ah obama protect its own existence with ah, pretty swiss shares drop by almost 30 percent a historic low as trading of several european buying stock. these halted emitter spreading financial crisis. the key city of shaw must go back. move is further is the occult as russian forces advance in the don't bust with the russian. wagner group releasing postage from inside the area strong hold on funds. a facility with a deep web of underground hostages. also had a chaos, a ropes outside the fall of pakistani prime ministers residence as police attempts

arrest, the former leader on a legit corruption charges with watching r t international. i peter scott and wherever you joining us from welcome to 30 minutes of news and analysis. credit suisse shares dropped to historic lows on wednesday, falling by nearly 30 percent trading of several companies. stock, including credit suisse, were temporarily halted on wednesday morning due to steep losses. the full house calls are wide at banking site to sell off following it's modest recovery on tuesday. the main shareholder of the credit suisse group from saudi arabia has rolled out any further financial assistance for the troubled banker. the answer is absolutely not. for many reasons. outside the simplest reason which is regulatory and statuary. we now own 9.8 percent of the bank. if we go above 10 percent, all kinds of

a rule kick in whether it be by our regulator or the european regulator or this was the regulator. let's just discuss this further. i'm joined live now in the studio by r t contribute to chris and chris, thanks for joining me again. i know the collapse and the value of credit suisse does not fall out from what happens to those banks in the u. s. over the weekend. yeah, i think peter, there's no other way to really look at it. right. we saw silicon valley bank again about none of us that really heard up until a week ago. but quite a prominent bank in the u. s. top 50 bank really collapse defense. the overnights and then you know, we, everyone thought when i didn't gave a speech on monday that may have sort of calm the markets, but evidently hasn't. we've just seen this sort of knock on effect happen to the bank. credit suisse is a very, very important bank. it's, it's one of the largest bags in switzerland. it's a play. it's a bank that really settles a lot of financial transactions globally showing that no could affect really clearly shows that whatever the us we're trying to do to calm the war hasn't really worked and it's affecting their partners. now, there may, do you think this will have an impact on the value of the euro and the dollar?

yeah, i think it will piece. i think that, you know, what i think people tend to do in these scenarios are sort of speculate really. we should do is, i believe, as an economist, we should look back in history that see what happened in the past. and if we look at the past, the us dollar really was the currency of choice. there wasn't really anything to contend with it. you know, china was sort of, you know, starting to build up confidence, been that the women be like to get international partners to adopt it, but they weren't really there. and we can see, so they've actually got a clip pizza from hillary clinton when she was the secretary of state and 2000 and night, showing how confident she was in the power of the us economy. and therefore the u. s. dollar. cute and immediate need for this kind of collaboration in 3 key areas. first the global economic crisis that hit his 1st and hit as deeply and has also hit china. we have to look in word for solutions, but we must also look to each other to take a leadership role and designing and implementing a coordinated global response to stabilize the world's economy and begin recovery.

so as you can see that you know, she's very, very confident that and really there wasn't really anything to challenge. challenge the u. s. bala then, but take the situation now. take where the u. s. stories going, the fact they printed so many, the fact that now, you know, most saudi arabia even, you know, we went to saudi area earlier at the top of top of the programs, accepting payments in the currency. the part from the u. s. sola that wasn't the case in 2009. so how the market's react is going to be very turbulent, in my opinion, when it comes to euros, or pretty much any other currency that is allied closely to the us dollar. well, we'll talk a reactions to this. how do you think the u. s. will respond to this latest crisis? yeah, well again, i think that going to have to have a very different response. it's not going to be as easy as that for them as it was before. let's take you to 2000. we keep in mind these are the night, but that's kind of where we need to compare things that. so i think the last time we really saw this kind of reaction is in a very collapsible things in the collapse of bank, spite of that was

a lot bigger. but hey, it's a playful right now that you know, that was a different time. you know, the us and china, even the u. k, announced back then the us is probably close to satellite that it was that golden age of relationship with china. the us is that again, we're going to use or again, i'm sorry to get out to get to the click of a clip of because you just put firm a great concert for us today. hillary clinton in china in 2008 and have a listen. it's a good investment. it's a safe investment. even despite the economic challenges sweeping over the world, the united states has a well deserved financial stability, reputation. again, as we see the best reputation in the world, we've got a great relationship with china. why is that? now? that just isn't the case anymore? they've really been prodding china. they've been prodding china over china's relationship, ever growing closeness with, with russia. vine is chinese constant. insistent as was agreed in the one china policy that taiwan is not part is part of china. fundamental is not,

