[000:00:00;00] ah, the headlines right now and are you into the actual areas, right that the u. s. secretary of state anthony blink, and he's visiting ethiopia. i need jack to boost us influence in africa. so that comes as a chooses walk into an impeding piece in the suck l region, australia to plan to buy 5 nuclear power submarines from the us. it does draw criticism from china, submit concerns. the deal puts nonproliferation agreements at rest in the program are russia agrees to extending the black fi grain deal. now that was set to expire

this saturday to be extended for an initial 60 days. however, most go saying the west must hold up. it's part of the agreement and in fact allow the export of russian grain and fertilizer. multiple us bank see that stops, crash is 2 american banks collapsed over the weekend. president biden essentially evading an emergency address, trying to study the boat, assuring americans that money is safe. the no shortage of news in your program for this our on asi, international. this tuesday is foss turning into a busy one. so it's good to have you with us by the way, we get now with the latest, from the ukraine conference, because we understand now russia's wagner group has reportedly taken control over the northern part of the industrial zone of amazon. that is in the city of our troubles, also known as back. moved on, verified footage, circulating on line apparently confirms,

are rushing control over the bus stop mash planned by president. lindsey actually commended ukrainian soldiers for defending that city back in december. now this stronghold city has essentially been the focus of intense battles for months. now. are shifting gears now to africa, where the u. s. a secretary of state antony blinking is set to visit it the opiate anesha as a by the ministration really again, the day is just trying to strengthen its influence on the continent. if i blink, and the 4th such us diplomat to visit africa this year alone, earlier the president of, at a korea accused washington of taking an on constructive approach to the ongoing conflict in secret a lot more about that right now. of course, over to archie correspondent, catabolic the americans are saying that they're looking at this really in their relationship with if you're in a different way. and that's what they're hoping to establish a re fashion,

the re imagined relationship with, if you're considering, if an influence here from all, from molly fee. what we're looking to do is re fashion our engagement with b o. p. we would like to be able to have a partnership that is commensurate with their size and influence and with our interests and commitment to africa. this is also part of the dynamics. when you look at the 2 year war that happened in the northern te gray region, this war was that was fuel, if you will buy a peace deal upon the prime minister of ethiopia shaking hands with mister wakey, who is the president of at a tree just north of yoga, and it was that p deal that really unsettled the great leadership as it were. and it was the start of much mission ations that led out timidly to conflict,

which is said to have displaced nearly half a 1000000 people and killed hundreds of 1000 small. but let's start off with he has his own views with regards to why the americans are involved. and he says that he blames washington for what he calls being and constructive at a time when it was much easier to have reached a peaceful solution. he has more from president as of world. the crucial question is why this war was launched in the 1st place at a time when a peace agreement was signed. in our view, this was not really a t gray people's liberation, france agenda. but essentially the agenda of washington, the sad fact is perturbed and anxious as they were, by the advance of peace between eritrea and f. p. impeding and scuttling it became the duct obsession. but mister blinking will move from if you move toward the new

year. now that is a very interesting country, and it says that it is right in the middle of the hell. and the hell has been a hot bed of conflict over recent years, some 20 years, in fact, of islamic insurgency and just general extremism that we've seen from various groups who have interest in who controls the area. now it's important to, to acknowledge here that the americans are hoping to reach a relationship with a country on the hill, even though they've had a 20 year participation as part of a global force. and as the american forces on its own. but they have been unable to bring about the fed piece. now the real question is, why would they be successful now? australian plans to buy multiple nuclear power submarines for america has joined

sharp criticism from china. china says the orchestra alliances on a quote, part of era and danger. beijing slammed the deal is basically destabilizing for the region most raising concerns this deal jeopardize is nuclear nonproliferation agreement. the nuclear submarine corporation, blood released today by all cos is a blatant act. it constitutes serious nuclear proliferation risks undermines in the national known proliferation system fuels arms races, and heard speech and stability in the region. the u. s. president, u. k prime minister and australian prime minister announced plans to develop a new generation of subs that will be built in the u. k. and australia with us technology and support of the new subs fueled by weapons, great, highly enriched uranium and content of the service in the late 20 thirty's, early 20 forty's. with australian foreign minister there has asserted that the

