[000:00:00;00] a for a, in terms of russia and china is development of an international strategic agenda. we need to ensure fairness and equality in the world. united based span, china, as president says, relations with russia has never been stronger. that's a t in box because it's the country with russian president vladimir says in case the black sea green deal is not extended. russia is ready to supply the african countries most in need for free north africa, braces for a nationwide labor strike. i make calls from the political opposition for president,

read the phone to resign, and switzerland's biggest thank you, be as follows, up its arrival, credit suisse after its value won by a quarter over the last week. however, the moves provoked concern after predator saw there's yet entirely written off with coming to your life in the russian capital. this is our t international. i'm rachel beloved. here with the top stories of the our welcome to the program. with china relations with russia had never been stronger. that's our president shing pink. some that the current state of play as he embarked on a state visit to the country, the chinese leader,

that with bottom marapoo on what is his 1st international trip following his re election. a person putin, i've always referred to you as my dear friend. it's such a great pleasure for me to receive your invitation and to visit russia once again on a state visit. especially since this event happens right after my re election as president of the people's republic of china. and i chose in russia as my 1st foreign visit, china attaches great importance to developing russia, china relations, considering that there is a historical logic behind this. we are the largest neighboring states and we have a comprehensive, strategic partnership and friendship. it is their status that compels us to establish close ties and relations in terms of russia and china's development of an international strategic agenda. we need to ensure fairness and equality in the world. we need to promote prosperity for our own countries. artsy, steve sweeney brings us more on how the 2 leaders are seeking piece and building

a multi polar world. t is arrived in bosco for this crucial meeting with the russian president vladimir putin. perhaps on surprisingly, it's called some alarm among the western countries who've sought to undermine those relations, presenting them both as a threat. this is in stark contrast to the reality come soon off to china, proposed a 12 point piece proposal, a roadmap to ending the conflict in ukraine, which is something that mister putin said to day he's taken seriously. he again reiterated at russia's commitment to peace, were negotiations, and i've carefully read your proposal to resolve the acute crisis, new crane. and of course, we will take the opportunity to discuss this issue more. we recognize that you proceed from the principles of justice in compliance with international law, an indivisible security for all countries. you are also aware that we are always open for negotiations. we will discuss all these issues and your initiatives,

which we respect our 2 countries. interaction in the international arena, contributes to strengthening the principles of the world order and multi polarity. in recent years, china has made a huge leap in its development all over the world. this has evoked genuine interest, and we even envy you a little bit. the 2 leaders spoke about fright between the 2 nations. her vladimir putin said that this is, i am more than double to $185.00, a 1000000000 dollars dollars, hugely significant. and they're going to be talking about more about the economic ties. nick economics, where in those talks to morrow. she said, as we heard already, he said it was his pleasure to visit moscow. he described russia as a, as, as a friend. and he again reiterated this commitment to the multi polar world. he spoke in a statement just as he landed, he was talking about the idea, the commitment to international law and to the principles of the un charter. had the message today with one about

a very much one about the relations between the 2 nations, the strong historical bonds between russia and china as a neighboring a neighboring countries. they talk about prosperity and security and the, the discussions ready that such as an ice breaker. they will continue in earnest tomorrow and will keep you updated. we heard earlier from the dean in the center for international business ethics, who believes that both leaders understand the foundations of the global community are changing. time has always attached the great importance to the financial relationship between this 2 very important countries along the eurasia continent. and we have a lot more to share in terms of the development program was energy was aerospace was agriculture and cultural exchanges. this is really

a shared understanding between the 2 leaders that are we are now in the new era of the 21st century. so our one we, he ganette does not really work anymore. so there needs to be a respect of diversity. and there needs to be a modern polar world where, you know, people can really have a shared consensus over number of issues. is that of one nation, or one leader is deciding all everything prior to welcoming the chinese leader at the kremlin president putin addressed other multi fuller world constituents as the international russia, africa parliamentary conference. my name morning here in the capital, the event is attended by delegations from over 40 african nations and is aimed at strengthening economic and political ties between russia and the continent. during his speech, he said that the black sea grain deal has only benefited those with their plates for unless they are in the pool of sibling,

we insist on full compliance with key russian requirements. first of all, taking care that green and fertilizers go to the countries in need in africa, and not going to the well fed european market to well fed european country seat. the meanwhile of the total amount of green and cereals exported from ukraine about 45 percent went to european countries in only 3 percent to africa. i would like to emphasize that only taking into account our position will a fair and comprehensive implementation of the black sea green deal be insured. and depending on this, we will decide on our further participation relative. now, if it o vladimir putin said that he is eager to see that the grain reaches those who lead at the most, which is why russia agreed to the great deal to begin with that off every to extend it to make sure it to whole, to help those who needed the most, but he's disappointed with the fact that what we've seen is out of 827 ships had quoted ukraine, only 3 percent actually made it to africa. and those who need it most was

