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with come into your life from our studio here in moscow. you're watching artsy international. i'm peter scott. here with the latest this friday evening. thanks for joining us. now it's official. changing ping is set to. it must go next week to meet with buddy mat. putin will be plenty to discuss from the russian chinese strategic partnerships you pressing global issues, including the warden ukraine. the signing of bilateral agreements has also been announced with more details to follow. chinese foreign ministry spokesperson wine, gwen been, has emphasized that this coalition is a win win. and it's not aimed at any 3rd party. should you meet with johnson you? president choosing ping state visit to russia will be a journey of peace practice. true multilateralism based on the principles of non ally, non confrontation and non targeting of 3rd parties promote the democratization of international relations. build a multi polar world pattern,

improved global governance, and contribution to world development. china will uphold an objective and impartial position on the ukraine crisis and play a constructive role in persuading and promoting peace talks. the development of strategic cooperative partnerships between china and russia. benefits both the people of the 2 countries and the world. this differs from the practice of some countries holding the cold war mindset, forming cliques everywhere, engaging in confrontation, building small circles and camps, and had gemini and bullying everywhere. china's foreign ministry also said that this is going to be a meeting a piece that's because beijing is ready to play a constructive role in regulating the ukraine conflict. and we also heard from that foreign ministry of china that there, that beijing is also looking to basically ground these talks in the principles of non confrontation with 3rd parties. so that's all among other topics on the agenda,

including questions of international and regional importance as well. as strengthening the strategic cooperative partnership between these 2 countries. now it's also important to understand that these talks are, have just been announced on the backdrop of the marine security belt joint naval exercises which are between china, russia and iran. and these have been taking place in the gulf of all mon since march 15th. so it represents another frontier of developing cooperation between these 2 countries in this situation, specifically naval and military cooperation. earlier we spoke with nelson wong, who's the vice chairman of the shanghai center for impact and international studies . and he says that ukraine is likely to be top of the agenda of all the topics that the 2 country leaders between mister, she and president poking. i think the topic of the ongoing conflict in ukraine is certainly going to be on top of the agenda and that's going

to be discussed for jewel. but bear in mind is that china has recently published its position on supporting peace and cease fire of the conflict. so i believe this is certainly going to be discussed. i think this is also a clear message that has been sent out with regard to the, the upcoming visit to present t to moscow. now, china's independence in its foreign policy and his handling of international relations is not going to be influenced or even manipulated, or you've been deterred by any 3rd party from monday til wednesday. next week will be bring you special coverage of the chinese, the, to shooting things visit to moscow, both on a and on line. so do join us for that ah

will east and south are coming together to create a new power shift. and russia has a role to play. that's according to the former spokesman of the late libyan leader . mama duffy, who sat down with russian returns a host of going underground. they discussed the future of his country and the man who according to him, can united the whole episode. it will be ad on saturday. every single libyan tribe . i mean it's even the tribes that where he's enemies in 2011 everything. the libyan city, all of them they have met, i'm still meeting with 7 is on

a daily basis on daily basis. they have dialogue, they have negotiations. they are writing down projects and ideas in total agreement about the future of the, of the country. what does it mean for libya that that the arab world and the islamic world is getting together? what is happening between sarabia and iran under the supervision of china is know a small dean. this is a shift of international pollock. this is not the wishful thinking. i think the east and the south are gonna come together and build a new system. it will take time. it's not something easy. and this is something gradually. i think there's a shift of power. russia is playing a huge role in this positive. i believe china is also important. china is working slowly and gradually trying not to antagonize the west as much as possible. i think

in the next few years, we're going to see brazil, south africa, and they g, possibly egypt, and many other countries joining in, in this shifting power structure. i'm hoping that this will allow the global south to free itself from the shackleton of global capitalism. held the develop itself and find the maneuvering space away from the west. the washington has announced a $150000000.00 aid package to africa. saw how regents find local militants, this is the secretary of states, has ended its 4 day trip to ethiopia. aneesha ortiz, africa correspondence trouble. a toddler examines whether the u. s. fed losing influencing africa, may actually be fueling its resurgence. u. s. secretary of state anthony blinkin is back again on the african continent, taking off his visit in africa,