vessels will not be nuclear. um, so they won't violate any the, any of the anti proliferation commitments not sized. the u. s. has praised the controversial new deal, essentially calling it quote, a prospect of peace. stan got the inflection point in history where the hard work of enhancing deter it's and promoting stability is going to affect the prospect apiece for decades to come. to united states can ask for no better partners. in the end of pacific were so much of our shared future will be rid. orcus is a security partnership between australia and the u. k. and the u. s. which the countries claim stabilizers. the indo pacific region, a international china specialist, andrew lung, he says the orcus nucleus updeal actually undermines piece in the region and at the end of the day, pushes other countries towards nuclear development. why nobody's lucky. so as far as the united states office is concerned,

obviously because it is nuclear propelled, if not nuclear on summer reads, it's likely to send a signal to other countries to say. and obviously as the transform ministry, as statements, it is going to erode the kind of loan deal vehicle operation deal. and then it was also send signals to other countries. do you agree on themselves? and it would break the whole global effort to the nuclear lies. obviously this more peaceful apiece we initiative because it is a marines even though not. ready nuclear armed it is a nuclear pel using for military purposes. these are submarines. these are not motion ships. so obviously that the use of nuclear power, all propel systems for military means of course it is a violation of the pro ration tree because the next step is that you can use

nuclear energy, all sorts of things for military purposes. moscow has agreed to extend the black sea grain deal with ukraine, but only for 60 days to assess whether the west will prove it's ready to fulfill its side of the bargain. a russia such as commodities are supposed to be a part of the agreement as well. so to contribute, rachel marston now explains 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 that 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 a package is half completed than the issue of renewal becomes quite complicated. so level 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 are 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 printing rain is getting to the countries that actually need it most well left. and we are 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. 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 agreed to the deal because there was so much hanging over the people starving if they did it. and now the data suggests that a huge chunk of ukrainian food is just being sold to europe to fatten it's livestock, and also it's coffers mazacco debbie with us today. so it shares in

several regional us banks close sharply lower on monday. some even put trading on pause off the stalks, hit record lows. now it all comes in the wake of the collapse of a silicon valley bank is free as of a domino effect, continue to spread. and even larger banks have seen that shows go down including city bank in the bank of america. the stock crash has occurred as president biden sought to reassure americans that money was safe, although he did refuse to engage with journalists after delivering his statement of a have a look at this. 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. and i'm i, this is important point no losses will be borne by the taxpayers. let me repeat that no losses will be borne by tax payers. when the president, what do you know right now about why it does happen?

and can you assure americans that there won't be a ripple a past? due balance of evidence should all the positives be protected and all banks are pretty quick exit that from the us president. well, his address to ease the fall out from s v b collapse basically seems to have pretty little effect not only with an america, but also across the pond. on monday, european stocks fell as a self in bang stalks, which began on thursday continued with well stock falling to record lows for the year. and the dive come, despite used at hsbc, perhaps has agreed to buy the british arm of silicon valley bank asian markets of also seen volatility following the instability in america. and i spoke with artic contributor chris adams. he basically took us through what is a us banking crisis, but what it could mean for the world silicon valley bank. i don't think anyone had really heard of it outside of the, the tech industry until friday. really been with this news break. lot of people just to explain the views at home, most of us know how banks work, but some people are

a bit unsure. so what happens is when you deposit money with your bank, your banks use your money to lend throughout the customer. 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 a 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? let's say if something happens. so what happens the us heights interest rates as we've covered a lot on the program and not obviously makes the debt that they're holding on their balance sheet, which was a lot of it within us government bonds worth less. so this is really key point to talk about the interest rates are the key and critical point. yeah. yeah. so as those interest rates rocketed, the debt that they have, they have lent to the us 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 . you said, well,