a 45 percent went to as he put it well, fed europeans. and these other europeans who have been accused in russia of put in people's lives in danger by supposedly fronting this global food crisis, was russia for it's quite sense. 20000000 tons of grain to africa alone. and it's unclear whether rochelle will go on to extend the grain deal beyond the 60 days that is now extended by wanted, wanted to reassure african countries that they would not be abandoned. yes, and we're just keeping them invitation. and if we decide not to extend the deal after 60 days, that we are ready to deliver all the volumes that was sent to the countries in need in africa during the previous time from russia to these countries for free. beloved . this of course, got lots of cheers from the crowd as the news of a $20000000000.00. that's right. for african countries, i've really enjoyed that. and this is just one of the many ways in which russia and

africa strengthening their relation and their corporation. a bilateral trade, for example, to increase to $18000000000.00 in the past year. and vladimir putin emphasized that he will continue to prioritize corporation with african coins please in particular . but one issue that kept being repeated over and over here today is what parliamentarians, not only from russia about africa in particular, there are seen a tendency neil colonialism tendencies in africa right now. and we've heard opinion here that western countries seem to want to take advantage of african countries purely for their natural resources, and they're not really benefit in it. and in contrast, they see russia as a reliable partner. one that understands them understands are a history, their culture, their values and traditions. and so they're looking to both certain that relationship and they're also looking at other aspect science and technology of course, and also education. and this is all, of course, in the lead up of a major russia,

africa summit that we are expecting at the end of july in st. petersburg. so this was a touch struck you could say, and it was a very, very successful one. rush as deputy minister of foreign affairs says there has been no real progress from western partners to meet the requirements that russia has put forward as a condition to extend the black sea grain deal after the expiration of the agreed upon 60 days. pick me up the flag, listen lib. substantial progress will be decisive for us in terms of decision making after or during the upcoming 60 days. what are these requirements? we have clearly stated this and have previously told all the parties and the un representatives and them. first of all, we're talking about reconnecting, the russian agricultural bank to swift resume in the supply of agricultural machinery and spare parts servicing. lifting restrictions on insurance and lifting the ban on access to ports for our ships. restoring the operation of the toyota, odessa, ammonia pipeline,

and am blocking foreign assets and accounts of russian companies related with the production and transportation of food and fertilizers. we have said that there is still no real progress in meeting these requirements of the had a run. molly and delegation says his country is open for the further strengthening of ties with moscow. my. yeah. so well listen to russian, malley are linked by ties of sincere corporation. our founding fathers space this way by taking the corporation between rush and malley is a basis in relations. malley is going through a period will determine the fate of its future where fighting for our sovereignty. it was russia that understood us and supported us. i know that in the future, africa with the assistance of russia will take effect of actions in various areas in order to ensure real development and stability on the continent. i would like to

express my gratitude to the organizers of this important event. more than 40 delegations from african countries are gathered. here we are determined to further work with russia on long term basis. so the african thrive in a future multiple a world. meanwhile, south africa is bracing for a nation wide labor strike as political opponents call for president rama fossa to resign. the countries leader has denounced those demands, calling them an undemocratic attempt at regime change. south africa is governed by the rule of law. we are a constitutional democracy regime change can only come about through the vote. it cannot come about through anaki unleashing this order in the country. the economic freedom fighters party claims. the main goal is to force president room officer to sat down and

accused him of failing to root out corruption and address rising unemployment in the country. this village shows protestors gathering in pretoria with political opposition leaders rallying the crowns are g correspondent, grumble that reports from the scene say south africa's opposition party, in this case, the 3rd largest or political party in the country as represented in the south african parliament. the economic freedom fighters, i demanding that settle them a plaza, does step down. they say according to the leader of the party, julius melina, that the country is tired of the constant rolling blackouts. and the high unemployment, the high crime rate, as well as the dwindling and failing economy. here is his deputy, who had an interview with me earlier when a huge crisis which as a to his to years of ago will,

must take much more decisive action on we cannot wait. we look since what the action, what ticking means on the 20th of march is to see lip as sort of moved the subjective weaknesses of this beat. and that includes the head of state. and that is what you're finding within the country as the overwhelming mood and the former leader of south africa's 2nd biggest opposition party will now lead a civil society movement called one south africa. missed i'm losing my money with these thoughts. but once i'm africa needs at the moment is economic growth. some africa needs at the moment, the inforcement of the law. and it did when shoal duck it delivers on his object of switches to keep the lights on. so as for the events on monday, a national shut down is not something that's going to help you. there is no doubt that the e f. f has certainly made a mock for itself. the south african government has been seen as revis damaging as

