of russia already working here and they're looking for the most convenient for financial instrument to organize normal financial work situated on the strategic north south corridor. the wrong plays the role of a quick short an x rush off to india and the persian gulf middle stakes. so this is a very good idea in terms of the cutting, the cost of the shipping. if you go from the black sea through the bush for us and then you resubmit it's rainy and see you have to go all around the corner of the

board to reach your target market, which is india or china with the sanctions blocking. get ron's access to key petroleum technologies. did. one is not resorting to watch and tech providers to run it, or an industry take or is running. but for example, some russian firms here say they produce efficient dis on par with swedish on american counterparts. i'm be, can offer them to iran. we, as a russian technology company, we can provide indian market to full range of the fetus. a did, or any type of what you needed as for drilling for sites like after ratios, exploration and dwelt and well drilling. as he wanna watch our, our post to more than double their by natural trade volume to $10000000000.00 a year. such business forums are seen as an effective step toward achieving this goal to ron chamber of commerce, which organizes this event says. both sides are determined to interact even more living that closer engagement will open it back door for them to neutralize the

sanctions. use of de la d. r t test rob. washington has harshly criticized to propose new bosnian serb law, calling it russian influence and a danger to democracy and human rights. that's just by that's us inspiration in bosnia and herzegovina, the president of republic, a sharp. scott is following others in the region down. a dangerous anti democratic path and trying to pass crandon inspired draft laws, the rub, residents of their basic rights silence descent and allow corruption to flourish unchecked. the republican subscribe authorities announced plans for 2 pieces of repressive anti democratic legislation that would benefit only the ruling coalition in its effort to consolidate power and hurt every one else. we are copying the american model, the made usa, one of the world superpowers. it is interesting that the director of usaid is

reacting knowing that many projects in bosnia and herzegovina, a finance through usaid, the head of the bosnian serb republic says he modeled the new regulation on washington's foreign agents registration. and the so called for a law requires public disclosure of anyone representing foreign interest or receiving finances from abroad. it all falls follows massive protest in the country of georgia over plans for similar legislation. there, the the, a, serbian american journalists and historian boys, your mileage, believes at washington's reaction to the foreign agent law, expose it's hypocritical. approach fleming with in, in georgia around arose when the opposition backed by these

n g o. that will be certainly funded, labeled this proposal as russian and essentially called home of illusion government . and they came very, very close to one of those color revolution coves as a friday. and the thing things have come down a little bit because the government backed out what happened was the super public which pushed this initiative on friday, i believe was a deliberate move, maybe a trolling topic. and so what he's trying to do is, i don't think once a law passes great, but i think his purpose based on the comments that i've, that i've heard essentially expose this kind of hypocrisy by the americans and the west. and he has succeeded brilliantly in trolling them into denouncing their own law, which is exactly what happened over the weekend. it's

a win win situation for him either way again, if the law passes, then all of these n g o z that are literally outside agents of influence have cleared themselves as such. and all of a sudden people pulling who are inclined to believe something with a nice flowery name, you know, citizens for peace, democracy excellence and prosperity would realize that yeah, ok, this is a foreign agent. but if it doesn't pass, because of this kind of pressure, he managed doughty cars managed to it, prove that the e u. n. the american government essentially think that the american law is horrible when applied by non americans. the international committee has brushed off london attempts to pressure this force body and to banning russian and build russian athletes from next year. summer games in paris. thing they're giving it to such demands would have a detrimental impact on sport. it does not help to governments to decide which

athletes can participate in which international competitions. this would be the end of world sport as we know it today. we hope very much that the british government will respect the autonomy of sport, which has emphasized in so many decisions, statements and united nations resolutions. it's not the 1st time when applets from russia have found themselves facing calls to be banned from the olympics. doping scandal has seen as athletes having to compete under a neutral frog at every game. both summer and winter says the 2018 event and feel after the war broke out in ukraine. numerous international sports federation have been demanding a total ban on russian and bel russian athletes participating the u. k. minister for sport. echo those comment. we know that sports in politics in russia and bill ruse are closely connected and we are determined to prevent the russian and bill of russian authorities from using sports for propaganda purposes. sports column,

as alan more believes the io c has openly slap down the u. k. while london's logic implies it to should be banned from olympic games over its conduct and the world is a because the committee is very here is saying, look, what do you think about it at all that stays home where you can feel it. it's only a russia or a st. useful boy, girl for the world, a sport because the key because in any case a p so it does make a difference to do the rest are better useful to kick around around countries just to start the war or voice with the consciousness there. are you still want to

pursue longer citizens in order to get it? it's a far as well, you know, the, the sports. but again, the people who are in charge of sports and if they don't give $2.00 for her money to be able to abuse or anybody to stop, that's all for now. be sure to check out our tea dot com for all the latest breaking news. and i said, we'll see you next time with .