is passive. china, which is adopted as international law, which the u. s. still continues to send lethal aid to taiwan. so the chinese are not stupid. they're putting everything out there, economy, what's very differently, their financial planning, what if any, it doesn't just work, you know, sort of like bite in the other day on monday when he gets up in the morning says a statement that statements a plan one month, one week one year, even 10 years in advance. so really this, this, this, this sort of schism that's happening now. it's the birth of this most, multiple waldo that we talk about. i think it's going to be very, very difficult for us to react to that. they're not going to have as many friends there anymore. indeed. well, chris, thanks very much for breaking down quite a complex situation. was that just to speak the thing in the news? russian forces have taken control of the small hamlets, valleys and young guy, and near the city of chill must also known as bach mood for the encircling the city . so that's according to the wagner, p. m. c. chief bar, who has been the focus of intense fighting for over 7 months now,

with ukranian troops, flights on both sides. but the boss bite, the lack of ammunition in the most difficult battle, are assaults at completing in circle mental buzzwords. this morning, the pmc wagner saw units gained control over the village of zealous 90 scott square, where the russian army has reportedly assigned to the rear of ukrainian reinforcements in the area over nights. that's after president the landscape officer knows that it would keep defending the city a major logistics hope for the ukranian army. earlier russia's vauder group reportedly took over parts of the industrial zone of almon, backwards and verified online footage apparently confirms are, says control over the stock marsh plunge. and as you can see in the footage, varner has taken the facility in the north of the city. this is the same once where president landscape commanded ukrainian soldiers for the defense of last year. the plant is one of the city's main strongholds with its underground signals vital for defense. meanwhile, in the guns for public,

russian forces have showed ukrainian positions as the russian army continues. it's offensive with thank bottles raging on the ground and drones clashing in the skies or even just on of brings a small the soil here in the spring time dawn bass is very close to quake sand. but of this forest, is it a complete? not many vehicles can cross this terrain freely and safely. thanks. i sadly among those that can ah, these tanks belong to the euro separated,

sold battalion to say they know their enemy in the face is hardly an exaggeration. a 100 meters is sometimes school that separates the site. keeps all seeing eyes focused on the battle for book moat and russian troops here in the loop ganske republic has been trying to capitalize on the distraction. ukrainian command has drawn reinforcements, but they are often gathered out of yesterday's trainees without real combat experience. who become easy prey. such accuracy would be impossible without drones . there's such a swarm of them in the skies every day, every minute that it's not uncommon for russian and ukrainian birds to meet and duke it out like this. one is down. this time, the russian drone literally came out on top and intention, the entirety of the russian force shares with every heart in their ranks. i'm just

done of reporting from the dumbass r t over to pakistan now where clashes between the nations police unsupported to the fall, the prime minister sharon can't have escalated outside his home in law as, as officers have once again failed to arrest the opposition leader for not appearing at a court hearing on a legit corruption charges ah . the eastern part of law hall has largely remained a battle ground as violent spills over into a 2nd day. the unrest which began on tuesday as con, support has gathered outside his home to protest his arrest. local correspondent, jawad yaya has more the story. semi guzman market. i'm standing outside some on park. we're just 24 hours ago. there was an operation launched by the punjab in islam about police to arrest former prime minister. wrong con, that is still ongoing. this whole area looks like it was on. they deployed

paramilitary troops, fire t, a gas, an open file and protest us many p t i walkers were injured and went to hospitals. a state of emergency has been imposed in hospitals. schools have been shut down. all roads leading to examine park adjacent streets and more contracts are completely close to the public. it looks like an occupied valley where no one is allowed to answer or access it. even the journalist who left last night and came back in the morning until till out in the area that through job police say they will continue this operation until the arrest him run. hon. jalencia archie, news lahore, record highs of violence of the hands of islamic militants. is ravaging africa according to a recent african center for strategic studies analysis. last year alone, the continent reported nearly 7000 attacks and 20000 casualties was the 22 percent increase in violence from the previous year 21. the area hit the hardest,

is the sal region where an 8 year paris lead intervention as only de cherry to the situation. the cd research fellow, the johannesburg institute for advanced studies, says that france on us have destabilized africa. but the french prisons, in the 1st instance, was never in a, a morally or politically correct position. the french of never had been in africa in the 1st instance with colonialism. and certainly not in a so called post colonial africa. there is a definite infringement of the sovereignty of the continents different nations, and much of the interventions of these 2 countries, largely guys in france, a blatant bleach of international law. this interference