goering to make sure that there is no repeat of 2 years ago. when we had the july riot went for some extended period of them. 5 days we saw malls going up in flames . we saw warehouses going up in flames, and it seemed like a speed of onyx. now this time, the south african government has been stricken, deploying over 3400 soldiers to add to the security as well as the metro police that you find in different localities. they have really come out of this looking rather worried and where i've been now more items ending in the capital city, pretoria. but elliot, when i was enjo hattiesburg, i founded to be rather reminiscent of the covert days, rather looking like a ghost town. g. re silence. if you will, and that according to the police minister, just goes to show how well the police have done this time. in an emergency rescue deal, switzerland's biggest bank you be asked has agreed to buy credit suisse. that's

after the value shares and it's rival plunge 25 percent over the last week. the move is designed to quote, secure financial stability and protect this was economy in the wake of the failure of 2 major u. s. banks. however, the decisions raised more than a few eyebrows as major creditors have seen their dads entirely written off. my colleague, re sushi, discuss the issue with our tea contributor chris ams. just imagine being an investor, someone that you know in an institution or, or even individual, his outer high net was trusted by money with credit suisse, which no way from an in the u. k. right. credit speech is seen as the top favorite bank in which paul to pass in. right? but that's clearly not the case. you know, we have even today that, that there is now talking about people, the bondholders, right for who are not just expected to be as a home. these people that have that the bank has borrowed money from. so that's usually institutions or it's usually people like that. now the switch regulate the fin ma, which is known globally as being one of the top regulators in the world, usually takes very prudent,

very conservative decisions as approve this merger and said, look, all of those bonds that exist. it all that, that, that you learn credit suisse that's worth this now. so they just literally have just, you know, in effect stolen their money. they're not gonna get compensated for it. and they're not really going to get any sort of clarification as to why they weren't. you know, one thing a lot of analysts like to talk about it is the contagion effect. and the potential domino knock on if. and frankly, before the weekend, i didn't really know what i'd wake up to on this monday morning, but do you see what i mean? especially when you see the big players like that on really shaky ground? i mean, do you see some sort of knock on for me? yeah, well really, if you'd have asked me that question a week ago when you and i sat down last time to talk about silicon valley bank in personally, i mean we were talking about it quite a lot of that. i wasn't sure that this would be, you know, so catastrophic. but we really thing that, i mean, we've seen that just by the fact that the fed has now we activated with 5 central banks globally, what they call a credit swap line. sorry, i don't actually know what that mean. yeah. if you like what it means,

i'll try. absolutely. so what a credit lied basically means is there are not enough us dollars in central bank with it internationally in order to service the u. s. dollar talking thing as it is, they need more dollars, but the fact is, the bank himself can't get them quick enough from the fed, so they need that central bank to basically get a load. now the biggest problem movie is that the fed doesn't have that many us dollars in reserve. so what do they have to do? you know what we discussed the day, they're going to have to print more money again. what happens that we've been over this time and time again since, since the end of last year, you're going to really, really create more, a more inflation. okay. in the long term, in the short term, even you're going to have thought, you know, the ability to buy saudi arabian oil in dollars and them have enough dollars to do it. even though the saudis is going to charge more dollars to the barrel because it was less. but in the long time, it's just going to hug the poorest people in society. but those are the people hit by inflation movie. it's not the people that sit in their ivory towers in the,

in the, in the banking system. they get hit by that they've got a massive multi $1000000.00 bonuses. but the person really struggling to get by just to feed the family is the one that gets hit by 1020 percent, even 30 percent inflation rises. western economy looks to be in trouble. economies with the global south for example, seem to be, i guess, getting more protected among the strategic alliances that are taking place is that might be a drama queen here is going to be some sort of economic collapse in the west or might be just being silly i think it's a real, real concern because wherever they going to get the money from, that's the problem. you know, it, you know, they can't really stop. you know, they trying to, they using ukraine is approx. you know that you try and generate some money for them, but they can't start what they've always traditionally done in these kinds of scenarios . if we go back in history, they can't stop the war because that's just be honest. you and i and, and most people won't fight units. so what are they going to do to fix the economy? well, it remains to be seen. the indian fix have class with police outside the

british high commission office in new delhi. they'd been expressing their outrage over an incident in the u. k. against the indian flag. protesters attempted to enter the commission. pharmacist police held them back. the demonstration came after members of the separatists. tell us found independence groups carrying down the indian flag on new delhi high commission office in london. india has criticized the british government for what it called, and then not a response to the internet. launched a strong protest and also clearly indicated to the british authorities for the need for them to put up adequate security at the, at the u. k. high commission. the callous down independent group responsible for carrying the indian flag down claim they are a seek separatist movement fighting to carve out and i'm trying to misstate an eastern from job. however, the demonstrators in india claim that the separatist are only using sikhism as