i need to 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, what we could run on the bank. so about $13000000000.00 which was withdrawn from the bank routing. and at that point the bank was totally broke. right? so then the regulates and the government had 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 this talk just before the weekend and over the weekend. they will be responsive. they will be now i've worked for a number of a 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 fiscal year on. so i would say the fiscal responsibility lies with the regulator and ultimately with the u. s. governor, i ha, well, okay, so you bring it to the u. s. government let, let, let's bring it further in washington dc. here. joe biden has come out with

a statement, addressing the public essentially saying nothing to see here, move along, your money is safe but, but then, you know, when people, when often questions, i mean the guide legged it out the back door just now. i mean, is it possible the biden, in some way is trying to avoid what could be a dire truth or had ending at any answers for it? i don't think anyone really knows what's going on there. and really they suspended stops on a lot of small cap banks. i mean, it's 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 boss forensic of money, the hike of inflation rights. but are 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 the former us president had to say. with what is happening to our economy and what to propose was being made on the largest and dumbest tax

increase in the history of the usa times 5, joe biden will go down. as to herbert hoover of the modern age, we will have a great depression far bigger or more powerful than that of 1929. as proof, the banks were already starting to collapse. you know, chris, some people like to say in the certainly, i think i'm one of them, frankly, that, that the not the global banking system. it is so heavily intertwined. 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? yeah, i think ro, yoga tentacles is absolutely apt in this case. i mean, let's look at the us, right. the dow always opens quite light compared to other western markets. the foot see in london opened before, and we saw just really a lot of not really i'm not a very comfortable situation for. and you k companies, western companies that have their hops in london and, and then you saw that debt. now i think what we'll see now is just before the close

of that will recover. that's an awful nightmare for a trade in london. it's basically the behest of whatever the u. s. are going to do lights run in the day, right? and we see that across everything frankfurt, we can look at any other market, and it just shows that, you know, our point that we're always making is that the u. s. is dictating financial policy of every other country within less fear of interest. they don't allow them that much freedom and everyone is sort of on tens. it's waiting for was this fumbling man in his eighty's is about to say, we just crazy. the international olympic committee has well brushed off london's attempts to pressure the sports body into banning russian and bella russian athletes from next year, summer games and paris ultimately saying it would or if giving into those demands would occur well, they would have a denture, mental impact on the world of sports, it is not up to governments to decide which athletes can participate in which international competitions. this would be the end,

a world sport as we know it today. we hope very much that the british government will respect bill told me of sport, which it has emphasized in so many decisions, statements and un resolutions. well, following the complet in ukraine, the committee bind athletes from russia and bella rose from competing and events like in february, a group of more than 30 countries, mostly western states. urge the seed not to ease the ban on athletes. sports bodies response comes off of you guys, minister for sport, wrote to the olympics. biggest sponsors also asking them to pressure the olympic committee. we know that sports in politics in russia and bella ruse are closely connected and we are determined to prevent the russian and below russian authorities from using sports for propaganda purposes. and that's fort calling us to alan moore says that the you guys efforts to maintain the ban on russia and i'm boilers from, from the sporting events. well,

it's an attempt to impose their own rules on the olympics and listen to this. stop them from the special committee. it's very here. say, look, whenever you think about it at home phase for it's only the stronger that russia are really useful with the boy and girl for the world of law and order the 4th because to keep them because in case snap is just turn on the computer. so that whatever is very useful to have to keep around, never continue just a star war order, boys would be conscious not there are years involved for example supplying arms nor produced for softer citizens in order to say. so basically it's the breakthrough restoration,

the bilateral ties between iran and saudi arabia will help bring a political settlement to the devastating war in yemen. that's according to iran's mission to the un. it seems that the resumption of political relations between iran and saudi arabia will speed up the achievement of a see saw in yemen. the beginning of the year, many peoples dialogue, and the formation of an inclusive national government in this country. iran and saudi arabia agreed to re open embassies and re establish relations for the 1st time officer was 7 years of tensions. and so basically, after the war in yemen erupted in 2014, i call. so essentially a proxy war between saudi arabia, which did put a re add friendly president in the money government. and then iran and iran was backing the who things the saudi coalition also receive support from several western governments. a truce between the warring parties was region april last year and extend it twice but expired in october. however,