in the internal affairs of other countries re untenable, as if there is one particular entity that is civilized and in and all the others are barbarians. and so this series thought to intimidation, and the logic of western bailout funds were wilfully used by ukrainian authorities under then president par shanker. it's a fund militias on the sponsors knew all about it. well, the admission from one of the people who gave care of the money for my m f chief christine, la god, she confessed during a prank phone call, with the notorious russian joe, known as vo von and lexus. being the i m s. did the best that it could do to help and support ukraine, you know, as well as i do, that the country was not in perfect shape. you know, as well as i do that there was some very strange characters who abused the

situation, who had their own millie shells, who had their own system that suddenly took advantage of what was tried both by the m s by the united states in order to help ukraine. but you know, you cannot rewrite history or following the my done uprising in 2014 the i m f. loans give $18000000000.00 an exchange for deep or 30 codes. you credit government has previously been accused of using the funds to supply for rights battalions like as of an ida, which has been involved in a legit war crimes in dom bus over the past 9 years. the gods apartments. our mission is a president of western knowledge about the funding of foot ukrainian groups than $24.00 seen. first, discuss this with ortho and war correspondence. thomas roper thomas, thanks so much for joining us this afternoon. so what do you make of this apparent

admission by the form? i am f cheap. i seem to know more than the officially said, prefer a battalion. so for whatever the people who are wanting to fight for the right of kilograms, and that is where as you said, and so on, they are quite a nazi. but it's an interesting is that she announced that they were financed as it seems now. restaurant money from the i don't read. this is quite interesting . this is interesting. this money was meant to help ukraine economy. and now it seems that this money came right into ashes groups, money and consumed which oligarchy, she's talking about. that should be the president who was the one that says sitting

on the, on the money from the monitor from and said the next question is whether the money also was used. let's not on purpose. it was planned for i mean this was $18000000000.00 is a lot of money. and now it appears that like god says that some of it did go to these battalions, but somebody must have gone to help the, the, the economy of ukraine. oh, it was meant to have the economy a few of your claim. so now let's put this in the memory center. ukraine was never missed and the purpose for which, which was planned is quite obvious that when we've seen, for example, in 2014, when the might not happen, you after you close 600000000, your financial help. the escalation with more than 11000000 on from you. so it was really twin tabs,

man plugged in 2014. whereas august man who gwen and said we're not the you. you can gets man money from the west. then i move back to the country. las so red, that's the money go the last a black hole and it's a black hole. and well, the money is not just on the purpose and we see it's, it's just a moment for this room, nationalist groups which are providing well, i'm in the numbers since 2014. and the rest seems to know if she obviously was made during the prime coal, if the god statement is true, what to expect that the why to fall out of this to be or do you not expect that to be any consequences of this apparent submission? well, if you have so many i'm praying. so these guys are quite interesting. things came out and we didn't hear read in the rest and press them. so i'm quite sure nobody

will ask any questions. i remember rest of journalists, i read the next press conference, asked the got, what did she mean? nobody will ask the question. well, so, so i'm afraid that's all we got time for short and sweet today. i'm afraid, but also i'm wor, correspondence, thomas roper, thanks very much for joining us today. ah, no. the news changes in the international arena. have the russian answering leaders uniting and optimistic on further corporation lost the message from bashar al assad during his visit to moscow. less cross live now to our correspondent, steve sweeney forgets more on this. you steve. good. in fear, of course, it was a significant meeting between yet this is a significant meeting between the 2 leaders. mister putin opened his statement by

saying that significant progress had been made in the fight against terrorism. now by this he was referring to the joint operations between the syrian arab army on russian forces in the fight against islamic state, which at one point held voss ways of save in territory, mister putin said that this progress has helped and the economic situation and bring economic stability, of course, both russia and syria. i have been placed under heavy western sanctions. but despite this, mister putin said traded increased by some 7 percent last year. now he spoke about the situation, the earthquake, the devastating earthquake last month, which left thousands deaden and thousands of building destroyed hundreds of thousands of people displays. now, russia's efforts have seen some 300 personnel and 70 tons of humanitarian aid sent, which is in core, of course, in stark contrast to that of the west, which i,

mr. i thought has been in the parties accused the u. s. of hindering efforts of pressuring countries into not helping. and so, but he thanked mister putin for the support. and he said, i, without the russian relief efforts the death toll, i would have been very much higher. now, he did say of course that the changes on the international stage mean the dialogue and beating between the 2 nations are going to become more frequent, a more and more urgent. and he thanked i, mister putin, for his steadfast, to support a steadfast support. despite the special military operation in ukraine, let's listen to what he said earlier, and i want to use this moment to reiterate the syrian position and support of the motion. special operation against conventional and neo nazis. would the west hosted the old type of nazis on their soil and now it supports them? our position is based not on friendship and loyalty than the fact that the world needs to be stability. otherwise it will collapse.