a cover, and he has external affairs ministry said the british authorities violated the vienna convention on diplomatic relations by failing to provide sufficient security for the building. the former director general of to job state police believes britain failure to secure the mission may harm relations between the countries. we go to the relationship and the most important of them is away and which means i'm talking about what happens about showing the security of them. is there anything that happens outside the premises of high commission or are we boasting both the white security for our you know,

you must have seen the pictures that was been honored. that was the taken down. it can affect the relation or wrong has turned the tables on france with its foreign ministry criticizing the french authorities for the violence seen against protesters over the weekend. the french police, resorting to violence against protests, is indicative of the french government known commitment to the principles of democracy and freedom of expression advice to enjoy behavior and instrumental use of human rights stop resorting to violence and dealing with protesters, rance has been gripped by nationwide protests for, for 2 months now, for president le crohn's pension reform plan, the demonstrations have frequently turned violent with crowds clashing with police . however, there's been little criticism throughout europe to the scenes unfolding in france. that's fans in stark contrast to what happened with iran, where there was widespread anger against

a ron over its handling of nationwide protest their mass demonstrations broke out over the death and police custody of a young woman. and the friend president was one of the most vocal critics. i am in favor of a strong diplomatic reaction and sanctions on the figures of the regime who have a responsibility in the repression of this revolution. political commentator john burke la believes that the west approach of criticizing what happens elsewhere while staying quiet about developments at home smacks of hypocrisy. i think the main lessons from this is that each county should take care of his own internal affair and not the domain name to intervene in those over the counties. because obviously he has no means to impose any sanctions on france to, with global west is imposing sanctions on their hands. now maybe the impression in your hands, so unwilling to believe that it's a harsh of them in france,

but the hand is super subjected to a series of sanctions. evans seems that evolution of 79. and that's the book izzy. i mean, it's always, i mean the west is of good read all is being said on the road to its own kind of every event is new scope presented. it can be blame on the ocean, the japanese uranium based in cetera. then it's good for well then if it's blame on the western government and simply know they think the demo vision in france are both in the united states are hardly hardly hopeful from united states as well as a known ah, now to can yet where 50 opposition align university students have been arrested for holding a meeting without a permit. the students were arrested on saturday. i had a monday scheduled opposition demonstration of the country's economic struggles. they were addressing a press conference, merging others to join the anti government event. over 50 participants were said to have been detained for meeting without the knowledge of authorities. the arrests provoked

a strong response from the opposition were using officials of silencing their voices. we spoke with locals who blamed the unstable economy and canyons leadership . let me look in louisiana so much o d. as a young canyon, i am allowed by the constitution to exercise by democratic rights. i will demonstrate until the government listens to me. my family is at home without food, no job, and nothing at all. that food is expensive, even at the market places and the majority of us are really struggling to make ends meet. institution said, a guardian, you minute amendment. i am taking part in today's demonstration here in kenya and laying the blame on the government for all the problems we are facing as a nation. we cannot even buy a packet of mayflower for our children, which is roughly $200.00 shillings cooking oil is the same during that time. it's all very expensive and to make the matter worse, the economy has been doing poorly by women as up, williamson. i'm highly supporting today's demonstrations in kenya because we were promised by the president who knows that when he immediately resumes office,

life will be affordable. need right now i have 4 children and one of them is disabled. about almost feeding these for is an issue. life is becoming expensive all over, even in the rural areas. what do most of you honestly, i can not manage to feed them. i video circulating on the internet allegedly shows ukrainian soldier burring a copy of the koran. the incident of ot condemnation from ron's on connie ross, they had of rushes, touching republic. he's offered the equivalent of a $130000.00 for anyone who detains those involved yemen. saba news agency has also denouncing incident southern use as you strongly condemned this sacrilegious desecration of the holy koran by ukrainian soldiers and caused for their immediate arrest. it's clear of these regret and soldiers are being trained to insult islam and muslims worldwide. either verse fact archie is not broadcasting the entire video. the screenshots appear to show

a ukrainian soldier ripping out pages from the muslim holy book and then burning. then the video was originally posted on the social network, tick tock, but was removed. following a barrage of condemnation from users. we spoke to the head of the supreme islamic administration, jerusalem, who sharply condemned the incident. be my mama. i watched with bitterness and regret what the ukrainian servicemen were doing. there is no excuse for this act. i believed that they show extreme fanaticism and hatred manifested in the burning of the holy koran. it reflects their thinking and we condemn such behavior on their part. they documented their shameless act, so it's not just rumors. their goal is provocation. there is negligence on the part of the arab and islamic media and arab countries. we must the schools this outrageous act. that's all for now. be sure to check out our

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