2nd most populous nation. if you'll be wasting little time blinking hell talks with senior officials of the ethiopian federal government and the te, gray regions lead us. but blinking his next stop proved a bit peculiar. he became the 1st us secretary of state to visit the j. a country in this a hell region which has been played by muslim extremists and other tara groups. despite their best efforts, various western lead missions in the for hell have failed dismally to quell the sensations, i'm your any yoga. and then on to year to reaffirm a pledge, the present vibe made with us african liter summit late last year. but miss united states is committed to deep, responsive, and genuine partnerships on the continent. because we believe we can help you solve, share challenges and deliver on the fundamental aspirations work people. if we work together, but the us maybe making it's african return already on the back foot of his deal

political adversaries, china and russia, the yanks were militarily present in this a hell. while the extremist and terror groups grew in confidence and even successes leading neeagin's neighbors, molly, end with unify. so to cancel all military cooperation with western countries in favor of co operation with russia. and while the united states was losing the battle against tara elsewhere in the world, it was china that led investments 20 j as part of its belt and roads in africa initiative. china has made significant investments in the day. so does the american government one to be in the j already having failed the sa hell region and security or investments? the mission is clear as mud. it even confuses senior american politicians in the

senate. i didn't know there was a 1000 troops in his year. this is an endless war without boundaries and no limitation on time and geography. we don't know exactly where we're route in the world militarily and what we're doing. but to have the american resurgence is not led by what's image here, but rather what's under it. leg of neighbors that i, how country is blessed with mineral resources, and it's too significant. uranium mines provide nearly 5 percent of the world's output from africa's highest all of uranium. what we know for certain is that americans are led by fear of losing grounds to their adversaries and bed is fueling the resurgence end is rebranding on the continent before the month of march ends. the biden administration is that bring up the african agenda and if activities, there are 4 important toys in the month. and another military exercise vice

president carmella harris will touch down on the continent before the month ends as well. and the big crescendo will be president, jo biden's visit to the continent later on this year. the question is, will it be before or after august when south africa hose, the brick summit in the port city of durban, where china's and russia as president, changing ping and vladimir put it will also be on african routes. got a melissa for oddity, chinese fake. the funds are near and india all set to conduct trade using their own national currencies of the indian. repeat on the turns, and in schilling, both nations optimistic that the new agreements will increase economic opportunities between the 2 sides. the moves in line with the news,

recent efforts to reduce this dependency on foreign currency, especially the us dollar indian economist chart, coley says that the world is increasingly approaching an area of no dollar supremacy. i think it's a win win situation. well, the country, in fact, you know, at this point of time has done these arrangements with about 80 to do that. what's not, they are not israel, you feel. and a lot of other countries with has done. it's been, i think this is getting crazy. heading to a dollar no more be a supreme courtesy don't or we all know is it 90 percent of why it's breaking down to what is done to you as dollars you know 50 to 60 percent with with the us dollar a i think this is a very good move where the countries don't do not need to preserve dollars of because so precious. i had a moment, you start running all these points with you start feeling disney bought out in the

piece of pocket on the thought of in the case of the not a problem. the bullet is by great. i would say a lot of dollars buy stocks picking up base aah and to russia, where 2 people have been injured after a vehicle drove into a building in st. petersburg, a wanting some viewers may find the following image is disturbing. in this video, you can see the moment when that s, u. v drove writes into a service station, crushing through a wall and into a desk with employees and customers inside, according to authorities to drive it, suffered a stroke and leading to a sudden loss of control of the vehicle. he was then taken to hospital reports suggest that one of the person was injured disastrous at war in iraq, which left a trail of destruction and a 1000000 people dead passes is 20th anniversary. and i'll see is continuing special coverage of the conflicts the through the oil, which country into chaos on the stabilize the entire region for years to come.

ah, what 20 years ago to the day george w bush made the decision to oust than iraqi leader saddam hussein by force. so he had to give him power and leave the country all faced by thousands of us and allied troops. saddam hussein and his sons must leave iraq within 48 hours. their refusal to do so will result in military conflict commenced at a time of our choosing. should saddam hussein choose confrontation? the american people can know that every measure has been taken to avoid war. and every measure will be taken to when it responds george bush has promised to take every measure to avoid war, his ultimate decision to invade iraq through the country on the why to region into

chaos. displacing millions and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians. the u. s . invaded iraq under the pretext of stopping the danger from a legit weapons of mass destruction in the peaceful attempts to disarm the country . had failed us despite un inspectors reporting no evidence of weapons of mass destruction in iraq. jose bushes. ultimatum came hours after the u. s. u. k, in spain funded joints draft resolution seeking military action. but 2 days later, the u. s. and his allies attacked iraq without un approval of the world is better off without saddam in power. those of george bush's words, and they were backed by the former british prime minister, tony blair, driven by a desire for regime change. the u. k. decided to join us forces in helping the iraqi government. suddenly she chaos across the country on sees mean of course of a has more once a years after the us led invasion of iraq and one question remains, could it have been prevented?