so mister i sat offering his, his support for the special or military operation in ukraine, also likely to be on the gender, on the discuss between the 2 leaders, all relations between turkey and syria. now of course, these 2 countries have been on the opposite side of the foreign lead intervention. so this is a significant development. these are surprise talks are between the 2 defense ministers from turkey and syria happened in moscow in december. this is leading to talk between the 2 formulas, hasn't hopefully eventually that will lead to a meeting between the 2 presidents. now, this underlines russia's role as a peacemaker. and as a mediator, so hugely significant, which could lead to a landmark and comprehensive agreement that resolves the situation in syria. but

the message today ready is emphasized emphasizing the strong bonds between ah, between both the syria and russia just a next year course. the 2 countries will be celebrating 80 years of diplomatic relations. lasting sweeney, thanks very much for breaking down me to in between the russian answering leaders for thank you know the news. the honduran president says that she's willing to establish diplomatic relations with china. the move has been warmly received by beijing, but under the condition that the south american nation complies with its one china policy. on the why you found the, you're going to welcome the relevant statements made by different who are in saw establishing a diplomatic relationship with chinese, the right choice in compliance with the great trends of historic development and the advancement of the times on the basis of the one, china, principal,

chinese willing to develop friendly and cooperative relations with andrew as and all other countries in the world are begging consider taiwan to be part of his territory. and under the want to china, principle, no country may maintain diplomatic relations with both china and taiwan. if on doris secures size with beijing, they will talk to several relations with taiwan, that's i pay has expressed serious concerns over the diplomatic moves between honduras and beijing. when i once asked the latin american countries to quote, carefully consider to avoid making a wrong decision. now the number of countries that see taiwan independence has decreased over the years as some nations have withdrawn their recognition. right now, only 14 states considered taiwan to be independent from china and have diplomatic relations with high pay. one of the worlds, one of the world's nations respect, the one china policy in latin america, only 80 governments still recognize taiwan. while the major economic and political

powers of the continents adhered to the one china policy and accept the core principles of its territorial integrity. well, let's go live now to asia, political risk. analysts, ross, find gold ross, but even c a thanks for joining us. now. first of all, i just want to get your thoughts. what do you make this move by hon. doris comes, there's no surprise. president castro campaigned on doing this when she was a candidate throughout 2021 and for various reasons. after her inaugural ration in january 2022, she had held off on making this decision. but given that most other countries in the region within recent years that had relations still with taiwan, made the switch in 2016 that includes panama and el salvador. busy and your herat countries in other parts of the world as well. i saw with islands and curator abbas, which made the switch in 2019 i again given that she said she would do it,

it really comes as no surprise. now do you think that will have to break off diplomatic ties with tie one as a result of this move? yeah, that's an absolute. so anytime the small number of countries that still have diplomatic relations with taiwan and those really are trying to stablish relations with china, it is a precondition to end those diplomatic relations with taiwan. and in the past, whether it's larger countries or even somewhat smaller countries. if they had an important trade or other reasons to maintain types with taiwan, they would establish representative office. and that's what most countries here in, ty, pay many countries with that taiwan has in many other countries. they're not called embassies, it's not called diplomatic relations. but as most of the larger countries entered the formal relations with taiwan as we get into the smaller countries, why con door?

it's probably very unlikely that they would even have an official representative offices in each other's capitals. do you see this, this trend of more more countries? so fewer and fewer countries recognize in tie one of the independent sets to continue? sure. china does not like any countries to have formal diplomatic relations. china offers a in return for the switch, especially since the remaining countries with the exception of the vatican, are small and they're, they're in need of foreign aid. so china law for that. and course there's lots of criticism about the risk of taking aid from china. but this will be inevitable that will be a few more, especially as murder in an election. he's been in taiwan and trying to likes to do that. is kind of a warning to the, to the people here. now what does it say about us influence in latin america as a whole? and that's definitely something to watch in the coming hours. brody,

seeing some criticism from us politicians in the u. s. government overhead doors decision. but inevitably, what you're, what could be us really do, you can't tell another country who can enter into diplomatic relations with other than, you know, try and carrot and stick approach. but on the other hand, with the central american countries in the past, when panama or l. salvador made that switch, they were really no repercussions from the united states. and the u. s. needs to cooperate with honduras on a number of issues such as migration and transnational crime. i. so there be, i expect to be some criticism, but i don't expect the us to put her freeze on its relationship with hon. doris, either or ross, find gold age of political risk analyst thanks very much for your assessment of those ties between on doris and china. thanks very much. thank you. that's all for now to be shown checkouts r t dot com for the latest breaking news and updates. and we'll see right back to

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