both sides continue to adhere to its rules and both the germany, government and who these have welcome the agreement between terre, ron and ria, will it be was largely broken by china, which are used as diplomatic power to get the parties around the table to break through cumbersome it, increasing tensions between the us and it's key, middle east allies, saudi arabia, now water on yemen is face of growing humanitarian disaster. 21000000 people are essentially starving. much of the population is displaced with little access to facilities and it's well having a huge long running issue with the data droughts. now political expert and data scientists use maoris says the many people welcome china's diplomatic mediation in the reaction to be given. people has been very positive, they welcomed this initiative. they welcome to separate by china. they're thinking, trying to for bring in iran, the saudi arabia, to the negotiations table. i think when you look at the many people and you ask for

what their perspective is or how they are reacting to such an agreement is you know, they're looking at their situation on the ground. the yemen is the poorest country in the middle east. yemen has been engaged in an 8 plus year war that has severed the nation's economy. that has put the country on the brink of an economic collapse . so i think, you know, when the heard about this agreement between both sides, they're only hoping for the humanitarian crisis to be alleviated. they're hoping that saudi arabia will lift it, strangling, blocking on humans academy pe, you have any salary so that we can perhaps get a sense of normal life coming back to the many people. i think saudi arabia starting to see that, that, you know, having such close ties with the us and western nation. the simply a, you know, it's a bad bet these days because saudi arabia finding itself, being opposed by many middle eastern nation by, you know,

by the muslim world because of their position, their political position to stand and to spread and to spearhead us and western has many in the middle east and in, in the muslim world, washington has harshly criticized to propose new bosnian sub law, calling it russian, influenced and a danger to democracy that is a, despite finding its inspiration in the us. faro lo in both name hits the golden, the president of republic services that is falling others in the region down a dangerous anti democratic path. and trying to pass kremlin and buy a draft, lost the rob residence of their basic rights. silent descent and a low corruption to flourish and checked the republic as the obscure 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 everyone else. washington's foreign agents registration act known as far it requires a public disclosure of any one representing foreign interest or receiving funding from abroad, introduced in 1938. its main purpose is to counter quote foreign propaganda. the law has come under criticism bo, being enforced with increasingly regularity and well intensity, especially since $27.00 seen that was against trump, administration officials essentially ahead of the boss. and so over public says, criticism coming from washington is out of place. since the new regulation was modeled on laws, the us self inactive we are copying the american model that made the usa, one of the world superpowers. it is interesting that the director of usa is reacting knowing that many projects in bosnia and the governor of finance through usaid. so our washington's complaints about the law come following mass protest in

georgia over plans for similar legislation in the country. of protesters in the capital tbilisi attempted to stall the parliament. they clashed with police as they rallied against the draw floor that would brown some media outlets as foreign agents. the u. s. criticized the bill and supported the protesters saying the will clashes with the law. essentially, this could go against democratic principles. soviet american journalist and abortion knowledge, that is the criticism coming from washington demonstrates the west's hip hop. christie will have a listen to what he had to say. the problem within, in georgia, around arose when the opposition backed by these n g e o. 's that are being extremely funded, labeled this proposal as russian and essentially called for revolution to the government. and they came very, very close to one of those color evolution cruise as a friday. and then things seem to have come down a little bit because the government backed out what happened in,

in diversity serve republic, which pushed this initiative on friday, i believe was a deliberate move, maybe a trolling tactic. and so what he's trying to do is, i don't think he once if law passes. great. but i think his purpose based on the comments that i've, that i've heard is to 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 is that are literally outside agents of influence have to declare themselves as such. and all of a sudden people poor 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 was managed to it, prove that the, you and the american government essentially think that the american law is horrible when applied by non american. and that's all continues online right now at r t dot com. also check out the all pads section as well. it's where people suddenly let their opinions fly again on the mean time. thanks for joining us. we return at the top of the house. ah ah

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