well, the answer seems to be no because it was the plan all along. after $911.00, it was payback time for america. and the hans for state sponsors of terrorism was on after afghanistan, iraq became the next target. and the british prime minister, tony blair, became george bush's accomplice. all that was missing was an excuse to invade. well, here in the declassified letter, we can see how blair tells bush that he's with him no matter what. as in, he'll support him in removing saddam hussein from power. i will be with you will. it's heather, getting rid of saddam is the right thing to do. he's a potential threat he could be contained in another secret memo were told that the pair were concocting a p r campaign on how to. 8 sell the iraq war an entire year before the us invaded to pay him said we needed an accompanying payoff strategy that highlighted the

risks of saddam's w m. d program. and his appalling human rights record, bush strongly agreed to pay him said this approach would be important in managing european public opinion. and in helping the president construct an international coalition, the p. m said no one could doubt the world would be a better place if there were a regime change in iraq. what's war? they had a strategy in case that saddam hussein actually gave you an weapons inspectors free range to check on everything. the piano lay to commented to me privately that had spoken again to bush about the issue of un inspectors. bush and acknowledged that there was just a possibility that saddam would allow them in and go about their own business. if that happened, we would have to adjust our approach accordingly. so they didn't even want full transparency. that is pretended to wanted, hoping iraq's leader would say no. and that would be enough to topple him. well, september 2002,

tony blair's end for this claim. the intelligence picture they paint is one accumulated over the last 4 years. it is extensive detail and authoritative. it concludes that iraq has chemical and biological weapons that saddam has continued to produce them. that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes. 45 minutes. really sounds fake. well, it turned out to be, which was confirmed by british weapons x for a dr. telly to a b b. c. journalist. it was transformed in the week before it was published to make it 6 here. the classic example was the claim that weapons of mass destruction were ready for use within 45 minutes. that information was not in the original draft. it was included in the dorsey against our wishes,

because it wasn't reliable. most of the things in the dossier were double sauced, but that was single sauced and we believe that the source was wrong. this fiasco even made it to the parliamentary hearings, which is where dr. kelly's name was revealed as he was asked to give evidence on what he knew. 2 days later, the man who set the british government sec, stop iraq's w m d. dosier was found dead and 10 years after saddam hussein was hang, they rock inquiry known as a chill cut report revealed that the so called the rocky dictator posed no eminent threats at the time of the invasion. and that the war was fought on the basis of flawed intelligence. the spotlight was now put on george bush and tony blair, with some calling for the pair to be prosecuted and even take in their case the courts. saddam hussein had known posed an immediate threat to the interest of the u

. k. the intelligence regarding the weapons of mass destructions was presented with unwarranted certainty. the invasion was not necessary and the invasion had been undertaken without the authority of the one security council. once the attempts made to prosecute, mister blair failed, as the u. k. court ruled that there exist no crime under english law, which the former prime minister could be charged with. and the international criminal court said that the decision he made to go to war in 2003 is beyond their emits of investigations. and that's it. i apologize for the fact that the intelligence we received was, was wrong. the program in the form that we thought it was did not exist in the way that we thought over a 100000 civilian iraqis, killed many more displaced, british and american soldiers dead for no apparent reason. and this is what they get. oops, sorry about that. and what was the plan for the country after saddam hussein?

well, they didn't care, as was revealed in a secret memo, ands of war that they care about iraq's oil reserves. and they were discussing it before the war even began declassified documents states that the british government was encouraged to start preliminary work to ensure you take companies are well placed to pick up contracts in the aftermath of the war. by way of specific follow up, we should convene meeting with b, p shell and other appropriate u. k. companies, whether together or separately to explore ideas and tap into the expertise, we would need to handle this carefully and sure it was confidential to avoid charges of oil motivations. so preliminary work to ensure you k companies well place to pick up contracts. in the aftermath. this is all in the public domain. it's been 20 years and so no one has been held accountable. a country was destroyed,

a president's was basically assassinated. and those who did it aren't behind bars. no, but lecturing others on war and peace. the bad guys got away, unbelievable. lots. he will continue his coverage of the legacy, the u. s. left in iraq after the invasion throughout the day. so do stay tuned. at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from gray. with food medicine and fleet

with the front line in the wall, ukraine. nowhere, drones on the technology continue to play a crucial role in bushes offensive ortiz egotist done. it takes a close look. a focused guy with a controller, a silent audience, glued to the small screen of the remote. this isn't a scene you expect to observe at the frontline of a conflict, the claims hundreds of lives a day, but it's hard to find a stereotype of the war in the dumbass hasn't broken. these are russia's front most positions in the criminal forest. there's literally nothing between us and the ukrainian soldiers, but the no man's land, the so called gray zone. they're telling us that it's a war of drone, so it's better not to stand under the open sky for too long. this is the we're, we're right of the front line,

the enemies just 200 meters away. the situation is very difficult. the enemies showering us with strikes were firing back. in other words, were pulling our weight. it's a war of drones. we use tons of modern equipment from line with our drones. it's impossible to imagine these days. there's a plethora of variables, drones spouses have to factor in the woodland narrows the radius, the signal can travel electronic warfare and jamming is a major issue too. so the have to get close to the enemy to be effective. ah without them more tis. how would says tanks are blind as if in a game of battle ships, and they cover the advance of strike teams here. when foot soldiers capture

a trench there only half way through there, a gamble with death, not legible, just so that's the deal. our task is to hold out here for another 2 hours until the loo, ganske republic forces come in there. the ukrainians know their trenches. we don't care because there is a whole army of us volunteers, regular soldiers, special forces, men here are from different divisions, each with their own chain of command. but the strike as one. they've learned the hard way that it doesn't matter how much you are of a marx ma'am. if you don't operate as a single organism with others, if you want to win, no matter what. i'm a guest on of reporting from the don't bass r t in the news riyadh says it's ready to invest in the iranian economy,

thus falling a chinese broken agreement to restore diplomatic relations between saudi arabia and sarah. how quickly in your mind, do you think we're going to see sadie ravia making significant investments and vice versa? um, i would say very quickly here on our neighbor and have been and would continue to be for hundreds of years. so i don't see any sch that would prevent normalization of the relationship across investment. successful with attorney points in the regions state of affairs was followed by a saudi energy minister statement saying that the country won't trade with those who oppose any sort of price caps on its oil. if a price kept were to be imposed in saudi oil, experts will not sell oil to an encounter that impose a surprise cap on our supply and will reduce all production. and i would not be surprised if others do. the same law statement came as us legislators introduced

a bill that would allow suing oil companies from opec plus countries, according to the saudi kingdoms, energy minister, the practice, would damage the market, creating intolerable consequences with opec plus, looking to counter the bill. but earlier we discussed the perspectives of further corporation between iran and saudi arabia, with journalists, and that is at martin. j radian political analyst and academic profess, the st. mohammed mirandi and geopolitical analyst, ahmed ali, bring him the world is changing very fast, and the united states and the europeans do not have the cloud that they had before . and they've also shown that they're not reliable allies are reliable partners. they've shown that an honest on new administration and iran, it's policy is to strengthen ties with neighbors and also pursue asian and your asian integration. those who do not want this to happen in

the coming days and weeks will constantly try to use the western media to create tensions, to create divisions. definitely time has changed for iran is a different iraq today, maybe and target are more willing to understand the dynamics feel free on what's happening in the past decades of negotiation. now remember, there is one of the agreement that we're going to have 2 months period or basically seeing how she says iran coming to the deal. so it's going to, it's going to have too much of observation of what that right. it's going to come and what they are going to do. so definitely, iran is a neva, it's an untapped market. we expect they have 2 trillion dollars worth of goods, an investment and infrastructure, and different things are going to be. it's going to have a stick and iran need, some of the neighboring countries contribute to contribute them back. and this is

definitely aligned with vision 2030, a lot of ground manufacture capabilities. and they are very advanced and definitely they can contribute to the iran in rebuilding. let's put it this way. and by looking iran, we are looking a lot of the neighboring countries and that's iraq, syria, lebanon, and yemen. and this is going to play a very big economic value within the region. there's a couple of months ahead of us where we watch was was where kathy they have had in historically these, these, these, these periods of cooling off and then things worse and again, but i think now the signal, the, the signal is there, the both sides really want to work for peace because peace actually pays awful lot more than war. i mean the was the saudi got involved in which had been stopped by the americans. we must say of cost them absolute fortune a certain point. the war was costing a $1000000000.00 a week. the diplomatic fail,

as we know, was mediated by age and completely bypassing the us, which is always like to see them at least as his own kind of spirit when it comes fear when it comes to influence. so let's just take a listen to what the chinese foreign minister ministry had to say about this. some in the u. s. style their country as the beacon of democracy. but how surely democratic is the u. s. it is redoubled its efforts to tout its democracy and interfered in other countries in internal affairs and even instigated wars in the name of promoting democracy. facts have repeatedly proven that the drama for democracy orchestrated by the u. s. is never a boon, but a bane for the world. so my question for you is just how worried do you think washington should be about such developments and rhetoric worried now really is the role that america plays. i completely agree with professor maroney, when he said the world has changed. he's too polite to spell it out in crude terms, but basically america's normal calling the shots, you know, we commentators such as myself.